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800XL ,

IIRC, the religion didn't get anywhere is Palestine after Jesus supposedly died and it wasn't until decades later that it picked up in and around Greece thanks to Paul, but no one was around that saw any of the events attributed to Jesus - it was all heresay.

I mean the bible is how many pages and how much of it actually takes place during Jesus's life? And what is the timespan of the small part that does? Like a year? And the 4 gospels that talk about it are all rehashings of the same stories (more or less) and even contradict each other at times.

That's a story with a lot of gaps and plot holes to base a belief system around - and that doesn't even include all the baggage and hate that comes along with it.

People nowadays lose their mind and make death threats to the creators of stories that don't fix or create new plot holes in canon. And we're supposed to smile, nod, and happily accept one of the worst constructed stories ever just because some old white men that live the opposite way they tell us to live say so?

Some company heads hoped return-to-office mandates would make people quit, survey says ( arstechnica.com )

Nearly two in five (37 percent) managers, directors, and executives believe their organization enacted layoffs in the last year because fewer employees than they expected quit during their RTO. And their beliefs are well-founded: One in four (25 percent) VP and C-suite executives and one in five (18 percent) HR pros admit they...

800XL ,

If you can replace one talented high-wage employee with 3 college hires then do this a couple times statistically you're still going to retain some talented employees because not all can leave. Those that remain will train the others ou of necessity either directly by management or indirectly by a fear of missing timelines/ego/being the local expert/etc.

Management knows this and actively encourages this behavior because by the time the talented employee burns out and self-destructs, at least one trainee will be competent enough to keep things moving.

800XL ,

They are the cops. Look up just about every far-right protest in the past century and how they're given a police escort to and from the site. How the cops look the other way when there is right wing started violence and there is grave injury or death. How white supremicist cops that kill face unpaid time off way more than jail time.

These authoritarian right wingers are anti-authority to the point they want to exterminate all authority who keep them from violently suppressing anyone who doesn't want to oppress others. And they have to intimidate, cheat, lie, appoint other crooked liars because they'll never win the votes they need from a free electorate. The voting majority thinks they are wrong.

800XL ,

Oh? Do tell. Great post btw. What's next? A damning Do YoUr OwN ReSeArCh?

800XL ,

You saying "broaden your sources of information" is you saying "do your own research" otherwise you would have shared sources that say otherwise.

But you're not here to argue in good faith you're here to paint me as combatitive and bow out of the argument acting like you can take some high road but still not bringing anything constructive to the conversation.

You saying "not worth your time" is you saying "I have no idea and you called me out so now I have to save face". And the fact that you consider someone replying to you in any way a "fight"? Well you're gonna have to work on that with someone professional. You aren't a victim when someone disagrees with you. Toughen up.

Don't downplay white supremacists by saying "well it's only like the meth heads that agree with the cops against minorities" because that is absolutely incorrect. And it makes you sound like you are downplaying white supremecy to not be a big deal since it's "only the meth heads" and meth heads are bad. The problem is that it's not just them but also politicians, police, solidiers, your fellow church-goers, your priests/pastors, etc.

If you are having a rough go of it currently and need someone to talk to, let me know. I'm here, friend.

Netanyahu says deadly Israeli strike in Rafah was the result of a 'tragic mistake' ( apnews.com )

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people....

800XL ,

The "tragic mistake" in his head is that he couldn't kill more. Because he is a sociopath. Fuck Bibi.

800XL ,

Buy as many guns as you can.

800XL ,

Because shit like this is done so that extremist right-wing para-military groups that by law should not be able to buy guns can buy guns.

Buy guns. Defend yourself and your family from authoritarians and fascists that have a large group of Trump-appointed government officials protecting them.

All the book burning banning, LGBTQ+ oppression, the violent student protest crackdowns, the oppressive surveillence laws masqueraded as "protecting children" flying in the face of the Constitution aren't just for the luls. Each are a step in a checklist that ends in law-protected mass-murder.

800XL ,

I'll bite. Give me 9 "hardcore feminist men" then.

don't really go out of their way to convince the people around them that they're trustworthy, unless they want you to trust them so they can take advantage of you.

You just described Trump, every televangelist, and anyone in business.

800XL ,

What I've done is wired a different type of USB port to each door where the doorknob would exist. My kids and spouse all carry a different thumb drive for each door with the proper conversion adapter permanently attached so they know which door it belongs to. Each family member only uses the door for which they have the "key". My wife prefers the back door. The USB port solution helps to deny access to certain rooms inside the house too as I've wired ports on those doors too. For instance I have a room where I keep the liquor that I can block the kids from accessing.

