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2026-04-02 03:23:41 UTC

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Interesting. I never though about it working both ways: the ocean vs the jar.
It makes me think about the Plato's Cave allegory and how it's literally impossible to tell if you're inside or outside the cave. (Say someone finds a mystical cave that's full of wonder, and tries to convince everyone true meaning lies inside the cave ... honestly could be a gooner metaphor :blobfoxinnocent: :blobcatgrimacing:)
Do you think there is a "chief end of man?" .. or ultimate purpose? Or that it's up to each individual to determine if there's a purpose and what that is?

2026-03-24 06:55:28 UTC

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I think it was an intentional long-con. The hard-left/hard-right are like a quarter of the population or less. There are way more independent/libertarian/whatever in the middle. There are plenty of people who don't want _Iraq Part II: The Iran Boogaloo_. But fuck if they're going to stand next to pro-Biden people who want to allow hormones put in kids and mandatory experimental medication. On the other side, those people don't want "nazis" and "fascists" at their anti-war rallies either.
2016~2020 was one of the largest MKUltra-style experiments ever carried out against the world population. Even people who stand together against war can no longer stand together because of literally everything else.
The psyche of the world has been fragmented. It's a form of collective trauma that's separated the population in absolutist and totalist terms.

2026-03-24 06:49:36 UTC

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Are we still doing Russian bots? That was so 2018...

2026-03-24 05:50:34 UTC

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I don't understand what it has to do with capitalism at all.
That seems more like late-stage Soviet Empire stuff.
Also, you don't use an LLM to generate songs. An LLM is literally a *Large Language Model*. He had to use a mixed-model or audio-model.
I never use music streaming services. I have a massive SD card in my phone with all my music. Some I've pirated, some I've ripped from CDs I've bought at shows, some I've bought from Bandcamp (before they started censoring people). If you BUY your music and give artists money directly at shows instead of renting it, you're providing them value and getting value.
There was a lot of fraud with fake streaming long before the AI era. There are videos of people with a wall of cellphones setup where they select the same tracks over and over. This guy just automated that process, probably making it easier for him to get caught too.

2026-03-24 03:24:51 UTC

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Are you using real Gapps, microG or going entirely G-services free? (I don't know what the options are on Graphene. I know it does sandboxing. I just use Lineage these days without gapps or microG).

2026-03-24 00:54:02 UTC

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If the news reports say it was Iran, it's probably a false flag.
If the new reports say it was an accident, they're probably trying to cover up an attack.

2026-03-23 20:54:30 UTC

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cat fishing

2026-03-23 02:24:13 UTC

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Obama and Biden weren't 1946

2026-03-20 17:53:08 UTC

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You're asking the wrong questions. The right question is, how will this affect donations? It must be because e-mails are not getting out!

2026-03-19 02:24:15 UTC

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You can't watch something like that out of season! ☃️ 🎅 Last Christmas I watched the Charlie Brown special (I've got a `Charlie Brown Christmas Original Airing.m4v` made from a VHS with commercials). Next year might be Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. I haven't seen that in a while.

2026-03-19 02:05:30 UTC

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No. I think it's been over 30 years since I've seen that .. I barely remember anything about it.
I think it would have been cooler if the car controlled the remote, but the remote could also control the car .. like they were both remotes and both vehicles :blobcatshrug:

2026-03-19 02:03:06 UTC

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Exactly. Thanks I hate it!

2026-03-16 22:38:50 UTC

It's the service technician...
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2026-03-16 02:35:26 UTC

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It may even be intentional from the neoconservative agenda that's pushing Israel support, to continue crashing the dollar so it can be replaced with programmable money.

2026-03-15 23:21:55 UTC

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yeeeeeea. "Took his own life" .... sure .. if you believe that.

