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- Comment on Donald Trump's sentencing was postponed to after the election to avoid any assistance of election interference. Can he be sentenced while he is President Elect? 1 week ago:
Yeah I agree that can’t keep him locked up, but could they jail him, because honestly that isn’t nothing. Obviously it’s career suicide for anyone involved but you know.
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- Comment on The Divine Dick 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and I’m positing that the probability he did not have a penis is at least 0.5%.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 2 weeks ago:
The Bible is not accurate regarding Jesus’ early life.
I don’t think it’s wrong to exercise an iota of skepticism.
Was Luke there at the circumcision? What was his source?
Wouldn’t Jesus being trans and Luke being misinformed (or actually trying to avoid outting him) explain why there isn’t really any testimony about Jesus’s life during puberty? It was an incredibly misogynistic era right? Is it inconceivable for a person without a penis to try to pass as a man in that era?
If a person can better appreciate Jesus by understanding him as a trans-man should a christian tell them they’re wrong? Does it put them in spiritual jeopardy? Is it dishonest to say “maybe”? I don’t think so.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 2 weeks ago:
Jesus on the other hand 100% had a dick.
Oh did they find his body?
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 4 weeks ago:
At least there are no centrists in here claiming it’s 3.5
- Comment on Anon lives in the midwest 1 month ago:
Right I get that, but the underlying value that the prohibitions are designed around is promoting humility and preventing vanity.
- Comment on Anon lives in the midwest 1 month ago:
I don’t think jewelry wearing is compatible with the Amish conception of propriety and modesty but I’m not going to say it wouldn’t happen.
- Comment on After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail | Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. 1 month ago:
That’s amazing. I’m surprised that mouse brains have only 1000 times more neurons than a fruit fly, although I suppose the difficulty of mapping it scales exponentially (factorially?)
- Comment on Anon seeks enlightenment 1 month ago:
Can’t use 100’s in a lot of places.
- Comment on Do I really need DOCSIS 3.1 modem? 1 month ago:
Yeah that sounds like what was explained to me
- Comment on Do I really need DOCSIS 3.1 modem? 1 month ago:
I needed to upgrade my modem because the isp capped the speed of docsis 3.0 modems to like 75Mbps. I remember being quite upset because I was previously getting 125Mbps service on the same modem. I seem to recall there was a quasi legit technical reason for it though.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
Not who you’re responding to but I must vehemently disagree. In English, which doesn’t have a centralized governing body, the correct way of pronouncing/spelling something depends on your intention and expected audience. If your intended audience is English speakers then the correct spelling is probably octopi or octopuses, whichever you believe will cause the least confusion/distraction (surely it varies regionally).
However, usually my intention is to portray my unfathomably superior knowledge and intellect, so the correct spelling/pronunciation in this case is: octopodes (which I think he had listed but ironically got ‘corrected’ to ‘octopuses’).
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
I agree that that’s probably what it’s trying to say, but I don’t think it actually says that.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
I don’t think that there’s a higher concentration of morons in academia than in larger society. However, their professional experience is pretty different from the so called ‘real world’ so they definitely can have some unfathomable blind spots.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
I don’t read much (/any) academic writing, but does it really misuse words the way the link portrays?
Eg
- academic writing isn’t prose, like that’s almost the definition of prose.
- intra-specialized doesn’t mean anything (the intra prefix didn’t work on adjectives)
- “obfuscating … accessibility” means making it difficult to see that it is accessible, where the author probably actually wants to say “reducing the ability of outsiders to access the meaning”
I get that it is satire, but imo it would be better satire if he put in the work to actually make it mean something. Unless the point is that academic writers misuse thesauruses this badly.
- Comment on Tony Hawk claims he is ‘talking to Activision again’ [VGC] 2 months ago:
THPS 1+2 (the HD remake) is excellent but they decided not to do a THPS3+4 remake. Presumably due to low numbers. BUT online is broken. What I mean by broken is that you basically can’t log in to the server if your console is connected to the internet through a router. As far as I know Activision never acknowledged that failure. Do you think this problem might have hurt sales/microtransaction revenue?
- Comment on So professional looking it must be true 2 months ago:
I’ve never heard anyone with first hand experience complain about living in North Korea. They literally can’t complain.
- Comment on Seconds 2 months ago:
Yeah true, but I think they actually use wavelength of red shift, which is distance… traveled by light in the time it takes to make a full cycle. So I guess we’re back to seconds again.
I think they use this for distance and time because at scales being dealt with they have the same implications.
- Comment on Seconds 2 months ago:
I think you need to be more specific than ‘long distance’, yes they use parsecs for ‘long distances’ but I believe only for intra-galactic objects. I think other galaxies are too distant for parallax seconds to be useful.
- Comment on Seconds 2 months ago:
Don’t they measure distance and time by redshift (ie colour)
- Comment on Anon comes out to his religious parents 2 months ago:
Makes total sense to me. He loved his husband and wanted him to be happy, but wasn’t sexually attracted to him. But not a homophobe, so willing to try to make husband happy.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
Dead Harambe timeline
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 4 months ago:
I just want to point out that saying things to people with the intent of making them fear for their life, is probably a crime.
If OP is worried for real, maybe a retraining order is possible.
Not because a religious judgement really means anything violent (or even specific) but because there is someone trying to intimidate OP.
- Comment on Can't argue with that logic 4 months ago:
Maybe it’s that the land is on top of the water mountain/ plateau? And as the ships sail away they descend from the plateau? Maybe it’s the gravity of the land that causes the water to bunch up near the land? Maybe the earth is actually spherical? Wait no not that last one…
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 5 months ago:
Stegosaurus has spikes on its back
to keep away predators trying to attack.
- Comment on Trump Convicted on All Counts to Become America’s First Felon President 5 months ago:
34>45
- Comment on Trump guilty on all counts in New York criminal trial 5 months ago:
Conservatives deserve a candidate that isn’t a felon
- Comment on He came with receipts 5 months ago:
He’s the arch-twit
- Comment on When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 6 months ago:
The last time I donated blood (quite recently) I was asked if I had had a new sex partner or more than one sex partner the last 3 months.
I was asked if I had had sex with anyone within the last year that had previously had/ tested positive for hiv/aids.
I was asked if I had taken any hiv/aids preventers.
Is it the follow-up questions to these initial screening questions that are homophobic?