Each port is connected to a different RPI5 that runs software that upon a device insert reads a special file named for the date. Inside that file is the name of the family member so the script knows who it is. It then updates a spreadsheet hosted in Google Cloud so I can view it from anywhere. Google sends me push notifitations when this happens.

The beauty is that if one of my family loses their thumb drive I just make another and rotate the adapters so the old one won't work anymore. My wife is the biggest culprit of this. She doesn't work and is home all day but she still has a pretty busy life based on all the action that back door sees. But it has lead to a bug - more on that later.

It's a pretty flawless solution - I'm so proud of it I've given my tech savvy neighbor a thumb drive of his own to help test the system. Like I mentioned I have one bug to fix tho.

It seems like every time my wife loses her thumb drive there is some ghosting in the logs. For instance, I'll see a push notification with her name and a the back door opening and then a few minutes later another rear entry with her name attached but never an exit between events. Maybe an hour later then I'll see an exit.

My neighbor always seems to do his testing while I'm at work too cuz I'll see his name show up. My wife has mentioned he'll stop by for a half hour or hour a couple times a week and answer questions about the system and tech. I think she wants to get a job in tech.

Another bug I've only seen happen a few times is the back door opening with my wife's thumb key, the neighbor entering the back door, and then my wife's name showing another back door event. I've called her on the phone to have her (and the neighbor if he's there) troubleshoot during this and she is definitely home but she sounds really hurried and out of breath. I don't know what she is watching on TV but it sounds like several guys arguing and when I ask why it's so loud she gets worked up and has to mute the phone for a bit.

Actually now that I think about it I've started getting notifications of back door entries after my wife has gone to bed and I'm working on projects in the basement. It's soundproofed down there so I can listen to music without waking her. I swear tho I'll hear some off-timed thumping after these events.

But yeah, I really like the tech I got going on and my wife thinks it's the best idea I've had. I think for v2 I'd like to implement a secret knock each family member has instead of the thumb drive so there's nothing to lose. It would be much easier for my wife's back door entry. I swear she squealed with delight when I told her how much time would be saved on entry just by a few properly timed forceful hits to a sensor on the back door. She wanted to try it out immediately!

Good luck!

800XL ,

Kids lose stuff like keys. Adults lose companies, their minds, and other such things. Leave the kids alone

‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms ( www.theguardian.com )

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....

800XL ,

Maybe the US should just stop arming Israel and give the arms to Gaza instead and see how that plays out.

I can't believe this bullshit has gone on for so long

800XL ,

No power wars directly. It's been proxy wars for forever.

800XL ,

This is an amazing response.

800XL ,

my brother in christ, this is exactly the point. isis-ra-el is only emboldened by foreign weapons. cut that shit in half and give the other half to the palestinians and shit changes. without foreign support vis-a-vis british zionists in the 30s and 40s and current american tax money isis-ra-el would have been de-platformed already

How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )

There are lots of reasons to want to shut off your car’s data collection. The Mozilla Foundation has called modern cars “surveillance machines on wheels” and ranked them worse than any other product category last year, with all 25 car brands they reviewed failing to offer adequate privacy protections....

800XL ,

Fuck, that's totally it too. Scumbags with MBAs. The worst are the fresh out of college MBAs with no work experience that want to prove how "smart" they are.

800XL ,

Figure out where the modem is and Farraday Cage it.

800XL ,

I hate having cords too. For me at least no matter what pair of wireless headphones I buy, they never last as long as I need them to and when they die I am never around a place to leave them to charge.

Another thing is that my phone always tries to figure out what bluetooth device it thinks I want to pair with and it is wrong 90% of the time.

It also thinks that if I've been away from a bluetooth device for awhile that when I come back I want to switch from my headphones to that device and it is wrong 100% of the time.

Cords are irritating and I can't tell you how many times the cord has caught on something walking by and ripped the headphones out of my ears, but it still way less annoying than bluetooth.

800XL ,

Except you can spoof an IP address or get another one from the ISP just by asking. You can spoof a MAC address too.

Intel introduced unique processor id's back in the late 90s.

800XL ,

You're telling me that computers are sophisticated enough to drive cars and create new antibiotics but resumes are just too much? Nah.

If that's the case then don't ask for a resume and only have the form to input job history that can be easily handed over to a manager using a printable template.

It's lazy on HR's part and on the HR software they use.

800XL ,

Not according to every shitty car company with a "social media expert" that makes an OpenAI account

800XL ,

Can't wait to see these driverless trucks on an icy highway during a blinding snowstorm where a massive pile-up of vehicles has already occurred. /s

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