I love the House Republicans who said after their first vote that there were things in it they hated and that if they could do it over again, they would, who also proceeded to vote for it the second time 'round. Honestly this shit is making me contemplate figuring out firsthand if there’s an afterlife, but something about keeping promises and miles to go.

Even as a Christian myself, I don’t see the purpose of televangelism. (except grifting believers for money) Really the only hope you have of convincing someone to take your religion seriously that isn’t fear or violence is directly connecting to them. Like, genuinely forging a friendship where conversion is not even really a thing you’re thinking about. You can’t do that over TV. At best, these guys are only for people who already believe, and then they can just go to church and get a more personal experience there. Everyone else probably already knew this, but I guess televangelism is really just exploiting popular religion in order to make tons of money of desperate, lonely people.

“Unlike the radical left, we will not weaponize the legal system against political enemies… unless they’re actually vaguely left-leaning in which case EXTERMINATE!”

That’s because there is no “real” definition of kind. Genesis describes creating each animal and them reproducing according to their kind. So they took poetic language and tried mapping it directly into a scientific term. It’s similar to how creation had to take place in seven days because the Bible uses the word “day” which corresponds to the Hebrew word “yom” which only ever in the history of the language referred to a 24-hour period. I suppose the Bible does specify “evening and then morning” but the other description is how they tried to teach it to us.

I’ve had some leaders who would cede that were are to be good stewards of the earth, so maybe don’t set fire to forests… while defending the people destroying forests and other ecological structures.

Not sure that I have full-blown arachnophobia, but he looks kinda cute. If he kept his distance I could probably tolerate being near 'em.

I like to bring this up when they get uppity about capitalism being God’s preferred system, which is such a wild claim to make. But a Fox News host said it best, “God is great, but I love capitalism.” Honestly, had I not heard them say it myself, I would have a hard time believing they were so mask-off.

Eh. If it forces a imperialist pig to read queer literature, maybe it’s worth it.

As long as there is no password input, it should be fine. The NSA can trace who you connect to anyway even if they can’t see what you’re seeing. And if there is password input, just don’t use a password you use anywhere else.

I guess they’re so much cooler than a preemptive defense that they opted for a preemptive offense.

That’s what I was thinking. “You call that a genocide? Those are rookie numbers!”

As far as I understand, it is essentially anal penetration. It is often used nowadays to describe SA in which that occurs, but it used to be (and to some extent still may be) used to criminalize gay sex. Especially since many Christians consider the crime of Sodom and Gamorrah to be homosexuality.

Tribadism

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense.

The first half of the book is the fall of House Atreides, and then the rest of the book is Paul living among the Fremen until the end where he leads them in a coup against the emperor. The first movie ends with the House falling and Paul and his mother meeting up with the Fremen.

Ool

I am a little annoyed about phone going to exclusively eSIMs. My Linux phone that I try to boot up and update every so often to see if we’ve “made it” yet only takes physical SIM. Which I’ve read you can download an eSIM onto a physical card, but it sounds like a convoluted process, especially when your current phone only has eSIM. But I agree, that has little to nothing to do with open-source.

Ah yes. The good ol’ “I told you my ambition in advance” defense against “You SA’d my girlfriend!”

I feel like removing his humanity minimizes the evil of this. If an animal kills someone, it’s unfortunate, but it’s hard to blame the animal. In fact, it’s often the victim’s fault when an animal attacks. But this is a human. He is capable of such immense goodness and kindness, and instead he chooses to do this. The worst horror is an intelligent being choosing evil, not a mindless creature acting instinctively.

I don’t much care for violence either, but it certainly seems as though one side has no qualms about using it. If there were a peaceful solution, I’d advocate for it, but more and more it seems that political power grows from the barrel of a gun…