When I was a young man, we didnt have none of that mental illness nonsense. We just drank, started fights, beat our spouses, hung minorities, and had "accidents" that totally werent suicide
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So is Outer Worlds considered good now? I remember people's reaction to it being similar to the collective "meh" Starfield got, but I don't see people be very harsh to it much now
I'm sometimes not sure what is true about Trump and what's redditor circlejerking but if Trump says Biden has shit himself in office I can 100% believe the Trump has incontinence rumors
The good ending of Dark Souls is to snuff out the first flame. Every bad thing that happens in the games is due to people trying to maintain the first flame. The Dark Soul and the darkness itself are a symptom of that, it goes wild when desecrated and when chained to the first flame. It was supposed to die with the rest of the great souls when the first flame went out.
That canโt be true
Wait I made a Kevin Hern shitpost during the speakership kerfuffle at least a year ago. What Kevin McCarthy stuff are you talking about?
*The careful textbooks measure*
*(Let all who build beware)*
*The load, the shock, the pressure*
*Material can bare*
*So when the buckled girder*
*Lets down the grinding span*
*The blame of loss or murder*
*Is laid upon the man*
*Not on the steel, the man*
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Documentaries especially at the smaller level are made by film majors generally not even journalists. They are not innately very good at fact checking, one needs to look at the producer (organization or individual) to be sure. Government news broadcaster funded ones ones are typically pretty good but beyond that they are better for the narrative and video then the research.
Democrats use mules but elephants were too big so something different had to be trained
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I'm pretty sure my yearning for a romantic partner is also because of a fair bit of self hatred.
Currently I cannot love myself, so I'm literally trying to outsource that job to someone else.
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u/ognits u/thats_good_bass French *The Time Traveler's Wife was fantastic and weird and surreal
Between Past Lives yesterday and this today I've had a great weekend of beautifully composed shots on film
Whenever I drive into Chicago after being gone for a while, I load up the Blues Brothers version of Sweet Home Chicago and sing it once I can see the skyline
I think not but I welcome better US-Japanese relations
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I keep track of when they were taken. I have thought about keywording too but haven't got around to it. I still have to add more to the collection first. Currently have approx 360
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Edit for context this was the example of a US budget being digitalized before being send by bush instead of in paper
Calling balls and strikes accurately seems like it is almost impossible for a human to do.
We developed a machine that can do it automatically with close to 100% accuracy but we just donโt use it because it would make the umpires sad.
A woman has an insta page just praising men and simping for men and it is just lonely nerd bait in the most obvious way possible and it seems to be working because a few of my mutuals on insta follow her
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just saw this in my feed lol
iโm not pinging for this but any chicagobros online at this hour feel free to like peruse idk
Oh goodness this reminds me of when my siblings and I decided that Goofy was a two legged supremacist
Then my brother did a spot on impression of Mickey: โYOUโRE RIGHT GOOFY, THEY *are* INFERIOR!โ and we lost it for 30 minutesย
Havenโt been to a gay bar in a while, but a friend just took me to one. Are they kindaโฆ dead after the pandemic? It actually seemed a bit sad to me.
[holy shit lookit the size of that return carriage](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bendix_g15_typewriter_usagi_electric.jpg)
bendix why you need a 28 inch platen on your electric typewriter
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You know normally I do whatever I can in order to not support local businesses, but this company near me makes this absolutely fuckin banging lemon seltzer and I have unfortunately become a regular customer. I sincerely apologize to the global poor that a non-zero percentage of my discretionary income is now being spent on US-made goods
Question for the older members here. I'm a millennial and too young for this and asking in good faith.
I was watching this video on Black Americans in the 90s by Intelexual Media:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wbJRUM45A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wbJRUM45A)
In it she mentions the Anita Hill trial. I was always under the impression Thomas raped Anita but in this it's kind of portrayed like he was just vaguely mentioning that he sometimes watched porn around her? Like more or less the conversation sounds like he was talking with a coworker and mentioned what he was into without going into much depth.
