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I'm hoping we don't have the earth-salting anti-southern problem here on Bluesky like we did at the other place but I'm glad this post is here as a sign for me to tap
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Sounds like an honorable soldier in the fight against work fridge food theft
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I initially read that phrase as "virtuous and cruel" and it occurred to me that some are out for revenge and not justice
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"You should rise up! I'll sit over here and make sure everything goes according to plan."
why do we always send the poor x4
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Honk If You Bonk
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I think we've hit upon the breaking point - asking randomness to do the thoughtful work for us.
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Same for Elite, which was a mindblowing miracle back in 1984.
Minecraft also an exception, but it does admit its chewy content is mostly fixed in place (and then randomly placed).
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I've always thought that any increased cost due to new technology not having enough scale, will eventually get paid back in dividends from reduced healthcare demand.
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Imagine an intrepid RV full of mobile infrastructure whose sole purpose is to connect to a firewalled-state's hardline and then provide wireless/satellite access and I think I just described the subplot of The Matrix.
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More of "How dare you do a genocide" vs "How dare you try and invade Russia"
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Credit score: trust me bro
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I guess it's a question of whether the purging of ethnonationalism or the purging of authoritarian sentiment was the goal.
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Could be argued (and has been) that the religion itself was hijacked less than 50 days into its inception.
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But, as you said, it's very easy to twist individual words (which go through multiple translations with their own agendas) to have him be the hero or the villain of whatever it is they want to defeat in their particular context.
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My general belief about these stories is that Jesus was railing against Roman authority or supplication to such. You can bet I'm against any interpretation of his life that assigns blame to an entire culture.
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CORRECTION: Moneychangers. I have been informed that "-lenders" was a subtle anti-semitic jab and it was not my intention to promulgate that with this reference.
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My apologies, it was not my intention to mislead.
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It reminds me of folks who ethnically shouldn't be police officers but who have a huge deep-rooted need to be in control of everything
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History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, and Jesus getting executed after trashing the moneylenders was the original "Just What Machine Did You Think They Were Raging Against, Paul Ryan" moment.
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Yeesh. The quiet part being that it was never about the man, it was about the likes/retweets he got, and now it's time to move on to whoever gets more.
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It's like their God is a coked up stockbroker constantly telling them those are rookie numbers.
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Volothamp Geddarm, the Hunter S. Thompson of Toril.
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This tracks with reproductive health policy - babies must live, children must be kept in constant desperation to depress labor costs
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There was a Wendover about this recently - the East still hasn't caught up to the West economically and culturally and this feels oddly like 1932 all over again
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Depends on how much of a market share toaster ovens still have compared to side-loaders.
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"This story is relatable as it deals with humans being sad when they don't have something anymore, and I think that's something a lot of folks have experienced"
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well, save for very "destroy this one and then my favorite one magically appears" values of save
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everybody wants to save the world, they just disagree on how
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This is what happens when an incel accidentally happens into money so they figure if they make enough of it, things will get fixed
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Find something to be mad at, rage post for two solid days, then act like I'm owed money for my performance.
Nice work if you can get it.
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The danger is a form of energy that can kill.
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I would say this is another reason why women picked the bear, but the bear actually picked the town this time
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The moment a fun thing becomes exploitable for social clout, it ceases to be about the fun anymore. It's also why I never play board games competitively.
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I mean, the fun thing is still happening, but it's not being shared with hundreds of others who like fun things.
This is a fun thing that everyone should be able to enjoy, without worrying that it's not being influencer-ed enough.
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Today, a fun thing got cancelled because it wasn't full enough of people who use their fun thing as a career and it didn't tick enough boxes.
Congratulations on denying people fun.
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Elon too greedy to tell the media club who've reserved the back rooms 6 months in advance that the bar has shifted its demographics.
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As someone else much well spoken than I said, "in the primary, vote for who you believe in, and in the general, vote for who you'd prefer to negotiate with."
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Whamageddon 2023 Any% Speedrun contestant right here. #dammit
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*pulls on boots* Hell, the Torture Nexus ain't gonna build itself yanno
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Thank you for expressing my doomer-exhaustion better than I could. The whole "Well, we're waiting for your plans now!" frustration.
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A move that just has millions of individuals waiting for someone else to take the first swing
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I was going to go with "it got used in a viral meme about not leaving your pets in a hot car"
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*insert Inception sound here*
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It may be a jaded sentiment but the self-centeredness of most would mean any approach has to come in such a way that each individual who changes their mind has to feel like they came to it on their own/
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Ah, the presumption that in the end, everyone will all come to their senses via *gestures hands in the air*
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"all or nothing" ideaologism, so to speak?
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For very "being stuffed into the top of a meat grinder" values of "its"
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