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ArchangelZeriel is not now nor has he ever been a king
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...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.
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...
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.
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.
Admittedly it would be funny as hell to watch a certain class of folks get defeated by their own rebellious robot army.
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"
It ebbs and flows, but personally I feel like this arc is one of the slower ones.
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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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.
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)
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.
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.
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...
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."
Drugs are super expensive. No one is giving them to your kids for free in Halloween candy.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.)
(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".
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.
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.