Felagund
6mo ago
Which two? Judas obviously, but are you saying that there's external evidence for Paul, or Jesus?
Anyway, it's pretty implausible to me that Jesus or Paul would just be made up.
Felagund
6mo ago
Why would they not just be historical figures? Do you think they didn't exist?
Felagund
6mo ago
Of course, when Jesus comes back, we've hit the end times, so you have to price that in.
Felagund
6mo ago
I don't have a good sense of scale—how much would you expect running this site costs per month?
Felagund
6mo ago
Except that my cousin's 11-year-old son roots for them because he "likes Patrick Mahomes". As in, he roots for them over the Steelers, who he says suck.
Incredibly, incredibly lame. You just don't do that in Western Pennsylvania.
Anyway, I'm rooting for the Steelers. While they remain, I'd prefer they play teams that will give them a higher chance of lasting longer in the playoffs. I have no real commitments otherwise.
Felagund
6mo ago
It turns out most people are more reasonable once you allow them the chance to add in all the nuances and lines of argumentation.
Scott's newest blog post is pretty good, someone should make a post on it, but I don't really have the time at the moment to write something up for that myself, so you, whoever you are who is reading this, have at it.
Edit: I meant on priesthoods, but the one on bureaucracy is also great.
Felagund
6mo ago
In my opinion1, reading refers to the act of getting meaning from lettering using your eyes. But you're certainly still consuming books.
1I resisted the urge to say 'book'.
I don’t believe the orgy is required.
Sure, it doesn't have to be orgies, but doing a lot of sleeping around with partners you don't know well is the main use case. Rates of HIV transmission for PIV sex are less than one per 1000 instances of sleeping with an infected partner. Even the highest risk forms of sex are about 1 in 72 chance, though I get that that's certainly high enough that you wouldn't want to cavort with a person known to be infected without prophylaxis. Meanwhile, drugs to suppress viral load in an infected individual, which should be done anyway to prevent the deleterious health effects, also prevent HIV transmission, so if this is with someone you know has HIV, it isn't needed, provided they just use that. The chief use case, then, is if you're often sleeping with people (especially men with men) whom you don't trust or don't know whether they have it.
That said, I agree that in general, it should be possible to buy insurance with fewer mandated things, especially along hydroacetylene's take-responsibility-for-yourself lines.
If you’d like to complain about healthcare spending, there are plenty of better targets that don’t rely on baiting a disgust reaction.
I have no issue with baiting a disgust reaction here. Taxpayer money to enable behavior that I find reprehensible is more distasteful than taxpayer money wasted.
Felagund
6mo ago
For context for those not in the know, prep is a drug that allows for participation in gay orgies without contracting HIV. Your US insurance is legally required to provide it at no cost (thanks Congress). It is not especially cheap to your insurer, and those costs are covered by elevated prices for users in general.
Felagund
6mo ago
Or, more likely, they don't have an explicit theory, but think the more black people the better, and so use your motte as an excuse.
Felagund
6mo ago
Well, it's usually pretty clear that those people are serious. In your case, it's not as obvious to me that you're serious (but it's still entirely possible). That's all. I get that objectively both positions are pretty far outside normal overton windows.
Felagund
6mo ago
The same is true about race.
Of course.
I suppose I would point to a difference between this (drawing boundaries) and something that seems to be a bit more radically a social construct, like literature or law.
Felagund
6mo ago
Honestly, keeping them alive in an age of technology is the more impressive feat. We live in an age where we can fly into the air, destroy cities, or reduce a mountain to its raw materials. The live rhino is a more impressive trophy than a dead one.
Felagund
6mo ago
Ah, fair. It looks like a decent amount of Quechua and Nahuatl survived as well, among others.
Felagund
6mo ago
species are a social construct
To nitpick, the granularity of borders is, but different levels of differentiation is clearly natural, not just social.
Felagund
6mo ago
*τωι. I guess I now know that you're one of the people who pronounces the ι sub/adscripts.
Felagund
6mo ago
I guess (based on other comments) you can worry about divorce less than you otherwise would.
I'll restrict myself to people who can speak modern English.
How about Henry VIII, Abraham Lincoln, and Friedrich Hayek. (I was also considering Oliver Cromwell or James I/VI in place of Henry.)
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