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wjrii

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  • Mormon Senator praised Trump and Pete Hegseth. The new Pentagon policy bans Mormons from the list of recognized Christian denominations. Now he is outraged.

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  • They don't deny the divinity of Jesus. It's more that they have a neo-Arian view of the trinity that the godhead is one in purpose but separate in form, and Jesus is the literal son of God the father (they do NOT game out the repercussions of this in a coherent or sophisticated way, but it's what they believe). Theologically, they're sort of polytheists, but the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is an essential part of their belief system. So, it really comes down to whether you're willing to allow certain belief structures rejected by the Council of Nicaea to continue to call themselves Christian, or at least to nod politely at their self-identification, or whether you make academic theology the hill you will die on in terms of culturally significant labels adopted by ostensibly areligious bureaucracies. It sounds counter-intuitive, but there's more than one way to define a Christian.

    The Mormons are absolutely reaping what they sowed by throwing in with MAGA, though, and you know the Romneys and Huntsmans are snickering somewhere with a glass of wine, which they can have because they did double-secret off-the-books Temple shit.

  • OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

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  • What they're proposing: C-3PO.

    What they're planning: Droideka.

    What they'll sell: R5-D4.

    All we want: Gonk.

  • Best Star Trek Captain (wrong answers only)

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  • "He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the islands of French Guiana and 'round the Suriname Maelstrom and 'round perdition's flames before I give him up!"

  • Jucika's sports idol

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  • “sporting ideal”

    I think that would have been fine, honestly. She's presumably drawn to him in part because in the pads he embodied an ideal of the rugged, powerful, and large ice hockey player, the shape matching the perception of the sport itself, but in street clothes he's apparently just a dude.

  • Uri Geller claims credit for England World Cup success after using 'alien crystal skull'

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  • It’s very good if you don’t mind the subgenre of pathologically narcissistic main characters, like Seinfeld or Always Sunny. It’s also a clever send-up of the Friends era of shows about “hip” young urbanites.

  • Uri Geller claims credit for England World Cup success after using 'alien crystal skull'

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  • I’m still salty that this is the direction they went with the Mcguffin for Indy 4. You’re going to take Harrison Ford’s last halfway plausible outing as an action hero and waste it on this? A little-known niche element of new age woo conspiracy shit that nobody coming into the movie cared about AND that literally sucks all the magic out of the universe the characters inhabit in favor of underwhelming sci-fi unobtainium?

    Also Shia Labeouf.

  • Uri Geller claims credit for England World Cup success after using 'alien crystal skull'

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  • I don’t recall the episode, but that’s David Mitchell looking awkward with a woman inadvertently challenging him not to be a wanker with a superiority complex, so I imagine it’s Peep Show.

  • ‘I made them do it’ – Donald Trump takes credit for FIFA decision to overturn Folarin Balogun ban

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  • And while none of the more popular US sports have a card system with set rules, every single one of them can and does eject players and then suspend them for subsequent games.

  • Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

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  • I read it as tongue firmly planted in cheek, especially after he noted they were using the courts to address issues with their “post apocalyptic fantasy” community.

  • We’re going on an adventure

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  • Can’t be. No burlap-sack wallpaper.

    But yeah, the general point is well taken. They’re so value-priced institutional. You could just imagine the bean counters in Salt Lake revising the approved architectural drawings and paint colors for Tithing Generation Facility, model 1988, rev. 3.

  • Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI

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  • Mostly, I think he’s just so egotistical and so far up his own ass that he has completely conflated his own self-interest, instincts, hobbies, and ego with literally saving the world. Legitimately held beliefs are not necessarily legitimate beliefs.

    I do have to admit I enjoy his big-ackshully energy that reveals itself when people call him out on the Palantir name.

  • Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI

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  • It doesn't get a lot of play, because it's kind of obtuse, but he has extremely strong beliefs; they're just ones that don't preclude him saying this stuff to fool investors. There were a few pieces that have been written about it, and they flared up again after his weird antichrist lectures last year.

    The article hints at it it, but basically, he subscribes/contributes to an extreme variant of an obscure religion-adjacent philosophy that posits that the social stability benefits of an authoritarian Christian monoculture, preferably over the whole world due to some quirks of Christian theology, but certainly at least in the parts of the world where Christianity is a majority religion, are so amazing that they're worth pretending that it's all actually factually true, and that a surveillance state to preserve harmony (and, surprise side effect, it also locks in the power of the elites who establish it all!) is completely acceptable. Theoretically the Christianity part is optional, but there is a lot of risk inherent in not relying on the historical social glue.

    To him, seeking this is for the good of humankind. Anything that opposes any of it with any sort of sway, and especially from a Christian context, can be fairly called an antichrist. It's some serious Leto II God Emperor of Dune shit.

  • This might even some violate international humanitarian laws

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  • Around here (Texas), it’s the cream cheese and smoked salmon that make a place call it a Philly Roll, and the avocado vs cucumber varies by restaurant. Avocado is pretty popular though, because anything that evokes Tex-Mex will find an audience.

  • This might even some violate international humanitarian laws

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  • This is also a grocery store Philly Roll. We’re already past simple fusion and into some Red Giant Helium-to-Oxygen shit. If my man wants some ranch, then so be it. He’s not denying himself an unsullied cross-cultural experience.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • You’re only slightly off, and the point is well taken that it’s far from the point of the show.

    Specifically, there’s the mildly force-sensitive medic on Yavin who gets Bix to believe in something bigger. I think there’s also a few other offhand references.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • Third season of Ted Lasso gets to be pretty saccharine and certain plots are rushed, but by then the characters have built up so much goodwill that you’re willing to ride it out.

    Also, if you find him immediately grating, give Ted himself about three episodes at the very beginning to turn into an actual human. It’s worth it.

    We will see if the upcoming season four can recapture any of the magic.

  • We're lucky I'm this normal

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  • Thank you I hate it.

  • We're lucky I'm this normal

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  • Thank you. I'd have had to see some of them if i were to look up what they're called.

  • We're lucky I'm this normal

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  • The weirdest part of ren and stimpy for me was always the smash cuts to the grossout oil painting-like still frames.

    Pure nightmare fuel.