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[Robin @Robin19890361]

This is actually my problem with the movie. Mozart is presented as an irreverent irreligious boomer/gen X upstart when as far as we know he was like if J. R. R. Tolkien wrote music.

https://t.co/qWRy09WPsT

[Jay Trott @trottskyathome]

@CalumDouglas1 The play is about Mozart as the ubermensch and Salieri as the religious prude who couldn't stand the idea that such a crude immoralist was "Amadeus"--loved by God in the sense of being divinely gifted--and therefore set out to destroy him.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

“The story may not be true but it metaphorically says true things about the world.”

But you believe those things are true because of the story that’s made up.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Amadeus isn't about Mozart. It's about the desire to be great when the tools of greatness are beyond your reach. It's about the jealousy that forms in a mediocre artist when he realizes no amount of hard work will make him a genius.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

Boomers believe no one is owed anything which is why they keep passing laws saying they are owed cheap stuff and other peoples money.

[JokerMakeupJacobite 🇮🇪👹🐋🐢🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸 @ClwnPrncCharlie]

Boomer feudalism btw https://t.co/AMfuW2mkpx

[Robin @Robin19890361]

It’s perfectly rational to hold that it’s good for cops to exercise judgement on what a safe speed is for a given day and traffic volume and that these subjective judgments should not be replaced with a “1 mph over is over” system.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

It is a completely rational position to hold that the speed limit shouldn’t actually be a hard cap and that people should be given leeway to judge how fast they can go but cops should still ticket people if they were going too fast for a given circumstance.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

How people think about speed limits is so funny. They want there to be a law and think that's important, but it's also important that the law only be enforced infrequently, randomly and unpredictably, and by humans who pull you over. They don't want the law to be, like, something that actually just applies consistently to everyone all the time. They want it to be a special little surprise.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

Can’t take PC gamers seriously when 90% of them are playing on an OS they hate because they want the games to be plug-n-play. “Oh but most games are native to windows.” So? You’re supposed to be the tech wizard.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

@CovfefeAnon Very telling how she views having a gun while robbing a store and legally owning a gun as just two instances of “possessing a gun” and one is arbitrarily criminalized.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

I remember the first time I took a Friday off to go visit family and as I was driving I was shocked by how many cars were out at 11 pm than ever were at “rush hour.” That’s when I first realized America was a Total Boomer Luxury Communism economy.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

We need to start testing missionaries with convincing natives that a guy named Marcus Aurelius lived in a far away ancient empire that doesn’t exist anymore and wrote things for which we don’t have the originals but only copies made hundreds of years later.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

If their standard of evidence would reject the existence of Augustus Caesar then maybe the problem is either with you or them not with the evidence.

[Fan Commentary: Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

New: Joe Rogan was visibly intrigued when former Christian Daniel Everett reveals he spent years in the Amazon trying to convert the Pirahã tribe to Christianity, but their questions about Jesus ended up turning him into an ATHEIST:

“You Don’t Know Anyone Who’s Ever Seen Him?”

CONTEXT: Everett wasn't a casual Christian who lost interest in religion.

He went to Brazil in 1977 as a missionary, learned one of the world’s most unusual languages and translated the Gospel of Mark into Pirahã specifically to help convert them.

But he ran into a cultural rule that made Christianity extraordinarily difficult to communicate.

Everett has described the Pirahã as placing enormous importance on what he calls the “immediacy of experience”:

Information carries special weight when you personally witnessed it or when it comes from somebody who did.

Then they started asking Everett about Jesus.

EVERETT: “They said, ‘Yeah, yeah, but you’ve seen him. What did he look like?’”

“I said, ‘Well, I never saw him.’”

“I don’t know anyone who’s ever seen Jesus.”

EVERETT, quoting the Pirahã: “You don’t know anyone who’s ever seen him, and you’re just talking about him the whole time, telling us about him.”

“We don’t want to hear about this anymore.”

This wasn’t an overnight conversion to atheism.

Everett says he arrived in Brazil in 1977, was having serious doubts by around 1982, and by roughly 1985 he no longer believed.

