Buelldozer

Buelldozer, 4 days ago

Queue up “the Democrats are outlawing gas cars” handwringing by the conservative simps.

I’m good with this change but we have to admit that functionally its not too far off the mark. Even the article notes “…strict new limits on tailpipe pollution that are designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032…”

So while ICE isn’t being directly “outlawed” they are changing the rules to get a very similar result; the “conservative simps” won’t be wrong exactly when they say it.

Buelldozer, 5 days ago

Someone once explained it to me like this:

The Ancient Hebrews really only had access to two types of fabric, linen and wool. A person could wear a garment made of one or the other or even wear two garments with one made of linen and the other of wool. The reason they couldn’t wear a single garment made of both was because the High Priests garment was made of Linen with a dyed Wool fringe and it was the only garment that was supposed to be made that way.

So anyone wearing a single garment made of both was trying to rise above their station by pretending to be something that they weren’t.

Buelldozer, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

They’ll probably succeed in kicking out Churches that are too liberal but all the Southern Baptist Convention will accomplish is accelerating their speed run into irrelevancy.

I do want to point out that this isn’t universal among the Southern Baptist Churches and many of them are fighting it. This is coming from the Southern Baptist Convention which is a sort of supra-Church steering body.

Buelldozer, 5 days ago

Funner fact, they won’t let women be lead pastors for men

As a point of fact some Southern Baptists Churches do allow, and have, Women as Lead Pastors.

Buelldozer, 5 days ago

What Paul supposedly wrote in Timothy, if he even wrote it, was meant to address a problem occurring in that specific Church. As I was told that Church was being hijacked by one or two particularly wealthy and influential Women donors. As you pointed out Timothy was young and new to the work so he wasn’t able to handle the situation and appealed to Paul for guidance.

Paul then supposedly attempted to smack down the troublemakers with some Doctrine in his response letter.

However there’s long been contention that Paul either didn’t actually write that line or that if he did the surrounding context was cut out in order to make it seem much farther reaching than it was meant to be.

While there’s no way to really know the truth I personally find it impossible to believe that after the long and involved history that women had in the OT that the NT would suddenly require their total subservience. It simply makes no sense.

Buelldozer, 4 days ago

They may be removed from the Southern Baptist Convention but they will still be a Southern Baptist Church.

Organized religions are weird like this.

Buelldozer, 4 days ago

As they continue to boot what they see as overly liberal Churches it won’t be long and neither of those statements will be true.

The run towards irrelevancy is already in progress anyway.

Buelldozer, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

The Russians are such fucking whiners. They’ve been importing weapons from several countries and using them in Ukraine for two years but when Ukraine does it then suddenly it’s a big fucking problem.

It’s like your brother punching you several times an hour for two years straight and when you finally slug them back they lose their shit and start threatening to cave your skull in with a bat.

Fuck 'em. If they didn’t want the smoke they should have stayed home.

Buelldozer, 6 days ago

The question I’d like to ask them is WHY they want to get involved in Content Moderation. They make a toolset, nothing more, so why do they care what someone is using the tools for? What could they possibly get out of this that makes it worth the time or expense?

Buelldozer, 6 days ago

This is great, and I don’t mean that in a “fuck landlords” way either. It was good to see the DoJ start anti-trust action against RealPage and it’s great that it’s continuing. The Government has a true role to fill as Referee in the Marketplace and they’ve been absent for far too long.

Buelldozer, 6 days ago

All of which will eventually be overturned on appeal to SCOTUS.

Way too much cynicism. The current SCOTUS isn’t nearly as beholden to big money interests as many people love to pretend they are. Their recent upholding of funding for the CPB is a prime example of this.