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Cast down the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly

Katılım Şubat 2020
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Joseph
Joseph@JosephOnions·
@Timodc @melissadderosa Tim, you're really losing your conscience on this one. There's just no possibility you'd extend this grace to a Republican with a Nazi tattoo, and you should admit that to yourself. You must course correct - first instance I've seen of bad faith on your part. Shameful.
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🇳🇱🇺🇸🇮🇶✝️@nancym73026589·
@CuriousBunnie12 Because there is zero reason to ever take a risk on something like sleepovers. You go be that weirdo. We certainly will not be. I give my kids plenty of other ways to have freedom and exploration. Sleepovers are not it
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@WB_Baskerville It just seems to me that if you're going into a romantic setting thinking in terms of how much value you're getting out of the interaction rather than how much you like and are interested in the other party... what you're building is a transactional relationship.
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The People's Tapir 🐙@AugustusTapirus·
@Lasermazer @avrilbradley23 Both. If it's a one way journey then there's just no return on investment. What do the people shooting the probes out into space get in return for this huge outlay of resources?
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Jesse Mazer
Jesse Mazer@Lasermazer·
@AugustusTapirus @avrilbradley23 Are you only asking about a scenario where it’s just simulated minds (who presumably have same kind of subjective experiences and creativity as us) or saying even if biological children were raised at the destination you wouldn’t see a purpose?
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Jerome Sneed Democrat
Jerome Sneed Democrat@avrilbradley23·
An idea that's explored by only a limited amount of sci fi is one where some form of human civilization persists for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years but save for probes and the like is limited to our Solar System.
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3

Science fiction nerds are gonna hate me for saying this but the Great Filter is that interstellar travel is probably more or less impossible and there is no reason to come up with any other explanation for that.

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Jesse Mazer
Jesse Mazer@Lasermazer·
@avrilbradley23 If humans survive for that long I think they would eventually be able to produce simulated human brains that could travel on probes without need for life support…they could even bring along frozen human embryos and raise children at the destination
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The People's Tapir 🐙@AugustusTapirus·
@dabon93 @PopBase The Vatican archives are open and have been for a very long time. The fact that they are accessible is sort of the main thing about them.
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Derek P.
Derek P.@dabon93·
@PopBase The Church talking about ‘disarming’ technology feels ironic. Maybe start by opening the archives?
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Pop Base
Pop Base@PopBase·
Pope Leo XIV on AI: “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”
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moonmayor
moonmayor@moonmayor2100·
@GjMcGowan It’s all present tense and therefore correct. He does not say they cannot be. Although that is obviously the implication
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Steven Slate
Steven Slate@RealStevenSlate·
@jaleelappleseed @Viggie_Smalls93 Photos were posted all over my Instagram, even a neighbor took photos, and there is a police report. They said since he was just a drug addict homeless guy who didn’t steal anything or do any actual harm, they couldn’t hold him. Be safe out there bud
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The People's Tapir 🐙@AugustusTapirus·
@allTheYud I have a cousin who’s a contractor in Hawaii and is familiar with this and other similar projects. Apparently these are seen as huge jokes because the marine air will 100% fowl up the HVAC and high tech systems in a couple years without frequent maintenance.
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The People's Tapir 🐙@AugustusTapirus·
@dsaorthocaucus Additionally, I've never seen any of these "Mary was probably [insert very young age] at the nativity" claims substantiated in any way. I get that it's an old tradition, but is there any actual evidence for it?
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naturalborntx
naturalborntx@naturalborntx·
@DHSgov Make it simple and discontinue all non-tourist visas and green cards for a decade or two so we can digest the millions of un-assimilated people in this country. If we lose our culture we lose our country.
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Homeland Security
An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.
Daily Caller@DailyCaller

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Closes Loophole Letting Migrants Stay In US While Awaiting Green Cards: 'We're returning to the original intent of the law' dlvr.it/TSgK6R

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The People's Tapir 🐙@AugustusTapirus·
@franzsherbert It's also possible to like some of her choices and not others. "Lying Odysseus" = stylish, clever, ironic, thematically resonant, arguably an improvement "complicated man" = iconoclasm for shock value, self-consciously artless, inaccurate
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Leonid
Leonid@politbureaucrat·
@JohnWakefieId *Barely finish composing the xeet due to fear of the idea itself* JD Vance Orthodox convert
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John Wakefield
John Wakefield@JohnWakefieId·
it's so funny JD Vance converted to Catholicism during that micro-period when the TradCath LARP was popular on the right (Peter Thiel told him it would be based) and now he's stuck lmao
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The People's Tapir 🐙@AugustusTapirus·
@dheerajchand @kevinobriencha1 I’m not gonna pretend to be an expert in translation, but it kind of sounds like what you’re proposing here is no longer a translation, but a paraphrase or rewrite.
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Dheeraj Chand
Dheeraj Chand@dheerajchand·
@kevinobriencha1 None of these tie directly to the fact that Odysseus uses lies as a weapon. While they are more flattering, they don't surface what Wilson does, that deception is in his quiver.
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Johannes A. Niederhauser
Johannes A. Niederhauser@JohannesAchill·
Probably the most outrageous mistranslation by Emily Wilson is found in Book XXIV, line 303. Wilson translates: "Lying Odysseus replied, 'I will tell you the truth completely.'" Wilson misrepresents the meaning of πολύμητις. Murray for example translates this as "of many wiles", which is also a bit misleading. But to translate πολύμητις as lying is outright evil. πολύμητις is reminiscent of πολύτροπον in Book I, line 1. πολύμητις means to be thoughtful, circumspect, in many ways and in this way cunning.
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vix@vixffxiv·
@godspeed_aflame I do have trouble with this I will admit. I think I can still hope the best for them but also not want to be taken advantage of? I don’t know. I have a hard time believing that Jesus wanted us to be eventually murdered in our homeland.
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