[tpoacher]

I'm not too keen on mandatory 2fa via phone. we need something simpler, like, dunno, some sort of chip on our hands or foreheads perhaps? /s

on a serious note, it's annoying how fundamentalists eventually keep getting shit right because of idiots in power fulfilling their prophecies (daniel sloss had a nice comedy skit on this)

[dane-pgp]

That makes me wonder, how big does the gap have to be between a supposed prophecy and the supposed fulfilment of that prophecy before we can't call it "self-fulfilling" any more?

I suppose that on a time scale of thousands of years, a lot of analytical methods break down (and certainly it would be hard to start any new experiments which take that long to complete), but I think that epistemological bonus points should go to anyone whose interpretation of a prophecy guessed the correct ~50 year period for its fulfilment roughly 1800 years in advance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism#cite_ref-18