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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king

@archangelzeriel.bsky.social

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Engineer/manager. Progressive. Gamer, but not like "Gamer" gamer. Beer and beard enthusiast. Probably won't follow you back. Currently playing: FFXIV, Silksong, Env Station Alpha On Deck: Factorio Space Age Recently Finished: Clair Obscur

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 55m

...the receiving end of some serious smiting or at least the occasional angelic messenger was not really worthy of the title.

Shame, there are some kernels of good ideas in there among all the weird rules.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 55m

It was, ultimately, the contrast between this (and many similar) passages and the actual behavior of many Christians that caused me to leave the faith. I figured, a God so ineffectual that the vast majority of his so-called worshippers ignored the main thrust of the holy text without being on...

Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Nov 8

I'm not a Christian, and haven't been one for a long time, but i've always found these words and what they're supposed to mean to be the fundamental core of Christianity, even over and above the Sermon on the Mount, and I truly don't understand people who miss this.

"He will say to those on his right, 'Come: take your inheritance. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you invited me in; I needed clothes and you clothed me; I was sick and you looked after me; I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

“And the righteous will answer him, 'When did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When were you a stranger to us yet we invited you in, or in need of clothes and we clothed you? When were you sick or in prison and we cared for you?'

"He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatsoever you did for any of my siblings in need, you also did for me.'

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me. For I was hungry and you told me to starve; I was thirsty and you poisoned my water; I was a stranger and you drove me into the desert and death; I needed clothes and you refused to clothe me; I was sick and in prison and you did not care for me.’

"They also will answer, 'When were you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and yet we did not care for you?'

"He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatsoever you refused to do for any of my siblings in need, you refused to do for me.'"

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 4h

Somehow the fact that they have a time zone configurator and don't automatically do DST is more offensive than just not having the time zone configurator.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 9h

Admittedly it would be funny as hell to watch a certain class of folks get defeated by their own rebellious robot army.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 10h

My money's on "they sell that software set internationally and it would have cost an extra quarter hour of development time to add a time zone selector"

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

It ebbs and flows, but personally I feel like this arc is one of the slower ones.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly, I think the word "trying to decide" gives Brianna Wu far too much credit for having functional thought processes in this regard.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 1d

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 1d

That's a "depends on which comment" thing, the complaining comments on-comic are about half "boo there will never be consequences" and half "hurry it up already, they have been cute long enough".

(I fall into the latter camp, but meh, "I'm not 100% happy with the pacing" is not the worst complaint)

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Watched Halloween (1978) tonight with @jdoern.bsky.social , as is tradition.

Somehow managed to break the blu-ray in some kind of unwatchable skips-huge-portions-of-the-murders way. I didn't even know that was POSSIBLE.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, and let's also not forget that if I had a nickel for every time a woman boxer beat a Russian boxer in a worlds-level bout got accused of being a trans woman immediately after by a Russian boxing organization, I'd have at least two nickels just from last year.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

The thing I say is "If 1% of people are trans (lowballing for effect), then you'd expect 1% of all top women's sports champions to be trans women. If more than 1% are, then trans women have a provable advantage. If MANY less than 1% are, for example the 0% we see in the real world...

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Oh geez, yeah. I found myself telling people "you know that intrusive questionnaire you have to go through to get life insurance above a certain amount these days, where you just know every question is basically adding a line item charge? All health insurance signups used to be like that."

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Drugs are super expensive. No one is giving them to your kids for free in Halloween candy.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I remember being in a weird gray area where I COULD stay on my parent's insurance since they were buying it as individuals (small business owners, y'know) and even then it was $180-ish/mo for a single 18-to-23-yr-old with no smoking, alcohol use, or chronic conditions in 1997-2002.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

A third option is that a lot of people simply didn't have coverage because they didn't believe they needed it or couldn't afford it.

A lot of the specific objections to the ACA were coming from those folks back in the day -- " I don't need health insurance, I'm healthy, why force me to buy it?"

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously, the Maduro regime has provoked him with all SORTS of acts of war like... *cricket noises* ...and as such, the fact he's ONLY doing stand-off missile/air strikes means he's being MORE peaceful than he could have been.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

Charitably, your examples do not show the things you are claiming they do. Neither the "face" nor the "font" examples look anything other than superficially similar to the ChatGPT examples you chose.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, no, you misunderstand. Having FRIENDS and FAMILY and COWORKERS and SOCIAL PEERS in the house is fine. Having HIRED HELP in the house? People of LESSER SOCIAL CLASS and POSSIBLY a DIFFERENT RACE? That's the part that grinds a lot of folks' gears.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 3d

I had a guy's boss call me and ask if I MEANT to leave a $200 tip when I paid. I'm like, fuck, the team was here to do a moving-out cleanup including hauling a fuckin' piano on *checks notes* the record-highest heat index day ever, fuck yes I'm tipping them $200 on a $1000 job.

ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 4d

The kind you hire to clean up once a week instead of every day or live-in. Which is, as far as I can tell, the most common way to get maid service for all but the ultra-wealthy.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 4d

I'd say "who hurt you?" but I lived in a relatively well-to-do suburb, so I know exactly who hurt 'em, and it rhymes with 'itch fight meeple'.)

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 4d

(Nothing, frankly, gets me in more of an angry-left mood in my day-to-day life outside the news when I have service workers of some kind in my house, and they APOLOGETICALLY ask to use the bathroom or grab water and are RIDICULOUSLY grateful when I say "of course you can".

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 4d

From the wealthy folks I've know, probably a combination of "racism" and "generally not wanting to interact with 'the help' as though they're human" -- the "advantage" of the shitty robot is that it's not a real actual human in your house, asking to *gasp* drink your water and use your bathroom.

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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king @archangelzeriel.bsky.social · 4d

I'd go so far to say that I would actively seek out neighbors who spoke a different language, given how I've seen studies that boil down to "being exposed to other languages/cultures makes your kids smarter".

I can see why Vance would oppose that, though.