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MightBeAlpharius

@ MightBeAlpharius @lemmy.world

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  • Chaotic

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  • Some (but not very much) of the bullshit they ramble on about is in there, but it's not in the important part.

    All of the fire and brimstone, Sodom & Gomorrah, "I am a vengeful god" shit is in the Old Testament. Sure, the Old Testament is important (it's like half of the book, after all), but it's important as backstory. It's literally just the Torah in a different order, included because Christianity started as a breakaway sect of Judaism.

    The part that actually pertains directly to Christianity starts with a list of "begats," some very confused shepherds, and a barn baby getting presents. The New Testament is mostly about helping others and being tolerant; and the star of the show, Jesus, literally goes around telling people that they can get into heaven just by being nice and helping the needy. He gets angry exactly once, and goes on a table-flipping rampage because someone else was taking advantage of poor pilgrims. It's the kind of thing that a lot of the Christian Right would call "hippie bullshit," but it's also the entire point of their religion.

  • Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey | The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’

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  • Well, yeah - before you're born, they want you have a life; after, they tell you to get a life and quit whining. Sounds pretty "pro-life" to me!

    (/s, because tone doesn't carry well in text)

  • Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by, new reports find

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  • Training isn't a bad option, though, especially since some jobs will pay you for it. Some trades do paid apprenticeships - the pay isn't great, but it's better than paying for training.

    Alternately, manufacturing jobs can be pretty good. I had a friend who got a job working in a factory right out of high school - he started at $20/hour, with a sizeable raise after the first year.

  • Sweatshop

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  • So, uh... We have the same thermostat at my job. It's not great. You can't just tell it what temperature you want the room to be, you actually have to tell it if you want it to heat or cool to that temperature.

    Yours is set set to 65, but if you look to the left of the current temp, it says "heat." Someone likely forgot to change that when the weather warmed up. IIRC, one of the three unlabeled middle buttons will fix that.

  • Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance.

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  • What if the concern wasn't that he would have to use a disgusting bathroom, but rather that he takes horrible shits and didn't want someone to know?

    I mean, I'd certainly be embarrassed to have to tell the internet something like "I'm visiting my in-laws for a few days, and I really want them to like me. The problem is that I shit like a farm animal, and they only have one bathroom."

  • Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance.

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  • It was more the lack of an explanation that hooked people, rather than just the not pooping - IIRC, we never ended up getting any real explanation for why this guy needed to not poop for a week.

    It was honestly pretty great, people came up with everything from "he's smuggling himself internationally in a shipping container" to "he's determined to be the winner in a really weird Mr Beast video" to "he's giving up on society to live with the sloths" before it started to turn into kind of a circle-jerk.

    And of course, suggestions for stopping the poop included butt plugs, eating only cheese, butt plugs, a liquid diet, and more butt plugs.

  • Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?

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  • Unfortunately, no... I've seen one of those things, and they're honestly kind of scary to stumble across in the wild. They're huge, and they can swim.

    I do agree that this picture looks weird, but I think it's just a weird picture. The spider is hanging backwards, with his belly facing upwards (that little nubbin at the back of the abdomen usually angles down), but the way that he's lifting his head to bite the turtle makes it look like his body is facing the other way. As for the ripples, it looks like he's lifted the turtle high enough that we're getting a shot of them without the water directly below them. The ripples look like they're probably relatively calm water 5-10ft behind the spider, which is why they don't match up with the action in the photo.

  • ‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans

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  • Actually though, can we get some malicious compliance? Schools banning the Bible based on rules written by Christian conservatives would be hilarious.

    "We have considered several excerpts, and deemed this book unfit for schools. The book opens with everybody naked, and goes on to feature violence on a massive scale, as well as some weird incest, and a man who collected two hundred foreskins. Frankly, we believe that this book should have never been on the shelves here at Li'l Tykes Elementary."

  • 'Cool data centres with treated sewage', says Anglian Water

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  • I always assumed the same... Turns out, a wastewater plant and treatment plant for drinking water look a lot more alike than I thought.

