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He came once about 2000 years ago, and he still hasn’t had his second coming.

I’m guessing this shirt must be a reference to something that I don’t know. If I saw somebody wearing this shirt, the only thing I would conclude is that they must be a furry.

If a home invader breaks into your house, and kidnaps your sister, then says, “I’m taking her out to my van. I’ll be right back to kidnap you next,” you’d be freaking out, yes, but it would be weird to say that you’re freaking out because of the precedent.

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It’s now a “banned new account”.

Just because they’re man-made distinctions doesn’t mean that they cannot be discussed or don’t have beginnings.

You can argue Newton fit the bill even though Liebniz was a peer of his. Einstein and Oppenheimer, etc.

Those are ones you can argue, though. Nobody would ever seriously argue that Kaczynski was anywhere near the top of his generation. There is no informed list of the greatest mathematicians that has Kaczynski on it.

Let’s imagine that, instead of being caught, Kaczynski simply stopped bombing things and was never caught, and lived out the remainder of his life in that shack. In that case, he’d be an obscure genius mathematician who wrote a few exceptional papers. There are a lot of people like that.

I suspect that while right now, you think it’s “a common phrase for an exceptional mind,” if you really looked into its usage, you’d find that it’s generally used for somebody who actually is uniquely exceptional for their time.

“A once-in-a-generation mathematical genius” is an extreme exaggeration, to the point that I suspect the person who used the phrase doesn’t really understand what it means. The implication of “once-in-a-generation” is that there is about a 20 year window somewhere around their birth where nobody was born who was better.

Don’t Confuse Dying for Oil with Dying for Freedom

Okay, we know it’s about oil, but hear me out, What if it was for freedom? Would that make it okay? I think the official justification for the attack is that the US doesn’t recognize Maduro as the winner of the last election and claims that he is running a “narco-state.”

Is that really justification for using military action and taking over a government ourselves? Maybe the US is right about the election and Maduro didn’t win legitimately, but the US didn’t win the election, either. The US is even less legitimate than Maduro ever was.

We all know that this conflict is about oil, but even the justification is an admission of something horrible.

Now that I think about it, back on Reddit, there was some subreddit where they kept a list of all the shit Trump did. I think it was called “keep track” or something. It’s one thing that I didn’t easily see on Lemmy. So, it’s nice to see that somebody is keeping a similar list somewhere.

Hell, the Nobel Peace Prize is already a complete joke. The last person who won it was a right-wing lady who praised Trump for destroying all of those boats and murdering their crew near Venezuela. The only reason Trump isn’t in the running is that the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s egos won’t stand for Trump’s giant ego.

The Epstein files already have revealed allegations of infanticide against Trump.

But realistically, Trump’s personality doesn’t require him to compare the two things. He has one thing that he doesn’t want to do and it makes him look weak. And then he thinks people might be distracted if he does this other thing that he really really wants to do, anyways.

We’re lucky somebody must have kept Trump from dropping nuclear bombs on Venezuela.

What’s not funny is that Elon Musk is CEO of a space travel company and what you’re describing he’s doing is almost the same thing that caused HAL 9000 to go insane in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

President Trump has created a unique political reality, largely by leading through instinct

… “leading through INSTINCT”??? I get that the article is complete bullshit, but nobody has an “instinct” to be a good president. I can guarantee that all of the best presidents in history (1) understood the importance and history of their office, (2) surrounded themselves and appointed the best talents they could find, (3) proactively tried to be the best president, and (4) stayed awake during important meetings.

The author is similarly insulting in saying “gifted athletes.” Do you know the one thing all top athletes have in common? It’s that they work their asses off. Even if they’re naturally gifted, it won’t amount to shit without putting in the work.

In countries where the military is aggressively attacking non-combatants in other countries, their war criminal leaders are the most legitimate targets imaginable.

Life isn’t exactly like chess, in that in life, it’s not always enough to eliminate the king. But, if you keep eliminating king after king until somebody reasonable assumes control, it seems like the least bloody way to end conflict.

Remember this last year when Charlie Kirk was shot in the fucking neck? That was pretty eventful.

“This arrangement, now in place for 236 years, has served the country well,” Roberts wrote in the report, which was released by the Supreme Court hours before the start of the new year.

“It was only when I started giving Trump all of the power that is supposed to lie in the Supreme Court that the arrangement started to fail,” Roberts continued. “I thought I could get an even greater position of power by kowtowing to the demands of Trump, but now he says that my ass isn’t as supple as it used to be, and that I keep losing concentration when I’m servicing him. But what can I do? He keeps falling asleep in the middle. Justice Thomas said the same thing. I knew people had said that with Trump, loyalty is a one-way street, but it’s shocking to experience it myself. I used to have all the power in the world, but now I just really feel used by this whole ordeal.”

The hardest part was getting my Windows-only games to play properly in Linux. Rocket League was relatively easy, but Skyrim was a real pain to get working. But now that Skyrim is working, it strangely feels either the same or slightly better than it does in Windows.

I’m not saying that my Linux installation was super easy to set up, but once set up, I’ve had fewer problems than Windows.

Strange choice to make the time traveler a young child and eager to talk about their parents having sex.

They had people working on New Year’s Day?