FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Yes, but something something fiat currency!

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Some of it is definitely silly, but if it is outputting ultrasound, it very well could be causing health issues.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8954895/

I’ve certainly heard cooling fans output loud high pitched whines, so it wouldn’t shock me to hear that they were putting out loud ultrasonic whines.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Okay… so… Republicans… I know you’re not big on science, but the Earth is not supposed to get so hot that metal expands to the point that we can’t move a metal bridge that’s reliably moved for a very long time.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

It would be harassment whether or not it’s true, so the teachers would still have reason to sue.

I just hope something happens with their parents too, because kids who do things like this tend to have shitty parents.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

This is a country Tankies insist is a communist one, and to which they give their full support.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

And yet the political corruption never seems to go away.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I hope none of these “only buy what’s necessary” people have kids. Or at least think things like birthday and Christmas presents for those kids are necessary.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

They lost me at the word ‘therapy.’

Spending money you can’t afford to spend isn’t therapy, it’s the sort of thing you go to therapy to stop doing.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

That’s literally the opposite of what I was saying.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

They need to argue that those aren’t the ten commandments anyway. There is only one passage in the Bible where a group of ten laws are called that and it isn’t the one people usually think of, it’s much weirder. The chapter is Exodus 34:

1 The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3 No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

4 So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the LORD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. 5 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. 6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.”

8 Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. 9 “O Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes,” he said, “then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”

10 Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. 11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. 14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

17 “Do not make cast idols.

18 “Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. [b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.

25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

So that’s what should be on school walls. Don’t use yeast in a blood sacrifice, don’t make metal idols and that goat thing.

(I have no idea why the weird goat part is on its own line, but it is.)

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

It’s possible to like rats. I like rats. I had a couple as pets.

I don’t particularly care for the type you see in New York coming out of the sewer, but…

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

What happens when it breaks down or gets stuck though? Seems like it risks the trash overflowing because of that.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Oh I see, someone else wrote “elevators” and I thought it raised itself.

But still, don’t they get stuck sometimes?

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

The person I really don’t understand- I mean I know she’s a horrible person, but I still don’t understand it- is Caitlyn Jenner. She’s supporting a party that openly wants to erase her.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I guess I can’t fathom the level of cognitive dissonance it takes to vociferously get behind people who want you dead, but I guess these people existed too- en.wikipedia.org/…/Association_of_German_National…

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

America: The “cost of doing business” nation.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Clergy get away with so much horrible shit just by being clergy.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

And they refuse to give those workers protective gear too.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

And no matter how many times this story is posted, the truth is still that they’ve reached their peak and they have nowhere to go but down.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

The article is paywalled as usually for WSJ and archive.is didn’t work, but I’m guessing since this is the WSJ, they’re spinning this into a reason to get rid of Medicare.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

They always denied it was about the sex though. Even at the time. We all knew it was, but they constantly were claiming it was about lying on the stand.

And then Larry Flynt inadvertently helped them on that front when trying to shame them by putting out a report detailing all the Republican congresspeople who had affairs. I appreciate what he tried to do, but that made it even easier for them to say it wasn’t about the sex since no one got rid of them for an affair.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I am guessing that the pressure was, “resign or you’ll be impeached, and you will be impeached.”

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

You do understand that this is super religious America and not secular France, right?

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

No, they did, they just continued arguing for it despite that.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

And my point is that chaplaincy in general is not really relevant to the way they want to do it in Florida. What you’re calling a chaplain is not what they are thinking of as a chaplain. It might sound similar, but they want someone to preach Christianity to children. All of them. That’s the goal there. Sunday school in regular school all day every day.

This is not about France’s idea of school chaplaincy because that’s not in any way what this is or intends to be just because it used the word “chaplain” in the job description.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Republicans call for a mask ban until something like Charlottesville or January 6th happens and then they get quiet about it for a while.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I’d say centuries of institutional racism might have a little more to do with it.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

It was never about leaving it up to the states.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

Do you really think he’s going to stop doing that whether or not these weapons are built? It’s pretty much all he’s got.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

I guess, but the U.S. also supposedly has 3708 warheads, with another 1336 “retired” warheads which are supposedly just sitting around waiting to be disarmed, which sounds like code to me for “we can still use these if we feel like it.”

armscontrol.org/…/nuclear-weapons-who-has-what-gl…

Maybe if we’re going to start updating our nukes, we can actually start dismantling the old ones?

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I have yet to see that film, but I have to ask- did they reveal the secret of Amanda Waller’s amazing weight loss?

FlyingSquid OP , 20 days ago

There’s the Triganic Pu…

The Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.

– Douglas Adams

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Which is what the people in favor if this genocide want and exactly what you shouldn’t be assuming it.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Which is what Israel wants you to think. Don’t let them have their way.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

The people in favor of the genocide are the Zionists. They want people to associate Israel and antisemitism. They want people to think about only their cause.

And so when things like what happened last week happen, people care a lot less or try to dismiss it: www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/us/…/index.html

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

It benefits them because Israel is supposedly “the Jewish state” and because of that, any criticism of Israel is bigotry against Jews. And most people don’t want to be accused of bigotry, especially against a people who suffered a genocide relatively recently.

I’m really surprised this is not something you’re aware of, because it’s been going on for quite some time. Here’s an article about it from 2019, for example: theguardian.com/…/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionis…

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

I’m pretty sure if someone put up Shakespeare as a candidate in a modern UK election, that wouldn’t be allowed.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

Just don’t use them as a paperweight.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

This is one of the people Trump is describing as a hostage.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

And the algorithms are actively pushing them away from the good role models toward the controversial videos.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

If they have to look for them, they will find the ones they don’t have to look for first. Expecting them to seek out a healthy role model when the Andrew Tates of the world prey on them is a foolish expectation.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

Maybe not the best plan, but they were also fleeing for their lives, so we should probably cut them some slack.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Considering Australia has done exactly this same thing to other people, they probably were not in favor of that idea.

FlyingSquid , 20 days ago

How can that be legal? How can Ohio demand a candidate be official before they’ve been nominated? I don’t want Biden to die, but what if he’s nominated on August 7th and dies on August 8th? Does Harris automatically go on the ballot? Does a dead man stay on the ballot?

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Is it? This is the first time I’ve ever heard of a state requiring a ballot be finalized before the convention.