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We discovered magic in the twentieth century. Two kinds of magic. Good magic: nuclear power Evil magic: AI We have embraced the demon, which can bring with it only destruction. We have shunned the good magic which brings with it a bright future.

@jacelala They already had Muslims. Basically the same thing.

Imagine Thomas Aquinas learning about Mormons

Ok Jon

Let's be clear: Spain: enacts rent control -> no more homes Argentina: ends rent control -> tons of new homes Rent control is a better way to destroy cities than dropping bombs on them.

@eigenrobot Their pepperoni is okay but it's not as good as the stuff from the deli.

if you think hormuz is bad imagine how the british felt when they declared war on america and then realized they weren't getting any more shipments from their nicotine dealers that war went on for eight years

in honor of "japan week" on twitter, a classic

@CptAncapistan Pretty sure I've heard some of them say they like it. It is pretty good! Above average for an anime.

日本の人々が『アバター 伝説の少年アン』を好んでいるのか、それとも単にその存在を知らないだけなのか、あるいは「アメリカ製の駄作」だと思っているのか――私は長年、ずっと気になっていました。

📢 DID YOU KNOW that THE CHARLIE KIRK SHOW, JOSH HAMMER, DENNIS PRAGER, LARA TRUMP, LARRY ELDER, HUGH HEWITT, DINESH D'SOUZA, SEBASTIAN GORKA, BRANDON TATUM and TODD STARNES... All broadcast on a network whose Chief Strategy Officer is a FEDERALLY REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT for the Israeli government? Not an allegation. Not a theory. FARA Registration #7649. Filed with the DOJ. Public record. Go look. Fara dot gov. This is what they really don't want you connecting. Good thing your boy lives in deep research. SO HERE'S THE PART THEY PRAY YOU NEVER PIECE TOGETHER. Brad Parscale holds TWO titles simultaneously: Title 1: Chief Strategy Officer, Salem Media Group. The largest Christian conservative radio network in America. Title 2: Principal, Clock Tower X LLC. REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT. $6M contract with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs via Havas Media Group Germany. (Actually $9M now. They grabbed another $3M post-filing.) The FARA filing states that Israeli government messaging gets "integrated into Salem Media Network properties." But Salem never appears as a disclosed vendor anywhere in the registration. That gap has a legal name. 22 USC § 614(b). Willful omission of material information in a foreign agent registration. That's not an opinion. That's a statute. And since Pam Bondi dissolved the Foreign Malign Influence Center at DOJ, there's nobody left to enforce it. Convenient. So the next time The Charlie Kirk Show tells you what to think about Israel... The next time Josh Hammer frames the Iran war narrative... The next time Dennis Prager explains "Judeo-Christian values"... Ask yourself: who wrote the script? Because FARA #7649 tells you exactly who. And the $729 MILLION Israeli hasbara budget approved for 2026 tells you how much they're spending to make sure you never ask. @AFNPTorg

@fandompulse He's right in a vacuum. It's more complicated in the context where it was created. Imagine the Federation showing up to help some primitives, and then the Klingons view it as a Federation territory and invade or annihilate it from orbit.

Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Beltran on how the Prime Directive is ridiculous: "The idea of leaving any species to die in its own filth when you have the ability to help them, just because you wanna let them get through their normal evolutionary processes is bunk -- it's a bunch of fascist crap. I much prefer the Cub Scout motto." Is he correct?

@_JuliePrince @Messianic73 George Washington was tall until his thirties, when I met him. George Washington was tall even unto his thirties, when I met him.

@_JuliePrince @Messianic73 "Even unto" means a continuation without implying a boundary with a change. That's the closest I can get to capturing the Greek *heos* which we don't have a 1:1 equivalent for in English. Compare with Matthew 28:20

Mary was not a perpetual virgin. That would have made her marriage to Joseph null and void. I've never understood the need or desire to believe Mary was a perpetual virgin. Sex within marriage is expected and normal in a faithful marriage.

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@_JuliePrince @Messianic73 I looked into this earlier when I saw others quoting it. The Greek there doesn't mean quite what the English translations usually say. The best English I could come up with was: Joseph took her into his home, and he continued not to know her even unto the birth of the son.

@Messianic73 @asdasdf293 Matthew 1 24–25 (KJV) “Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.”

@Messianic73 I'm asking about this specific claim you made regarding first-century legal practices: "That would have made her marriage to Joseph null and void." Who do you think would do that? The king or the priests? What support do you have for any of this? Show me the Judean law.

Quite the contrary. I think she miraculously conceived the Messiah, birthed Him, and then went on to have other children by her husband and have as normal a life as possible. I'm asking why is there some need for her to not have a normal life and be a normal wife. While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luk 2:6-7) And Joseph awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary as his wife, but kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son; and he called His name Jesus. (Mat 1:24-25) But I did not see any other of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother. (Gal 1:19)

@eigenrobot The Japanese won the Battle of the Java Sea. That has to count for something.

no tea drinking nation has ever defeated a coffee drinking nation in a war

@kare23424 @wil_da_beast630 You made this extreme claim: "Biblically speaking, a non-consummated marriage, is not a marriage." Which is just not true. If two people did the nissuin, that was it. The king or the priests had no right to dissolve their union, regardless of whether it had been consummated.

I don’t really care for “yeah, but what about the rare exception to the norm” arguments, but Mary doesn’t fit your scenario anyway; she became pregnant after her engagement to Joseph, not disabled. Exodus 21:10-11 allows divorce for neglect of “marital rights”. In context, Moses was specifically addressing men that take a second wife, and deprive their first wife food, housing, and intimacy. Divorce was granted as a mercy to the cast-off women, so they could remarry. Jesus reckons this as “because of the hardness of your own hearts” Matt 19:8-9, but allows divorce on the basis of adultery - when a spouse breaks faith with the most fundamental tenet of marriage. My point is that from Genesis (2:24) to Paul (1 Corinthians 7:3-13) there is no biblical concept of a “chaste” marriage.

The idea that a non-monastic Roman citizen just opted to never have sex with his pretty wife for 40 years, and all the people who are explicitly called Jesus' brothers were his distant cousins, is a fascinating example of dogma - a thing believed because one is supposed to believe it.

@Messianic73 Consummation had nothing to do with whether a marriage was valid under Jewish law. If a man and woman were married, and the woman moved into the man's house, and they lived together but didn't consummate, and the woman then had relations with another man, that would be adultery.

Art by Italian illustrator Gino D’Achille (1935-2017) 🔥

Stop panicking about the markets and trust Trump's plan for short term pain for medium term agony for long term catastrophe

To understand Trump's greatness - the number of times America has defeated a country. Germany - 2 times (1918, 1945) Japan - 1 time (1945) Iran - 18 times (2025-2026)