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cjoll4 , 21 days ago

Yes, architect is betting much worse

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

Pope Francis abolished the rule of pontifical secrecy that had protected accused child abusers from criminal investigation and has a history of promoting acceptance and inclusion for trans and gay people within the Church.

I don’t agree with organized religion in general, and the Roman Catholic Church is particularly problematic. But as far as popes go, I believe Francis is a good one.

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

Influencer, apparently

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

Thank you for sharing that article, I wasn’t aware. I need to read some more and re-evaluate my perspective of the current Pope.

cjoll4 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The only “cherry picking” being done is by the writer of the headline. This Bible doesn’t include Amendments 11 - 27 (everything that came after the Bill of Rights). It’s not advertised to contain those amendments, either. It contains the original Constitution of the United States and it contains the Bill of Rights. The fact that the book description lists the Bill of Rights separately from the US Constitution logically implies that “US Constitution” doesn’t include its amendments in the context of the book’s contents.

The headline suggests that two very specific amendments were omitted in such a way to evoke outrage and paint Trump in a bad light.

I despise Donald Trump and would rather see him in prison than in the White House again, but propaganda is propaganda.

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

The fact that the sales description lists the Bill of Rights separately from the US Constitution logically implies that “The US Constitution” isn’t meant to include its amendments in the context of the book’s contents.

The writer of the headline wants us to assume that Trump cherry-picked the 13th and 19th amendments to be excluded, when that’s obviously not the case. The 11th through 27th Amendments were all left out.

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

I just want to point out that the 11th Amendment isn’t included either; just the first 10, according to the article. The original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It makes the dividing line seem a little less arbitrary that way.

I agree with the points you’ve made, though.

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

Well it’s a good thing we’re not talking about a human child, we’re talking about a body of text consisting of several distinct documents that were introduced over a span of more than two centuries. Context is tricky, I know.

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

Most participants in this debate are far too preoccupied with the shape or structure of the sandwich, to the point of neglecting what a sandwich is all about. It’s simple. A sandwich is when you use bread as a handheld base for prepared foods that would otherwise be too messy to eat with your fingers. A tortilla is a flat bread, ergo handheld burritos and soft tacos are sandwiches.

“Then why isn’t pizza an open-faced sandwich?” Because pizza has a crust, not bread. When you take raw dough and bake it along with its toppings or fillings, it may be a pie or a pastry or a pizza or a casserole or some other category I don’t care to quibble over. It’s not a sandwich.

Obviously there are many sub-categories of sandwiches. A dish isn’t necessarily excluded from being a sandwich just because it’s also another type of food.

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

Crackers are crisp and brittle by definition. “Floppy Cracker” is an oxymoron (and potentially a good name for a garage band?).

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

All right, your enthusiasm has convinced me. I don’t know anything about water polo, but I’ll look up a game on YouTube. Time to broaden my horizons!

cjoll4 , 1 month ago

Ah, so it’s basically soccer, using hands instead of feet, while swimming. Looks like it would be a fun casual sport to play with friends and family (but in a much smaller pool lol).

cjoll4 , 2 months ago

I’ll fucken do it again!

cjoll4 , 3 months ago

I’m not sure I follow your meaning.

“Wanting to have sex with someone else who is attractive” is “a normal human emotion,” as the commenter above you acknowledged. I don’t think anyone would deny that there’s a fundamental biological mechanism at work there.

Being outraged that a performer you’ve never met (who has no personal obligation to you) is in a relationship, and then having your outrage justified by an apology? That’s not the same. That’s not just biology. That’s culture. It’s the result of taking the “biological reason” - or “normal human emotion” - and wringing it through a targeted marketing campaign and culture of idolatry designed to cultivate unhealthy parasocial relationships for the sole purpose of extracting profit.

cjoll4 , 3 months ago

It was just a regular homemade grilled cheese and his wife used three slices instead of two

cjoll4 , 4 months ago

Kind of misleading headline. She went out of her way to explain to the interviewer that it had nothing to do with marijuana and she was going to treat it as though he had asked who would be fun to be around, like who she would get a pedicure with or something like that.

To recap - a podcast host asks her who she would smoke a blunt with, she pointedly reframes the question, The Hill picks it up and runs a headline implying that she wants to smoke a blunt with Dwayne Johnson anyways.

cjoll4 , 4 months ago

Xitter? Please tell me the X is pronounced like “sh”

cjoll4 , 4 months ago

Click on the link, read the article, answer your own question

cjoll4 , 4 months ago

I’m having flashbacks to playing Vigilante 8 on the PlayStation

cjoll4 , 5 months ago

The headline made me think this was something shady, but it’s actually pretty cool. A teeny-tiny little incorporated community out in the wilderness with a decades-long tradition of voting at midnight, so they can be the first in the nation to announce their results.

cjoll4 , 6 months ago

This article has a deeper dive into what happened.

That’s the exact same article as the OP. Did you mean to link a different article?

cjoll4 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

This isn’t a “news story from a credible source,” this is a blog post about a Twitter thread and it offers absolutely no context or insight.

What is the protest about? Why is the U.S. Secret Service involved?

The LAPD put out a statement saying they’re aware of people exercising their first amendment rights by protesting, and that they’ll be on site to ensure public safety. That seems pretty damn reasonable to me. I don’t trust the police either, but if you’re going to immediately draw a connection between this event and horrific police brutality, please give me something more substantial than “they worded a tweet awkwardly.”

“Oniony headlines” lose their impact when they’re placed at the top of inflammatory fluff pieces.

edited for clarity

cjoll4 , 4 months ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge?wprov=sfla1

cjoll4 , 7 months ago

What a child. The correct response to a grown adult asking for a fist-fight is to laugh in their face and mock them for their temper tantrum.

cjoll4 , 7 months ago

For years, I’d asked God to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog. Joe Pesci straightened that cocksucker out with one visit.

cjoll4 , 7 months ago

Shut up and take my upvote!