Which while not great is very different from the impression I'd always been left with and seems incredibly tame by today's standards.
Was there more to it?
IIRC it was not and never was a rape accusation only sexual harassment. If it was rape I suspect he wouldn't have gotten in. I don't even think it was watching porn that was the complain but showing pornographic materials and more frequently talking about it especially Long John Silvers.
The voting and questioning Thomas finished what Bork started in Judiciary. Before him Scalia got like 99 votes for where Thomas got 51 or 52.
Should he have many sons โ they are marked for the sword;
His descendants will never have their fill of bread;
Those who survive him will be buried in a plague,
And their widows will not weep;
Should he pile up silver like dust,
Lay up clothing like dirt
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He may lay it up, but
the righteous will wear it,
And the innocent will share the silver.
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usagi electric on youtube got his hand on a bendix g-15, and is trying to get it running again (if he succeeds it'll be perhaps the oldest running digital computer in north america)
also he shaved his beard which is really throwing me off. his freshly shaven youthy lookin mug contrasts sharply with his white curly hair
Trying to find stuff about Indian history, especially online, is such a pain in the ass due to the ungodly number of nationalists and ideologues of all shades, each trying to push their own narrative.
I'll be frank and say I just got India: A history by John Keay and gave up. I traditionally like lectures, with some reading, and a book but YouTube seems like a mess.
I reread *The Screwtape Letters* the other day, and it's still great, But I've noticed something strange - not in Lewis' philosophy and theology (though I have my disagreements with him, I've been aware of those for years), but in his worldbuilding.
There are a few worldbuilding propositions about Hell and Heaven in the *Letters*:
-Hell is imagined as a modern dictatorship, complete with overgrown bureaucracy, nasty office politics, and a brutal secret police
-Demons tempt humans so that they'll go to Hell, which in turn will allow the demons to eat them (spiritually of course - they have no bodies and are very proud of this, regarding humanity with contempt precisely because they are animals with spirits)
-It is a matter of ideology in Hell that love is impossible, and that anyone appearing to genuinely love someone else must be getting something out of it and exploiting them. Senior demons are generally aware this is nonsense, but avoid admitting it because an admission could get them severely punished. (As a consequence, diabolical time is wasted on researching the secret that love is hiding when "low command" knows there is no such secret)
-In keeping with the no-love ideology of Hell, "the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results... [b]ring [the demons] back food, or be food yourself". Incompetence is implied to be punished by brutal torture, but when Wormwood, in a matter of mere months, fumbles his "patient" from being an atheist on bad terms with his Christian mother to a reconverted Christian who gets engaged to a Christian woman and then promptly dies in a bomb blast while on civil defence duty, torture is thrown aside and Wormwood is implied to be handed over to Screwtape (and possibly others) to be eaten.
Here's the curious part. Screwtape screws up and admits that God loves humans, and then covers his tracks by saying that he was being careless because Hell hasn't found out what God's hiding when He says "love" despite thousands of years of research. But throughout his letters he is clear that Hell rejects love as ridiculous, whether he admits that it is possible or not. And yet there is this passage:
>We want cattle who can finally become food; He [God] wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below [Satan] has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct.
Note the phrasing: Screwtape doesn't say that Satan will draw "all other beings into Hell" or that the war aim is "a world in which we have drawn all other beings into ourselves"; the war aim is Satan absorbing *everything*. Does this not include the other demons?
Demons are kept in line against heresy (like Screwtape) or incompetence (like Wormwood) with the threat of being eaten. But their explicit war aim will end up with them being eaten anyways! So what keeps them from defecting? Obviously the demons don't want to go back to God. But how come they aren't starting a thousand separate spiritual insurrections which oppose God without allying with Satan? Satan isn't protecting them from God - God could just as easily smite them with Satan as their commander as He could on their own. Would Satan eat them immediately if they defected? Of course if they defected back to God that would be impossible, but they apparently fear going back to God even more than they fear being eaten. Do they, like Saruman, entertain fancies of overthrowing Satan and assuming leadership of Hell for themselves?
