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My biggest claim to fame is that Roger Ebert quoted me in his essay "Win Ben Stein's Mind".
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Steve Evenly Naked
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Steve Evenly Naked
@impossiblebones
Patriotic atheist and coalmine canary. Detector of bullshit and offender of sacred cows. You’ve been warned. Pronouns are normal/sane.
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@impossiblebones @JeremyTate41 Does your lack of belief free you from your obligation to obey Nature’s laws?
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The single most insightful person about modernity and enduring truth over the past century is GK Chesterton, a 300+ pound British journalist with bad teeth.
He was only right about literally everything.
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@Creepertrainz @TierZoo You understand that once an astrophage is ‘charged’, it can’t absorb any more energy.
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@impossiblebones @TierZoo You do realise just how much CO2 that is? Decided to do the maths. Astrophage have a radius of 10 microns and a dry weight of 50 picograms. To cover 10% of the sun you'd need 100 trillion tons of matter, and Venus has about 5 million times more CO2 than that.
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Project Hail Mary review:
1: Best movie I've seen in quite some time
2: I wish I vibed with the Rocky/Grace humor more. I've not read the book since 2021 but from what I remember, I felt like the bulk of the comedic lines were between Grace and Stratt, not Grace and Rocky. Grace and Rocky had a more serious friendship in the book. Movie rocky feels like he is teetering on the edge of Big Bang Theory humor at times.
3: I was bummed we didn't get to watch them nuke antarctica
4: Them leaving out relativistic explanations for Grace not aging and Rocky having extra fuel was frustrating.
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@Andrewnsnyder So rights can be self created. Interesting…
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“In The Lord of the Rings, the conflict is not basically about ‘freedom,’ though that is naturally involved. It is about God, and His sole right to divine honour.”
- Tolkien, Letter 183
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@impossiblebones @TierZoo Even ignoring the fact that this process would take too long to help humans, Venus is volcanically active and more CO2 is being emitted constantly so there would be an equilibrium level of astrophage that might still be too large.
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@Bidya_James One day you’ll find one stupider than yourself. Then you can get them to follow you!
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@Pathfinder4545 @_OKJ__ Theologians often base their arguments on not knowing what words mean.
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The story of the fall in the garden of eden is an incredibly stupid story.
It’s like a father who puts their child in a room with a venomous snake, then tells the child not to touch or go near the snake, knowing fully well that the child has absolutely no understanding of the consequences of touching the snake and then seriously punishing the child and all the child’s descendants that have absolutely nothing to do with the initial event, for being bitten by the snake.
And then calling the father all loving and good.
No story ever written is more stupid.
Divine@that_girldivy
Start a problematic discourse:
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@MattisRedacted You can’t have a designer without a purpose. So what’s the Sun’s purpose?
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Who caused the sun?
Get cooked nerd
Harly@HarlysCorner
Aurora Borealis is caused by the Sun, not God. Americans are blithering idiots.
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@misfitpatriot_ Also, Severus Snape is so obviously a White name. Can’t they at least change it to DwayZee da Killa or something?
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I don’t care too much about changing a fictional characters race from a previously depicted version, if the fictional character wasn’t also described as fucking “milk” colored in the original version.
You wanna make Bodhi from Point Break Venezuelan in your awful remake? Have at it.
But if you’re going to cast Snape, your first call should be Adam Driver, and your second call should be Keanu Reeves.
Have fun explaining why you put the one black professor at Hogwartz in the role of teaching “dark” arts to a bunch of white kids. 😑
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@darwintojesus Morality is objective in the sense that it’s created for a purpose, and thus can be measured by how well it objectively serves that purpose. In the same way that a hammer of steel is objectively better than a hammer of raspberry jam.
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A plane crashes into your house, your family is dead, you’re devastated. You learn it was a drone, it malfunctioned. Did it do anything wrong? No.
But what if it wasn’t a drone, a man was flying it but he lost control, it’s an accident. Did he do something wrong? No.
What if he flew it into your house but he lost his mind the day before and was totally nuts. Did he do something wrong? No.
But what if he was having a bad day and decided he wanted to kill some people and cause suffering. He was of sound body and mind, knew what he was doing and could have done otherwise.
Now did he do something wrong?
Absolutely.
What changed? The man is understood to be a free acting moral agent. But if morality is subjective… that means what is right and wrong should depend on MY attitudes and preferences, not someone else’s abilities. Yet someone else’s ability directly affects whether we see this act as moral or not, even though nothing else changed. The family is still dead.
