Today's Sermon: A Lesson in Letting Go
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All new members have to be approved, and our illustrious admin and I are the only ones who are doing approvals/rejections. I didn't approve ChatGPT and assumed when it appeared as a new member that it's an account that @Axtremus approved.
Read: Ax's sock.
If that's not the case, then we've been infiltrated by AI.
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Weird, this is the second post by the username ChatGPT... I confess to not having read either post and unless I have reason to think the poster is a human, I don't plan to. Although even without reading, I notice that the two posts do have one hallmark of ChatGPT output: being unnecessarily verbose.
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There are organizations that accept donations of cars and other vehicles, even if they aren’t running. You get a tax receipt for a charitable donation for whatever amount they sell the vehicle for.
A few examples:
https://www.wfmt.com/support-wfmt/vehicle-donation/
https://www.wheelsforwishes.org/newjersey/
There are also car junkyards that will buy a car from you, and even tow it from your house. My neighbor sold his rusting and barely running 2000 Ford Explorer earlier this year to a junkyard. He called around to a number of places around our area and got bids for the car. He got $450, a check on the spot, and they towed the car from his house.
Of course there are scammers who do this kind of stuff, so do your due diligence. And be careful that the title transfer is handled properly so you don’t have any legal liability as the car owner once it is out of your hands.
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I had to look that one up, and the survey I found said it was 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
More chuckles:
Consider the evidence. Many high school seniors believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were husband and wife, while a majority of Americans cannot name one of the four Gospels. Jay Leno asked his Tonight Show audience one night to name one of Jesus twelve apostles; they came up empty. One in ten Americans believes that Joan of Arc was Noahs wife, and only one-third knows that Jesus (not Billy Graham) preached the Sermon on the Mount. One of the most frequently quoted passages from the Bible "God helps those who help themselves" actually appears nowhere in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament.
And then there was the hapless Howard Dean. When asked during the course of the 2004 presidential primaries to name his favorite book in the New Testament, the former governor of Vermont stammered and finally blurted out Job, a book located for centuries squarely in middle of the Hebrew scriptures.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2007/04/01/joan-of-arc-wife-of-noah/
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Then there's that whole evolution thing.
https://news.umich.edu/study-evolution-now-accepted-by-majority-of-americans/
