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  • When I was living in apartments, the nicer spots would have big community fire pits in between blocks. They were great for mixing and mingling with other apartment residents, especially during the holidays or weekends with good weather.

    One of the more annoying parts of being a home owner right now is getting people over to your place and finding places for all their cars. So much easier when everyone just kinda lives in the same two or three blocks and can walk over to catch a show or BBQ or play board games.



  • I always considered meditation a kind-of inward focus. Like, you’re not ridding yourself of thoughts. You’re deliberately ignoring outside stimulus. That’s why people meditating will typically close their eyes, relax their body, play some kind of white noise to deaden outside sounds, burn some incense to occlude any distracting scents, etc. Also why some kind of physical practice like long distance running or yoga is helpful - you’re leveraging exhaustion to encourage relaxation.

    For someone with ADHD, that probably does feel like a superpower. But it’s more like a muscle that you develop over time. Little kids are notoriously bad at it. Much older people tend to fall into a meditative state more easily.





  • It’s religious mythology built atop historical cultural standards. Arguing over the age at which a literal angel impregnated a virgin is fucking absurd and has nothing to do with modern morals either inside or outside the religious traditions predicated on it.

    Two-thousand years later, members of this same Christian faith have overhauled both the cultural and legal standards for marriage around the globe. Meanwhile, outspoken atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss ended up all over the Epstein Files, despite unburdening themselves of archaic religious dogma.


  • Mary was 13 when she gave birth to Jesus.

    There is absolutely no verifiable documentation of Jesus’s birth, much less Mary’s age at the time of pregnancy. Might as well complain about the ages of Alcmene or Deichtine.

    This kind of rhetoric is playing straight into the magical realism of the biblical literalists. Next, you’re going to start accusing Adam and Eve of incest.




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    I mean, if the goat shepherds have some strong moral positions, I don’t see why they’d be disqualified. Ethics isn’t something we invented in the 21st century, ffs. Bronze Age humans had as much a claim to it as anyone. Just ask Socrates or Confucius or Nezahualcóyotl.

    Given the current state of the 21st century political scene, I’m not bending over to give modern day philosophers extra credit. Say what you will about Thomas Aquinas, he doesn’t appear anywhere in the Epstein flight logs. That’s more than Noam Chomsky or Peter Mandelson can claim.


  • Obama killed more people with drone strikes than Bush. Bush killed more than Clinton. Etc.

    Trump 1 did successfully out-airstrike Biden. That’s comforting so long as you don’t factor in the Biden policy of arming proxies in Ukraine (yay! airstrikes good!) or Israel (boo! airstrikes bad!)

    Trump’s also been keen on unilateral attacks, whereas Biden and Obama were both adamantly committed to roping in France and England and Saudi Arabia.

    Idk how much difference any of that makes for folks living under falling bombs.


  • Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive.

    Shrug

    I’m not using discord for porn, so I’m not going to lose sleep. Will simply live with a “teen” account until my groups migrate to a better service.

    But you’ll get my biometrics from my cold dead hands.

    They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

    GOOD

    Crazy they didn’t implement this years ago. Discord is bloated with fake user spam.