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- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 9 hours ago:
Ah, we were taught to avoid the NIV as it was like the Merrium-Webster of translation; a bit more adapted for the modern Pentecost, so obviously it would be lenient compared to traditional translations.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 11 hours ago:
You shall make no idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I am Jehovah your God.
He went pretty ape shit about the golden cow—as believable any part of that story goes. Catholics seem to be all about idoloc knick-knacks and getting all stabby and controlling over them… Like, the opposite of what a Christian is meant to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I think it’s worse here.
Reddit
“The grass is blue.”
“No, the grass is green. Here is a source.”
“Oh.”
Lemmy
“The grass is blue.”
“No, the grass is green. Here is a source.”
“Bro, your own source says it’s the chemicals in grass that make it green LOL.”
“That’s correct.”
“So you think just because it appears green from the chemicals, it’s green?”
“Yes. It’s certainly not blue.”
“Actually without the chemicals it would be translucent which would be reflective of the sky, making it blue like how the ocean does.”
“Sure. Except there’s chemicals that make it green instead.”
“I don’t see how you’re not understanding how stupid that is. It’s not the grass that’s green.”
“And in your analogy it’s not the grass that’s blue.”
“You clearly don’t understand science and I pity you. I won’t waste any more of my time. Good day, sir.”
🧠💥
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nice clean shoes 1 week ago:
I’ve cleaned my shoes ≠ His shoes are clean now.
The only thing linking the two statements are lines drawn from the shows, not language.
But with arms that short and legs so long, I get his expression of great accomplishment.
- Comment on Some conservative talking points really grind my gears 1 week ago:
angular momentum on the fly intensifies
- Comment on Some conservative talking points really grind my gears 1 week ago:
Clutch
- Comment on For blind speed readers 1 week ago:
I’m good with warning labels, so long as I can take most of them off. You know the ones, they make you yearn for the backstory, but also make you depressed every time you see it. Like this one. Many people would know things surrounding fire are hit. Plenty would’ve unintentionally touched it, “Fuck! Ow. Duh.” and hope no one saw. But someone had a Skinner moment, “No! It’s the manufacturer that’s wrong. Where’s a lawyer?!”
- Comment on Shark saved the turtle’s life 😱 #impossible - YouTube 1 week ago:
That narrative is hilarious.
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 1 week ago:
They could.
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- Comment on Heiroglyphs 1 week ago:
Whoah.
So, never heard of those. But DDG tells me Tylenol is just a brand—talk about an effective monopoly.
- Comment on well shoot 2 weeks ago:
Easy Mode. Try having a dog lead around your wrist while opening a biodegradable poo bag that got wet in drizzle…
- Comment on Yup 3 weeks ago:
Libertarianism is Saudi Arabia, Brunei, and Utah.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
As one of those people, yeah lol. Except I was born into it, so that’s my privilege.
Everything you need is already there in you, not from somewhere else. Always has been, always will be. Don’t let fear or the ideas of others hold you back. Jump on a motorcycle some time, way less scary.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
Heh. My life has been anything but socially privileged and, yeah, I see that as a privilege. When you have nothing to lose, there’s no fear holding you back, and you reap the rewards. This is why my friends are where they are and will drop everything they have, where others can’t imagine it. Most people won’t ever get to that level of what they have been taught is “success”. But in truth, there’s nothing more satisfying than closing a chapter, resetting to zero, and doing it all again somewhere new, something new, new experiences.
What you know as “privilege” and those you have been taught to be in it, all of it is a big disadvantage in life. The fuel of social and status anxiety fears, holding people back from living.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
I’ve just shared with you people’s experiences proving a common society… If you’re not prepared to hear such things or you find people’s experiences personally offensive, don’t ask such things and certainly don’t attack me for it. This is your problem, not mine or anyone else’s. Feel free to continue addressing or ignoring it alone.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
You kinda just described the majority of remote work jobs, which there are heaps. I don’t know about 401Ks. I’ve never opted to live somewhere where I’m not legally taken care.of. Like now in Australia, all that’s automatic by law. My employer pays an additional 17% of my salary into a retirement investment fund.
