
veritechpilot
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@C_A_P_117 @jasonc_nc The 'mom-and-pop' stores you're describing don't exist. The best you'll get is a farm-stand or gas station with produce, which the DG actually complements instead of replaces.
Sometimes it's nice not to drive an hour for AA batteries and cough drops.
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@jasonc_nc Literally no one who lives near one says this, especially anyone who knows any mom and pop shops in town.
They are parasites. They employ 3 people to sell us mass produced junk for 25% more than any other store, and run out of business mom and pops that employ dozens of people.
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Dollar General discourse is funny to me because anyone who actually lives near one is like “man I’m glad I don’t have to drive 25 minutes if I forget a couple basic things” whereas the person who doesn’t even live there is like “this is a pox upon rural Americans”.
DG 🇺🇸🌲@DGvv7x
Dollar Generals are a parasite on small town America
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@realbethelquote @AiPinfu2003 You would probably think it tastes fine. The part you will find the strangest is the texture -- similar to refried beans.
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@AiPinfu2003 I think the idea of beans being sweet seems odd to many Americans, perhaps like peanut butter being salty to Japanese
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PB&J(ピーナッツバター&ジェリー)が好きなアメリカ人は日本の"小倉トースト"が好きなはず。
甘いあんこと塩っぽいバターが美味しい。

ぐたっくま@Fraw_DMC
アメリカ人は、日本のピーナッツバターが甘いことに衝撃を受け、 日本人は、アメリカのピーナッツバターが甘くなく塩味であることに衝撃を受けている。 長年の誤解が、今解消される瞬間が来ているのか!
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@sofiartworks @_namori_fan_ @PedrinhHsa @AnxietatemPlena Based on what you shared here, you're either a woman in a same-sex relationship or (possibly also) a transvestite. I'm not Catholic, and won't speak authoritatively here, but I don't think the RC Church condones those things and I imagine it hopes you will go and sin no more.
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@_namori_fan_ @PedrinhHsa @AnxietatemPlena What sin exactly. Did you hear my confessions when no one was looking?
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My girlfriend had to educate me as to why only now, +50 years since Apollo 17, we are sending people to the moon again and honestly I'm getting a little emotional the more I think about this
NASA@NASA
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
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@MentzerOcean @HMBohemond He gave us a command to steward his creation and spread across it. Exploring his creation is one of our explicitly created purposes.
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@HMBohemond I wouldn’t say God is “against it”, so much as He sees it as unnecessary for us. After all, exploring space doesn’t spread the gospel. Nor does us “conquering the stars” glorify Him.
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>claims to quote the Bible to justify why God is against space exploration
>it's the book of Enoch
GIF
a_0conformist 🔃@Bottom_Creek
@Logie3333 @frontierism 7. And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners, And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them, [And they shall be altered from all their ways], Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
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@RigTyrsson @Erik_Haile @haprho I think film will stick around for artistic purposes, but stuff like tape is barely holding on. Magnetic coatings are very complicated and sometimes trade secrets.
And there are some new tape players, but there only seems to be one Chinese mechanism still produced, and it's crap.
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In fact, camera film and cassettes are on the shelf at Walgreens. The other things on Amazon are brand new. I checked, thinking that it would be NOS. But it's still in production, just at low volume apparently due to shrinking demand. The only thing I didn't find new were CRT televisions. There are many of those used on E-Bay and Etsy though, so you're right on that one.
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Aww, poor flerfs — flerfs say we lost the technology to go the moon.
We've also lost the technology to:
🔹️Build cathode-ray tube (CRT)
televisions and computer monitors.
🔹️VHS VCRs
🔹️Kodachrome slide film
🔹️Floppy disks
🔹️cassette tapes
🔹️high volumn vacuum tubes (also
called electron tubes or radio
tubes)
🔹️high volume incandescent light bulbs
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@daisy6401496693 @RShmuleyGroyper @Tomoejp1236 As far as I understand, God is my ancestor and my Lord. He created me and adopted me so that I can live forever. My ultimate loyalty is to him and that is the honor that I am due to give him.