2026-03-15 16:13:07 UTC

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I don't mind the A/B partitions or Magisk. But everything else is getting pretty ridiculous. I wish Purism didn't end up being such a shitty piece of fuck company, because there's a huge lack of mobile Linux devices.
I should try getting Postmarket running on my old Sony XA2 again .. if I can get it to turn on.

2026-03-15 01:40:46 UTC

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I literally haven't fed my bees at all over the winter. I'm kinda surprised they're still alive and haven't swarmed off. I should put the honey box on. I wonder if I'll get anything this year. ... I'm a really terrible bee keeper.

2026-03-15 01:29:58 UTC

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Don't go blind!

2026-03-12 03:47:32 UTC

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I've lived in two countries where it was by prescription only and doctors wouldn't write scripts for it ... same with pseudoephedrine 😡 upsidedown backwards land

2026-03-12 03:34:23 UTC

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The Future is Deflationary

2026-03-10 03:59:38 UTC

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He mentions how the "Prime Minister's Office" on Leonardo Divinci St is blurred out on Google Maps. But he shows shitty AI art instead of a fucking screenshot of Google Maps. I tried looking and nothing on Divinci Street in is blurred out. The Prime Minister's Office isn't even on that street, it's in Jerusalem, and the entire city is restricted to low res .. which although is interesting in and of itself, he's fucking wrong.
Is this retread reading some AI generated script?! Well he's already wrong about half the stuff he's said, so fuck this guy!

2026-03-10 03:51:26 UTC

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This video is SO FUCKING ANNOYING. I know the obvious AI is obvious, but it's such a shitty visual aid. Show fewer pictures and make them real. I'd rather see real pictures and fewer of them with just a talking head, than a talking head over obvious fake constructions that don't tell me anything about the real facility.

2026-03-10 03:14:10 UTC

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So is this guy too stupid to realize Fuentes has likely always been paid to say whatever he does by some federal outfit, a GPT-bot or some other type of stupid and/or propaganda?
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2026-03-08 06:20:23 UTC

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a classic....

2026-03-07 17:32:55 UTC

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Flash was pretty amazing back in he Macromedia days.

2026-03-06 04:49:22 UTC

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what service is this? Grock/xAI?

2026-03-04 04:22:40 UTC

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LGR did a video on the software that was used in the 80s to make these. It's pretty interesting.

2026-03-04 04:21:57 UTC

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Dragon? Dude that took me like ~2 minutes to get where I could see it.. and I can see all the layers, but .. it looks random .. like clouds or something. I can see the 3D layers but I can't tell what ti is.
Is the Dragon thing a Mallrats reference or something?

2026-03-03 22:16:18 UTC

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Damn .. you okay? That looks terrible. :gummysad:

2026-03-03 02:06:03 UTC

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what the fuck is even happening anymore...

2026-03-02 02:46:26 UTC

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I think these women are extremely talented. Best of the best. They **deserve** to be on the front lines. First wave, paratroopered in once "boots on the ground" happens./

2026-03-02 00:03:48 UTC

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Orwell isn't alive to see his parody become reality

2026-03-01 03:47:51 UTC

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Churchill murdered 1,500 french sailors to keep their fleet out of the hands of Germany and Lincoln raided newspaper offices and sentenced a reporter to death. The only thing that determines if someone is a war criminal is if they lose. There are no "war crimes." War is a crime.
> “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. … You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing! … War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
-William T. Sherman

2026-02-28 14:27:30 UTC

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Thank you, that was a very informative rundown

2026-02-28 14:22:36 UTC

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Isn't that exactly what happened last time? It's like some ~~Lucy~~ US pulling the football on ~~Charlie Brown~~ Iran

2026-02-28 01:07:46 UTC

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are they charging for extra content now?

2026-02-27 05:38:52 UTC

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I've been on Librewolf for a few years now, even before that policy change. It's sad when we need privacy aware forks of Firefox, but here we are.

2026-02-26 04:36:03 UTC

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huh .. how would he see god? Is God just the souls of humans? all life? neither .. separate from this world?