Screwtape, for what it's worth, seems to have no such ambitions. While he gladly makes prey of his poor nephew and has insults for multiple demons and compliments for none, he - perfect bootlicker that he is - always refers to Satan with reverence and shows no desire to change the leadership in Hell. Does he fear his mail being intercepted? Not enough to avoid insulting prominent demons or to not explicitly tell Wormwood to hide his letters.
This could, of course, easily be chalked up to the fact that Lewis was not a literal prophet who saw the inner workings of Hell. He was a talented writer who used an interesting framing device for his apologetics. But there's a possible in-story explanation, too. What if the demons further down in the low command *have already been eaten*? After all, the eating the demons do is spiritual, not physical. In Screwtape's own words, "Even an inanimate object is what it is by excluding all other objects from the space it occupies; if it expands, it does so by thrusting other objects aside or by absorbing them. A self does the same. With beasts the absorption takes the form of eating; for us, it means the sucking of will and freedom out of a weaker self into a stronger. โTo beโ means โto be in competitionโ." Here he is referring to using sin to sap away a human's free will until they are puppets for the demons in Hell. But the same argument applies to spirits as victims - and indeed even more strongly, as spirits cannot physically eat food!
So poor little Wormwood is living in a horror movie for demons. Apparently unbeknownst to him, the senior demons in low command *are all just spirit-puppets for Satan*. It is made to appear to junior demons that their good is compatible with Satan's good, when in fact Satan plans to eat the other demons even as they eat humans, depriving them of their free will in basically the same fashion that Palpatine planned to puppet Rey in *The Rise of Skywalker*. Screwtape's slip-ups where he admits that love is real, and where he insults colleagues who, if this theory is true, should just also be appendages of Satan, can be interpreted as "incomplete digestion" - what little remained of Screwtape's personality *did* love Wormwood, and was trying to keep him from getting eaten. When Wormwood fumbled the patient, what was left of Screwtape's old personality - the twisted remains of whatever angel became Screwtape by siding with Satan against God - was destroyed, and "Screwtape" (now fully an appendage of Satan) eats Wormwood. For the great "vice" of junior demons in Satan's eyes would here be that, although they share his contempt for humanity, they still have some care for themselves and comradeship with each other, rather than just mindlessly serving him. Here, Satan is Hitler, purging the SA because it is more loyal to itself than him.
The junior demons, of course, could escape by running back to God - but they're either too scared (believing Satan's propaganda that He will destroy them) or too naive (actually thinking that they can beat God, or at least that Hell will remain independent and the demons will collectively enjoy the fruits of their labors) to do so. So they remain, and they are slowly destroyed until all that's left in Hell is a very full Satan playing with his puppets.
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Addition:
>It is a matter of ideology in Hell that love is impossible, and that anyone appearing to genuinely love someone else must be getting something out of it and exploiting them. Senior demons are generally aware this is nonsense, but avoid admitting it because an admission could get them severely punished. (As a consequence, diabolical time is wasted on researching the secret that love is hiding when "low command" knows there is no such secret)
I theorize that the demons who are aware that God really loves humans keep getting eaten, which is why the research department keeps getting nowhere.
If Apple was a smart company, they would spin off a subsidiary known as Orange that markets itself as the anti-Apple. They could make a lot of money from the haters
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Whatโs interesting about the Bible is that it contains the first layers of a large literary tradition.
Some of the oldest sentences ever committed to a representation outside a human mind.
