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  • How would a wealth tax affect real estate rentals?

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  • I think that the implication was that they would have to sell in order to come up with the cash to pay the tax?

  • Say what, now?

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  • Say what, now?

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  • Violence.

  • At what point should a Polycule have more than 1 tooth brush?

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  • It's what you get when one or more mommycules and one or more daddycules love each other very much...

  • Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??

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  • EDIT: Hahaha, instant downvote!

    For the record, the downvote was from me, and it was because you are being an ass.

  • Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??

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  • It must be very convenient to be able to declare victory in a discussion without hanging to present an actual argument. 😉

  • Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??

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  • You are thinking about this the wrong way. From the scraps of information that we do have, which includes volumes of work by Jesus's followers, there are two extremes one could take: we know absolutely nothing about Jesus or whether he even existed, or we know absolutely everything about Jesus. I agree that the later extreme is wrongheaded, but surely treating it as a binary choice so that the only other possibility is that we can say nothing at all about Jesus is also wrongheaded.

    You might argue reasonably, of course, that his followers cannot be trusted, so we can learn nothing from their writings. This is not true, however, because if nothing else we can learn from the editorial choices that they made; for example, when a Gospel goes out of is way to explain a detail that would have been embarrassing to contemporaries, this actually provides potential evidence that this detail was true and widely known at the time so that it needed to be explained, because otherwise it would just have been left out.

    At the end of the day, scholarship is essentially about weighing probabilities rather than certainties, and good scholars do not pretend otherwise.

  • Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??

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  • Keep in mind that most likely the historical Jesus was just one of many apocalyptic preachers going around telling people that, within the lifetime of some present, God was going to come down and vanquish evil once and for all, so one had better be prepared and be on God's good side when this happened. (Incidentally, the Romans probably could not have cared less about this; it was when they got word that he was claiming to be an earthly king--which may have been how Judas actually betrayed him--that they got seriously pissed and executed him because they had a zero tolerance policy for that kind of thing.)

    You can see imminent apocalypse theme in the epistles where John Paul writes that there is no real point making big life changes like getting married since the world is going to end any day; amusingly, when this did not happen, they needed to start coming up with alternative policies, and so other letters start to set down rules which thematically contradict the earlier letters, but it turns out that there are other things about these letters that make them different too so I'm many cases they are considered to be forgeries. (Obviously this is an oversimplification of the academic research!)

    (Also, it's also worth noting that John Paul and the apostles had really different notions of what Jesus was all about, and part of the whole point of Acts is to paper over these differences and make it seem like they had all been past of one team all along.)

    Finally, it is worth pointing out that there were a lot of texts floating around in the same genre as Revelation, so it was not all that unique and it almost did not make it's way into the Bible, but the Church Fathers thought incorrectly that the John who wrote it was the same as the author of the Gospel of John; if they had known that these were two different Johns, then the Left Behind series would never have been written (amount other consequences).

    So in conclusion, be very wary of trying to read a lot of significance into the New Testament as a whole because it was not a unified document written with single purpose.

    Edit: Gah! I wrote John above when I meant Paul. How embarrassing!

  • I just started my first course without having to dismiss "public static void" in the first lesson as "we'll get to that later". I'm loving this.

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  • Sure, but I think the argument in favor of this feature is that the overwhelming majority of people picking up programming for the first time tend to be beginners, so if it helps them learn the basics before having to grapple with OOP then it is worthwhile.

  • Computer: execute cmake

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  • You misspelled GNURU.

  • TIL: Washington DC license plates say "End Taxation Without Representation"

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  • It would not be giving D.C. too much power because ultimately Congress governs D.C., not the local government which exists entirely at Congress's pleasure, so this would at least give D.C. some influence over its own government rather than none, which is what it currently has.

  • Cosmic DE & Pop!_OS 24.04 BETA

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  • Agreed, but I am a little annoyed that they held up all of Pop!_OS for COSMIC.

  • Cosmic DE & Pop!_OS 24.04 BETA

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  • The question is whether they will release it before or after Ubuntu 26.04 LTS...

  • Cosmic DE & Pop!_OS 24.04 BETA

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  • You should read it as "beta of the LTS release", in which case it is not so strange.

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    Notorious software bug was killing people 40 years ago — at least three people died after radiation doses that were 100x too strong from the buggy Therac-25 radiation therapy machine

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  • You could imagine rest runs (without people in there, obviously) where you want the thing to quickly emit a lot of energy.

    I find it concerning that the machine can only rest when it emits a lot of energy.

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    Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd

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  • Using plainer language, it is really just a fancy way of saying that there is an ultimate cause-like thing in the sense that clearly forms exist, rather than nothing existing, so we may as well name it "the source" because that is more descriptive than more flowery names like Brahman or Tao. (Also, the term God is misleading because usually people associate it with a particular form, but the source cannot have a form because then there would be need to be a cause for that form!)

    This might seem like abstract philosophy, but believe it or not it is actually directly relevant to you personally! You already know all of this intuitively because you are aware of the fact that you are aware, which means that you are directly aware of the existence of the source—in fact, in a way, you are already in union with the source of reality, because the whole point of the source is to make things exist rather than not existing, and at the core of your experience you are something that exists.

    The reason why you might not appreciate this is because you (like me, and most other people) probably spend most of your time focused outward on the objects in your awareness, rather than on your awareness itself. However, it turns out that there is a lot of happiness and wisdom that can be gained by spending time practicing being consciously aware of the feeling of being aware; at the very least, I think it is really exciting to play with trying to connect more with the ultimate reality at the core of my being to gain intuition about the nature of reality! 😀 As a caveat, though: it's actually surprisingly tricky because it is hard to consciously change your focus to the feeling of being aware of being aware, so if you want to play with this then you need to be relaxed and watchful to create the conditions under which this can happen spontaneously.

  • White House says TikTok's algorithm and data will be controlled 'by America' in new deal

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  • They can’t have videos and images of their atrocities, imperialism and authoritarianism being passed around like donuts.

    But what is terrible about it is that they actually have no problem with these things because they have managed to spin them as entertainment: "Enjoy watching and take incredible satisfaction in the terrible things that the Great Leader has deservedly done to the bad guys!"

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  • Found the AI!

  • Devils Panties 09/18/2025

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  • My interpretation of the comic is that he had not done these things until after she had yelled at him, making him realize that the situation was really bad and he needed to take it over from her. Arguably he should have come to this realization sooner, but we all occasionally fail to see what is in front of us time to time, so I am willing to cut him slack given that he immediately jumped in without being asked once it became clear he was needed.