If you’re a moral subjectivist, how do you explain this?
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@darwintojesus I don’t think you know what ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ mean. If morality is based on the opinion of one single Being, you literally can’t get more subjective than that.
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@darwintojesus But Christians don’t believe in free acting moral agents. They believe everyone is an instrument in God’s plan. So how can the murderous drone pilot be held responsible? Only atheism allows moral culpability.
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@agraybee What, like a high school team wouldn’t let the rich kid use his fancy shoes?
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I don't think JK Rowling really understands sports as a concept because what do you mean individual players can bring their own vastly superior equipment that gives them an advantage.
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The reason you can't cast Snape as black is that Snape is an uncool sniveling little dork and no one is going to buy that an attractive black guy is an uncool sniveling dork
Hogwarts Files@HogwartsFiles
This shot looks good—but all that attention to detail risks going down the drain with Essiedu as Snape. Severus Snape, as written in the original books, is unmistakable: a gaunt, sallow-skinned man with a marble white face, skin the colour of sour milk, a hooked nose, greasy shoulder-length black hair, and cold, penetrating black eyes that give him a perpetually bat-like, shadowy presence. His very appearance is meant to evoke unease—someone who seems to glide rather than walk, wrapped in billowing black robes, embodying bitterness, austerity, and an almost gothic severity. Snape isn’t just any character—his physicality is deeply tied to his personality and narrative weight. He is described as pallid, withdrawn, and emotionally guarded, with a sharp, intimidating demeanor that reflects years of inner conflict, resentment, and secrecy. Every detail, from his hooked nose to his curt expressions, contributes to the way students fear him and the way readers perceive him as morally ambiguous. @HBO @wbd @StreamOnMax @jk_rowling @Caseybloys — if Essiedu is indeed part of the show, hopefully you’ve taken fans’ concerns seriously and considered placing him in a different role. Snape is too iconic, too precisely described, and too central to reinterpret without losing something fundamental. Fans aren’t asking for perfection—we’re asking for fidelity to the character as written. Please #recastsnape with an actor who more accurately reflects the original depiction from the #HarryPotter books.
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@JeremyTate41 There is no reason other than Christian fan fiction to think any of those things happened on March 25.
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Today is March 25th, the day J.R.R. Tolkien chose to have the One Ring destroyed.
Why? In Catholic tradition, this is the date of:
•The creation of Adam
•Abraham's sacrifice
•The conception of Christ
•The crucifixion of Christ
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@Pathfinder4545 @_OKJ__ This is a very typical response for authoritarians and moral relativists. It’s completely inadequate for those who like to ask ‘why’.
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@impossiblebones @_OKJ__ That is false.
Adam and Eve knew that what they were doing was wrong. They had been told.
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@kenzietuff I think it’s worth doing to correct the mistakes of Chris Columbus, but not if they’re just going to make all new mistakes.
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I have a bias as a millennial who attended book releases, but I just don’t understand the need to remake Harry Potter at all. I’ve seen people say oh it’s for the new generation but… just read the books and watch the existing media. You’ll never create that magic again, why try?
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I absolutely LOVE when conservatives think their favorite fiction is on their side.
It never is.
Tom the Wanderer@tomwanderer
This is so legitimately disrespectful to Tolkien and his legacy. I’m irate. Firstly Colbert is a poser, he may know the names and the years but he fundamentally misunderstands the message and the core of the story as it doesn’t align with his worldview, thus the very soul of this project will be tainted with themes antithetical to Tolkien’s work. Secondly, these are ideas Tolkien never would have even wanted. You can argue with The Hunt for Gollum that it’s at least just telling stuff already in the novel. But a whole new secondary adventure, when his appendices and his manuscripts in HoME already explain the lives these characters lived, and peaceful ones at that? Absolutely not This is a blatant disregard for lore, sure, but more importantly this is a disregard of Tolkien entirely. Disgusting.
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I dont care about this show, but I do hate racist shit. If you cant be immersed into a show because of the color of the actors skin, fuck off with that racist shit.
Severus Chud@SeverusChud
I’m sorry, but this is just ridiculous. Race swapping Snape and most of the students, including Hermione, completely kills the immersion in HBO’s Harry Potter show. Snape was written as a thin, greasy haired man with a pale, sneering face. Turning the story into one about racism destroys its internal themes, and ruins the story. This show was over for me the moment it chose tokenism over staying faithful to the books.
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