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Deacon

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  • Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse

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  • It’s like tattooing your new girlfriend’s name on your ass.

  • Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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  • I would have to go and download an ad, and then upload it, and then select it from new additions in order to hear an ad on Plexamp.

    But the subscription model is the framework for fuckery here.

    It wasn’t long ago that subscribing to something, implied a consistent (usually periodical) delivery of actual goods or services that were in some way distinct from the previous periods good or services. Issue #33 is different from #32. March’s soup of the month is different than February’s.

    And you could hold issue #33 in one hand and #32 in another hand and directly interact with two months worth of that subscription.

    The tech bro idea of innovation is to get two revenue streams from each customer; keep us paying for the same thing over and over but never owning it, and sell our data to advertisers. The fact that they are also showing ads to subscribers is just dripping lemon juice in the paper cut because they can. They were already making money off that data.

  • The Tree on the Corner

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  • I kind of hope not because it is really fucking sweet and I don’t want it to be a Trojan for another loss joke.

    Not that I don’t love a good loss. Love me some loss.

  • Chief Justice John Roberts says that hostility toward judges has ‘got to stop’

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  • He will go down as a justice with the same strength of character as wet tissue.

    He’s a coward who is directly culpable for everything we are going through right now.

  • TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2

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  • Yep it makes perfect sense in hindsight. It doesn’t actually hook onto history correctly. When you’re presupposing the the bible is inerrant and univocal, you just avoid reconciling certain things.

  • TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2

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  • I am a huge fan of Dan and it’s his series that made me feel like I need to learn more about Cyrus.

    An interesting feature of growing up an evangelical Christian, at least for me, is the sense that biblical history is somehow walled off from secular history. Obviously places and figures from that time are mentioned, but there is no sense of continuity. I have long been interested in history but since deconstructing I am now almost obsessed with reevaluating my knowledge of what was actually going on in the world, and in greater Canaan during the time of the bible.

    Re-reading and actually studying the bible as the library it is, and reading it in its historical context as I gradually plug it in to my existing understanding of history is an incredibly rewarding experience. And I credit Dan Carlin in large part with my persistent fascination with history.

  • TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2

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  • I’m really interested in studying Cyrus the Great, I just got distracted by biblical history as a fixation.

    Random Cyrus-related fact: David Koresh of the Waco Branch Davidians changed his last name from Howell to Koresh which is the biblical name for Cyrus.

  • TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2

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  • Agreed re: Solomon. My sense is that a lot of it was compiled during Josiah’s reign but my knowledge of the topic is sparse. Are you familiar with the theory that the David story is post hoc propaganda after David Coup’d Saul, and the David & Bathsheba story was fabricated as propaganda to legitimize Solomon after he coup’d David?

    I’m certainly over simplifying.

  • TIL that Indiana’s House of Representatives once unanimously passed a bill to make Pi exactly 3.2

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  • Assuming we are talking about historical accuracy and not theological accuracy (whatever that is), I’m not sure how low the number is, but it’s certainly less than half of 96%, especially the Old Testament

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  • No and no. I make way too much money for the value that my job adds to society, which is nearly none, and I want to totally blow up my career and do something that helps people. It’s harder when I have folks relying on me but I am moving in that direction

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • Given all the entanglements of all the big players, I genuinely wonder how much polymarket is predicting vs influencing events

  • Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels

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  • Sing it with me!

    All hail president Kompromat

    Kompromat

    Kompromat!

    All hail president Kompromat

    Our safety is in his hands!

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    MAGA don't like no Catholics Neither

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  • Doug Wilson is literally one of the most dangerous men in the entire world, by simple virtue of his proximity to, and influence over, Pete Hegseth, one of the most dangerous men in the world.

  • Work it, make it. Do it, makes us.

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  • More than ever hour after hour work is never over

  • Pentagon bans press photographers over ‘unflattering’ photos of Hegseth: report

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  • Bring on the artists renditions!!

  • Finally we do not need to count it on fingers

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  • Call me when there is a self-hosted solution.

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  • Trust me, the more explorations I do on the nature of consciousness, the more I wrestle with all of that.

    I don’t believe that it is inherently wrong to kill in order to eat. But as a species we don’t. Which isn’t to say there aren’t members of our species who very much do still need to kill to eat.

    But I don’t need to kill to eat, and I’ve outsourced that killing so it feels like more of an abstraction than it is. I can at the very least acknowledge this.

  • Thanks for asking...

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  • I haven’t either but I do find myself having to master the urge more and more.

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  • Veganism is my unattended moral compromise. I am positive that future generations will look at us and our factory farming and, aghast, see us as the monsters as we are - much like we look back at slaveowners, even those who were against the institution at the time.

    Since I am not living in or near the wild and not hunting for my own food, it is clear to me that veganism is the only real moral choice, and yet I still participate.

    I am complicit in this delightful supreme pizza and complicit in this breaded chicken sandwich.