Yeah I don’t think there’s any basis to the quote.

Interestingly the earliest composed Christian document that has been recovered (the didache, the copy we have is from Ca. 1000 CE, but seems to be in the original Greek) condemns infanticide, specifically including by exposure to the elements. It also prohibits private property so the document is not taken authoritatively by many modern christians.

I don’t think anyone can actually do fusion power in the lab either. The only energy positive way to do fusion power is within a nuclear fission explosion isn’t it?

I think it would be cheese on top of pasta sheet layered with mashed potato so creamy it’s practically a sauce, on top of ground meat/ mince mixed with tomato & vegetable sauce.

Violence is the only way a dictator will be deposed. History has proven it well.

Is that true? What about South Korea and Taiwan?

I agree about it being baffling to see so many ‘freedom loving Americans’ so blind to the nature of the current administration.

They look awful. Slightly less awful when wrapped, but I heard that Tesla fucked up the bonding surface for wraps or something so they’re basically unremovable, but will deteriorate with age.

I’m going to be one of those parents. I’m going to share what my 7 year old said at breakfast earlier this week as he looked over my shoulder at the pictures in the newspaper and asked me what the articles were about.

I forget how it came up, but I mentioned that Trump is very old and might die of old age in less than 4 years. He said:

I don’t want him to die but I don’t want him to be their ruler anymore.

I told him he was right and praised him for being able to hold those two ideas in his head at the same time.

…Personally I’d prefer a single event that resulted in the horrific death of several specific top USA officials due to their own malice/avarice/corruption, but I don’t want him to be too cynical.

I think it’d be best to be horrific, to shock society into demanding better leadership. I don’t think we’ll be so lucky.

Halberdiers?

He is still an American citizen, I’m curious about what Canadian traitors and patriots will make of that.

whoever wrote this wanted to make clear that Judaism does not condone human sacrifice, in contrast to other contemporary religions.

I suspect that the addition of the lamb(goat?) Was a latter addition to distance Judaism from child sacrifice but that Judaism did evolve out of a religious tradition that practiced child sacrifice (and idolatry). But I’m also aware of how antisemites would love to slander modern Judaism with accusations in a similar vein, so it’s a kinda difficult line to walk.

Fun fact: Abraham goes up the mountain with his son but comes down alone, suggesting that in the original text he went through with the child sacrifice.

When we import food/drug manufacturing equipment we often accept American certifications as compliant with Canadian standards. If a company can say they are compliant FDA or NSF while facing no risk of facing an actual inspection/audit then we may have to exercise more scrutiny ourselves.

If you sincerely can’t keep track of an acronym like LGBTQIA2S, I totally understand. I find it helpful to use people with minority “Sexual Orientations and Gender Identites” (SOGI). You could say

people with minority SOGIs

Or

SOGI minorities

Or

SOGIm

It’s not a super widespread abbreviation, so I’d recommend spelling it initially as I did in my first paragraph. I don’t think it’s best practice to say “SOGIs” Because everyone has a SOGI and typically we’re trying to talk specifically about those that face(d) disenfranchisement and bigoted violence.

If you’re not sincerely struggling with the acronym, and enjoy trivializing people for fun, I hope you think of me everything you stub your toe.

I saw a quote in the newspaper this morning:

We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.

It’s just so incredibly wrong and stupid.

Nice! Thanks!

For anyone that’s interested:

https://propagandhi.com/tour

I like the grip fins technique for interference fit holes, I hadn’t seen that before. Also nice to be reminded of the counterbore technique

I’m not much of a cyclist, but I sorta figure that that if you’re not sure what to upgrade on the your bike, it’s probably the rider. Improve your fitness, improve your knowledge etc.

Isn’t the only way this can happen is if the government is trying to overrule the charter of rights and freedoms?

Yes thank goodness we have Mark Carney, he’s definitely not interested in maintaining the status quo. I expect nothing less than radical leftist reform with a central banker at the helm.

FPTP means that many votes have negligible impact, so it’s understandable why some don’t bother.

I’m not saying their philosophy/theory doesn’t apply, I’m just saying that what the word “democracy” meant to them is pretty irrelevant in a modern context. I wouldn’t call apartheid South Africa a democracy, would you?