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@RShmuleyGroyper @Tomoejp1236 あなたの話を聞いた感想。
私は私の先祖を捨ててまでキリスト教徒になる気にはなれないかな。ごめんね🙏
もしあなたの先祖でキリスト教徒でないという理由だけで地獄に落ちるというならそれは大丈夫。
きっと日本で平和に暮らしてるよ。
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@6c697374 @chick3T @Tomoejp1236 If you became friends with a fervent person you might. It's normally rude to talk like this unprompted, but if it comes up in a discussion then you might be surprised.
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@chick3T @Tomoejp1236 I feel like guys like this exist more on the internet than anything. I've never heard a normal person talk with such fervor in my day-to-day life.
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@nonsenseIibrary @CardiacSlug02 @krus_chiki My great-grandfather was from West Virginia and he fought in Lee's army.
Of course, it got renamed to West Virginia while he was living there.
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@GolerGkA @C_W_England @ExistentialEnso Yes. My entire frame of reference for pop-culture is the twentieth century.
I don't know if I'm a good reference though, I don't get out much.
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@C_W_England @ExistentialEnso do zoomers say it as well?
bc as a millenial i 100% feel this. but that's just because im not doing young people things anymore and don't spend as much time absorbing new culture.
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@osoba_ha_zaru @that_one_mook Nope, no way out. People argue about what it will be like to miss the people who didn't make it. People also argue about what it would be like to go there.
The Bible doesn't describe hell very much other than saying it's very unpleasant and that you can never leave.
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@veritechpilot @that_one_mook たしかにずっと抜け出せなくて隣人を愛せない人たちとずっと一緒ってなると確かに嫌かも
キリスト教の地獄には蜘蛛の糸システムが実装されてないんだな
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@TheFarRightSide The New World was full of Indians who raped and murdered alongside a million deadly plants and animals.
God told us to go forth and multiply first, and then gave us the Great Commission later. He obviously put these things in front of us for us to explore, even if it's hard.
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@veritechpilot Space is full of demons and poison, when it isn't an empty void. There's a reason we are physically unable to survive there.
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@TheFarRightSide Not based, and you put this coal on the timeline. It is God's providence that we have the ability to explore space.
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@osoba_ha_zaru @that_one_mook We think that once you go to hell, there's no way to get out, and that you'll experience it for eternity.
It's scary to think about going yourself, but at the same time we're told to love our neighbors too. It's scary to imagine them being stuck there!
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@veritechpilot @that_one_mook ありがとうございます!
聖書の中には契約方法が緻密には書かれていないんですね、、、
でもなんでそんなにキリスト教圏の人たちは地獄を恐れるんだろ?
地獄の責苦があったとして、それをもとに悔い改めて、そこから神を信じても救われるチャンスが与えられないって考えるのかな?
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@osoba_ha_zaru @that_one_mook There are issues we get less bothered about, like how the Church should be organized and how priests or pastors should be dressed, or what days holidays should be on. We still think those are important but probably not sending people to hell. People still like to yell and argue.
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@osoba_ha_zaru @that_one_mook It isn't rude. We each have different views of the details of the contract. Some think you have to do certain rituals, some think you only have to believe in God, some a mixture and so on. That's when we can get quite angry, because we think getting it wrong means you go to hell.
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@esrtweet @MUKIDEZA2 I actually have a framed family crest (or coat of arms?) from my grandmother's family sitting in a box somewhere. She might have had one made for my grandfather too. It used to be a thing, I guess.
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@MUKIDEZA2 No, we don't have any equivalent of Japanese family crests.
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@osoba_ha_zaru @that_one_mook Part of our religion is proselytizing, so we're in a competition with each other. I think most of us try to keep it as a friendly rivalry but sometimes the differences are quite hard to ignore. (historically, during the reformation, we killed each other over it.)
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@that_one_mook クリスチャンでもなんでもない日本人ですが、なんで同じ宗教でそんなに争ってるんですか?
日本の仏教にも宗派はあるけど、どこも仲が悪い印象はないんですよね
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@wrowclif The other day my printer inexplicably stopped printing. Devices still remembered it, printer turned on fine, very confused.
Scanning the devices on the network & not seeing it, I found out one of the ports on my router died. Just one, rest were fine. Never had that happen before.
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@BWLH_ Wow, I don't think I've ever seen bearded Von Braun. It wasn't terribly respectable to have a beard like that then.
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