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- Comment on I've been tapiring off lately. 21 hours ago:
A couple of my favorites: there are literally extant court records of Joseph Smith scamming people before he started the religion, and the “ancient papyrus” he supposedly translated for a side project was utterly invalidated a few years later when the Rosetta stone helped early Egyptologists crack the language.
Starting a “trust me, bro” religion in an era of scientific advancement and systematic record keeping is certainly one way to go, LOL. Kudos to him and the subsequent leaders for keeping the grift going… I guess.
- Comment on For a second you were thrilled. You were texting with your ideal man 1 day ago:
There was (is?) a TV show that is basically this meme.
- Comment on Can't believe I haven't seen this one yet 1 day ago:
Yeah, I’d say the version you got has been upscaled and had the canvas expanded by AI. I see, for instance, that the can’s size labeling has been changed to the American version, the Hangul below the logo looks wrong, and the “Hello” goes slop at exactly the point where the original picture cuts off.
What a strange choice to burn tokens on.
- Comment on I've been tapiring off lately. 1 day ago:
Exactly that. Something called linguistic “loanshifting.” It was suggested by a Mormon “scholar” in the 80s and is trotted out from time to time by later apologists. It’s a somewhat niche suggestion even among Mormons, but that’s because nothing in the Book of Mormon makes any damn sense at all in any field’s scholarship without world class mental gymnastics, so most of the rank and file simply choose not to worry about it.
- Comment on I've been tapiring off lately. 1 day ago:
- Comment on OK. I'll accept that as a compliment 1 day ago:
Even if Rachel and Jacob were white, nobody would be that white after a single month doing that work, LOL.
“Daniel Radcliffe as Prince Valiant woos Uma Thurman” is certainly a choice for Bronze Age Canaan. The Pre-Raphaelites did some interesting stuff, but – hoo-buddy – historical accuracy was not their jam.
- Comment on "Wedge, I've lost my gunner. You'll have to make this shot. I'll cover for you. Set your harpoon. Follow me on the next pass." 2 days ago:
my gunner
You know they were on Hoth because Luke was being stone cold there. You think Wedge didn’t know who Dak was and which speeder he was in? Speak his name, motherfucker.
- Comment on How much would it cost the next president/tax payers to tear down the ball room and restore it back to normal? How long would it take? And fixing the rose garden? 5 days ago:
If I’m the Democrats, I try to figure out a way to get something of value to the American people in exchange for letting him fuck off to play with his toys for the next two years. Whatever it is would be cheaply bought, especially if it distracts him from doing anything of actual importance, which by this point we know will be stupid and bad.
- Comment on How much would it cost the next president/tax payers to tear down the ball room and restore it back to normal? How long would it take? And fixing the rose garden? 5 days ago:
But I think the whole notion is poisoned for a good while.
Yeah, nobody’s going to want to throw good money after bad to tear it down again. Maybe at some point after Trump dies and therefore can’t gloat, it’ll actually get used for state dinners and such. In the meantime, I personally think you’ll see the space partitioned into cube farms and temporary offices, and in particular you’ll see the First Lady (or Gentleman) and staff plopped back down over there.
- Comment on Texans today... 5 days ago:
You must not have been getting the ads. No atheists here. We’re all Sharia Muslims now, but also post-op trans, a group famously embraced by fundamentalist Islam.
- Comment on Texans today... 5 days ago:
I think there’s also a bit of “new kid at school” energy and part of me even now doubts that we’re more than a people state.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
::reads thread::
::awards OP the “most accurate shitpost” award::
- Comment on Elections Have Consequences 6 days ago:
Do we get the mandatory pediatric bottom surgeries at the Sharia mosque, or just file the paperwork there?
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- Comment on Milk? Pshaw! Toast? Scoff! Behold and weep... 1 week ago:
It never said chicken egg crystals.
- Comment on life hacks 1 week ago:
Also the tactic of the exceedingly rare “PE coach with a brain” when they are doing a team sports unit; it’s much quicker than the usual draft process.
If one the “captains” is being a douche, the less scrupulous coaches will spring the second half on them after letting them pick, but then the less athletic kids catch hell from the now-angry douchebag and get their asses kicked in the game.
- Comment on Milk? Pshaw! Toast? Scoff! Behold and weep... 1 week ago:
Reason 42 why I don’t backpack… 🤣
- Comment on Milk? Pshaw! Toast? Scoff! Behold and weep... 1 week ago:
Or smoke them!
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- Comment on Thomas Brodie-Sangster (left) and Luke Bracey (right), both of whom play major roles in the TV series „Artful Dodger”, are less than a year apart in age (born in May 1990 and April 1989 respectively). 1 week ago:
Yeah, this was something I noticed in the Sean Connery thread. Sure, skin care, reduced smoking, and everything else makes it possible to look younger than people used to, but Tommy there is some kind of damn alien.
Maybe his secret is powdered milk?
- Comment on The bowl is full 2 weeks ago:
“GIFs you can hear…”
- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 2 weeks ago:
Brodie-Sangster is also like preternaturally youthful looking. 1999 Kyle Chandler in Early Edition at age 34 sort of splits the difference, and Jesse Plemons at 36-38, after he lost some weight, is closing in on Connery levels of character in his face.
- Comment on Mechanics don't want you to know about this simple trick that will save you hundreds on oil changes 3 weeks ago:
If I’m ever in dairy bottling plant circa early November, and I’m being chased by villains who’ve drained the oil from my car, I will now be confident that replacing it with egg nog will facilitate my escape before killing the engine.
And I have Australian Beavis and Butthead to thank for it.
- Comment on Pfft 3 weeks ago:
Authors: “There was supposed to be a deeper meaning?”
English Teachers: “You are already dead"
Salman Rushdie: “I know that was figurative, but it still hurts!”
- Comment on Well at least you are not number one 4 weeks ago:
Yes. So genuinely folksy. I have an entirely Southeastern Conference education. Now, I definitely knew some kids who never shed their accents after law school, and frankly I had at least one professor whose public persona, including his teaching, was not a world apart from Senator Leghorn here, but all of them could code-switch and tone it down considerably. It’s basically mandatory to succeed as a lawyer. The fact that he talks like he does says as much about the voting population of Louisiana as it does about Kennedy.
- Comment on Well at least you are not number one 4 weeks ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving! 4 weeks ago:
You can tell where they went in with the fork, but yeah. Well done.
- Comment on Well at least you are not number one 4 weeks ago:
Kennedy would be a lot of fun if he weren’t 95% MAGA and 5% “oil industry wherever it is slightly different than MAGA.”
- Comment on I have always found this to be true 4 weeks ago:
I assume these were found in a flea market because Jessica, Caroline, and Alex’s meemaw died before Christmas.
- Comment on Annnnd They're Dead 4 weeks ago:
Weird Aunt it is, then.
