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mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Why stop there? Think of how many jobs would be created if the warehouse got rid of boxes and had workers carry each item individually.

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

My students sometimes ask why they should memorise things in the age of Google and LLMs. But internalised facts are your bullshit filters and your raw material for creative association. Facts outside your head are inert.

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

Actually, leisure time was a byproduct of industrialization.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

At the risk of being a libertarian killjoy, I don’t think that providing free babysitting during a night out is one of the legitimate functions of the state.

[Brendan Hodges @metaplexmovies]

PIRATES OF THE CARREBEAN is obviously a masterpiece, but in retrospect I feel very lucky to have grown up when visual effects started to cook but productions still used huge sets, shot in exotic locations and had to rely on human stunt work in camera. we've rarely had it better

[Timo @TimoTweetss]

an absolutely great superhero game that doesn’t deserve its hate, it gave us:
>a dual spiderman experience

>best swinging and traversal in gaming

>fun as fuck combat with great bosses

>an exciting story full of HUGE set pieces, it did have issues but it was never boring

>we played as venom, as VENOM…

- a rushed third act and a few issues doesn’t dismiss how GREAT this game was.

[Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن @EveKeneinan]

People are really this stupid.

"Nobody dies for a lie" means "nobody would die for a lie they know to be a lie."

Of course people will die for lies THAT THEY THINK ARE TRUE.

The point of "nobody dies for a lie" is PRECISELY TO PROVE that the Apostles who were martyred for Christ both (a) believed the resurrection of Christ to be true and (b) were in a position to know if it were true by their own direct experience.

The point is to refute the idiotic argument that Christ's earliest disciples just all got together and for some reason concocted a giant hoax about their former master, a complete lie, and then spent the rest of their lives, for some strange reason, doing nothing but spreading this lie, and eventually getting tortured to death for espousing it.

The only way someone could arrive at this theory is working backwards from "what would make Christianity false?" and arriving at "all the early Christians were just liars and hoaxers", a conclusion that is utterly mental if you have any acquaintance with actual human beings.

[mert @mert]

"we couldn't do anything useful for citizens in my 14 years of office allocating 60 trillion USD. but if we can just steal from the rocket science electric car guy, then we can solve all your problems."

[ripes_05 @05Ripes]

@FiskFille Bro did such a good job I sat here for a minute contemplating if this was a heavy Minecraft texture mod for Spider-Man PS4

[Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧 @TheMuppetPastor]

I have this weird idea that we can oppose communism without becoming Nazis.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

The guy who invented the tractor didn’t work harder than the peasants who toiled in the fields, but his labor was worth a lot more because he created so much more value.

You need to work hard to create value, but working hard isn’t enough to create value.

[mert @mert]

elon could solve world hunger literally this second

all he has to do is full stack dump all his shares, cause a stock market recession, wipe out trillions, delete tens of thousands of jobs, and then he'll be able to fund the federal government for about 18 minutes

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

What's being defended isn't billionaires.

What's being defended is the principle that rights belong to everyone, including successful people.

The moment you decide someone's rights disappear because they're too wealthy, you've abandoned rights altogether and replaced them with political favoritism.

Your position isn't that rights are universal.

It's that rights are conditional on serving your demands.

The billionaire is just today's unpopular exception. Tomorrow it'll be the millionaire. Then the small business owner. Then anyone with more than you.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

If humans were to adopt monkey economics, we too could enjoy the luxury and wealth of monkey civilization.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

@k0ncept Remove every politician tomorrow and surgery still happens, the grid stays up, rockets still launch, food still gets harvested. Remove the doctors, engineers, farmers, and operators instead and civilization ends within the week.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧 @TheMuppetPastor]

“Paul lived in a time of misogyny where women were denied the priesthood, so we can disregard his opinions on women pastors.”

This is a common, yet historically illiterate, critique.

Paul knew female priestesses quite well. Aphrodite had a slew of them in Corinth. He also knew Hera and Athena had female priestesses and that Greek oracles were women. OT patriarchs like David and Solomon likewise knew of priestesses of Asherah. Jesus and his first century audience likewise knew of them.

Practically each biblical author would have met or at least heard of female priestesses all throughout the world. It can’t be argued that this concept was unknown to them. And the fact that they reserved priesthood only for men in the early church reflects a difference that would have been noticeable to pagans.

Christians fasted on Wednesday and Friday (Orthodox still do) to choose different days than their neighbors. Having only male priests was another distinction.

So for whatever reason, there is precedence and cultural reasoning for having only men in leadership positions.

Now that said? There is good evidence for female deacons, female ministries (like groups of widows which later became orders of nuns), and women running charities. Women read and taught the gospel to new converts, baptized other women, and were vital pillars of the church.

So what are we to do with this information?

I think we must draw that only men may lead a congregation as priests and pastors, but also that women are a vital part of all church ministry and should be allowed to shine in them.

Remember, most men shouldn’t be priests/pastors, either. Only 5% of men would even qualify for the role.

So let us forget this idea of misogyny and instead focus on the models passed down to us for a reason. It is not misogyny to insist upon male leaders. But it is to deny women their vital roles as mission minded members of the church.