2026-02-24 22:59:20 UTC

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Yea, that's the easy one. I think I figured one of the others out once, but don't remember ...

2026-02-24 22:28:16 UTC

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2026-02-20 05:12:24 UTC

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2026-02-20 05:01:49 UTC

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This was my apartment back in 2011. I liked being able to see everything and not have to hunt for stuff.
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2026-02-20 04:57:21 UTC

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I really prefer the open shelves over cabinets.

2026-02-19 04:36:39 UTC

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What is your view of the "progressive" church? Do you think this is a natural progression of the growing victim-as-virtue (book of Job, refined by trial, ..) aspects of Christianity that have grown over the centuries?
Also, kinda random, but I'm curious what you think about rapture theology?

2026-02-19 04:02:28 UTC

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> lutheranism regeneration (through baptism)
So do they believe you can "lose your salvation?" It's no the act of Baptism itself if they need daily renewal?
You're more up to date on this than I am. I left the faith ~2002 I think. I was a born-againer / non-denominational. I never became a church member ... (never got baptized either :bunthink:) but I mostly went to a PCA church every Sunday. I did some missionary work in Indian in he 90s too.I went to one PCUSA church out West in 2000. I remember they had both wine and grape juice during communion, and I talked to one of the elders for a bit after the service on the church's stance on homosexuality.
I only heard of "Reformed" a few years ago, and that from a Babylon Bee podcast. My sister's family are all evangelicals and it's interesting discussions taking place over reformed, dispensationalism .. and other theological schools of though.

2026-02-19 02:55:18 UTC

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:gummythink: yea .. and they'll also argue God gives individuals the choice, he just knows who is going to choose. It gets pretty academic after a point.
I'm more interested in reading Sapolsky's book _Determined_, where he apparently argues we don't have any freewill at all.

2026-02-19 02:43:34 UTC

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My first thought is to wonder if the world that John Calvin lived in didn't care deeply with the philosophical questions about freewill. Sure it was discussed by the Romans and others previously, but maybe this just was just watered down or forgotten by the time of the reformation.
When you look at people downstream from Calvin, such as the 1600s Puritans and even modern PCA Presbyterians, they tend to not be overly evangelical. They believed in "the elect," and God would bring those to him with irresistible grace. Calvinist missionary work is still very different from the born-againers looking to get people _saved_.
But I don't fault the ideology in general. To believe in an absolute all-powerful god, that god would have to know the future, while also allowing the free well of creation to make that choice. There are paradoxes in all fields, including mathematics with set theory and varying sizes of infinity.

2026-02-15 05:05:59 UTC

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It warmed up here this week. I went to a soccer game and only needed a hoodie.

2026-02-14 06:05:05 UTC

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I think TIFF was originally a scanner format, so it makes sense it would have orientation (being the orientation selected in a flatbed). I wonder if those terrible hand/roller scanners set that field.

2026-02-13 06:08:21 UTC

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I've seen worse

2026-02-12 03:35:15 UTC

Is this article AI generated?
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2026-02-10 04:50:54 UTC

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meh. I think Heinlein is overrated. The book was boring as fuck. The movie honestly does a much better job at even the political points than that terrible book. _Strange in a Strange Land_ is equally terrible, and shows Heinlein was probably a sexpest like the current Hollywood elites.
> Got it, everyone in the world can now vote in American elections for every county, state, and federal elections; let us expand the franchise worldwide.
Well the book doesn't make that ridiculous argument. The selectorate has to be for that particular government and their well defined region of influence. I personally don't think the vote is very effective to begin with, but I do think the book makes a good point about those affected by a leader should participate in selecting said leader and more participants tends to prevent more autocratic leadership (although not always).
You mentioned the female vote. What's interesting is it originally just gave a family two votes. In a way it lent more strength to the family .. and if a family was divided, the vote of that family would just cancel itself out. It's a different situation where that vote is more individual now.

