Celestial-body-NOS
We are all human beans. Together, we will rice.
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Celestial-body-NOS
We are all human beans. Together, we will rice.
6mo ago
'If you won't marry anyone but a virgin, then you'd better leave a few of them around!'
I don't have an issue with the government paying SpaceX to launch government satellites.
The Blue Tribe has similar antipathy for Mr Musk as the Red Tribe has for Harvard. I was making the point that the monies that they get from the government are both of the form 'Government gives money to rich person/organisation in exchange for services rendered', and thus they are both analogous to @Soul_Stuff giving money to Walmart in exchange for groceries.
(As for my general Views on SpaceX, while I have a few notes on Mr Musk's politics, I suspect that the people calling for his head are not being entirely honest about their motives, and are more driven by resentment not that he is wealthy per se so much as his having the temerity to not be subject to the high-school-cafeteria-style pecking order. I could be wrong.
Futhermore, even if one accepts the aspersions cast against Mr Musk's character, ending the eight-year, ten-month, nine-day period in which America Could Not Into Space has to count for something.)
Same thing applies to the Blue-Tribe hue and cry over the government paying Elongated Muskrat to put their satellites in orbit....
(edit: the government's satellites; NASA, USGS, NRO, &c. &c.). Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Celestial-body-NOS
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6mo ago
Would hamas accept a two state solution on these borders?
I think so, yes
I wish I shared your optimism....
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6mo ago
What conditions did they refuse to accept?
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6mo ago
before his own people hung him from a bridge
Hanged him from a bridge. He's not a bloody tapestry!
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6mo ago
My white, Evangelical, smoking and drinking are sins circle faired very well.
I think this part should be hyphenated, as otherwise it becomes a garden-path sentence.
Celestial-body-NOS
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6mo ago
self-checkout machine
efficient, human-free experience
What kind of machines do they have where you live?
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6mo ago
If He had died by very slow decay, would that have counted as a sufficient sacrifice by God Incarnate?
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6mo ago
A woman was in the custody of the Soviet secret police. These sometimes took a perverse joy in breaking people they weren’t going to let leave alive anyway, and they had decided to break her faith. When maiming her legs didn’t do it, they brought in her children and threatened to shoot them if she did not deny Christ. She refused, and the secret police shot her children in front of her.
To digress to another religion, this kind of thing is what taqiyya was originally for.
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6mo ago
I could be wrong about their motivations, but the impression I get from the Episcopal Church's decision is something along the lines of "The administration is aiding white people who are or might be in danger of their lives, while telling people of colour in similar danger that they are obligated to stay in their own countries and die. This suggests that the administration believes that the life of a white person matters more than that of a person of colour. This belief is a grave sin, and we refuse to be complicit in it."
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6mo ago
Failure to grasp this is how you wind up with “Love wins” and “Hate has no home here” churches that would never tell anyone they are living in specific sin.
At least some of those churches condemn sin, but merely disagree with you about whether certain things are sinful (e. g. whatever happens in Pete and Chasten Buttigieg's bedroom).
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6mo ago
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” is the second greatest commandment. The greatest is, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The two commandments are not the same, and the order is important.
But if Man is made in the Image of God, is not 'loving our neighbor as ourself' how we 'love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our, &c., &c.'?
People of my grandmother’s generation could and did accept that.
And people of her grandmother's generation accepted that women would have to toil endlessly hand-washing clothes.
Her grandmother's generation accepted that childbirth would be a pit of suffering.
Just because our ancestors endured something does not mean that we must or should.
The existence of organisations like NICE in the UK also tacitly accepts this fact.
They could support more people if the government hadn't underfunded the NHS!
telling parents that if they raise 500,000 dollars it will increase their child’s survival rate slightly
In some cases it is a lot more than 'slightly'. There are reliable treatments for many cancers which would have been considered terminal 40 years ago; however, these can be expensive.
Thus, my question is "There is a medical treatment which, if given to Timmy, means that he is almost certain to live; without it, he is almost certain to die. His parents can not afford to pay for this treatment, and do not have insurance that will cover it. What is the right thing for them to do?".
Being hard-hearted
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7mo ago
He spoke of “building bridges,”
'Pontiff' derives from 'pontifex', Latin for 'bridge-builder'.
Most of those are "little 8 year old Timmy has cancer" not "CW grifting".
I regard both of these as examples of grifting.
Does that include the cases in which they actually do need the money to pay Timmy's medical bills? (Edit: and he has a 1% chance of survival without treatment and a 99% chance with)
If so, what, in your opinion, is the ethical path for Timmy's parents?
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7mo ago
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7mo ago
I don't know him.
American late-night comedy host; would sometimes read Trump's tweets in a funny voice. (https://youtube.com/watch?v=XTEECbSPOKw)
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7mo ago
I tend to think that this bet will fail and it will be another loss of popularity to Trump administration. They are total losers who are on a fast track to self destruction. Good luck to them!
Why did I hear that in Stephen Colbert's Trump-tweet impression voice...?
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7mo ago
Begging a lot of questions here....
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7mo ago
they commit murder over promiscuity
seems odd to square with claims that promiscuity is "harmless"
Because the harm is attributed to the person who chose to commit murder.
If Alice does $THING (being promiscuous, wearing the 'wrong' clothes for her gender, expressing unpopular opinions, eating rice on Tuesdays, &c., &c.), and Bob chooses to kill or otherwise harm her over it, that does not make $THING responsible for the harm done to Alice; the blame lies on Bob. Otherwise, Bob would have the ability to prevent Alice from doing anything he didn't like. (cf. the Heckler's Veto.)
Celestial-body-NOS
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7mo ago
They do damage while they are in your lungs, and that damage may or may not be permanent. However, healthy lungs have cilia which will expel foreign material, limiting the total damage that it can do; but if you kill off the cilia, asbestos fibres will linger for far longer, and do much more damage.
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7mo ago
smoking was intentionally used as a patsy for a lot of cancers caused by commonly used industrial compounds
Sometimes they can compound each other; e. g. asbestos fibres will stay in the lungs of a smoker long after they would have been expelled from a non-smoker's lung due to the former having killed off their cilia.
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7mo ago
You never answered that question the other day about exactly how incredibly privileged and sheltered you are.
That wasn't so much a question as an insult.
After they wipe out the malarial mosquitos, ticks should be the next target.
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