@NoApologiesDom @JeremyDBoreing You have me intrigued. What translation would you use for the same passage?
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Eric Ianni
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…since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
David Limbaugh@DavidLimbaugh
From an evangelical perspective there is a paradoxical aspect to the issue of one’s awareness or assurance of salvation: one may doubt his salvation because he feels unworthy, but ironically, that’s not humility, because our salvation depends not on our works but Christ’s finished work. By doubting yourself you’re actually distrusting Him, which, by definition is antithetical to faith. So if that is an obstacle, one must get over himself and authentically trust Him. The paradox is that doubting your adequacy for salvation should lead you to full surrender and trust in Him because it should clarify to you that you can never save yourself. So untether your awareness of your inability to save yourself from your stubborn pride in trying to do it anyway. Use your sober awareness of your inadequacy to drive you to Him —not away from Him.
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@NoApologiesDom @JeremyDBoreing I believe it is the English Standard Version: a very widely used translation.
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@ebianni @JeremyDBoreing So a bad translation with no clarification (not that I think Jeremy understands it anyway) leads to word salad because the context for the quote isnt included.
This is a direct temple worship reference with the law of sacrifice.
Exposition is important.
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@chairmanpenguin @NYMag Hate the guy all you want, but at least be accurate. Until the age of 11 he grew up in a two-bedroom apartment where he shared a bedroom with his four siblings. While maybe not "serfdom," it's far from elite.
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Ben Shapiro is an elitist gaywad who has never had to experience the life of the “serfs” in his words.
There may be a bit of piling on from leftists amplifying DW’s demise. However its downfall is the sole responsibility of Ben and the Boring guy’s elitist attitude and the whole 🇮🇱 > 🇺🇸 angle
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There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. That’s all over now, writes political columnist Ross Barkan.
Shapiro’s company, ‘The Daily Wire,’ is instituting significant layoffs. Its YouTube channel’s subscriber base is starting to shrink, and its website has emerged as one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. There are ‘Daily Wire’ YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have less than 10,000 views, a catastrophically small number for a channel with more than 3 million subscribers. The top comments all mock the low view counts.
“If a variety of poor business decisions can be blamed, in part, for the ‘Daily Wire’’s fall from grace — ill-fated investments in feature films, an epic fantasy series, and peculiar merchandise — the greater story is the collapse of Shapiro’s constituency,” writes Barkan. “There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026: It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party.”
Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/KtpIKV
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@synthetic_div @MinuteofZombie It's because it's a good metric for general fitness and cardio health. You may not have to run all out on a sub, but do you not potentially have very cardio heavy tasks if the sub needed to perform in combat?
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@MinuteofZombie I never understood why I had to be able to run a mile and a half in <10 minutes while serving on subs. The boats a fractor of that, and the farthest you'll be able to run in an emergency is maybe 5ft at a time.
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What the armed forces never denied in practice but politicians deny for cultural reasons is that combat fitness standards were not derived by scientifically calculating how fast or strong or enduring you have to be to survive the battlefield.
They have ALWAYS been calculated by looking at population distributions and selecting a value that gives you the force size you want.
So if a 6:00 mile yields only 5% of recruits and the average Ranger indoc class size is 200 and you want about 10 guys per class to graduate because of the force size you want, you choose the standard to be a 6:00 mile.
That’s literally how they do it. Has nothing to do with “what it takes to survive”.
Tom Cotton@SenTomCotton
Battlefields are equally dangerous for men and women. @USArmy is rightfully returning to a single, mission based physical fitness standard.
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@RayLongstreet @wil_da_beast630 I am 100% sure Wilfred would not only kill the bear, but would wear it as a coat.
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@wil_da_beast630 As an amateur mid-wit I need to mention: you wouldn't want or need to kill a grizzly bear just because it ate someone.
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One of the most mid-wit takes out there is that it is wrong to kill, say, a child rape-murderer because "Then you and he are both killers."
Like, sure. I am killer...of large deer and child rapists. This is not a bad thing.
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@xwanyex Same. I only came back after Charlie Kirk was shot. Hopefully I can stay away longer this time.
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@jcampel91 @pureMetatron I was only trying to highlight how your analogy was not suited to the facts as they are. Another analogy could work, but not the one you posited.
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@ebianni @pureMetatron America is called America since 1507. The USA is a country without a proper name but a generic one. It was called after the continent's name: "United States" is the country's political constitution and "America" is the continent where it's located. Elemental.
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Professional language teacher here.
It’s perfectly fine to shorten United States of America as America. It’s not incorrect.
It’s an informal shorthand for the country, very commonly used in the English speaking world.
While it’s true that it’s also possible to refer to the whole continent as America, when you say Americans you mean people from the USA don’t you?
Also It’s “This is THE USA.” Not “this is USA”, if we are gonna be pedantic.
So your chosen picture is wrong.
MAGA is right and you’re dumb.
Alex Cole@acnewsitics
For the dumb MAGAs who don't know the difference.
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@Jon_in_Florida @chriswithans OP covered most of this. Sales taxes are local taxes. Social Security and Medicare taxes are payroll taxes. The income tax is also local, not the federal income tax mentioned by OP.
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@chriswithans BS. Puerto Ricans pay sales tax, Social Security and Medicare tax, AND have an income tax with a top rate of 33%. You can move there if you think they have low taxes.
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They get almost all the benefits of being U.S. citizens with little of the burdens. They don’t pay federal income taxes, only payroll taxes. Paying payroll taxes means they get Medicare and Social Security. Half the population gets a form of Medicaid too.
The problem with Puerto Rico has been their leadership. Not American leadership but Puerto Rican leadership.