2026-02-10 04:41:11 UTC

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Yea I think I had Real Myst on disc at some point ... might still have it.
I'll check out The Last Express.

2026-02-10 04:20:41 UTC

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I wish I had finished that series. I played Myst and Riven. I found Exile CDs in a used bookstore for like $10, but never played more than ~20 minutes of it. Not sure if I'd want to play any of them to be honest.

2026-02-10 04:18:54 UTC

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So in your opinion, reversing all those things will make the ballot useful and not the slaves suggestion box?
I dunno. If you read _The Dictator's Handbook_ (2011 Mesquita, Smith), they argue reducing the selectorate is never beneficial; that systems become more autocratic the more you limit the franchise.
Even in Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_, the franchise is limited to those who serve in the military, but the overarching system is autocratic. But it also shows fascism is a perfect valid system if you enemy are literally bugs.

2026-02-09 05:10:34 UTC

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I'm 50/50 on him still being alive. But who the fuck knows. I've written two posts:
https://battlepenguin.com/politics/transgender-shooters-flags-and-troop-deployments/#the-shooting-of-charlie-kirk
https://battlepenguin.com/politics/cryptocurrency-collapsing-governments-and-captain-james-t-kirk/#captain-james-kirk
I don't much care about the man. I think the Kirkinator memes are fucking hilarious. I question how they got the memorial together in under two weeks (I guess they already had the stadium rented for his event?) I think Candice is probably CIA-handled at this point and her message is intentional as well.
But who the fuck knows man. People get emotional about this shit. They shouldn't. People can even discuss how weird the whole incident/coverage is without people on the hard left/right screeching.

2026-02-09 05:01:13 UTC

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I still Iryna video was a fake psyop. There is no fucking stab wound in her neck.

2026-02-07 18:11:23 UTC

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The word is used so much it literally has no meaning, no one gives a fuck and if you don't like it, don't read it or pay for it. In 2024 [Substack claimed to have banned 5 "Nazi" blogs](https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/tracker-entries/substack-decision-to-remove-nazi-accounts-leads-to-outcry-over-censorship/) (whatever the fuck that means) but they didn't mention which ones and I can't find any actual information on it, so it might have been a fake PR-stunt. I would like to know what those sites actually were and see the archives to decide for myself.
But I decided from that point I would never pay for something on Substack because they either censored some sites or created a fake censorship story as some PR stunt. Both are stupid.
But personally, I want to read the books everyone else wants to burn.

2026-02-04 01:48:19 UTC

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There was like 8~10s of the body cam leaked .. place was just covered in trash

2026-02-03 23:05:22 UTC

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most people have already forgotten how stupid things were

2026-02-02 04:05:22 UTC

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what is this?

2026-02-02 01:41:58 UTC

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Nah .. not unless you take away everyone's food and Netflix, but they still somehow manage to keep their guns.

2026-02-02 01:38:22 UTC

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I'm sure a non-trivial amount of his clients worked at Google.

2026-02-01 08:09:25 UTC

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If you use IntelliJ, the Continue plugin can connect to a local Ollama instance. Openclaw says it supports MiniMax M2.1, and there are docs about how to use it from LM Studio, but the onboarding wizard doesn't seem to have an LM Studio option :bunthinking:
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2026-02-01 07:53:49 UTC

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Alright, well I might as well give this a shot. I wonder if I can get my agent banned with the right system prompt. ... I haven't used Ollama in forever. What local models are people using these days? I've got 32GB of vram.
oh god ... well Openclaw looks terrifying ... and no Ollama support ... not sure if it supports local models at all! Don't want it blowing through my Github tokens that I get from work either ... :bunthinking:
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2026-02-01 01:49:01 UTC

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I was in the 7th grade when it came out. I thought it was pretty bad ... only watched one season.

