It took France about a century before they went full Republic. I’d give the folks in Iran some latitude.
Note that the hijab thing was the last straw, and they’re still going without functional infrastructure.
I suspect the molotovs will resume flyong shortly. They are already on a short fuse.
And what does that mean? That drivers for most hardware doesn’t exist unless we write it ourselves? I don’t have time for that steep a climb.
You guys are now seriously freaking me out. My experience has been decades of windows not mainframes with 1980s era OSes. Is all that experience going to be useless?
I’m looking forward to owning my computer, especially as Microsoft claws away more of my rights season by season. But WTF am I getting myself into when I make the jump? Is it possible to own my computer and have an easy to understand OS?
I hope I’m not fucking myself when I try to make the switch, but when the first response to it’s got problems is don’t look a gift horse in the mouth then yeah, it makes me a bit worried I’m going to be left out in the elements on my own by a community with the attitude of COD gamers.
Isn’t this how we invented the automobile?
By 2000, French and Brazilian bodyscaping were the norm in the porn industry, in contrast to the 80s and 90 in which full pubes were common unless the talent was trying to signal she was kinky.
In the 70s, the Golden Age of Porn, full pubes were expected (or at most, someone might get a bikini trim, like for wearing a bikini). If someone was trimmed or shaved, it was because she was a French arty bohemian. (I don’t know if the Brazillians were doing it yet.)
Before that, porn was mostly pin ups and underground reels. If you wanted to see below the waist you had to find nudist documentary footage. Also European porn in the mid 20th century dipped as young as 14 years, though 16 was more common. Only after globalization and Europorn was marketing in the US did a hard age floor of 18 years become enforced.
ETA: Before the 21st century in western civ, women’s bits were notoriously mysterious, what with young men trying to sneak a peak and only getting to see bush. Also men’s mags were conscious about showing genitals until the late 80s. (There was an open spat between Playboy and Penthouse about the thresholds of pridishness, tastefulness, and indecency.)
I wouldn’t trust someone on heavy medication to operate a plumbing monkey wrench or even a standard hammer without smashing fingers.
I agree. It would not take much extra copy to say do not drive vehicles or opreate heavy machinery.
I suspect nonbelievers are more no, beating kids just sounds stupid while Jews are all we tried that shit out a long time ago and found it just makes for sad, dysfunctional adults, so yeah, we don’t do that anymore.
Okay when I was considering builds, I was figuring on Mint, but since that’s an Ubuntu variant, I take that’s a bad idea now?
Considering I am totally inactive on Reddit now, yes.
I’m okay with developing private submarines, but yes, it’s a good idea to go through the long list of historical sub disasters and mitigate all reasonable contingencies.
Also, proper shakedown and stress-testing before going down with passengers.
A 1500 meter test doesn’t count when going down 4,000 meters.
That’s a good point, the Rod of Asclepius (⚕️) and the Recipe symbol (℞) (meaning take) are both pretty ancient and still recognized.
The Rod of Asclepius is part of the Star of Life ( wikipedia ) which is a current international first-aid station symbol since the Red Cross has become too stingy with its trademark (they frown on the Red Cross in games and toys even though they’re teaching implements)
And yes, the Rod of Asclepius is commonly confused with the Hermetic Caduceus even in official medical graphics. Much like the four-leaf clover appears in seasonal St. Patricks Day merch.
In 2016 White Protestant Evangelicals voted 80% for Donald J. Trump knowing full well the severity of his character attributes. Even before the election they had already protested everyone [Trump at least] deserves forgiveness all the while being critical of Hillary Clinton for the relationship transgressions of Bill. It was evident to the rest of us that people in the movement (what would reveal itself to be the transnational white-power / Christian nationalist movement) were forgiven where the rest of us were condemned regardless of wrongdoing.
It showed to me that Christians in massive voting blocks were disinterested in the Jesus of He Gets Us adverts rather they were either drawn to Trump because a) he was racist as fuck, and gave them permission to also be racist, or b) because he was going to appoint at least two jurists to the US Supreme Court, and would appoint Federalist Society shills, which he as good as admitted was his part of the [Faustian] bargain. for support of the OG Republican Party.
Hatred is (allegedly) not a virtue of Christianity, but a lot of Christians are glad to play to it.
Pragmatism isn’t a virtue of Christianity either. In fact doing evil that good may come is directly proscribed, and yet we’ve seen a lot of Christians are glad to explain away all the parts of the bible they don’t like.
85% of the same demographic, white Evangelical Protestants voted for Trump in 2020.
Philosophically, this all is an indictment of the whole foundation of resurrection-dependent Christianity. Forming a church to spread the word sucks if the word is love your neighbor rather than massacre the infidels This wouldn’t be the first time that the Christian establishment took to the sword and forced everyone else to convert or die. And this shows that the God-breathed bible doesn’t offer a plan that wouldn’t almost instantly be subverted by humans. It rules out an omniscient god, unless They are playing hyperdimensional chess.
At this point, the elites have long used Christianity and hate (with lots of intersection) to preserve their power, and while I can’t speak for any other faith, I am not sure Christianity can survive the coming conflict, but then I’m not confident that the human species has more than a few centuries left, and we’re gone, our gods die with us.
So we continue to require the same closet that gays sometimes do.
In that case, we shouldn’t expect atheists to individually be out and proud until it is safe for them to do so.
I’m also curious how much hate-motivated violence is committed against atheists and pagans (compared to Muslims, who’ve been a target since 2001)
It’s curious how they’re selected. During the nuclear age we’ve had nukes in the hands of fanatics who hated the enemy, who were able to comprehend the gravity of their responsibility enough that not once did a nuclear tipped weapon get launched in error or against orders… or at all.
We’re closing on eighty years without an atomic war. Not a small accomplishment. It’s one of the few things that gives me hope for humanity.
No one has yet mentioned GlaDOS (a robotized Ellen McLain) or Christopher Lee.
Either would be good.
All your base are totally belong to us.
So there’s a catch after all.
If you’re concerned about Chinese spyware, You might want to also be concerned about US spyware as well. The US justice complex is not a friend to the US public, nor is the US national security complex.
The scare quotes remind me the Christian community runs lousy with believers who assert those other Christians are not true Christians according to a personal standard.
It’s a standard that drastically changes depending on the individual. Some believe those who suffer LGBT+ folk cannot be true, while others would challenge the countless Protestant Evangelists in the United States Marine Corps who are expected to follow orders to kill without reservation.
As an outsider, I use the same model as the LGBT+ community, that someone is valdlid if they identify as a thing, which works for Christian as well as it does for Lesbian