Hylactor

At some point my lines got crossed between "Beefarino", a fictional food stuff that was fed to a horse in an episode of Seinfeld which led to handsome cab ending levels of equine flatulence, and "reefer". Out loud I think I say "weed" most often, but in my internal monologue I call it "reeferino" well over half the time.

"600 lbs". If I had my weight measured by the same cops that measure drugs I'd weigh as much as a Honda Civic.

Black nearly made me quit. Sometimes I think about it and I get mad that I didn't, even though I enjoy it again, free from it's grasp, out of principle. Like what does it say about me that I let local thunk punk me like that.

I mean, there's already the one guy they sent by "mistake" and "can't get back."But frankly, without due process, everyone they're sending are "non criminals", which is weird way to say "people who should be presumed innocent until found guilty 8n a court of law by a jury of their peers."

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A small protest in a red place is likely more meaningful than a large one in a blue. Thanks for getting out there.

TIL people assumed Roy Orbison was blind.

I got out before it could kill me. But it's always there, haha.

The issue as I see it is reading comprehension. They place no value on lateral thinking, and so interpret things literally. I would argue that the bible is intended to be significantly more metaphorical. Like, people think that you must die to get to heaven, and that the afterlife is a literal place like summer camp. But maybe the idea is that heaven is what you create through kindness and empathy. Perhaps you don't redeem good acts like tickets at an arcade for a prize. Perhaps if you live well, you don't require/desire a prize at all. It seems like a much more helpful document as a thought experiment than some sort of recipe for a casserole.

I've spent some time trying to read the bible. No one compelled me to, I wasn't desperate for answers, I just wanted to be better acquainted with something seemingly so influential to the world around me.

Just how perfectly contradictory the behavior of the most vehement devotees is to the actual teachings of the book is absolutely mind boggling.

Take for example global warming. How someone dedicated to the bible could read about Moses and the Pharoah, and not draw a parallel between scientists (Moses), the Pharoah (climate deniers/big oil/the wealthy), and the plagues (ruined water, crop death, livestock death, illness, unusual and extreme weather events), is beyond me. Pharoah just continues to arrogantly ignore the warnings of Moses, periodically acquiescing, but ultimately returning to his previous state of obstinacy once he thinks he's in the clear. Only once Pharoah's own life is effected, only once it'stoo late, does he finally listen. Hell on earth was not bad enough to persuade him, only personal hardship. Like...how do you not see that we are the rabble getting pummeled by hail and having our land wiped out, how do you not see that our leaders are the insulated, out of touch Pharoahs, who ultimately view us as expendable. And if you believe in god and all that, how do you not believe that unprecedented weather and pandemics and shit are meant to be course corrections from on high? It seems to be a pretty ear cut cautionary tale about ignoring warnings and explaining away inconvenient evidence. Like, how are the bible people the least humble, least patient, least tolerant, most materialistic, worst idolaters? They latch onto and obsess about all the ticky tacky window dressing shit about not casting your seed onto the ground and dick mutilation, but miss the main fucking point of judge not, and love thy neighbour, and welcome strangers, and forgiveness, and generally just mind your own damn business. It's infuriating.

Bezos could lose 1 billion dollars every week for the next three years and still be worth 50 billion dollars, give or take a couple billion. He has 122,000 lifetimes worth of money (based on the median lifetime earnings of an American being 1.7 million). And he has 130 billion dollars less than Musk.

Nice pun