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- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 3 hours 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 11 hours 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.. 1 day 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 4 days ago:
I’ve never wanted to be “saved” before, but I’m reconsidering.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Men continue to have better employment opportunities than women.
- Comment on From the archive 1 week ago:
This happens to me daily.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 1 week ago:
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving asshole.
- Comment on he did that 1 week 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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? 2 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 .🤨. 2 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 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take cash, please. Thanks!
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Oh, that speaks to me.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 4 weeks ago:
If you take away their right to break the law, how will you become the next trillionaire?! - Stupid right wing people
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 4 weeks ago:
The greatest gift of my career was getting old enough to not care.
- Comment on I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit 4 weeks ago:
It’s why I stopped buying milk.
- Comment on Right back at him 4 weeks ago:
Stupid scientists. Try studying things that aren’t useless.
- Comment on Interesting movie detail you've never noticed 5 weeks ago:
Predator would have to murder them, their mother, their relatives, and then take photos in the mother’s lingerie to be the kind of asshole we’ve seen posted online.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 5 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s totally cool. I can just not show up at my job for two to three months and it’s fine. /s
- Critics Trash Ivanka Trump’s Dolly Parton Tribute: 'Rich F**king Thing For You To Say'www.huffpost.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Boycott Starbucks 5 weeks ago:
I bought a cool rainbow union tshirt to support that folks fighting the corp. I love it. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be selling them anymore. Donate to the strike fund. A quick web search will get you there.
Don’t criticize me for not linking to it. People need to learn how to do things for themselves. Search. It’s easy. There’s a reason why https://lmgtfy.com/ became a thing.