    I'm pretty sure you could drink it, you'd just want to do it far enough away that you don't have to think about where it came from.

  • For a bathroom sink, is it acceptable to angle a P Trap arm downwards, in order to give more clearance underneath?

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  • It sounds like you're probably good.

    The slope itself shouldn't matter as long as the drain hole at the bottom of the sink is still higher than the drain hole in the wall. You can also angle the p-trap itself a little bit, but it still needs to be able to hold enough water in the bottom to block the pipe.

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  • Their math was flawed, but I'm not really sure how to explain the math part better. I get what they were going for, though.

    It's closer to decimal divisions of an inch, so a .223 caliber bullet would be a hair shy of a quarter of an inch (.25) wide.

    Edit: just realized you had the second part of that already

  • Don't pay a premium for your fashion

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  • Some of them do... Or at least, they did - I mostly remember seeing it when I was in high school, and it sort of faded out when I was in college. Not sure if it fell out of style, or if it's only a thing with the Hot Topic/mall goth crowd

    Edit: uncorrected an accidental autocorrect

  • 51 dead and more than 100 injured in nightclub fire in North Macedonia

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  • ...Wait a second, that shooting was at a different nightclub named Pulse.

    Pulse might not be the Titanic of clubs, but apparently naming your club Pulse is about as lucky as naming your ship the Titanic.

  • YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer

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  • I've never had an induction stove, but I grew up with an electric stove - IIRC, it was on a separate fuse from the rest of the kitchen, and it had a weird plug because it needed a different voltage than most other appliances.

    I would assume the requirements for an induction stove are more or less the same... Switching from regular electric to induction would probably be easy, but gas to induction would take a lot more work.

  • Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles?

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  • I never really thought about their succession of consoles, but to me, seeing them listed like that feels surprisingly additive.

    Like, the N64 had analog sticks, and the Gameboy was portable... And people liked both of those, so they released the GameCube, which had analog sticks and a handle, so you could take it to your friend's house. They followed up with the DS' touchscreen and the Wii's motion controls, and when people liked those too, they bundled all of that into the Switch: it has analog sticks, a touchscreen, and motion controls; it's a handheld and a very portable plug-in console.

    But, as they've done that, they've always pushed the limits of what they could do. As it stands, there's not much that can be added to the Switch, so they're releasing an improved version - like they did with the Gameboys Color, Advance, and SP. Essentially, the limiting factor isn't Nintendo's ability to innovate, but rather the technology available to them.

    Give it a few years for other aspects of technology to advance, and I'm sure they'll start pushing the envelope again. They'll probably wait until they can pack an entire console into a VR headset without a bulky battery pack, then release it with something wacky like a charging dock with a built-in projector, or something crazy like that.

  • Devils Panties 12/18/2024

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  • maybe a little less sweet

    I see what you did there

  • New Florida sex education curriculum excludes almost all information about sex

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  • I grew up rural too, but in a less conservative area, and... Honestly, it made for some hilarious moments in sex ed.

    I think the crowning moment was in high school health class - at the start of the sex ed unit, they split us up by gender, and had both groups try to draw both reproductive systems as a baseline for what we knew. Both groups did pretry well with the male stuff, but there was a stark (and unexpected) difference in the diagrams of the female reproductive system:

    The girls group did an excellent job of drawing and labeling a vagina, but almost none of the internal bits.

    The boys group, though... One dude had noticed something about the general shape of female reproductive system in an earlier class, and came up with a his own mnemonic for it: turns out, you can sketch oit the general layout of the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and birth canal pretty neatly over the dodge ram logo.

  • Hide your CEOs!

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  • I worked at CVS when they bought Aetna... The insurance offered to employees got worse.

  • Project 2025 chief’s book urges ‘burning’ of FBI, New York Times and Boy Scouts

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  • I think the issue started a little over a decade ago, when the Boy Scouts got in some hot water for discriminating against gay kids and they actually tried to be better.