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And of course that’s WHY he got crucified. He interfered with the most profitable business of the times: religious extortion. He did it in a way that was tremendously popular. The combination of popular policy and action that undermines the rich for the benefit of regular people is always the greatest fear of the rich. They’re always willing to kill to protect their position.
It’s a universal lesson.
It wasn’t just commercial activity. Money changers were charging a fee to buy shekels which people could use to buy an animal to sacrifice at the temple. Jesus was mad because the idea of inserting yourself as a middleman to extort money from people seeking salvation was basically blasphemy.
7·6 days agoIt takes more time to make sure the summary isn’t a hallucination than it takes to just write notes.
Every waiter can do it live without AI for 10 drunk idiots at the same time. Every doctor I’ve ever known just takes notes as we went without ever slowing the interaction down.
This tool cannot help and can only harm, using AI in medicine practically violates the Hippocratic oath doctors take.
If you take the limit of that you’ll realize that people won’t raise if you turn it off either.
4·12 days agoYou can see the satellites. Pretty much all satellite orbits are public due to the nature of satellites being in space where we can all see them. When a country’s military satellites pass over a specific location multiple times then that location gets precision bombed everyone knows exactly what happened.
64·14 days agoArguing against adblocker and for YouTube premium is the most center of the bell curve IQ meme take I’ve ever heard.
Amazing video link. Makes me want to grow my own organic free range tax breaks!
It’s almost like you wrote a whole thing to say “from each according to their means, to each according to their needs”
Unless you intended to say that you prefer “to each according to their means” because you believe people who achieve more due to their natural gifts should get more… But that’s kind of fucked up when you really think about it. I hope you’re born gifted!
I was with you most of the way but you lost me here. Some of the biggest privileges for cis straight white males is that they don’t have to deal with racism, sexism, and bigotry over who they are and who they love. That’s not a zero sum game. We can all have that privilege. That privilege isn’t what causes bigotry.
There are some privileges that would be lost, like being preferentially hired by racists. But for the most part we’re fighting in large part for equal good treatment. It’s not a zero sum game.
Yes and you know what all us leftists say, “if you have any adversity it means you never had any privilege at all in the first place” very valid. Thank you for your contribution.
The boobs on the left are nice to look at, but the ones on the right daaaayum that’s nice. Because of our societal expectation of bras at all times for all women, when you see boobs like on the right it’s because a woman has chosen to be vulnerable and it’s extra intimate.
The boobs on the left are boobs you get to see, the ones on the right are the boobs you might get to touch!
water.fanack.com/desalination-plants-water-weapon-gulf/
The American Israeli coalition directly and intentionally destroyed a desalination plant in Iran. Barhain’s desalination plant was damaged by debris from a drone strike on another target. Those are very different statements and very different levels of destruction.
But yes, they’re soft targets if the people attacking you are complete degenerates willing to commit way crimes!
Bad Photoshop will always be better than good AI!
5·1 month agoYeah that’s the best part. If you watch the vid, it’s clear that the police did most of the damage, but the senator was right in the way “helping” trying to get the “good PR” and he caught all the blame. Absolutely beautiful turn of events!
Except for the marine… Having your hands broken for telling the truth is brutal. No one wants to die for Israel’s wars of aggression.
ACAB
121·1 month agoExcept the whole point is that it’s free and you’re not selling anything anyways.
That’s not the original intent. In the US, HOAs were mostly created after the end of segregation to keep black people out of white neighborhoods, an origin story that puts into context the modern of pettiness and desire to control others we see in stories like this.
In the early postwar period after World War II, many [HOAs] were defined to exclude African Americans and, in some cases, Jews, with Asians also excluded on the West Coast.
A racial covenant in a Seattle, Washington, neighborhood stated, “No part of said property hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by any Hebrew or by any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic race.”
When these were found unconstitutional in 1948, they became private contacts until those became illegal in 1968, but because HOAs had to approve new members/buyers, the rules stayed in effect until the majority of a community decided to stop being racist. On top of that, in 1963 the Federal Housing Administration said they would only insure mortgages on homes with an HOA which is really what created suburban sprawl and the ghettoization of the American inner cities.
If you look at the history of HOAs it’s really a long and protracted fight on all levels by racists and bigots against the Civil Rights movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association
TL;DR: Although conceptually HOAs are a good idea, even trending towards communalism, actually existing HOAs are, with a few exceptions, downright regressive, often criminally so.
Yeah, that’s fair. In leftist spaces we should have healthy debate. We just can’t let that undermine solidarity with our more and less radical members.
It’s such a great skit
I’ve thought about this a lot and I’ve gone back to being against it. A lot of performance enhancing drugs push your cardiovascular system pretty hard. If everyone is trying to juice as much as possible to win, they’ll end up competing to getting as close to death as possible for our entertainment to achieve the max performance. They’re either killing themselves in the process or shaving decades off their natural lifespans. I don’t know if creating such a system would be ethical.