He then kept his loss of faith largely secret for years because his family, livelihood and social world were deeply intertwined with Christianity.

And there was an experiment that makes this story even more fascinating.

Everett actually translated and recorded the Gospel of Mark in Pirahã.

He played it for a group of Pirahã men.

They understood what they were hearing.
But when they recognized the Pirahã man whose voice was telling the story, their response was essentially:

He didn’t witness Jesus either. Why should his recording change anything?

The missionary had successfully translated the Gospel.

The deeper problem was that he couldn’t translate the standard of evidence Christianity was asking them to accept.

There’s an important wrinkle here:
Calling the Pirahã simply “atheists” would be misleading.

Everett has described them talking about spirits and supernatural-looking beings, but crucially, they often speak about those experiences as things they believe they or someone they know actually encountered.

So this wasn't necessarily:
religious tribe vs atheist tribe.

It was closer to a collision between two radically different ways of establishing truth:

Christianity: testimony and traditions transmitted across thousands of years can carry religious authority.

Pirahã, as Everett describes them: Who actually saw it?

That cultural principle became so important to Everett that he later made it part of his academic work on Pirahã language and cognition.

And THAT triggered another enormous controversy.

Everett argued that Pirahã culture constrains communication toward immediate experience and that this helps explain extraordinary features he identified in their language.

Other prominent linguists challenged both his linguistic analysis and some of his claims about Pirahã culture.

So even the intellectual framework underneath this incredible story remains debated.

But one thing isn't really disputed:
Everett entered the Amazon intending to change the Pirahã worldview.

Instead, decades later, he wrote that their happiness and their demand for evidence he could not provide helped cause him to abandon his own faith.

Eventually he returned to them and told them: “I don’t believe this stuff anymore either.”

Their response?

“Oh, now you’re like us.”

[Robin @Robin19890361]

The droid voices in TPM were a million times better than the annoying high pitched ones in The Clone Wars.

[Dan Star Wars Centralized 🟢 @SCentralized]

I love the one battle droid with an inexplicable Boston accent in The Phantom menace

[Robin @Robin19890361]

I don’t know why people act like this guy is scamming Costco. They have the policy of accepting returns at any time for any reason and specifically include video game consoles as part of that. You think the executives are stupid and didn’t think people would return broken items?

[𝐃𝐉𝐏𝐍 @_djpn]

Costco takes care of this shit by saying, “We are deeply sorry for failing to meet your needs. Since you have had a genuinely strong problem with the services and the products we provide, we will remove ourselves from your life and fully refund your membership. We wish you well.”

[Robin @Robin19890361]

What I ultimately mean is the button I click to get the game should say rent if it isn’t something I properly own.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

On the subject of EULAs I do think it not only should be illegal but is an illegal misrepresentation to rent out a “temporary license for personal use” and yet say the customer is “buying” the product.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

Subscriptions got the “buy” terminology grandfathered in because of magazine subscriptions but with those you owned each issue of the magazine you got so you really were buying them just through a subscription model.

[Robin @Robin19890361]

“Hey over here!”
“Look up!”
“Look up!”
“Over here!”
“Hey!”
“Hey!”
“Over here!”
“Come on!”
“Look up!”

[Robin @Robin19890361]

It was something you just accepted that in old games you could press A to talk to a guy and he’d say the same line as many times as you did it. Modern games fixed this by have the NPCs automatically say the same line over and over again when you don’t immediately do what it wants

[Richard Lynn IQ Data Groyper @adolfmaxxing]

Why would you be worried about your daughter dating a worthless loser? I thought that was categorically impossible bc women are the sole arbiters of a man's value and that's why you're wifeguys and not incels

[Robin @Robin19890361]

There’s a type of woman who specifically selects for jerks who don’t respect her or her boundaries and can’t figure out why she’s only dated jerks who don’t respect her.

[hot_cocoa_girl @hot_cocoa_girl]

How I think when men complain about shit tests

Just pass. It’s so simple