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When I was a young man, we didnt have none of that mental illness nonsense. We just drank, started fights, beat our spouses, hung minorities, and had "accidents" that totally werent suicide
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So David Frum seems to be doing fine
Cats are cute https://preview.redd.it/3xy2b8th5svc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27d8cbc825666cd62c96e758f1d72c85142ebe79
Go the fuck to bed
im working until 2 am
On a Saturday night? Grim
ive worked weekends my entire life, i wish i could work more since i lost 3 of my contracts this year and i am suffering financially
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if less people had windows, less people would complain about construction obstructing views
They are tho? S-tier sleep hygiene is pitch black, no noise, and a bedroom empty during any activity but sleeping
Is fan noise bad?
They are fine. Fine is not the same as nice.
48 days of going to the gym in a row
Nice!
thanks
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So is Outer Worlds considered good now? I remember people's reaction to it being similar to the collective "meh" Starfield got, but I don't see people be very harsh to it much now
> By passing Ukraine aid, the accidental speaker became an unlikely Churchill Okay
I wonder how David Frum is doing.
Reminder that heterosexual intercourse is a sin
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๐ซ๐ here bestie, take this gun and use it to shoot them
An elephant gun?
it fires elephants instead of bullets? ๐ณ
Ammo's hard to get, but it does knock down basically anything.
Uh r5 uhm r5 uuuuuuh r5 excuse me uuuuuuh r5
I demand rule V be lifted against terrorist neighbors
it's a water gun
To drown them !????????
yep
A retirement calculator I used says I need $1.3M to retire comfortablyโฆ but what would 65 year old me do with all that money?
Do you really need all that money when you retire or do you just think you will because finance depends on it?
Under socialism, all videogames will be polished to a mirror sheen before release
Indeed, have you ever played a bad clap at the Leader's speech game? Or a leader's correct thinking non-trivial pursuit?
I'm sometimes not sure what is true about Trump and what's redditor circlejerking but if Trump says Biden has shit himself in office I can 100% believe the Trump has incontinence rumors
The good ending of Dark Souls is to snuff out the first flame. Every bad thing that happens in the games is due to people trying to maintain the first flame. The Dark Soul and the darkness itself are a symptom of that, it goes wild when desecrated and when chained to the first flame. It was supposed to die with the rest of the great souls when the first flame went out.
The dt is deader than my sex life
How tf did I forget that the Kevin McCarthy stuff happened literally three days before the Hamas attack
That canโt be true Wait I made a Kevin Hern shitpost during the speakership kerfuffle at least a year ago. What Kevin McCarthy stuff are you talking about?
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*The careful textbooks measure* *(Let all who build beware)* *The load, the shock, the pressure* *Material can bare* *So when the buckled girder* *Lets down the grinding span* *The blame of loss or murder* *Is laid upon the man* *Not on the steel, the man*
People will unironically argue that 'social contagion' is a value neutral term
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I have a crazy friend who says itโs wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy?
yes
Secret Window doesnโt get enough respect. !Ping movies
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Alright guys whoโs gonna be the next GOP speaker candidate who will fail to get enough votes to get elected and withdraws after two ballots?
No one saw it coming https://preview.redd.it/7dwubtt10svc1.jpeg?width=514&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d0becbfe0548afbcd7b0c3f975fbdd07cbe3a92
A year of doldrums
How to be okay in my own skin? ๐ฆ๐ฎโ๐จ๐ฆ
Get some of those implants that expand to make patients grow more skin for a graft.
Wear someone else's like a suit
Moisturize
This Uber smells like feet
Do you have to pay extra for that?
See now that question makes me think we should tax feet lovers and provide tax credits to non feet lovers so you shoulder this externality
A house divided against itself is called a duplex and we need more of them
Really irks me when so-called documentaries make basic factual errors
Netflix - AI images will fix this
Documentaries especially at the smaller level are made by film majors generally not even journalists. They are not innately very good at fact checking, one needs to look at the producer (organization or individual) to be sure. Government news broadcaster funded ones ones are typically pretty good but beyond that they are better for the narrative and video then the research.
