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[–] 181 points 8 months ago (38 children)

“Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I’m not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me, so here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with Him. The part of me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won’t need any more convincing than that. I hope I’m still qualified for entry.”

What an absolute fucking goober. Good luck with that one, chief.

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  • [–] 134 points 8 months ago* (10 children)

    That's Pascal's wager, and it's nothing new.

    There's plenty more about him that can be criticized.

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    How about the fact he used his status as a conservative voice to skip the line and get priority experimental cancer treatments? Not only did he die, but somewhere out there there is another person dead or dying because they got bumped from the treatment

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago*

    I refuse to believe the pantheons of gods didn't predict pascal's wager and hide an antipascal clause similar to Matthew 25:31 where not being an asshole will send you to heaven and being an asshole sends you to hell.

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  • [–] 42 points 8 months ago* (11 children)

    Don't believe in God, until you're standing at the pearly gates. St Peter hates this one weird trick

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

    To be fair, that's a very Southern Baptist way to look at it. If you've ever read a Chick Tract (I'm so sorry), you'll know that many end with someone who lived mired in sin earnestly repenting and believing in God right before they die, and it's shown to work. Some other branches of Christianity, notably Catholicism, relax the emphasis on belief and put more stock into your actions while you lived – although they also believe most but not all sins can be pardoned if you confess and perform penance.

    However, I would suggest that believing in God because of Pascal's wager is:

    1. Obviously idiotic (this part we all know). There are an infinite amount of gods you could believe in that would have the belief requirement. Even if you assert that it's a belief in "a" god, how are we supposed to know it wouldn't be some god who values empirical reason and would look down on this belief? These infinitesimal odds you're wasting your only known life on aren't even strictly positive.

    2. Something the God of the Bible probably wouldn't appreciate? Within the shared fiction of Christianity, he knows exactly what's in your heart, and I'm sure "I'm cooperating just so you give me the goods" doesn't play well. Granted that's kind of on God for being an abusive parent and threatening eternal damnation to anyone who doesn't, but I'm still sure he doesn't like people who game his abusive system for selfish ends.

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    [–] 111 points 8 months ago (21 children)

    Oh shit that’s young… now Rest in Piss

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  • [–] 57 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Can't believe another anti-vax guy was killed by a preventable and treatable condition. Prostate cancer is one of the more survivable forms of cancer (10-year relative survival rate of 98% with proper treatment). I wonder if he did the fruit juice enemas like Steve Jobs or he just tried to Straight Edge his way through it, because he didn't want to live with Low T.

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  • [–] 64 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    I looked it up after reading this comment

    He says he tried Ivermectin to treat his cancer lol. Npr article about it, says he didn’t discuss any specifics of his treatment other than that

    Edit: newer article indicates he eventually did seek actual treatment

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    [–] 97 points 8 months ago*

    "Scott Adams is dead."

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  • [–] 90 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    He went from writing the quintessential office comedy comic, up there with fucking Office Space in status...

    to being a Nazi piece of shit who advocated for racial segregation, and spent his remaining years sucking Trump's asshole and swearing far-right psuedo-medicine would cure his cancer. And then he died of cancer.

    Rot in Piss. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

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    [–] 72 points 8 months ago (8 children)
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    [–] 57 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    look, as an engineer, I like the Dilbert comics

    but fuck that guy, and lol that he died to ass cancer

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    [–] 55 points 8 months ago

    I think this is the only comic Scott Adams should be remembered by. It summarizes him perfectly as a person.

    Nazi piece of shit

    Say hi to Kissinger! Oh, who am I kidding, we all know that was the first thing you did.

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  • [–] 49 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I never liked how political the dilberts comics got

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    [–] 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    I remember reading his blog like 25 years ago and it was pretty interesting. Some funny stories, thought experiments, interesting comments. I remember that he was trying to help some young author get into papers. The idea for comic was solid but drawing wasn't good enough so they organized a competing for artists and blog readers voted. Other time he told people to write phrases that sounded like they mean something but didn't and then made it into a song. Supposedly that's how The Beatles wrote their lyrics. At some point he got married and become a stepfather so he wrote about that as well. Stuff like that. He wasn't that famous, the internet wasn't that big, it was all just for fun.

    I stopped following it for couple of years and next thing I know he got divorced, his new girlfriend was 20 something Instagram model and he started writing about how great Trump was. WTF happened?

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's one version of the white guy midlife crisis. They realize they aren't special and it makes them angry and they turn to conservatism for some reason and acclimate to the racism and misogyny they surround themselves with and then them amplify it. It's a miserable pipe line. With trumpers instead of getting the flashy car they get a young, trophy girlfriend. Or both if they have the money. Trumpism frees you from shame.

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    [–] 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 31 points 8 months ago

    oh no. So anyway

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    Congrats to those who are still alive and not a racist piece of shit.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago

    Hope it was painful.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, he wasted a bunch of time taking ivermectin and pursuing alternative treatments.

    My best to those who miss him.

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    [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    I'll much rather remember Scott Adams, the guy who described a Pointy-Haired Boss (for the youngsters who never read Dilbert, think of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover days), not Scott Adams, the guy who recently desperately tried to rehabilitate the Pointy-Haired Boss character to be more reasonable. (Because that has never actually happened in the actual industry. Dilbert was meant to be a satire of what actually happens in the industry. Pointy-Haired Bosses are eternal.)

    Also I never forget the experience of reading The Dilbert Principle (1996) for the first time. "Oh yeah! Most of this stuff is pretty good! Except this one about female coworkers, yeaaahhh, this is a little bit suspect." (Again, for the youngsters, we didn't have "sus" back in the day.) Foreshadowing is a literary device wh-

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    [–] 22 points 8 months ago

    Goodbye asshole

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    1 Nazi down, 77 million to go.

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    [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    Rest in piss.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Pretty hard to live past that age when your mind goes full QAnon and you begin thinking taking anti-parasite treatment for horses is going to help overcome cancer.

    I have a theory that when people get as known and rich as him, they get surrounded by a lot of charismatic people who in absence of any other notable characteristic have to promote conspiracy non-sense as their "our my exclusive network of people know this". Because they are not accustomed to meeting people that charismatic and because what they spout generally appeals to their life experience, they just fall in love as part of these groups of crazy as if it was part of their lifestyle change.

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