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Boulder pushing

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

The UK national surveillance program showed FEWER stillbirths, premature births, and low birthweights in Covid jabbed women in 2021 and 2022.

This doesn't mean the Covid jabs are protective, healthy vaccinee bias is real, but it is a solid sign they aren't dangerous to fetuses.

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

Fact check: true!

Even if you were early-ish at a frontier AI company (or, ahem, sold your startup to a public company), you're just scraping by in the SF middle class as a wagie.

What those outside the tech bubble (or the newly-arrived SF hopefuls) don't realize is that the "only 1% are winning" power-law that describes tech vs. the regular economy is fractally true inside the tech economy as well.

There are a few dozen actual winners in every tech cycle, and you're either one of them or you're not. Something you don't quite get out of the PG essays and VC think-pieces.

But if you read your 19th-century Gold Rush history, you'll know this was true then too...

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

Butlerian jihad begins now.

The academic Acemoglu proposal cited here is a fantasy of unions somehow springing up and sharing in profits via techno-distributism paid for by perfect tax incentives (and somehow innovation co-existing with Luddism)

In practice there might be some laws passed that warp the market before being captured in some way, and it's all an irrelevant show like GDPR.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

The kingdom of heaven is post-gender.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

@lsanger Yes, though this take can justify total moral permissiveness ("don't tell me I'm sinning, that's unloving and judgmental.")

1 Corinthians 2:15 is a corrective; "judgement" (krino) is forbidden, but "discernment" (anakrino) is a property of the spiritual man.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

Before St. Paul enumerates the fruits of the Spirit, he enumerates the deeds of the flesh. The negative precedes the affirmative.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

'That Hideous Strength' is an enjoyable tale, but Lewis' depiction of the Roman gods as misconstrued angels is contrary to the Christian canon. St. Paul explicitly calls out the worship of pagan gods as demon worship (1 Corinthians 10:20)

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

Under Levitical law, having sex temporarily rendered one ritually impure and therefore excluded from various sacred activities.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

"Going the extra mile" references a Roman law that allowed soldiers to compel local inhabitants to carry their gear for one mile.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

In the Bible, 40 is a number of significance. Jesus spends 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness. Elijah does the same. Moses was 40 when he fled Egypt, 80 when he encountered the burning bush, and died at 120.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

Jesus steadfastly refused to condone politically motivated violence.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

The right to a jury trial is not present in Levitical law.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

In Levitical law, rebellion against parents was a capital offense.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

By contemporary standards of ethics, the Apostle Paul was deeply misogynistic.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

Me, a philosopher: if God is good, why does evil exist?

Ecclesiastes: the question is meaningless and the answer is hidden. Go touch grass.

[sisyphical @sisyphical]

Job never learns about God's bet with Satan.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

This is the funniest clip I’ve ever seen.

You can watch his brain explode in real time.

[Jon Stokes @jon_stokes]

Neo-Luddites who oppose all datacenters everywhere for general anti-tech & anti-AI reasons, & who believe weird things like datacenters destroy H20, are seizing on the secrecy & corruption here to push a narrative. Sane pro-tech ppl should oppose the secrecy & corruption parts.

[__eloïse__ @dundereloise]

"No difference" people, you are victorious.

We boiled 2 pots of water at the same time. In one, we used a tablespoon of salt per quart of water on the recommendation of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. We cooked Barilla spaghetti in both pots until al dente. After draining both, we salted the un-salted pasta until the saltiness level was similar to the pre-salted one. In a randomized blind taste test (no sauce), salting before vs after didn’t make a difference. In a separate randomized blind texture test (feeling with hand) neither of us could correctly tell which was which.