JasonDJ
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- Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging 16 hours ago:
Jesus was a rebel. He hated the state. Assuming he was a real person, he was a bastion of hope against an authoritative rule.
Considering literacy rates among the lower classes ~2000 years ago, it’s not really surprising there was a lot of oral tradition until he was co-opted to control the people. And oral traditions usually lead to exaggerated elements, such as miracles.
Think about what we’d be saying about George Washington or any of the other founding fathers, if reading and writing weren’t commonplace, and most of what we knew of him was oral tradition. Hell, even despite the writings, we still have a heavily romanticized view of them.
- Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging 1 day ago:
Ah. The Holy Bible. Literal word of God.^(Edited and abridged by man.)
- Comment on Guerrilla Women 1 day ago:
Which one was she? Psychological?
- Comment on Habits of Insects 1 day ago:
Especially in America. Sure just cut that board down to 29-13/64 inches…
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 4 days ago:
Right? I buy my ibuprofen at the Dollar Tree because it tends to expire before I use it all.
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 4 days ago:
The good thing about the HDHPs is the availability to have an HSA.
HSA money is collected pre-tax. Balances over a certain amount can be invested. But the good thing about it is that it’s yours to keep. Not like an FSA that disappears at the end of a year.
So she could save up for the deductible for her surgery for her debilitating chronic pain over the course of several years. After she pays thousands in premiums and her employer pays thousands more. Like a good American.
- Comment on whatcha gonna watch? 6 days ago:
Beauty and the Beast.
But it’s Spanish class. So La bella y la bestia.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
That’s exactly the problem. We don’t, and in many places can’t, make things here.
A lot has to do with access to resources. China is dominating in electronics in part because they essentially (but not really) colonized most the world that has good silicon.
But moving manufacturing around the world, to a place where literally everything is more expensive, is an costly endeavor that simply won’t be worth it for most businesses.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
That’s the point of tariffs…to give domestic supply a shot.
It’s stupid and short-sighted in a modern economy. It’s not worth it for any manufacturer to shut down existing mega factories and build new ones here. They won’t find enough people to do the jobs (especially if we deport/denaturalize a ton of people) and the costs and re-investments are huge.
And you just know that choose to come and build here are gonna get really nice tax breaks to do so, so there won’t be any real return for the community for a long time, if ever.
The end result is either they pass the costs into consumers, or they cut costs by laying off their expensive state-side employees and moving their positions abroad. American middle-class loses bigly.
- Comment on Post-election blues 1 week ago:
For some reason now I wonder what Reading Rainbow would be like if hosted by Samuel L. Jackson.
You don’t have to take my word for it…motherfucker.
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
They’re just very exited, give them a break b
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 2 weeks ago:
I can’t ignore the old TV.
I’m honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.
- Comment on Road trip! 2 weeks ago:
What kind of troll named the towns in Newfoundland?
There’s also a “Dildo” and a “Placentia” on the larger island.
- Comment on Magic Beneath The Forests 2 weeks ago:
Plugging a book i liked…The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben.
Made me look at trees and forests a whole new way.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Should we start building a big wooden boat for them?
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 3 weeks ago:
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
- Comment on Honey 3 weeks ago:
Technically, yes.
Assuming the canabee is consenting freely, and likely has to be done in a way not violating other laws. Like some variety of a pain kink where people slice of small portions of each others meaty bits and eatting them. That’s probably a thing, though likely not so among vegans.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Think about it as if its about consent. The bees don’t consent to their honey being taken. Cows don’t consent to be repeatedly impregnated and milked. Pigs don’t consent to their butts becoming bacon. Chickens don’t consent to their eggs being taken.
However, the miller and the baker both consented to milling/kneading, and later selling their wares.
Human breast milk can be vegan, though, if given freely. If you forcefully take human breast milk, then it is no longer vegan.
- Comment on The Beginning of the End 4 weeks ago:
Sure. You would say that. What would the coroner say?
- Comment on The Beginning of the End 4 weeks ago:
The meteor didn’t kill most of them.
Some were killed by the tsunamis it produced. Or shockwaves. But I don’t think many were killed by the meteor itself.
Most were killed by the sand that kicked up in the atmosphere all over the world, then fell back down as a rain of glass.
The rest either succumbed to strict competition when the sky went dark and starved, or evolved into chickens.
Seriously guys, spend an afternoon with a backyard farmer and just watch their chickens. They are little cute dinosaurs. Watch them run together, or hunt in packs. Watch their little talons stretch out as they step…clearly Spieldberg’s inspiration for the T-Rex footprint scene. Hell, if I’m a little late with breakfast, they’ll surround me and start pecking at me! Like I’m the food!
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 4 weeks ago:
Ugh, me, with a shy bladder, at intermission during Hamilton.
My eyes were turning yellow at Guns and Ships. Really thought I wouldn’t make it. The line at the men’s room was huge. Get in. Get to urinal. Can’t.
Ugh.
End up leaving with bladder still full and getting back into line to get a stall and finish just in time. Couldn’t even get another overpriced beer for the second act.
- Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US? 4 weeks ago:
That’s just self checkout with fewer steps.
I guess that’s what any vending machine is though.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
Great. First science was the big the frogs gay. Now it’s turning the mosquitos trans.
What’s next? Lesbian amoebas? Pansexual algae?
- Comment on Alice missing the point yet again 4 weeks ago:
Is this the modern “dumb blonde” joke, re-imagined?
Sure looks like it.
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 5 weeks ago:
NASA represents 0.25% of the federal budget. A quarter of one percent.
We could have 57 NASAs for what we spend on one DoD. We could have nearly 100 for what we spend on one HHS.
NASA also has a ridiculously high ROI from their library of patents, too. Probably one of the highest.
This is kind of a bad way to look at it though…you can’t really put a monetary value on what we get back from HHS or even really DoD. There’s a lot of bad, but it’s also what keeps America the economic powerhouse that it is, through all of our soft power and protecting global trade routes.
- Comment on reddit cat subs be like: 5 weeks ago:
Honestly read that as “so legal” and I was confused as to which sub that could’ve been. There are just so many.
- Comment on Having fun with text scams 5 weeks ago:
Whatever on the language man. My kid is 8 too, and a very welcoming and accepting boy, so the few autistic sailors in his grade flock to him.
Also, kid has good spelling and text-grammar for his age.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t even have to be municipal…I’d settle for a strongly regulated public/private partnership…but really nothing we have now works.
Around here, our electric service is kind of like that. You have your supply (the energy provider) and your distribution (the wire owner). We can choose our own supply but we have to have the distributor that’s in the region. There’s some good suppliers but there’s also a lot of scams.
That’s the closest analogy we have currently to what I’m talking about, but still not quite perfect, since as far as I’m aware the electric supply thing is more like a group-buy of bulk energy and weird business math.