Malume@bozzie_t
I’d barely heard of Bad Bunny until my daughter mentioned his Super Bowl halftime performance. But after watching his documentary — and the backlash around him — I realized he’s doing far more than making hits. He’s forcing America to confront an uncomfortable truth: Puerto Ricans are treated like second‑class citizens in a country that insists they’re fully American.
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@jcampel91 @pureMetatron The United States of America is the oldest independent country in the Western Hemisphere.
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@pureMetatron Imagine that Belgium changes its name to "Parliamentary Monarchy of Europe" and suddenly all the citizens from there start calling themselves "Europeans". The rest of Europeans would be obviously pissed off.
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@OskSta @bobbyfijan Islands are typically used for meal prep and staging. So it isn't really two dining surfaces.
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@bobbyfijan Why do you need an island though? Isn't it quite a bit of duplication to have two whole complete dining surfaces, just at slightly different heights?
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I’ve wanted to do a built-in banquette for YEARS … finally found the perfect spot
In a small rowhouse, you need economy of space on ground floor which is ~always a combined kitchen, dining and living
While it can work for a couple *to just use the island* you really NEED a table when you have little kids.
So you can eliminate island to make a place for table, but that makes the kitchen worse
Or the dining table intrudes into the Living area and makes it even smaller
A banquette means you get the function of kitchen, dining and seating
The American Housing Corporation@americanhousing
Imagine the memories that'll be made in this nook. Family dinners, birthdays, late-night homework sessions. This is where life happens. This is the American Dream.
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@SandyofCthulhu And Lower Decks is the best entry in the series since Gene Roddenberry died.
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Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie, and it's not close.
My most trekkiest friend, whom we never stumped in Trek quizzes, agrees.
GIF
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@teslatidbits @money_cruncher Agreed, but telling someone who clearly has the fortitude to ditch their system is a bit silly.
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@ebianni @money_cruncher Good for you. But when you're running a nationally syndicated financial advice radio show giving general good advice, you aim for most people. Most people do not have that fortitude.
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CALLER: I put $3,000 worth of monthly expenses on my credit card and pay off in full. I get 2% cash back, so that's $60 back every month.
DAVE RAMSEY: Get rid of the card. You're telling me that you spend $3,000 on a high interest credit card, just to get $60? That's not how you get rich!
CALLER: I don't pay interest, I pay it off every month and get $60.
DAVE RAMSEY: Get rid the card, use debit cards ONLY!
CALLER: So give up the $60 I get back monthly?
DAVE RAMSEY: That's not how you get rich!
In reality, if you are resposible, USE credit cards. It's not just cash back. It's also liability protection.
Every dollar matters.
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@teslatidbits @money_cruncher I get 6% back but everything I buy from Amazon using my Chase Amazon card. It literally pays for all the Christmas presents I give out every year. I haven't carried a credit card balance for well over a decade.
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Ramsey's point, correctly, is that nobody ever got rich off credit card rewards. MORE likely, is that you're going to end up paying interest on those credit cards, utterly negating any rewards you get and actually costing you money.
Very, very few people are disciplined enough to pay off a credit card every month. If you can afford to totally pay off a credit card every month, then you should just use a debit card, as Ramsey always counsels.
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@balmer_tim @SandyofCthulhu Right?! I can somewhat understand pulling a hammer back on a revolver or dual action pistol, but to use the slide or charging handle makes no sense; there is nothing in the chamber before that!
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@ebianni @SandyofCthulhu Someone cocking a weapon they have been pointing at someone else for several minutes to show they really really mean it drives me insane!
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Hollywood is economically and financially retarded. In the Netflix show "Mr. Robot" their awesome plan is to use their cyberhacking to save the world by "destroying all debt." They think it's obvious that this would be great.
But of course, this would destroy the world financially. No one would ever again loan money. There would be no car loans, no mortgages, no student loans. Yeah being in debt sucks but not being able AT ALL to get a car, a mortgage, or an education would suck worse. The poor wouldn't even own appliances. Only the rich could own anything.
Post other examples of screenwriters Not Getting It below.
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@wil_da_beast630 Pooping in someone's bed is a thing beyond the realm of possible retaliations most people can imagine Amber came off as crazier, which is a wild statement given Johnny Depp's track record.
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Both of these people were lunatic abusers.
I stopped at "She cut off his finger and shit on his favorite pillow, so he tried to rape her with a vodka bottle (all facts btw)."
You do not have to pick a hero.
🎈@LauraStillSlay
One of the few headlines that actually captured what really happened. Brutally accurate.
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@Odoyle1201 @WomanDefiner @xsr398 @jonfavs What if the target of the second strike wasn't the shipwrecked but the boat itself?
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You're a veteran with a law degree. Are you unfamiliar with what the Department of Defense manual says here or do you just think the law doesn't apply to your White House?
"It is prohibited to order that legitimate offers of surrender will be refused or that detainees, such as unprivileged belligerents, will be summarily executed…”
“Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.”
JD Vance@JDVance
I'll add: we've been told for decades the US military must go everywhere and do the impossible all over the world. But the red line for permanent Washington is using the military to destroy narco terrorists in our own hemisphere.
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@wil_da_beast630 I would happily pay the extra $1.50/lb if they didn't live like this. Then again, pork is VERY cheap to begin with, so we may be looking at a much larger cost increase.
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Two reactions:
(1) It prey. Cannibal prey, at that. Kill and eat prey - prey set free.
But...
(2) The Light reeeeally does not shine on this. Let other sophonts go outside, and charge $.40-1.30 more per pound for meat.
Johnny Oberg@JohnOberg
This is a #pig literally losing her mind after being confined to a space so small, she can't even turn around... for MONTHS on end. 😡 Pigs are smarter than dogs, yet face THIS cruelty. Animal ag is a horror show for farm animals. 😩
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