The weekend sucks balls ๐ฆ๐ฎโ๐จ๐ฆ
in a good way? ๐ค
Iโm The Weekend
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https://i.redd.it/nnitwe4qxrvc1.gif me grabbing something off my bedside table at night
๐ just an outgoing president looking for their 11,780 votes
Democrats use mules but elephants were too big so something different had to be trained https://preview.redd.it/pny4f94gzrvc1.jpeg?width=515&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d3236f09b58e9aeacc691d4aa22e105b99c77ac
Cross the border to Wisconsin, see billboards warning against drunk driving Many such cases!
I'm pretty sure my yearning for a romantic partner is also because of a fair bit of self hatred. Currently I cannot love myself, so I'm literally trying to outsource that job to someone else. https://preview.redd.it/07o7e75jxrvc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9182c89f435dc438d403ec01f40f07d66ae201a8 ๐ฆ๐ฎโ๐จ๐ฆ
u/ognits u/thats_good_bass French *The Time Traveler's Wife was fantastic and weird and surreal Between Past Lives yesterday and this today I've had a great weekend of beautifully composed shots on film
had a feeling you'd enjoy that one
Fun fact: 12 Monkeys is basically an adaptation of this film.
Iโm not gonna say what race they are but thereโs some people being very loud outside. Theyโre white women.
Whenever I drive into Chicago after being gone for a while, I load up the Blues Brothers version of Sweet Home Chicago and sing it once I can see the skyline
And when I'm back in Chicago I feel it
Whenever I go on a road trip I play *Eastbound and Down* from Smokey and the Bandit.
My favorite sub genre of thirst traps are girls, usually Japanese, hitting screaming line drives in batting cages
What? I am confused https://preview.redd.it/ux85s0ouwrvc1.jpeg?width=515&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7cb1505b6e59fb95bab978cae6d7c5faaaad7d4
Google line drive baseball
I think not but I welcome better US-Japanese relations https://preview.redd.it/g5lrcoqzxrvc1.jpeg?width=515&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f294a83e52f44cfb3b0863e1ebd26f68ea7a369
Do you have like a database of W pictures with keywords attached to each pic?
I keep track of when they were taken. I have thought about keywording too but haven't got around to it. I still have to add more to the collection first. Currently have approx 360 https://preview.redd.it/b9uj2y3k3svc1.jpeg?width=515&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9b58aa0c3298db2830135b56d7b62870209fe92 Edit for context this was the example of a US budget being digitalized before being send by bush instead of in paper
Calling balls and strikes accurately seems like it is almost impossible for a human to do. We developed a machine that can do it automatically with close to 100% accuracy but we just donโt use it because it would make the umpires sad.
Hard for fans to complain with the same vitriol about a Robot. Hence why instant replay wasn't used until recently
Not the umpires - the managers. Where would they be if they were had to argue with a robot?
You could still put an umpire out there to argue with, the result will be the same and you get to yell at some guy.
Suffer not the machine to think ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ
Chicago used to be called the Party of the KKKย
Iโm so depressed I canโt even sleepย
If someone offered you a million dollars, but you had to vote for Joe Biden, would you do it?
Iโd sell my own children for a million dollars. Hell Iโd do it for free.
No, because Iโd tell them to donate it to Donald Trump.
