Everything posted by Mole
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
Not equivalent, obviously, and no one has said as such. But definitely on the same team. We can’t make Trump and friends stop terrorizing, but we can police our own community.
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
Agreed. A poster here called for war on the red hats. He’s part of the same side as the red hat who tried to assassinate Pelosi.
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
1. MAGA terrorists should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 2. This should extend to those playing the Charles Manson/Osama Bin Laden roles in the MAGA movement. 3. While these events are unnerving and justifiably emotional, calling for a preemptive civil war on red hats — as has been done in recent pages — only makes things worse. Violence leads to move violence; dehumanization leads to more dehumanization; down the drain we go. 4. These kinds of calls for violence, enflaming passions, dehumanizing your neighbors, are either the work of Russian bots or Americans propagandized by Russian bots. Check your news sources and what’s informing your emotions and opinion. 5. The scope and reach of MAGA Bin Ladens is astronomically greater than a message board poster frustrated by bad football, but it’s all the same destructive framework. This isn’t “both sides” but rather an acknowledgment of what’s actually pushing us over the brink.
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Kanye
Revealing my ignorance here: is Ye pronounced “yee” or “yay?” I’ve never actually heard it spoken since I actively avoid situations like that. In my head it’s “yee “ but “yay” makes more sense as a shortened version of his name.
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QB Slide Rule
Install a flare gun in the QB’s uniform. Whenever the QB wants to give himself up, he just shoots off the flare. It’s clear and unambiguous.
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Mom kills 5-year old girl in Tomball
If we extended the window to three weeks, we could get both an expedited execution and a solid week of torturing. Win-win.
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Who the hell is Simon Sinek...
Most Ted Talks are for people who feel like they are smart and want to be reminded that the feel like they’re smart. It feels good to feel like a smart person.
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United States Ambassador Herschel Walker
Early voting started today in GA. I had an unexpected break and voted. Does this mean I don’t have to see any more ads about the violent liar the Rs are running for senate?
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Texas vs iowa state - 11am on ABC
Time management
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Texas vs iowa state - 11am on ABC
Mone defense.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Take Robert Ham Dental
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United States Ambassador Herschel Walker
Chase, Rocky, Sky, Everest, Marshall.
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United States Ambassador Herschel Walker
I was busy and only caught the end of it. I missed the absurdity of the police badge. From what I saw, Walker was better than expected — not good at all, but relatively coherent. He marginally exceeded my depressingly low expectation. I wasn’t a fan of the non-answers from Warnock, but he’s been a good senator and good leader. My Mondays are booked up, but I’ll be voting for him Tuesday morning. The fact that they felt the need to have a no prop rule, much less enforce it, seems sad to me. Maybe it’s SOP for debates, but it still makes me sad.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
Since the topic of retaliation and responding to bad behavior has come, Jesus may have had an opinion, even for the fake world that is online. Also, the Christ-followers thread seems sorely lacking in Christ’s words. Matthew 5: 38 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. Love for Enemies 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[i] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?Are not even the tax collectors doing that?47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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Texas vs ou - 11am on ABC
More surrender cobras.
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Texas vs ou - 11am on ABC
Surrender cobras!
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
The life cycle of a shaggy/surly faith-based thread. 1. Discussion centered around faith, the personal challenges of life, and persisting through a difficult world. 2. Everyone hates each other as we “discuss” the latest culture war issue. We are currently here. 3. A 3 post, 37 page discussion of ontology. There’s a bonus stage that happens during stage two if we lose to OU where drunken death threats are exchanged. Pray to god of your understanding that we cover the spread on Saturday. If stage two is upsetting to you, know that we’ll soon be engrossed in a discussion of the nature of being that none of us really understand. Let your heart not be troubled; dissension will eventually yield to confusion.
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Shit goin' down in the Chess world. Cheating.
The argument about Hans’ ascent is that: 1. It was late relatively speaking. According to the report, elite chess players reach GM at a younger age than Hans did. They essentially claim that if you haven’t made GM by early teenage years, you won’t reach the very top. 2. It was uneven, with several plateaus. According to the report, other rising elite players show a smoother ascent without the plateaus. I don’t know enough about chess to assess the veracity of the claim, but it doesn’t really align with other fields. Many/most elite athletes were dominant as youngsters, but there are many examples of late bloomers. I work in music; there are many elite musicians who were child prodigies, but there are also many late bloomers working at a high level. It makes sense to me that if Hans became as obsessed as he claimed and worked as hard as he says, he may have made the leap. I don’t see why chess would be so different than any other field to make such growth so implausible. That said, there’s a lot of smoke and now it looks like they’re scanning for anal beads, so what do I know.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
Regarding “hate the sin, love the sinner,” even my good deeds are filled with selfishness and sin. Isaiah 64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. Regarding some sins being “inherent,” they all are. Romans 7:18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Yes.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Nonplussed means bewildered or surprised and confused so much that someone is unsure how to react. The “non” in it is not a negation of “plussed.” “Plussed” isn’t a thing to negate. In more recent years some Americans that should know better, including Obama and the New York Times, have used the word to mean something like unsurprised, making it something of a contronym. Using nonplussed to mean unsurprised leaves those of us who know the word nonplussed.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
The way the “clobber verses” — and much of the Bible in general — are commonly dealt with often seem backwards to me. It misses the entire point. Paul describes the brokenness of humanity, points to a laundry list of sins and failings, and then eventually presents the answer in Jesus. Jesus preached the same thing with a slightly different laundry list but the same answer. We, the Church, then create laws and rules based on those lists of sins — the evidence of the problem, not the problem itself — as though “solving” those sins would solve the core problem. It’s a little like an alcoholic white knuckling sobriety (the dry drunk); the evidence of the problem isn’t there right now, but the problem is still there. Of course, the point of Paul’s message is to lead us to the question: who can save me from this body of death? This doesn’t give enough credit to the amazing body of centuries of scholarship.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
The thing that’s so vexing to non-lawyers isn’t the delay, it’s the absurdity of treating such preposterous claims as serious issues to discuss. Hearing things about “uncharted legal waters,” or “open legal question” when it comes to things that are on their face moronic is akin to having an existential crisis. The vanity of pretending that this fatuousness requires some somber, legal analysis and explanation is just too much for the non-legal mind to fathom. Whatever the final result, it feels like it’s already baked in and we’re just watching it play out. All of the legal reasoning is just trying to come up with some pretext to justify however this all plays out. I get that it’s necessary, but it’s necessary like the coordinator search will be in a few months. It’s meaningless; all is vanity.
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Shit goin' down in the Chess world. Cheating.
Rather than toying with playing card-based witchcraft, some of us prefer to keep up with latest in Bluetooth-enabled vibrating anal bead designs; different strokes for different folks.
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Shit goin' down in the Chess world. Cheating.
Here’s the highlights of the video. Of course the details really matter if it will hold up.