2026-01-31 03:51:39 UTC

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oh wow ... that's kinda hilariously insane and awesome

2026-01-31 03:47:12 UTC

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so ... monochrome

2026-01-29 03:57:50 UTC

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I like the term "Load-bearing shell scripts." If it starts getting past 20 lines and you're using it for CI/deployment/tests/etc. you should replace bash/sh/zsh with something else.
Why the Python hate? Python3 is pretty stable, and even has type hinting. Virtual environments and uv are your friends. Although at that point it's no longer a simple shell script, but if you really don't want to use a venv, almost every linux distro has the major libraries you need (requests and such) in the package manager.

2026-01-26 03:19:39 UTC

Maybe ... maybe ... we're just not vibe coding hard enough?

2026-01-25 21:32:09 UTC

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Do you slice off bacon strips to fry, or are you gonna smoke it?

2026-01-22 02:54:16 UTC

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Is he a tree, or is he a seal?

2026-01-22 01:49:38 UTC

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You do. It's not very clear, but it does say -5 if you click on them. Not a great UI. Thanks for the heads up or I probably would have missed that.
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2026-01-20 02:50:37 UTC

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I am an American. I've only ever been an American citizen. I've only ever been in American schools and English is my first language.
What even is an American to you? Did your family come from a place that's now a reservation or did they descend from British, Italians, Russians, Germans, etc?
You can define your own rules that no one else follows and obeys and I guess that's fine for you .... but that still makes you an idiot that lives in a different reality than the 330 million other people here.

2026-01-20 02:48:16 UTC

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I'm talking about Native American Indians.

2026-01-20 02:42:41 UTC

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It's alright if you believe that. At least I'm not retarded and understand how definitions and the law works.
You will never never stop being a stupid fucking cunt.

2026-01-20 02:39:56 UTC

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So you're an American Indian then?

2026-01-20 02:39:07 UTC

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Permanent residents before I was born. Dad and sister go their citizenship on their own. I didn't sponsor anyone.

2026-01-20 02:30:44 UTC

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And you're still obviously retarded. What's your point?

2026-01-20 02:30:11 UTC

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What does this have to do with diversity? OP was an ICE thing. I'm a US citizen and my parents were **legal** immigrants.

2026-01-20 02:23:52 UTC

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> If Trump had been directly involved they definitely would've cooked him with any evidence they had back in 2020.
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Dude he's got dozens of pictures with Epstein. Clinton is in a blue dress in Epstein's painting. Look at all the people **we have direct evidence** have been to the Island, the ranch in Arizona or are named in the documents that haven't been redacted.
A) Nothing will ever happen to any of them
B) They're all involved. You don't get into that echelon or government without going to some fucked up _Eyes Wide Shut_ type ritual and told, "fuck this kid, on camera"
They're **all pedophiles** .. at least 1/3 of the senate and congress if not more. That's how sexual blackmail works. Just look at every single person who flipped their vote in 2008 during the TARP bill; literally the most unpopular bill to ever come before congress. Every one of those vote flips likely had their handler call them and say, "You will do as we say or the world will know what you did." Might not be pedo blackmail; might be some other sexual blackmail ... we are all one nation under blackmail.
Trump kissed the wall, intentional dropped Epstein and is the puppet of the exact same CIA/MI6/Mossad operation that pupped Biden, Obama and Clinton ... and now they've literally got conservatives to back Federal police over local law enforcement. Yes the liberal protestors are fucking retarded (I bet there are at least a few CIA people in those groups stoking that fire btw), but **conservatives are literally advocating for federal police over State's Rights**.
It's so fucking beyond retarded.