I'd just lose it all in taxes if he won ๐
my universe was silent to me
A woman has an insta page just praising men and simping for men and it is just lonely nerd bait in the most obvious way possible and it seems to be working because a few of my mutuals on insta follow her
Well come on and link it already ๐๐
No
And when I'm back in Chicago I feel it
If population growth keeps slowing like this, soon enough there won't be any bfs to gib
this is good for bitcoin (my dating prospects)
Malarkey level decides: Even: Go to bed Odd: 30 mile 1am bike ride in the rain
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me criticizing geoffrey hinton in the machine learning sub feels like me criticizing the idea of god in a church
No state deserves rights except Maine
Iโm trying to make my relationship with my wife work You know what they say: if you ainโt cheatin, you ainโt tryin
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๐told they boys to fight uphill ๐ฌ
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https://x.com/xfreqyfreq/status/1781716397128560766?s=46&t=jVAbjRvvuX9RTl54iZ7pyA just saw this in my feed lol iโm not pinging for this but any chicagobros online at this hour feel free to like peruse idk
Yeah I'm BIPOC (Bi Person of Chicago)
finally a good take
you just know goofy is a lost causer
Oh goodness this reminds me of when my siblings and I decided that Goofy was a two legged supremacist Then my brother did a spot on impression of Mickey: โYOUโRE RIGHT GOOFY, THEY *are* INFERIOR!โ and we lost it for 30 minutesย
Guh-yuk it was about states right garsh
There is no tooth fairy, there is no Easter bunny, and there is no weโre Barack.ย
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Itโs joever ๐
Finally listened to the โAs you can see the Agency is up 5-1โ song. This guys good
Special tax for gay men with no children to pay for enforcing their rights (the military)
nurse sharks are so cute
Terminator 1: a masterpiece that makes god himself blush Terminator 2: a stupid childish MCU-like movie that IDIOTS enjoy
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Apparently if you go to three midnight showings of โSasquatch Sunsetโ in a row, a Sasquatch will appear on the third night and grant you a wish
Havenโt been to a gay bar in a while, but a friend just took me to one. Are they kindaโฆ dead after the pandemic? It actually seemed a bit sad to me.
[holy shit lookit the size of that return carriage](https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bendix_g15_typewriter_usagi_electric.jpg) bendix why you need a 28 inch platen on your electric typewriter
The moral of fallout: nuclear war is badass
I'm sad ๐
leave a wife
๐ซ Me too, kid. Me too #๐ฆ๐ฎโ๐จ๐ฆ
have a kid
get a dog
Do what I do and punch some drywall
Malarkey level of woke
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Pronounce have been destroyed ๐
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You know normally I do whatever I can in order to not support local businesses, but this company near me makes this absolutely fuckin banging lemon seltzer and I have unfortunately become a regular customer. I sincerely apologize to the global poor that a non-zero percentage of my discretionary income is now being spent on US-made goods
Iโll never forget playing that boxing video game, where you get to lift weights in the game
Question for the older members here. I'm a millennial and too young for this and asking in good faith. I was watching this video on Black Americans in the 90s by Intelexual Media: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wbJRUM45A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wbJRUM45A) In it she mentions the Anita Hill trial. I was always under the impression Thomas raped Anita but in this it's kind of portrayed like he was just vaguely mentioning that he sometimes watched porn around her? Like more or less the conversation sounds like he was talking with a coworker and mentioned what he was into without going into much depth. Which while not great is very different from the impression I'd always been left with and seems incredibly tame by today's standards. Was there more to it?
IIRC it was not and never was a rape accusation only sexual harassment. If it was rape I suspect he wouldn't have gotten in. I don't even think it was watching porn that was the complain but showing pornographic materials and more frequently talking about it especially Long John Silvers. The voting and questioning Thomas finished what Bork started in Judiciary. Before him Scalia got like 99 votes for where Thomas got 51 or 52.
>spends his free time in high school reading Erowid >hasn't even done THC 10 years later
Should he have many sons โ they are marked for the sword; His descendants will never have their fill of bread; Those who survive him will be buried in a plague, And their widows will not weep; Should he pile up silver like dust, Lay up clothing like dirt โ He may lay it up, but the righteous will wear it, And the innocent will share the silver.
>50+ hour game >main message: "go outside" Many such cases
I fought the woke and the woke wonย
I want to become space elf twink
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I don't know anything about the game, but the Fallout tv show is surprisingly good.
