They seem to be pointing the guns somewhat faceward

From the left, #1 and #6 aren’t practicing safe gun handling. Neat photo though

Like a lion kills an antelope, like a hammer hits a cantaloupe.

Mills is kind of a shit candidate (will be 80 years old if sworn in) and I’m seeing a pattern of Republicans attacking the worse candidate in a Democratic primary to make them more visible against their primary opponent. Another example, Jasmine Crockett against the clearly much better Talarico.

Really? I might have to boot up Steam and try it again. Nice, thanks! You use Wine or something to run it?

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 reclassified supplements as food rather than drugs, if anyone’s interested. This allowed Herbalife to swoop in and sell unregulated supplements through their MLM which made at least a few people I know sick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_and_Education_Act_of_1994

consistency like toothpaste squeezing out of a tube

This seems way too soft, like isn’t it supposed to firm up a bit before you poop it out? Like, if I wipe 3 times and I still have soft poop behind the sphincter that ain’t right. Ideally I’m thinking like ripe peeled banana or a little harder, you know? Actually drop a few logs rather than the soft-serv shape from the emoji. Maybe this is 80s-90s thinking though, from when dog poop was white.

I think it’s more misogynist to assume the best of Lewinsky, like a woman can’t be a powerful foreign agent that character assassinates a sitting president? Like, especially with what we’re seeing of the Epstein disclosures, why is Lewinsky the only one of all the women that Bill apparently took advantage of that was able to have any effect on his career?

I too am upset Rust dropped Linux support a few years ago and never developed the Vulkan graphics engine they had promised. I understand the anticheat issues but still, it’s a fun game. Figure it out, Facepunch.

I’m pretty sure that 12 year old temple prostitute was preganant when Joseph won her by raffle.

To deny villainy to trans people is to dehumanize them. There definitely exist malicious trans people just as in any community. If none existed, comments like yours would surely spring them into existence.

I think most people find the nicknames tiresome and I personally think less of anyone I see writing stupid shit like that. Could be a psyop to discredit Trump detractors by making them seem ridiculous with all the dumb name calling. Outside of a particular bubble you never see that shit.

This was the idea that the Christians had as they were overturning the Greco-Roman world. Christians were the first people to be called atheists as they didnt care at all about Justice, Reason, Democracy, all the traces of the ancient world that still bless us today. Those virtues only gained any kind of foothold back into Western culture during times like the Renaissance when scholars were studying the remaining works of antiquity, heck the Founding Fathers who created the American Republic many of us live in all studied ancient Greek and were aware of this.

Have you read the Septuagint(s) in Ancient Greek though? There’s scholarly dispute over whether the Greek texts came first and in general Hebrew was a dead language akin to Latin today except with a vocabulary of only 9000 words at the time the Old Testament was written. No known medical texts or literature at that time was being written in Hebrew, maybe a few amulets and accounting documents exist prior to the Torah being written. Hebrew as a living, flourishing language was from before contact with the Greeks, maybe 800-1000 years prior. Jews of the time spoke Greek and had for centuries (as did Jesus), and synagogues of the time had Greek inscriptions on their walls.

Some of the criticism I’ve heard is that the writing of the Old Testament during Greek occupation was akin to the Babylonian Captivity where the Jews that considered themselves purists were angry with Jews who had adopted Greek culture and the writing of it was fundamentally reactionary to that, and trying to recreate a culture that in many ways had already been lost. Also, access to the Library of Alexandria and other libraries at the time (no earlier than 300 BC, probably later) seems to have played a large role in helping the reactionary Jews who led the movement that became dominant write a history of the world that put themselves first.

Anyone interested in this kind of perspective is encouraged to learn about and watch interviews with Dr. Ammon Hillman, who has been translating Ancient Greek for 35 years. He is a classical philologist, meaning his education focuses on Greek texts rather than a biblical scholar who only studies the bible. He has many interviews available on youtube and none of his books or media are monetized. He understandably has a huge number of powerful detractors and he is no longer affiliated with any academic institution but he teaches the largest course on Classical Greek online.

Why isn’t there an option to both upvote and downvote a post?

I really hope Talarico beats her in the primary, shes got zero chance in the general and we could really use that Senate seat.

Could be we just aren’t eating enough uncooked whole, live frogs in our modern diet. Someone has to volunteer to gulp down a few to see if their probiotics cure their cancer, throw some newts in for good measure. If we don’t get proof that works at a citizen science level, pharma companies will at best brew the bacteria in a lab and sell it back to us at exorbitant prices. Who will be the next Jonas Salk?

Lewinsky almost cost him reelection, and arguably derailed the Democratic agenda that Clinton was selected by the American people to enact in his second term. Clinton could have cost her her career at most. From a national security perspective Lewinsky wielded and used power that changed the course of history in a way that few people have.

The national conversation in the early 90s about sexual harassment including the Clarence Thomas scandal with his assistant (forgot her name) was one of how sex could compromise powerful leaders (men generally) and it’s worth considering whether Lewinsky was acting as an insider agent to compromise Clinton, perhaps as part of a nation state level attack on the integrity of of the office rather than it all simply being a man using the clout of his office unethically to have sex.

We don’t know what is in Lewinsky’s CIA file and it’s entirely possible she was a Russian or other agent acting intentionally to cause chaos. Her family comes from a former Warsaw Pact country and she immediately fled the country to Canada to be on the Tom Green show after the scandal so it’s plausible. We really don’t know but the power imbalance may have been intentionally reversed in some ways. The Epstein files show Clinton to be easily compromised by young women so it would be an obvious avenue of attack by an adversary, and the scandal continues to have an effect on how we talk about power and sex to this day.

See my other reply below, there are 2 different colors listed as acceptable for flag blue and maybe the lighter, more saturated one has become more common. Also flag material would affect the way the colors show up. Film vs digital photography is obviously playing a role in the images though, agreed.

I’ll admit I might be experiencing something like the Mandela effect here but further down in the wikipedia page under Designs, Colors it lists “Old Glory Blue” as either Pantone color [https://www.google.com/search?q=PMS+282C](PMS 282C) or [https://www.google.com/search?q=PMS+281C](PMS 281C), and perhaps the latter has been adopted more in the past few decades. The material the flags are made of could also have an effect on how the color is perceived.