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Belief That the End of The World is Coming Spawns TikTok Frenzy Called 'RaptureTok': What to Know (www.complex.com)

submitted 6 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Any that's capable of responding to the prompt "predict that the rapture will happen on <tomorrow's date>."

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A one-liner in any modern programming language could do that.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Buddhists reduced this to its most basic principles long ago.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You could just reuse the same canned response and put tomorrow's date in there. It's not like these rapture predictions are new / interesting anyway

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

god requires the entity proclaiming the prediction to be capable of fucking up and saying something else, we need to task some theological researchers with figuring out precisely how capable of mistakes it must be

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 5 days ago

Sure, whatever floats God's boat.