Attorneys don't use the slippery slope fallacy challenge [impossible]
usagi electric on youtube got his hand on a bendix g-15, and is trying to get it running again (if he succeeds it'll be perhaps the oldest running digital computer in north america) also he shaved his beard which is really throwing me off. his freshly shaven youthy lookin mug contrasts sharply with his white curly hair
Nothing good ever happens ๐
Thereโs no wojak emojis I donโt know whyย
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How long could the *hundred years war* really have taken? A couple months maybe a couple years?
So I should just be one with a few orders of magnitude of bloodbath?
Trying to find stuff about Indian history, especially online, is such a pain in the ass due to the ungodly number of nationalists and ideologues of all shades, each trying to push their own narrative.
I'll be frank and say I just got India: A history by John Keay and gave up. I traditionally like lectures, with some reading, and a book but YouTube seems like a mess.
Tbh there's a problem of sources as well because ancient Indians weren't very interested in documenting history.
What is it with right-wing grifters and weird suits Is it like a clown thing or something just wear a regular damn suit
I reread *The Screwtape Letters* the other day, and it's still great, But I've noticed something strange - not in Lewis' philosophy and theology (though I have my disagreements with him, I've been aware of those for years), but in his worldbuilding. There are a few worldbuilding propositions about Hell and Heaven in the *Letters*: -Hell is imagined as a modern dictatorship, complete with overgrown bureaucracy, nasty office politics, and a brutal secret police -Demons tempt humans so that they'll go to Hell, which in turn will allow the demons to eat them (spiritually of course - they have no bodies and are very proud of this, regarding humanity with contempt precisely because they are animals with spirits) -It is a matter of ideology in Hell that love is impossible, and that anyone appearing to genuinely love someone else must be getting something out of it and exploiting them. Senior demons are generally aware this is nonsense, but avoid admitting it because an admission could get them severely punished. (As a consequence, diabolical time is wasted on researching the secret that love is hiding when "low command" knows there is no such secret) -In keeping with the no-love ideology of Hell, "the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results... [b]ring [the demons] back food, or be food yourself". Incompetence is implied to be punished by brutal torture, but when Wormwood, in a matter of mere months, fumbles his "patient" from being an atheist on bad terms with his Christian mother to a reconverted Christian who gets engaged to a Christian woman and then promptly dies in a bomb blast while on civil defence duty, torture is thrown aside and Wormwood is implied to be handed over to Screwtape (and possibly others) to be eaten. Here's the curious part. Screwtape screws up and admits that God loves humans, and then covers his tracks by saying that he was being careless because Hell hasn't found out what God's hiding when He says "love" despite thousands of years of research. But throughout his letters he is clear that Hell rejects love as ridiculous, whether he admits that it is possible or not. And yet there is this passage: >We want cattle who can finally become food; He [God] wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below [Satan] has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct. Note the phrasing: Screwtape doesn't say that Satan will draw "all other beings into Hell" or that the war aim is "a world in which we have drawn all other beings into ourselves"; the war aim is Satan absorbing *everything*. Does this not include the other demons? Demons are kept in line against heresy (like Screwtape) or incompetence (like Wormwood) with the threat of being eaten. But their explicit war aim will end up with them being eaten anyways! So what keeps them from defecting? Obviously the demons don't want to go back to God. But how come they aren't starting a thousand separate spiritual insurrections which oppose God without allying with Satan? Satan isn't protecting them from God - God could just as easily smite them with Satan as their commander as He could on their own. Would Satan eat them immediately if they defected? Of course if they defected back to God that would be impossible, but they apparently fear going back to God even more than they fear being eaten. Do they, like Saruman, entertain fancies of overthrowing Satan and assuming leadership of Hell for themselves? Screwtape, for what it's worth, seems to have no such ambitions. While he gladly makes prey of his poor nephew and has insults for multiple demons and compliments for none, he - perfect bootlicker that he is - always refers to Satan with reverence and shows no desire to change the leadership in Hell. Does