whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 12 hours ago

While he had some bangers he also had some pretty bad takes too: slaves obey your masters/not changing the Exodus rules for slavery, faith healer bs, substitutionary atonement, etc.

whotookkarl, 3 hours ago

Exodus 21 20-21: 20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.”

Sounds like property you can beat as long as they don’t die within a day or two, nobody should treat anyone that way that’s horrific.

Substitutionary atonement is the whole gospel story. Jesus sacrifices his life to atone for Adam’s original sin of eating the apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that somehow infected the rest of humanity. Even if you believed it were true you shouldn’t place the punishment for crimes of ancestors or parents on their children, that’s fucked up.

whotookkarl, 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

Nobody should treat a household member or child the way the bible describes slaves should be kept, whether they use the actual word slave in the original translation they are describing how to own people you can beat as long as they don’t die within a couple days. They are talking about the allowed treatment for when you keep non-hebrew slaves, you don’t have to excuse it saying they were treated well because this is describing how they should be and were treated.

Edit: Of course I’m looking through it with a lens of modern ethics, but one of the selling points of religion is a dogma that never has to change because they know absolute morality from prophetic futures and can tell what is going to happen except apparently when it doesn’t

whotookkarl, 11 hours ago

I use the Libby app with my library card for digital loaned books and audiobooks, maybe the same system works with Canadian libraries

whotookkarl, 1 day ago

Anything by Infant Annihilator, it’s only a little nsfw

whotookkarl, 1 day ago

Victorian era four loko, the ingestion technique is more generally forced down.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

I like adding a backup function to .profile that can take a file or list of files as an argument and make a copy with a date suffix on the file name, and same date additional backups just add a character like ~ at the end. It’s in version control, but if I’m testing a change it’s just faster to restore the file from a copy in the same place.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

The speaker does not own the house and does not represent the whole of Congress. Opposing the speaker’s wishes is not the same as opposing free speech and an invite to speak is not a subpoena.

If it was a subpoena to speak before Congress then it would be a violation to oppose under a contempt charge like any American citizen would get, just like the previous administration violated subpoenas that should have resulted in charges except for Senate Republicans who chose not to do their job and enforce the law.

The speaker can invite whoever they want and the opposition party can try to prevent that within the bounds of the law if they oppose the invitee.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

The speaker*

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

No, you are equivocating the house speaker and Congress and they are not the same in who they represent. The house speaker represents the majority party and their constituents. Congress, including all of the representatives and senators from both parties, are there to represent the American people.

whotookkarl, 4 days ago

I’m not sure because google.com requires JavaScript and then when I enable it it says it’s had too much malicious behavior from my VPN address and to enable another host gstatic to connect to I’m guessing for a rechaptcha and I gave up

whotookkarl, 4 days ago (edited 9 hours ago)

Yes, www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/bases.html has a bunch more examples to show why the base of the number system is always represented by 10, because 10 is a short hand we use for d1b^1 + d2b^0 where d is a digit between 0 and base-1, and b is the base. b^0 is always one and represents the first digit at the first position. b^1 is the base, so 1b^1 = the base. And since 10 is 1b^1 + 0*b^0 it represents the base in any number base system.

Another way to show the same thing with counting:

Base 10: 0, 1, 2, …, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12…

Base 4: 0, 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, …

Any base: d1b^0 , d2b^0 , …, d(b-1)b^0 , d1b^1 + d1b^0 , d1b^1 + d2*b^0 , …

We assume a 1 in the 10’s place and a 0 in the 1’s represents 1,2,3,…,10 of something instead of 0,1,2,3,10 of something because from our perspective we learned numbers in base 10 with 9 digits, but the alien learned 10 means 4 of something in base 4.

whotookkarl, 5 days ago

The article defers to NBER but then says they are purposely excluding inflation and the higher cost of living from their criteria. Call it whatever you want, but if you’re going to use a definition most people don’t use to pretend there isn’t a problem you’re fucked.

whotookkarl, 5 days ago

My favorite so far has been spoofing amiibos on the switch for Zelda goodies

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

Anyone who feels the freedom to fuck with our elections or disenfranchise voters should have the book thrown at them, maximum penalties under the statutes.

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

No need to guess, just look at how Trump’s confederates treat BLM protestors and their executioners: texastribune.org/…/daniel-perry-racist-comments-t…

Abbott made good on his promise and pardoned Perry last week for the murder a jury found him guilty of committing.

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

My assumption is economic in that they will continue to spend as oil and hydrocarbon fuels dependency drops worldwide as it’s replaced with renewables. It seems dogmatic organizations like religions, theocracies, etc tend to do poorly with incremental change, but we’ll see over the next couple decades. 30% of their trade is with China so it largely depends on Chinese markets and how/if they decide to change as the markets change.

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

If you’re actually asking how to reach people about a delusional belief they hold it seems often if you try to show them evidence that directly contradicts their belief, argue reasonably, etc they will often become more entrenched in a defiant ‘you can’t teach me anything’ stance to protect their perceived self identity from unwarranted attacks. You have to demonstrate the warrant first.

A possibly more effective method seems to be temporarily accepting their proposed perspective, and asking skeptical questions to reduce their confidence in the delusion. Providing the questions to work it out themselves instead of forcing the conclusion. I haven’t read it yet but I’ve seen en.wikipedia.org/…/Combating_Cult_Mind_Control recommended as a study on cults and breaking their indoctrination & control tactics but I’m open to more contemporary recommendations if anyone has them.

whotookkarl, 8 days ago

If anarchists are often misunderstood I’d imagine libertarians even more so. Both philosophies advocate for the lack of a state, splitting between preference towards the community/collective vs individual, and are often misinterpreted to mean every thing the state does or should provide today can’t exist without it.

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

The Princess Bride, silent movie comedies like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplain, or nature docs are my go to sick watches

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren’t invited to where people were actually having fun.

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

People infected with conservatism tend to turn into Mr. Magoo when looking at the majority of evidence, it’s easier to accept and spread FUD that way.

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

The person holding the camera

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

Best we can do is cold and half spilled into a paper bag

whotookkarl, 9 days ago

Huckleberry but apparently they are really difficult to farm.