Friend just got bacl.from three.months in Japan. Wanted to see if he could do his job overseas without anyone realising and pulled it off with most people. Another’s off to go surf in Portugal for a while and working out of a van. Another’s just sold their house and touring Australia until they find a spot they like and move there. They’re a marketing lead for some big company, no degree. I myself just finished an 18 month stint in a totally different city and just flew back every 4–6 weeks to say hi and see the gang. Oh and there’s the one that plays golf every afternoon by himself because he logs on at 5am and gets work out of the way and free up his day. His work isn’t even based in Australia. I know more, but they’re just your.normal WFH jobs, one guy’s seen his office once to pick up a laptop on day one two years ago lol.
So, yeah, there’s a lot. I think that’s the preferred market.
If it’s not like this where you are, just leave for a place that’s better living.
- Comment on Don't give me none of that jazz! 3 weeks ago:
It’s a device that measures things in thousands. A kilometer would say a kilometre is 1000 metres. I’ve bulk ordered 1000 meters if you’d like one.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
They will die sad, regretful, and unfulfilled, having believed that lie. This should haunt them now, but instead it’s short-term “what if” scenarios looping in the mind that convinces them that their life’s “too complicated right now”. Your remark there is a classic example of what I was just saying, and you genuinely believe it to be so as well. My guess is you’re in a comfortable rut right now, have thought about leaving it, but when you do you convince yourself that it’s too risky and therefore not an option. Your fear has morphed into.anxiety. Remove from life the things that make you anxious, your house, your job, your partner, whatever, and you will be free and happy again.
- Comment on Glad I was too dumb to finish college... 3 weeks ago:
The first sentences be true, then it drives off a whacky tangent, or what science calls “a cliff”.
- Comment on Liberals don't want you to google this 3 weeks ago:
It’s true. If they’re so easily manipulated, they’ll follow suit with the masses if enough of the other side are there and loud enough.
Though, I also blame that tactic for how divided the US seems to be in general.
- Comment on Liberals don't want you to google this 3 weeks ago:
Well done, shitposters. Well done.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s easy. Just don’t make your retirement dependent on your current situation. Go explore the world and find better ways and meet good souls. You probably randomly stumbled into your situation through a jobs website or hiring agency. Not exactly a life defining moment when you can do it again any other week but now with a backlog of experience.
There’s a lot of better opportunities out there. And if you don’t like them, you can always come back. But sometimes pulling the plug feels scary because you don’t know what’s going to happen, despite plug pullers always saying it was the best thing they did.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
To put it simply, “To live with as few regrets on the dying day as possible.” Fear helps us survive but also holds us back. It keeps people away from heroin, but also puts them in miserable ruts. Individually it’s different for all, but learning to control fear and not let it control you opens up a world of amazing possibilities and experiences. To have a life worth dying for is an achievement most squander until it’s far too late.
- Comment on Seems awfully dangerous 3 weeks ago:
I think not experiencing life for the short time it exists is insane. Being that controlled by fear, I think that person’s ironically the biggest threat to their life, laying waste to experiences and opportunities to live it. A sane person wouldn’t do that to themselves.
- Comment on Which is which? 4 weeks ago:
OP’ was actually meant to take a left, but is now lost in the back corridors of the local zoo. Regardless of the which door they chose, it ended with a senior first aid officer and a local school group being traumatised.
- Comment on I wonder if they have a lemon flavor to them? 4 weeks ago:
Spiked frankfurts? In Australia, that means someone’s put rohypnol in the alcohol too.
- Comment on Sussy 4 weeks ago:
That may be the whitest Jesus I’ve seen yet. And with those delicate features carpenters are known for.
- Comment on thats so real of her 4 weeks ago:
“Would you like a glass of water while you wait?”
“Thank you, that would be lovely… spits drink… This is a 12 BC Galilean carmenere!”
- Comment on Gen alpha has no fucking clue 4 weeks ago:
No, I’m pretty sure it’s how SWAT get through doors