Yeah, it's not hard to point at problems and call them what they are. Much more so to identify an effective action plan.
And it's easy to call for (or in this case make vague as hell implications towards) collective revolutionary violence when it won't be you or your loved ones' blood and bodies in the street.
Will say from experience that beyond the general yuck, and logistics of having to clean puke off your junk and the surroundings, getting puke on the head of your penis is not pleasant. The acidity of it stings/burns. Do not reccomend.
Generally speaking it rests on "god" or "gods" being beyond our comprehension. The whole "biblically accurate angel" thing isn't just a meme, to some degree it's also best effort attempts at making images of something described in a way that most people nowadays would consider borderline lovecraftian.
So it kinda follows that if those things are supposed to be the approachable messengers, than anything remotely human-like can't map well to the "form" of the god over them.
Also, biblically there's already arguments for time not being a thing for the Christian god.
If omniscience is truly what it says on the tin, there's no reason that a being with it couldn't care about what every creature in the universe is doing with their respective reproductive bits, as well as caring about every single more important thing everywhere, simultaneously. The whole point of omni-* in terms of gods is to be limitless.
I genuinely don't get how you could possibly think that's somehow mutually exclusive with believing in space/the universe. The universe is so incomprehensibly big compared to what any of us will get to directly experience in our lifetime. If anything I would think it would make it easier to believe in a being similarly incomprehensibly outside the scope of human existence, experience, and understanding. Like you're perfectly fine with the cosmic infinities, but you can't bring yourself to imagine some being one more level hierarchally above that?
You think that someone could look at all the amazing and wildly weird shit in this world, think that some god being made it all happen, but then also think "yeah, it definitely stopped there, no more"?
Like, I'm sure there's plenty of people that do. There absolutely were over the course of history. But to me it just seems kind of like a huge conceptual schism to believe in some sort of god being and not believe in space/the universe/etc.
Pardon the pedanticness: Phones do NOT completely power down. The jury is out on if they are still traceable in "standby"/psuedo-powered off mode. The generally accepted advice is to treat them like they are still tracable.
Depends where you're talking about. Unfortunately most of the US states haven't figured out how to make going to the DMV (department of motor vehicles) not suck tremendously and how to keep it from taking up most of a day, so many places only do those checks whenever you have to renew the license plate tag/registration, and it's done at the DMV itself. Usually once every couple of years.
Some states allow those inspections to be done by other approved locations. Different states have different timings on how often it's required, and they all have differences as to what is actually tested and what is passing and failing.
Not quite the same thing, but in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams has the alien character Ford Prefect, who came to study Earth under the original impression that cars were the dominant life form. Hence his name.
I got my Associates degree (meant to be a two year degree) at 28. Most of my co-workers don't even have degrees and most of us are making just shy of 6 figure salaries in tech.
I have a friend who didn't complete their BA (meant to be 3-4 years) until they were 29. They manage the prop department and stage techs for a "big deal" live theater and performance center (that industry is small, so can't give more specifics than that).
We're both in our mid-30s, so this wasn't multiple generations ago or anything.
Farther back, my father has no degree and is an accomplished nuclear engineer. Has held leadership positions on numerous engineering regulatory and oversight groups. Tagged along on a business trip with him a few years ago and every morning at the convention space/hotel breakfast, there were around 10 new people each day coming up and going "Hey, are you [name]? Your work on [governing standard] is great!" or something similar. I knew he was good at what he was doing where he worked, but I hadn't realized how well he was known in the wider industry.
TL;DR- No, it's not embarassing. Success comes in many different forms.
It's only going to increase as midterms get closer. Much like 4chan, just because lemmy isn't run by business and political interests sure as hell doesn't mean it has any further resistance to astroturfing than social media that is.
As long as it's easier to make accounts and posts than it is for moderators to moderate, you'll see shit like this.
Even if it's astroturfing that aligns with your beliefs folks, please keep your eyes open for it.
I don't know how you can look at all the pictures and video clips of Biden creeping on girls, read testimony from some of them from the past who have grown up, know that Epstein's Island wasn't some politically partisan affair (how the fuck did Trump suck off Bill Clinton at an Epstein event if Bill wasn't there)... and decide that of all fucking people, Joe fucking Biden deserves the benefit of the doubt on being a pedo.
Hands down he was better than the sack of fat and bronzer we have now. That doesn't mean he wasn't an obvious as fuck pedo.
It is in fact possible to understand the horrors of the Democrat fuckstains while understanding the Republicans are monumentally worse.
What the fuck? I was like dead certain that you were stuck with a bunch of high schoolers at a grocery store or something. That should never be happening anywhere remotely close to a cube farm.
Best strategy is to play dumb. "Hello, [fuckface's manager], I have some concerns about the tiktok content [fuckface] is making for the company and some questions about my job responsibilities in relation to it. [Fuckface] pretty regularly interrupts my work to request me to act in these videos and it is getting in the way of my usual duties. If my participation is required, could you please let me know in writing? I'll also need to discuss with my manager about how this should be prioritized and scheduled alongside my other job duties."
Force their awareness in a way that doesn't immediately look like an assassination. The more you can get in writing the more rope this guy makes to hang himself with. If somehow they claim it's actually work related, keep pushing the edges of "I just want to be sure" until his channel is company property or he shoots himself in the foot.
Alternatively, get paid to intentionally do bad acting. "Oh, I've never been good on camera, sorry!"
There's no need for them to go fishing when they've got more incriminating shit from lemmy data for free. Community subscriptions and even up and downvotes on lemmy aren't private.
Yeah, it's not hard to point at problems and call them what they are. Much more so to identify an effective action plan.
And it's easy to call for (or in this case make vague as hell implications towards) collective revolutionary violence when it won't be you or your loved ones' blood and bodies in the street.