2026-01-19 00:01:14 UTC

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Chance? Timing? Being better at murdering all their rivals? Constantine?
There are a thousand possible answers and they all make more sense than its god being "real"

2026-01-18 23:38:08 UTC

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> Religion as a scholarly category is modern, but religion as lived practice is ancient.
Yea you just contradicted yourself .. I mean you're contracting yourself a lot but you just did so here specifically. Religion is a retroactive application of a concept (same with Gnosticism. None of those groups considered themselves "Gnostic" .. they just believed what they believed).
Temples and priests existed everywhere and they had their gods, but they didn't have the distinct categories of religion and ideology we have today. People believed in gods, and those people over there have their own gods, and people generally though these gods existed.
Each nation's gods, and especially later monotheistic God, helped define each people group as "special." It gave them distinct status to go conquer and kill others, reducing them to less than. That was one of the effects of these belief systems that helped expand certain kingdoms and empires.
Christianity gained such a strong foothold with the idea everyone could enter into redemption, submitting themselves before one true God. It made everyone special .. well sorta. Not right away. After a few centuries. First they killed a lot of heretics and had many variations of the faith.
I feel like we're talking in circles because you keep going back to just the text and propaganda of your religion and are unwilling to address any of the historical dependencies. I'm addressing the _reason_ things ended up they way they are, but you're coming from the perspective it must be true as you know it and working backwards.

2026-01-18 23:19:13 UTC

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> Abraham received certain promises & blessings from God under old covenant. These were passed down through Isaac & Jacob to the rest of Israel.
This is what's in the text, but isn't reflected in history. There were many _many_ different faiths throughout that entire region that had Abraham in their history, as well as some of the stories that are traditionally considered Jewish today. The idea of _religion_ itself as we know it didn't come about until Christianity. People just believed in different gods or a monotheistic God.
On top of that .. David doesn't really exist outside of the Old Testament. There's almost no mention of him as any type of king from the records of any neighboring empires. The whole story of Jews escaping Egypt doesn't exist in any other civilizations. (There was some Canaanites that went back to Egypt and became Pharaohs, which might be where this story originated). Solomon seems to be the first real "king" that's documented elsewhere, but much of the early Jewish history that's in the Bible doesn't fit any of the archeological record.
Yahweh was part of another pantheon of Gods in proto-Yahwehism, and early versions of Yahweh have him paired with Asherah, his female consort .. gone from all later texts.

2026-01-18 21:53:48 UTC

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2026-01-18 20:19:00 UTC

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"coggers" is my preferred slur for the Weighted Random Code Generation Machines (a.k.a LLMs or AI)
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2026-01-18 17:08:26 UTC

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What's that logical fallacy about embracing a better earlier time/nostalgia that never really existed? The early "church" was an non-unified hodge poge mess with vastly different beliefs than what modern Christians have. There is no "true Christianity" any more than there's a true Scotsman.
I do realize Christianity is an important foundation for modern Western morality. It is the foundation of British Common Law (vs Roman Civil Law). I realize it's importance and the dangers of uprooting Chesterton's fence, but it's also obviously a construction of various mythos.
In your world view, did God guide all of those believes into what we have now? Is Eastern Orthodox, with greater emphasis on mysticism but less on direct personal interpretation, still a "true Christianity?"
Do you believe God has different rules for different ages, or dispensations? Do you believe in rapture ideology? per-tribulation or post-tribulation?

