TIRM
1d ago
The Bible has sorcery, spirit familiars, demonic possession, witchcraft, divination and exorcism. It is not just Protestants who believe the plain word of the Bible. Any Catholic should admit those things exist as evidenced by the Bible. Modern bishops appoint designated exorcists. Historically Catholics also killed witches.
TIRM
2d ago
Like Kyle Rittenhouse gunning down all those black people and then being found not guilty.
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2d ago
I tried to pay a bill online and the payment page wouldn't load. I called the utility company they asked if I was on VPN. I was. They said to get off VPN and try again. That worked.
I don't understand why I can't pay when on VPN. I can't steal their money through the bill pay portal.
TIRM
2d ago
Any chance you've seen the very peak of borderline-homoerotic appreciation of blue-collar masculinity?
TIRM
2d ago
I don't see much of a reason to believe that the GACP
Indeed. People use this argument as an all purpose proof that large conspiracies are impossible. Given a small statistical likelihood of someone leaking every conspiracy larger than a few conspirators would be leaked.
But the major conspiracies that were revealed in the 20th century were not leaked. The criminals and conspirators in the FBI and CIA had a perfect 0% leak rate on COINTELPRO and MKUltra. They forgot to shred a few copies of some documents and leftists broke into a field office and stole other documents so they were revealed despite the lack of leakers. Operation Choke Point is a more recent example of their disciplined lack of leaking. GACP is trivially false with a basic understanding of the modern history of government malfeasance.
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5d ago
Some of my coworkers made the unfortunate choice to use Apple laptops. They can't run any of our software tools on them. Every external tool is Windows only or Windows and Linux.
One such person showed me a web browser based PCB layout file viewer they vibecoded to review designs. It looks about as capable as the free Windows applications they can't run. They showed me how they click a feature and the entire net is highlighted. It had the layer selector to show any combination of layers. Etc, etc. They say they asked an LLM and it handed them that without any iteration or further input.
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5d ago
Indeed "scolds" were criminals and by modern standards harshly punished. This would be women who criticize, complain or make angry statements in public.
whether "troon" should be considered a neutral term for the trans
It is deliberately an insult, right? Not a neutral alternative pronunciation of "trans".
A while back someone here used it as a generic term for "to go crazy and become deranged". Taking the opposite view that it happens to apply to trans people but could be used to smear anyone the writer thinks is crazy.
TIRM
6d ago
I also did with both images open on a computer screen. I also find this discussion baffling.
Do we not have a common understanding of "figure"? This is counting from the neck down. I can see all the faces are older.
TIRM
6d ago
But I did. Are you going by vague memories rather than looking at the campfire character selection screens?
TIRM
7d ago
I've now carefully looked at the character selection "campfire" screens for Diablo 2 and Diablo 2 Resurrected. They kept the women's figures from the original. And the revealing tops or boob armor in the case of the Amazon.
All the faces are older. The barbarian is shrunken. The druid is kind of dumpy. The paladin lost some height.
Indeed an archaic fake synonym for surgeon since English already had "surgeon" and people tried to replace it with a "correct" version like they had in other languages such as French. It didn't catch on.
TIRM
7d ago
It was also alternative word for "surgeon" in English centuries ago. Copying Romance languages even though English already had a word for it.
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8d ago
advertising the true beliefs of Democratic politicians in their own words is a good campaign trick
Indeed and the most powerful election ad from the last presidential election was a video of Kamal explaining how she wants there to be taxpayer-paid sex reassignment surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison. Kamala's campaign could not come up with a response to that despite trying. Potential counter ads didn't poll well with focus groups.
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8d ago
But they left the women's figures alone. Still narrow waisted and with the same bust sizes and tight tops. All the faces aged male and female alike.
TIRM
9d ago
Geeze Amazon really got hit hard. I didn't recall that from the character selection screen.
Looking at that image what stands out most is how much the barbarian shrunk in every dimension. This kind of exaggerated game is the one place they should most have over the top huge muscular men. Strange they got rid of that but kept the idealized figures for the women.
TIRM
9d ago
That would be beatdowns for public school teachers and administrators. I'm fine with non-ass-kicking methods of limiting the harm they do.
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9d ago
People like hot characters in media. Actors for Hollywood movies are very much not a representative sampling of American body types. The male actors bulk and cut and many are clearly on gear. So every Disney Marvel movie you get to see the cut lead male with his shirt off. The female lead will also be unusually hot compared to the median person.
I'm fine with more "normal" looking people in media. Zendaya is not a big-breasted hottie and that's fine. Let's get more actors like that. And stop making the guys cut so hard to have chiseled abs.
I played Diablo 2 Resurrected a bit and the player characters look a bit different than the original. The druid is older and a bit haggard for instance. If they had similarly made the female PCs less hot I'd be fine with that. They didn't of course.
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9d ago
South Africa still has their enriched uranium. There's material for 6 to 7 nukes in storage right now. But their infrastructure is in a sorry state and I'm skeptical if they still could remake their nuclear program from scratch. Already having the fissile material laying around is a huge advantage. Maybe.
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9d ago
South Africa still has their weapons grade uranium. But I don't think they can rebuild their nukes. They've had recent problems keeping the power on and trains running. Their basic infrastructure is collapsing. A nuclear weapons program is far beyond them today.
I played BG2 and most of BG3. I don't think BG3 crapped on earlier games.
Looking in the thread below about concerns regarding wokeness: I don't recall trans culture warring. There's one fruity male gay-coded companion and a jacked female tiefling barbarian. There's a lesbian couple. It's not culturally conservative.
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