saltesc
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- Comment on Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Nonbinary God's Life 1 day ago:
It’s weird that someone could be successful in politics based on such a stance.
Literally nothing about governance of state in there, just a single strand of social opinion.
It’s like winning a captaincy in Grade 7 because you said the teachers smell, but like, this is adults and it’s been working.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 2 days ago:
It’s easier to use their names
Deci = 1/10th
Centi = 100th
Milli = 1000th
Micro = 1,000,000th
Nano = 1,000,000,000thDeca = ×10 Hector = 100 Kilo = ×1,000 Mega - ×1,000,000 Giga = × 1,000,000,000 Tera = × 1,000,000,000,000,000
Etc prefixing the thing being measured.
So you know what a centimetre, gigabyte, megaton, kilojoules, etc. are.
Other easy conversions too, like 1kg = 1L of water.
And it’s metre. Because a meter is a measuring device and all this shit is Latin (metrum) like proper science stuff be. Americans don’t even use it, so they can fuck off with their misspelling.
And that’s it. You now know the metric system. You probably now realise you’ve been using it all along for many things.
- Comment on most libertarian costume 4 days ago:
- Comment on Such is life 5 days ago:
Can’t wait
- Comment on Satan Was The Good Guy This Whole Time? 1 week ago:
I’m no longer a Christian, and I don’t think any of it is fact. But I was one for 22 years and went to Bible college before seeing the light and studying anthropology. What a text says and whether it’s true are two different things, and you’re making a claim about what’s in that text that just isn’t true. You’re right that the overarching theme was defiance, but not anything else.
Your “refusal to bow to mankind” is only found in later non-canonical texts after the Bible. It’s why it is canon in one Abrahamic text…the Qur’an. Not the NKJV, and obv not any translation of the Christian Bible. I.e. not in the teachings or literature of Christianity, nor your NKJV.
The story never mentions humanity, not even where the NT brings it up. The Torah covers creation and the Fall, so the Bible gets all that from there and so there’s no Lucifer story in it at all until Isaiah, which doesn’t mention what you said at all and that’s the core for that tale in that literature. The only place Satan actually gets pinned to the serpent in Genesis is Revelation, and even there, nothing about refusing to bow to humans.
You may have been preached some individual’s interpretation of the Bible, including their reading of texts written after the Bible (like, 100-700years after), but if you read it, you’d read what I’m saying and not find mention of what you’re saying.
- Comment on Satan Was The Good Guy This Whole Time? 1 week ago:
No it does not.
The version of bible does not change canon, just the language.
The narrative you mention does not exist canonically in any Bible.
- Comment on Satan Was The Good Guy This Whole Time? 1 week ago:
That’s not how the story goes at all.
He didn’t defy God; he wanted to be God.
Mankind wasn’t a factor, it didn’t even exist.
You’d have better luck spinning a story about a bad breakup and we’re a puppy someone got out of impulse, thinking it’d fill the lonely void.
- Comment on After all, why not? 1 week ago:
It really depends on which you hate the most; your lungs and environment, or your teeth and nervous system.
- Comment on At least tomorrow is hump day, right guys? ...right? 1 week ago:
It’s now technically Tuesday somewhere, if that helps…
- Comment on I asked for a sign, *sigh* at least I got a sign 1 week ago:
My cat just shits shit. Sometimes is liquid shit. I don’t know what you’re sighing for.
- Comment on Quickly, before November arrives! 1 week ago:
I forget there’s a subculture of strangers that decide the not masturbate for a month, in solidarity, for no reason at all.
The idea that someone takes it so seriously that they include it under the Achievements section of their resume. And one day, finally, the hiring manager is a fellow cultist.
- Comment on He saved the world. 1 week ago:
Hollywood makes “This is why we can’t have nice things” a reality.
- Comment on He saved the world. 1 week ago:
You are right. T1 would’ve been what T2 was if it had T2’s budget and backing. T1 was so good that is started the hype train and we got T2 for it.
They’re both excellent, but T2 got the attention the idea deserved from the beginning and they made the most of it.
- Comment on He saved the world. 1 week ago:
Yes! Both terminators were so weirdly inhuman without being inhuman. And it was the 1980s and they just kind of nailed that with total realism that had no reason for being as good as it was.
It was like a new chapter of sci-fi really leaning into the realistic expectations of the future instead of the fantastical versions. It’s the same reason why Bladerunner was so good and stood the test of time. No bullshit interpretation. Just, “Everyone calm down about your ideas of the future. What would actually happen? How would this thing actually be if it really happened?”
- Comment on He saved the world. 1 week ago:
I just rewatched this a couple months ago. Now I want to watch it again. T2 is one of the all-time greats of cinema history. Arny is awesome in the role, the story is excellent, the directing is perfect. Edward will forever be John Connor with every other actor doing their best to fit his character, because that’s John.
- Comment on First of all, rude 1 week ago:
I’m low maintenance because it’s a pain in the arse when others are involved.
- Comment on Be careful what you name it 2 weeks ago:
Mine is Loading…
- Comment on Occupied!! 2 weeks ago:
I took Alta Velocità recently and someone didn’t lock the toilet. Lock was fully green., so I just opened the door to them on the throne.
It wasn’t even embarrassing. I was too confused about how someone managed to put themself in that situation.
- Comment on Has Australia considered sharing a firefighting aircraft fleet with a country in the northern Hemisphere such as Canada? 2 weeks ago:
The Australians have a 737 that gets across the Pacific easily.
They were in California last season youtu.be/e6VB6FiJowE
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There’s three types…
- Cheap horror relying on jump scares. Literally unavoidable fear, not crafted.
- Regular horror. Uses the science of fear. It’s not “scary”, it’s more a disturbing thought of plausible reality.
- Hilarious/Entertainment horror. Over the top gore, ridiculous scenarios/situations.So disconnected from reality it’s almost light-hearted.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
lol, Under Armour?
So they were definitely kids then.
- Comment on Falling with style 2 weeks ago:
Style’s not the right word. It looks violently engineered, while the car itself is like a Lancer with one of those awful knock off Countach bodykits.
- Comment on Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: ‘If You Pay For It, You Own It’ 2 weeks ago:
If the EU failed at it, the US has no hope.
- Comment on Lynburg City Council Meeting 3 weeks ago:
The more sensitive folks is how they got in. Apathy, hypersensitivity, and fear were the simple channels to exploit that caused to the US’s downfall.
- Comment on Jazz lovers only 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If You Do 40 In A 60 Zone Then Goodbye Bradley 3 weeks ago:
I don’t mind if people are dumb, slow, whatever. It’s out of my control so, meh. But when I’m put into risk I give a fuck.
My biggest hate is people just stopping or crawling on a road as they think of want they want to do next. Because so often there’s some other idiot on their phone that could be behind me that hasn’t noticed the idiot in front of me has slowed down to 20kph for their situational ponderings.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I imagine the 100+ fps crowd will complain that the game’s hard.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is half of that RAM backup for when the first 32 dies or does he actually do something needing 64?
- Comment on Fr*nce 3 weeks ago:
They get elected
