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- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 10 hours ago:
Some people used to be born old. That’s just how the world worked. Also, stupid fashion. Have you seen a photo of a woman college student in the 80s? They look 40.
- Comment on Paramilitary hitman linked to British right-wing group Turning Point UK 4 days ago:
And yet it’s “radical Leftists” at fault for everything. Mass shooting? “Leftists.” Inflation? “Leftists.” Can’t find your keys? “Those Leftists are at it again!”
- Comment on Boy Dinner 4 days ago:
You wouldn’t believe how proud I was of the spaghetti I made for my date when I was 18 yo.
- Comment on Vapes Are So Bad For You 1 week ago:
Sometimes you have to give your friends a helpful push.
- Comment on Fr*nce 2 weeks ago:
If you’re a Candice Owens slob, whatever. No teacher should bang students, but this one is called out by a conspiracy nutjob. Scrutinize but don’t listen to her.
- Comment on I want your soul. I will eat your soul. 2 weeks ago:
Hot babes in that video for sure. But Come to Daddy is more of the Halloween vibe in my opinion. First time I ever heard it, my buddy played it for me while we were on mushrooms. Scary as fuck.
Then he put on Future Sound of London’s Dead Cities. That’s when it became too much.
- Comment on How do I tell my co-workers I'm not attending a wedding without creating drama? 2 weeks ago:
Why are your coworkers in your personal life this much? They have no business knowing anything you don’t want to tell them.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 weeks ago:
Impose voting rights restrictions that reduce their access. Take the average life expectancy in your country, reduce the number by whatever the voting age is in your country. Cut off their right to vote by that number.
In the USA, where you can vote at 18, if the average life expectancy is 81 (made up a number), voting would end after 63. Pretty good way to ensure longterm thinking prevails.
- Comment on I guess there's just high demand for some comics 3 weeks ago:
That’s been my experience. But I choose to stay because the instance doesn’t block other instances. I prefer to see what people are saying and make my own decisions. Still haven’t blocked any instances.
- Comment on Fix the system.. 3 weeks ago:
FixFuck the system. Put an end to billionaires. Start there and we’ll talk. - Comment on Armando needs to know which church to avoid 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never wanted to be “saved” before, but I’m reconsidering.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Men continue to have better employment opportunities than women.
- Comment on From the archive 4 weeks ago:
This happens to me daily.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 4 weeks ago:
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving asshole.
- Comment on he did that 4 weeks ago:
Does that old piece of shit look like that old piece of shit who was too old to hold office? How did I know to ask?
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, temporarily, I think. You ever indulge in a food repeatedly until it stops tasting good? I have, many times. It resets after a while, but the difference, I think, is that the light and sound are actually doing physical damage to your retina and ear follicles / ear drum. You could blow up a fire cracker in your mouth to get that outcome, but that’s not what you’re asking.
- Comment on Horrified children look on as lollipop man in his 70s struck by car on school crossing 5 weeks ago:
Crossing guard
A crossing guard, lollipop woman/man/lady/person, or school road patrol is a traffic management personnel who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians.
TIL. Strange terminology, you Brits have. Anyone from the culture have any insight as to the use of this term?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This is my favorite posts this morning. Made me smile and silently laugh internally.
- Comment on Does anyone have advice for brain zaps? 5 weeks ago:
Graduated reduction under the supervision of a medical provider. I went off a medication without supervision, once, and it was a disaster.
- Comment on .🤨. 5 weeks ago:
The best part, in my opinion, is the extra ending in Mark. This was the original ending, which is an absolute banger:
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3 and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”
But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.'”
Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
This is in later versions, likely because someone copying the text found the ending to be insufficient:
When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping. When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it.
Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country. These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either.
Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
But remember, kids: the bible is all true and infallible and the word of god and whatever other crap they tell you.
Criticism aside, I’m a hardcore atheist and reading about the history of early christianity (first ~300 years) was absolutely fascinating and I’d recommend checking out the subject to others who oppose organized religion. Bart Ehrman would be a good starting point, though can you go down quite a rabbit hole beyond his writing. This might be a good jumping off point: How Jesus Became God
- Comment on sell me your company with five words 5 weeks ago:
I’ll take cash, please. Thanks!
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 1 month ago:
Now we need to muster all our strength for further reforms that will then generate tangible investment and growth impulses.
A+ at saying a lot of words that only have meaning to a select class and no one else.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 1 month ago:
USA Amazon user. A lot. But I have better financials than many.
Example: Cat litter that we prefer comes in 25lb boxes. Why lug that when it can come to your door? I don’t think my spouse could even lift it due to an injury. But I feed the Bezos machine and I’m not proud of it.
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 1 month ago:
Check out the Better Offline podcast. You’ll like it.
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 1 month ago:
It’s funny how the chart correlates to stupid assholes saying stupid things. How’d that happen?
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 1 month ago:
Pray harder. Prayers are like bullet proof vests for children. Conservatives have been trying to convince us of this for years.
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 1 month ago:
Check out the coffee table book, All Yesterdays. It’s half reinterpretations of known fossils, half artist renderings of contemporary animals based only on their skeletons. We’re obviously misinterpreting a lot of creatures going just off their skeletons and we’ll never know how they really appeared.
As I recall, this is from the skeleton of a contemporary species of monkey, as an example:
- Comment on Life is hard 1 month ago:
Every time. And I’m halfway through life. I could do a web search, but who ever thinks of that except when this happens? Will I do a web search now? No. I have other stuff to think about. And so it goes.
- Comment on Forever relics 1 month ago:
Oh, that speaks to me.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 month ago:
If you take away their right to break the law, how will you become the next trillionaire?! - Stupid right wing people
