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My humble contribution to the discourse this morning is that there is a significant libido gap in most heterosexual couples at some point, neither party is bad because of how horny they are and as long as everybody is making a genuine effort out of love it's usually fine
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There are a lot of reasons someone might not be making a genuine effort out of love, from just failing to empathize to resentment in other areas of the relationship, and IMO these are too varied and subjective for the twitterati to offer anything helpful
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TIL the archetypal novelty cactus everybody gets is actually two entirely different species grafted onto each other; the top is a mutant cultivar that lacks chlorophyl and needs to parasitize another plant to survive. Generally they both die in 1-2 years bc what did you expect
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Jun 12
Elon Musk: Trillionaire
Jeff Bezos: Billionaire
Public School Teachers: Can anyone help me get some pencils for my students?
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Elon Musk didn't work 11 million years, he didn't even work 11,000 years at 1,000x the salary of the typical American
To become as wealthy as Elon Musk the typical American would have to create and manage cutting edge, ruthlessly competitive businesses eventually worth $1T
Jun 12
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
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Today you can have an LLM take your hand and walk you through every practical step required to become an entrepreneur, and the only real limits are your ability to develop a viable vision for a product, sell your vision, and execute on it
If that's what you want, onward
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Jun 13
The buttered popcorn jelly bean was never justifiable, pure hubris
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Jun 12
I like to think I have a pretty flexible mind but I do struggle to blame Elon Musk for gas prices
Jun 12
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE.
When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted.
The system is rigged.
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Jun 12
It has been hard to come to terms with the fact that biting mom and pulling mom's hair are clearly intrinsically pleasurable and soothing behaviors, and on this point we are intractably misaligned
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Jun 9
More proof the DEI people have no idea what they're doing. That's not a human woman, that's one of the Si-Te-Cah, and she's not getting anything sexual out of evaluating the suitability of her prey
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Jun 9
Honestly if I had a monkey's paw handy I would strongly consider wishing that everyone doing the "my Jesus is real, your Jesus is a false Jesus sent by the devil to trick you" thing could just see for like 3 seconds how this looks to normal people
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The 1,400-year Sunni/Shia divide that has seen hundreds of thousands of people killed began with a dispute over whether ongoing religious authority landed with Muhammad's disciples or his bloodline
Notice whether this makes you feel like Muslims have transcended anything
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I'm not even really picking on Muslims, a legitimate dispute over whether certain disciples were devotees or corrupt usupers is very solid grounds for a schism
and while killing people is really bad, assuming God will save you the trouble in the afterlife is also not great
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Tangentially, the "lives worth living" frame (not as a moral claim, but as a visceral sense of what is true about people) is mostly projection
Many depressed people assume above average first world lives aren't worth living. Happy people tend to assume others can find happiness
Jun 8
I know this is last week's topic, but the argument "life with Down's syndrome is not worth living; the child would be better off not being born" doesn't lose its force at birth; it applies equally to all the people living with Down's syndrome today. People rightly object.
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With intellectual disabilities in particular, people whose personal identity and status is deeply entangled with cognitively demanding pursuits often find it very intuitive that living with a well below average IQ under any circumstances would be intolerable
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Jesus extracted a veritable clown car of demons from a sinner and was like "okay, let's not have any more of THAT but welcome, fam" then continuously went full aggro on the priests and lay teachers of the law
This is the sort of thing Christians are meant to meditate on
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I've tried to stay out of this but don't you dare call us kiki
When thinking about who is and isn’t considered Christian, this is a helpful guide:
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I am doing a questionable job of keeping the pet situation under control
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Jun 6
Again my feed is all "Mormons aren't Christian!" with the attendant bickering
Quakers do not hold *any* shared creed and certainly no insistence on the divinity of Christ, but because they don't particularly care to argue about it nobody cares that they're listed as Christian
Jun 5
The Office of the Secretary of War is announcing a significant change to the Department’s categorization of religious affiliation. In a long overdue move, we reduced the list from over 200 unmanageable categories to 31. With this move, we are returning to the original intent of collecting this data - to allow our chaplains and religious support personnel to provide the best spiritual care to our warfighters.
This decrease in religious affiliation codes is not designed to make any claims on the legitimacy of any faith or religious belief, nor is it intended to provide a list of “officially approved” religions. Rather, it is designed to allow chaplains to quickly look at the religious composition of their units and determine how they structure resources to best provide for warfighters of all faith groups.
The Department of War places a high value on the First Amendment and the free exercise of religion. Chaplains play an instrumental role in providing spiritual care and facilitating the Warfighters' ability to freely exercise their religion of choice, or no religion at all. With this new change, we believe we can provide the best data to support our chaplains in that effort.
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I am absolutely saturated with desires for myself, my children and the world but I can genuinely say that I do not lose a second's sleep over anyone thinking that I am worshipping the wrong Christ or the wrong formulation of the hierarchy of the heavens
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That said, it's perfectly reasonable to email the department and politely request that a categorization explicitly for the purposes of religious self-identification allow people who uniformly self-identity as Christians to self-identify as Christians
X is a contention pit
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