This country hasn’t been at risk of going communist in eighty years. The right are such scared fucking babies.

Because stupid breads at a far greater rate than intelligent and educated people. Unless your one of those rightwing psychopaths that’s all about seeding the population with your “superior” genetics.

God is a hermaphrodite. There. I said it.

Computer people (like me) buy Mac minis, frequently as an extra device. Regular people who don’t care about computers beyond wanting a nice one buy laptops. I believe it completely.

Despite the hits Asahi took losing two of it’s most prominent devs (one of whom is basically a wizard, as far as I can tell), I expect it to attract more attention than the more expensive devices because it’ll have a much wider potential audience. On top of that, lots of groundwork that was laid deconstructing the M1 and M2 chips means the team isn’t starting from zero, despite differences in the chip.

It’ll take some time, but it’s basically guaranteed to happen and I think sooner is more likely than later.

Can attest. Christian roommate gave me a bible (no, really. I’m not joking.). He hoped it’d “save” me. This was more than two decades ago and he believed the earth was 5000 years old. A really intelligent guy actually thought this!

I don’t believe Jesus was a historical figure. Checkmate Libs, I can’t possibly be a nazi. /sarcasm

(To be fair, Libs (the ones that are elected, not necessarily the voters) can fuck off because they’re center-right and completely worthless at stopping the far-right. Sorry, the right. There’s no far-right at this point. It’s just who they are now. Fascism in the USA happened way before I predicted. Form a third party, lib voters. Dems won’t save us.)

Jesus wasn’t a real person. And nazis can fuck off. Here are two of my favorite things to repost (it’s convenient that I get two in one!):

Worth noting, Patriot Front had a huge leak of data in 2022 (400GB).

Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns

You can download it at the following torrent address (multiple gigabytes):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2c87816e4c81990fb25bbca43dd8d578eaa55886&dn=patriotfront&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.to%3A2920&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969

I’m seeding this on a permanent basis. I have gigabit uplink. Please leach and share. Expose these nazi fucks.

Then this:

Jesus is an ahistorical figure who was originally crucified in the firmament above the earth. Notice no mention of an earthly ministry in the Pailine epistles; Paul is arguing for salvation from a heavenly figure. In his letters, Jesus is still to be revealed, rather than returning. Only decades later did the stories about a human man get written.

The Didache was most likely part of the letter written by the “pillars in Jerusalem” (James the Just, Peter, and John) after their meeting with Paul. This was the meeting to discuss the matter of preaching to gentiles and whether circumcision ought to be required for christian converts. It contains many of the tenets later ascribed to Jesus, but doesn’t associate him with teaching them.

The reason the earthly story was embraced by the church was to stop people like Paul from having visions of Christ that the church couldn’t control. By pointing to a real guy on earth, they could control the message. Otherwise, any yokel on the street could teach that Jesus revealed new teachings and the church risked being undermined.

Marcion was probably the first to create a collection of writings associated with christianity: he collected some of Paul’s letters and had his own gospel. It was thought that he had a shortened version of Luke (as testified by Eusebius and Tertullian). Marcion, however, claimed that his gospel had been “judaized”; this suggests that his shorter version was the original gospel before others modified it.

Acts was written as a direct response to Marcion’s scripture. It was written to harmonize Paul’s high-jacking of the religion by making he and Peter appear to be in alignment when actually he was at odds with the leaders in Jerusalem. See the story about Simon (not the apostle). He was a competing religious leader with followers who was written about for centuries (and the source of the word Simony).

The Jerusalem pillars (James, Peter, John), were strict adherents of Judaism, whereas Paul taught that Jesus made the Law / Torah unnecessary. They were almost certainly Essenes, one of the three flavors of Judaism at the time (the other two were the Pharisees and Sadducees mentioned in the new testament). John the Baptist was clearly also an Essene. He’s said to wear camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and honey. His practice of baptism also aligns with daily ritual water immersion, which is presently believed to be a core practice of the Essenes.

This is a very long way of saying that Jesus first appeared in visions and spoke to the early leaders without walking on earth. It’s a fringe belief about which I was quite skeptical, but damn if the evidence doesn’t line up. See Robert Price, Earl Doherty, and Elbe Spurling for more info. Elbe’s online book is free and contains a huge amount of historical information about the region at the time (more history and context than any religious book I’d seen before; awesome because I’m a history nerd).

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Copy / pasta end. There’s no jesus, but there are nazis. FUCK NAZIS. Hit them in the face. Christians who keep their faith to themselves, you’re cool. The one’s who try to take over politics and mandate rules / laws for others (christo-nationalists) need to be punched and kicked in the dick. Fuck them in the ear and tell them they aren’t welcome.

I feel like people don’t get it. If you aren’t hurting children, then how are you making america great? You have to be a nazi piece of shit or you don’t matter. Did the president hurt children? It doesn’t matter!

Fucking for fucks sake.

I don’t know why anyone would question why a psychopath with too much money would lie. I mean, c’mon everyone. What does he have to gain?!

I wish he’d eat a homeless man’s ass.

I worried about conscription after 9-11 when I was in my twenties. I’m too old for this to affect me (I know, “total war”). Let the MAGA youth go get slaughtered. I truly no longer care. Fuck 'em. Anyone who objects, I hope you’re safe.

I used to be such a nice guy. Fuck you, MAGA. I’ve stopped hating you and I hope you die.

Look, I only speek one language. That means it’s the only language that matters. Wtf.

/sarcasm. You should have been able to tell, but reality is that bad.

Salute to my fellow union members! Fight fight fight for fair treatment!

Tennessee is a barbaric state. Check out print and podcast series The Kids of Rutherford County. Absolutely horrible. People need to be jailed, but it won’t happen.

Didn’t you read the article? His job is spreading rightwing propaganda. France caught on and terminated his access, as they should.

They’re lying liars, I can tell you that much.

Ever since IBM / Red Hat ruined CentOS, I’ve been using Debian when I need Linux. Welcome in from the cold. We have hot coco and blankets.

I used to email the editor with examples of typos after I complained that their articles were in decline and he said they needed examples. So I sent a bunch of examples. That person was very receptive. He even said it was useful because they’d been discussing internally whether or not they were doing well in that area.

A few years ago, someone else took the position. I found out because I emailed the original person and he replied and CC’d the new editor. That person wasn’t receptive and never showed any sign that they cared that I wanted their articles to be high enough quality that I was confident sharing them with people who I thought needed more science regarding social issues.

Guess Ars is not gonna be among the sites that I trust to get things right from here on. And to hell with any editor who was ok with using agents when writing articles cause they clearly don’t have the internal structure to keep that from being a liability.

MacOS (less with each release). One of the Linux distros that aims to minimize the “Linux” experience for new users, like Mint. There are others that are also good for new users who don’t care what’s underneath. I’ll let others suggest them as I don’t keep track of them all.

For once, the admin might have found an issue that its base won’t let go.

Obviously further proof that scary brown people are responsible. /s

PiHole and Plex? Plex will help generate need for a NAS. It worked for me.