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  • The four places where I still get good news: science, healthcare, space, and paleontology.

  • I don't have opensource solutions, but CloudFlare had some news about a system that I didn't read about (saw two headlines) last week. Dunno if it works or not.

  • Ceiling cat is watching you masturbate.

  • Oh, cool. We're finally not a two-party system! This will go nowhere. And even if it went somewhere, all the joiners would be losers like him.

    Give me a Leftist party, headed by Zohran and backed by Bernie and AOC and I'll get excited.

  • I got sorta (not really sorta) manic for a month and cleaned our home and rearranged everything so that it'd make more sense. I have no idea where some things are. I developed a system that I don't recall.

  • You should nuke us. We're hopeless.

  • Wait, I might know the answer. Is it because they don't use LIDAR and they're made by a company headed by some piece of shit who likes to cut costs? Haha, I was just guessing, but ok.

  • A friend told me about that terminology when he got me on a torrent board. Luckily, I'm on a fiber connection with no bandwidth limit, so I can just seed this content 24/7. Good luck, nazis.

  • Yeah, and I feel like I'm winning. If you want to be an influencer, go do that.

  • I’m so glad I was young before this stupid reality happened. I have a regular job and no desire for internet fame.

  • This will have no effect on what happens to us going forward.

  • Sizable inactive accounts that wake up after years of dormancy draw investor attention because of the potential market impact if those coins are sold.

    It would make me very happy if they liquidated and destroyed the market overnight.

  • Price is fringe, but when you consider that orthodoxy erased mountains of dissenting texts, it's only fringe because all other ideas were erased for more than a thousand years.

    Marcion, for example, had followers for at least three centuries. And the only examples we have of his writing is in quotes from church fathers arguing against him. There was a purge of unorthodox ideas, but his version of spirituality could have won out and then what is currently the norm would have been fringe. Christianity had a stranglehold over Europe and dictated its own history.

  • Repurposing most of a comment from earlier in the day where someone asked about learning about the Jesus Myth theory that Jesus was originally a heavinly figure and only got turned into a guy with an earthly ministry decades later. This is well supported by the evidence in texts from the start of christianity (epistles, Dead Sea Scrolls).

    The Jesus Puzzle, by Earl Doherty. He gets criticized because he’s not a trained scholar, but his work remains compelling and Robert M Price endorses him. I really enjoyed this one.

    The Amazing Colossal Apostle - The Search for the Historical Paul, by Robert M Price. He’s a former Baptist minister with multiple degrees in the field, a true expert. He has a bunch of published YouTube interviews talking about these topics as well.

    Quick warning: RMP is a Trump supporter. That makes sense. Ministers are rightwing. Coming from believing to realizing that the Bible is a collection of stories rather than history doesn’t necessarily change your politics. He mostly never mentions it, but it’s come out a couple of times in videos. Luckily, he doesn’t say anything further about it. The book is phenominal.

    And, if you still want to consider Jeses to be a historical figure, I loved this controversial piece: The Passover Plot, by Hugh J. Schonfield. This book assumes that Jesus was a real apocalyptic Jew who truly believed that he was the messiah and who brilliantly engineered the conditions to fulfill prophecy. It’s a great read. If Jesus was a historical figure, this is the version of him that I think is most likely.

    I am currently reading Marcion and the Dating of the Synoptic Gospels, by Markus Vinzent. I’m enjoying it a lot. Marcion was the first “heretic” for his view that Paul was the only apostle who understood the true message: that the creator god of the Jews was a lesser god, which is why there is evil in the world, and Jesus's god would adopt us.

  • I'd be in Aukland now if I hadn't met my partner between deciding in 2021 and the election. She is a refugee and can't leave or she'll lose status. She is a political enemy of her government for advocating for democracy there. Did a phone interview and everything.

  • Cool, more power to you.

  • Keyboard shortcuts for everything. Mousing to a menu is a waste of time in any app you use daily.

  • My Synology is compatible with an expansion unit and can support two of them. Check if yours can do the same for the storage aspect.

  • If you get a NAS with 10G (it’s such a nice upgrade, I made the jump last year), there’s no reason a nice NUC can’t do the job. I went that route after previously running significantly overpowered server hardware ten years ago. We have an embarrassment of riches with modern hardware.