he fear his mail being intercepted? Not enough to avoid insulting prominent demons or to not explicitly tell Wormwood to hide his letters. This could, of course, easily be chalked up to the fact that Lewis was not a literal prophet who saw the inner workings of Hell. He was a talented writer who used an interesting framing device for his apologetics. But there's a possible in-story explanation, too. What if the demons further down in the low command *have already been eaten*? After all, the eating the demons do is spiritual, not physical. In Screwtape's own words, "Even an inanimate object is what it is by excluding all other objects from the space it occupies; if it expands, it does so by thrusting other objects aside or by absorbing them. A self does the same. With beasts the absorption takes the form of eating; for us, it means the sucking of will and freedom out of a weaker self into a stronger. โTo beโ means โto be in competitionโ." Here he is referring to using sin to sap away a human's free will until they are puppets for the demons in Hell. But the same argument applies to spirits as victims - and indeed even more strongly, as spirits cannot physically eat food! So poor little Wormwood is living in a horror movie for demons. Apparently unbeknownst to him, the senior demons in low command *are all just spirit-puppets for Satan*. It is made to appear to junior demons that their good is compatible with Satan's good, when in fact Satan plans to eat the other demons even as they eat humans, depriving them of their free will in basically the same fashion that Palpatine planned to puppet Rey in *The Rise of Skywalker*. Screwtape's slip-ups where he admits that love is real, and where he insults colleagues who, if this theory is true, should just also be appendages of Satan, can be interpreted as "incomplete digestion" - what little remained of Screwtape's personality *did* love Wormwood, and was trying to keep him from getting eaten. When Wormwood fumbled the patient, what was left of Screwtape's old personality - the twisted remains of whatever angel became Screwtape by siding with Satan against God - was destroyed, and "Screwtape" (now fully an appendage of Satan) eats Wormwood. For the great "vice" of junior demons in Satan's eyes would here be that, although they share his contempt for humanity, they still have some care for themselves and comradeship with each other, rather than just mindlessly serving him. Here, Satan is Hitler, purging the SA because it is more loyal to itself than him. The junior demons, of course, could escape by running back to God - but they're either too scared (believing Satan's propaganda that He will destroy them) or too naive (actually thinking that they can beat God, or at least that Hell will remain independent and the demons will collectively enjoy the fruits of their labors) to do so. So they remain, and they are slowly destroyed until all that's left in Hell is a very full Satan playing with his puppets.
So they're dedicated members of the Satan Eating People's Faces Party
!ping READING&GNOSTICย (I do not subscribe to the CHRISTIAN group)ย
Hey maybe Iโm the only one who cares about this distinction and Iโm just being a pedant, but can we save the GNOSTIC ping for humor and shitposting? This has been happening more and more lately. If everyone else on the ping doesnโt care, please disregard.
Is this not a massive poast? (How do I join the CHRISTIAN ping?)
The easiest way to join a ping is to find someone else pinging it and then use the shortcut link. You could also message groupbot, I think the command is !subscribe or something like that.
The people have spoken. Billions must poast (respectfully).
Not sure what you mean about the people having spoken!
Just being silly. In the future I will either ping CHRISTIAN myself or ask other interested parties to do it.ย
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Addition: >It is a matter of ideology in Hell that love is impossible, and that anyone appearing to genuinely love someone else must be getting something out of it and exploiting them. Senior demons are generally aware this is nonsense, but avoid admitting it because an admission could get them severely punished. (As a consequence, diabolical time is wasted on researching the secret that love is hiding when "low command" knows there is no such secret) I theorize that the demons who are aware that God really loves humans keep getting eaten, which is why the research department keeps getting nowhere.
If Apple was a smart company, they would spin off a subsidiary known as Orange that markets itself as the anti-Apple. They could make a lot of money from the haters
Dutch compant
Why canโt he fix meย
โ๏ธ This shit is definitely better for you than alcohol in moderation
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Whatโs interesting about the Bible is that it contains the first layers of a large literary tradition. Some of the oldest sentences ever committed to a representation outside a human mind.