ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
21hr ago
Some groups are so proud they'll even adopt exonyms their enemies created
4chan has wholeheartedly adopted "chud" and even taken the wojak variation originally designed to mock them and made it their own, it's beautiful to see.
Personally, I don't believe it's possible for one person to produce 1000x the value of another.
I have numerous coworkers that produce negative net value, so it's possible to have one person produce infinitely (or undefined, or NaN, or whatever) more value than another.
But someone like Jim Keller absolutely provides 1000x more revenue to his employers than, say, an offshore code monkey in Mumbai writing JavaScript.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
airlines are a cutthroat awful industry to be in with 3% net income margins (5% operating) which can be seen by them constantly getting bailed out
One of my favorite jokes:
What's the easiest way to become a millionaire?
Start out as a billionaire and buy an airline
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but when I lived in the Czech Republic their TP felt like sandpaper. American TP, even the cheaper stuff, is consistently nicer. Only the super cheap one ply stuff used in public restrooms in the US is comparable in awfulness to what I experienced of European TP.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
I might be pulling a mathcel move (so somone correct me if I'm wrong) here but it looks like Bluesky's decline has slightly accelerated in the last week: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth?t=7d
Compare the last 7 days to the last 4 weeks. I would expect the figures for the last 7 days to be roughly 1/4 of the figures for the last 4 weeks, but in most categories it appears to be almost half.
No idea if this has anything to do with the CEO waffles nonsense or if it's for completely unrelated reason. Bluesky was already in decline anyway
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
and look at a 4channer
There are a decent amount of anons here, actually. /pol/ is where I go for a fun roll in the mud (and to add to my edgy meme collection), this place is where I go when I want some actual substance and intellectual stimulation.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
All good bro, thanks for all you do to run this place!
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
I mean Somalia is especially terrible, but none of their closest neighbors (nor subsaharan Africa as a whole) are doing particularly great either, so I'm not sure that argument holds much water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_McDonald%27s_restaurants
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
The low pay and terrible work conditions
Wouldn't less competition for such jobs lead to better pay and work conditions?
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
I think Westwood, Blizzard, Maxis and id Software held out the longest.
At least for id, I think it's in large part because Carmack is both a workaholic and a genius, so even as he was buying Ferraris and starting space companies he never stopped grinding away. He never really let himself rest on his laurels. Rage is probably the worst game they ever put out (prior to Carmack's departure), and it was half decent.
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
Battlefield 6 actually looks like it's going to be a smash hit, based on how many people were playing the open beta a month ago. It basically feels like BF3 and BF4 again, instead of whatever crap they've been doing with the series in the last few years.
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
Thanks! I'll probably wait for the buyout then
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
Question for investor types here: I bought several shares of EA right before the Battlefield 6 beta, with the expectation that the actual release (coming in a few weeks) would be a massive success and drive the stock up. This news about the company going private has already caused me to make 15-20% total gains. Better to sell now, or is the price EA will pay to buy me out likely even higher?
They almost all either switched prior to mass education and industrialization in their countries, or they half-assed it and ended up with a weird Frankenstein system like the UK, Canada, and Australia
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
His partner was a man in a dress, though
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
content creators
fighting words
People really, really, really seem to misunderstand what "fighting words" are. Even if we ignore that the Supreme Court has been backing away from treating fighting words as a real thing for several decades now, even in the cases where they are treated as a real thing they require the person saying the words and the person hearing the words to be in each other's physical presence. They're called "fighting words" because they're words that will likely lead to an actual fight, then and there.
ChickenOverlord
20d ago
It's been happening on bombs and missiles for more than a century, so...
Try more than 2000 years. The inscription says "Catch!" in Greek.
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
That's largely because trans subverted and devoured feminism wholesale
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
Sounds like we're all in agreement then, resisting is the worse option.
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
You're assuming that the Bishop of Rome is actually Peter's successor is an established fact. Even though Linus and Clement are both mentioned in the Bible, they are never explicitly mentioned as Peter's successors, and no one identifies them as such until ~180 AD, 81 years after Clement's death.
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
There is a sarcastic line about such people becoming Theologists.
This unironically is basically the primary argument of Al-Ghazali's famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Incoherence of the Philosophers. He basically argues that all of the debating and mental masturbation by a lot of philosophers and theologists are thinly veiled covers for their atheism. He was mostly talking about Islam, but many of the same arguments can easily be applied to many Christian thinkers.
James (the bishop of Jerusalem) clearly had the final word on disagreements
I earnestly hope you will find comfort knowing that Christ's sacrifice has already justified you, and you don't need to do anything to earn his grace
Catholics don't believe that grace is earned (and neither do Mormons), but that doesn't negate the need for works. James would heartily disagree with you as well, but I'm already quite familiar with the tortured exegesis Protestants use to disregard the blatantly explicit condemnation of sola fide provided by James:
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
If good works are a natural result of having faith, then why don't the devils, whom James explicitly states believe, perform good works as a result?
Bonus question on an unrelated topic, the "priesthood of all believers" that many Protestants believe in: If Simon the magician in the book of Acts believed (as it explicitly said he did) then why didn't he automatically have the same power and authority as Peter and the rest of the apostles? Ditto for women who believe (I assume you're part of a denomination that does not have female clergy).
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
Here's a bunch of nerds discussing it in depth:
The one caveat I'll give is that most of the answers seem to be from Protestants who seem to mostly agree with Luther's decision. That said, one of the answers directly quotes Luther himself talking about the controversy over his translation, so that was quite interesting to read.
Edit: For what it's worth, members of my faith (Mormon) largely agree with the Catholic interpretation of the verse, and with Catholics about the need for works in addition to faith.
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
Not OP but a common story told in Protestant circles is that the Catholic Church did not want the Bible translated into the common languages of the people so that they couldn't decide for themselves what to believe (or something along those lines). Reality is a bit more complicated (as per usual) and the simplified version of this story told by Protestants these days isn't accurate, and the existence of translations of the Bible into common languages long before Luther is clear evidence of this. Even the name of Saint Jerome's 4th century translation of the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate, is evidence of this (same etymology as vulgar, i.e. in the language of the commoners). Also widespread illiteracy and the high cost of books would have kept most people from reading the Bible even if there were translations available in their language.
That said, there is a certain kernel of truth to the story that Protestants tell. Certain translators (most notably William Tyndale and his English translation) were persecuted by the church because their choices in translation undermined certain doctrines of the church, etc. So the church definitely wanted to exert control over who was allowed to translate the Bible and how they were allowed to translate it.
9 times out of 10 I assume it is "woman owned" because the owner gave 51% of ownership to his wife specifically for the purpose of gaming such contracts. My brother-in-law works at a factory where the owner did just that, and I have similar plans if I start a business.
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