2026-01-18 16:51:05 UTC

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> Lots of Christians have allowed gnostic thought to creep into their doctrines, but from the beginning it was not so.
Valentinianism, Marcionism, and several others all existed between 100 ~ 300 AD, all with varying beliefs about spiritual vs physical world. Not all believed in the Demiurge, the Monad, Sophia, etc. The whole idea of "gnosticsm" didn't exist back then. It's a blank term used today to refer to a ton of early Christian group, some which were quite large.
Early Christians murdered a lot of these sects and destroyed many of their texts. The ones that survived to make the 27 NT books were never canonicalized officially anywhere, arising organically from what was popular, and therefore, what priests continued to copy by hand. The Shepherd of Hermas, The Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Thomas, The book of Enoch I, II and III are just some of the many books that didn't make it.
It's also important to note modern evangelicals like to talk about the "inerrant word of God," specifically calling to John and how "the word was God .. he was in the beginning." Christians don't want to admit this, but it turns the "word" into God himself in some sense; a quadrinity so to say. But the "word" as cannoned scripture did not exist in the early church at all ... you could argue by 300 AD it had solidified, but for all of early Christianity, there was no such thing, except for the Greek Septuagint and its translations. Even then, what about Maccabees or the Babylonian Talmud?
Christianity, as it is today, was made the same way every State is made: Might makes Right. Christians killed all the heretics:
https://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/06/christian-atrocities-three-centuries-of-pagan-persecution/
You might say "people misused the name of Jesus for horror," and I say is God so inept he cannot protect his trademark? oh it's because of free will, even thought he knows everyone who will "chose" him? The Calvinist or Puritan elect?
The modern progressive LGBT church, thought a heresy to most evangelicals and reformed, is actually the natural progression of how Westernized Christianity has emerged in the past century. Christianity did grow because the "covenant was now open to all," so the evangelical will say, but why then in 30~60AD and not before? Did God have different rules for different ages? That's where you get modern day dispensationalism and rapture theology.
From a secular perspective, Christianity was used to solidify the empire under Constantine and Constantine used Christianity as a means to legitimacy around 300 AD, in the exact same way ibn Marwan married the Arab caliphates to Muhammad and Islam around 600 AD to legitimize his empire. Both of these cultures were initially very tolerant of other faiths, as the Roman Empire was filled with those with vastly different gods and the Caliphates deeply relied on trade through their regions.
The Christianity of today would be unrecognizable to the Christians of 150 AD or 300 AD or even the 1600s puritans in Boston.

2026-01-18 15:54:03 UTC

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Thank you for reading my schizo ramblings!
:agummythink: I've honestly been a little weary of substack ever since they censored "5 Nazi blogs," even though (or especially because) it seems like these blogs never really existed and the censorship was some kind of marketing tactic. @npub1gd4…393e did a pretty good post on it when it happened:
https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/the-internet-cycle-a-whitepaper/
Still, I noticed Corbett Report started cross-posting on Substack recently. One of the recent posts I cited was on his website in full if you logged in, or you could view it in full on substack.
I've considered substack, but the reverse of that: publish three paragraphs with a _read more ->_ link pointing back to my website.

2026-01-18 06:46:34 UTC

I fucking hate coggers
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2026-01-17 18:44:50 UTC

Someone dared me. Should I do it chat?
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2026-01-17 16:58:10 UTC

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ah I'm not familiar with that agreement. I'll look it up. I know of the Balfour Declaration and the McMahon-Hussein correspondence; two conflicting statements which drew both the Arabs and the Zionist into helping the allies against the Ottomans in WWI in exchange for nation states that never happened (instead leading to the Mandate of Palestine or "Mandatory Palestine," under the League of Nations, which was in place until the United Nations created Israel in 1947/48).

2026-01-17 16:35:12 UTC

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Wait what? That doesn't sound right. I think you mean the Persian Empire? I don't think Ottomans ever extended that far East. They did hold modern day Iraq / Baghdad .. but prior to that the region around Iraq/Iran/Turkey was mostly controlled by the Khazar Empire.

2026-01-17 13:58:16 UTC

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Why is the headline wrong? It says he was acquitted of "All charges" but he was convicted of manslaughter. It's still fucked up he only gets four years for a murder, but the headline is literally different than the article.

2026-01-17 13:50:50 UTC

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2026-01-17 04:15:13 UTC

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So .. trolling or retarded?

2026-01-16 12:25:38 UTC

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It shows how absolutely worthless the peace prize is, as if there was any doubt after Obama and Gore got one.

2026-01-16 01:17:34 UTC

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2026-01-15 03:07:59 UTC

The holodeck is for ___________

2026-01-15 00:50:28 UTC

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oh weird .. I guess that makes sense. I mostly just see meme posts from Minds accounts.