If my son required 10 years of blanket immunity for any and all federal crimes he committed or may have committed, it would be my act of love to let him be indicted.
Kiddo.... Stop breaking federal laws.
Kiddo.... Stop breaking federal laws.
Would you give her blanket immunity for federal crimes over a more than 10 year period?
De Beers just implemented huge price cuts on raw diamonds of up to 10% because prices in the market were falling so fast and they wanted to implement a price floor.
There are a lot of things this could mean, but the narrative that makes the most sense to me is the middle, upper middle, and lower upper classes are cutting back on luxuries because they're being squeezed by inflation.
Some people claim that sanctions on Russian diamonds are causing prices to drop, but that's the opposite of the reaction you'd expect. Russian sanctions would be more likely to raise prices outside of Russia, since a major source of diamonds would be eliminated.
Another potential problem people cite is that lab grown diamonds are becoming more accepted, but there's no reason why that would have happened just recently to this extent unless something else such as economic pressures was causing people to rethink the natural diamond market. DeBeers has also reduced prices for its lab-grown diamonds by nearly 40%
There are a lot of things this could mean, but the narrative that makes the most sense to me is the middle, upper middle, and lower upper classes are cutting back on luxuries because they're being squeezed by inflation.
Some people claim that sanctions on Russian diamonds are causing prices to drop, but that's the opposite of the reaction you'd expect. Russian sanctions would be more likely to raise prices outside of Russia, since a major source of diamonds would be eliminated.
Another potential problem people cite is that lab grown diamonds are becoming more accepted, but there's no reason why that would have happened just recently to this extent unless something else such as economic pressures was causing people to rethink the natural diamond market. DeBeers has also reduced prices for its lab-grown diamonds by nearly 40%
I was watching the movie "singing in the rain" last night with my boy. He loved the singing and tapdancing numbers. He was pretending to tapdance during "good morning"
Two thoughts...
First, it might just be me, but I feel like they did a lot more with explicit body language than most film today does. The whole story of the blonde actress and the male lead told without needing words for anyone with an eye.
Second, I dated a girl who looked and sounded just like the blonde actress lol. Very pretty girl but deeply flawed (which maybe explains what she dated me lmfao)
Two thoughts...
First, it might just be me, but I feel like they did a lot more with explicit body language than most film today does. The whole story of the blonde actress and the male lead told without needing words for anyone with an eye.
Second, I dated a girl who looked and sounded just like the blonde actress lol. Very pretty girl but deeply flawed (which maybe explains what she dated me lmfao)
I think a lot of good people are realizing that postmodernism is a dead end. It's great that you can point out all the things that are wrong with the world, but that's all you can do. And if all you can do is tear things down then eventually there's nothing left. There's obviously things that should be torn down, we tore down institutions such as chattel slavery, we largely ended absolute monarchy, there are all kinds of things that we ended, and many of those things needed to be ended, but the problem is it's a saw -- and if you apply a saw indiscriminately to anything it's going to get cut.
In the Bible and Christianity there are two separate things that are needed.
The Old testament tells us that there are rules and that God has a vision for how people should be and how the world should be, and that if you don't follow that vision it won't just affect you, it could affect your children, it could affect your lands, it could affect your people. And by the way, whether or not you think it's fair it is true. There are many people out there today who live without virtue whatever you wanted to find that virtue as, and by rejecting virtue they seal their fates.
Even if you don't believe in a God who is enforcing the rules, there is a physical world that will enforce the rules, and it is unforgiving and will wipe you and your entire bloodline out if you are too huberistic. Prior to the Christian religion, religions such as Greek myth or Roman myth saw the gods as much less fair, and that they were Petty and cruel and would mess with Petty mortals for arbitrary and capricious reasons. This represents the fact that out there in the world arbitrary things can happen. How many good people died during the hurricanes this year? Christianity's solution to this problem is to tell us that this is not the end, and if those people were good then even if they unfairly met their maker, if they nonetheless followed God's commandments they would face a reward we couldn't see. This is consistent with a god whose character is not arbitrarily changing and providing us with boons on a hollow whim, but one whose character is stable and can be relied on forever as loving his creation.
The New testament tells us that God recognizes our fallibility, and loves us and in spite of our fallibility as humans, he is willing to forgive those who repent in their hearts for all the times that they miss the mark. The synergy of justice and love is the final overall product, not just the Old testament and certainly not just the New testament.
Postmodernism would reject both of these Grand narratives. It would tear down everything, and to what end?
One thing that I do think is important is the fact that more than one ideology can exist and should exist at one time. Just as the Old testament and the New testament relate fundamentally different sorts of ideologies that must exist in synergy, Western Civilization further expands with things like classical civilizations philosophy which was the basis of the Renaissance and ultimately the enlightenment whose golden future we are living in today. I've written that length in the past that you need more than one ideology, and perhaps you need far more than one ideology. The one thing that you shouldn't have is your dominant ideology is the idea that you're tearing everything down.
Another thing that's probably quite important is the fact that where postmodernism and the current main line ideology of what's left of individualist consumerism is a road to misery, and so building to the Bible is a vision for how Christianity can help build communities. Church communities may be flawed, they are after all made up of flawed individuals, but they are important to the well-being of the individual, the community, city, and ultimately the nation. None of us are islands.
Of course, I'm just a retard on the internet so keep that in mind. I speak big words good, but I'm about his intelligence as dog digging up the yard trying to find that bone.
When my son was born, I bought an illustrated kids Bible that we are now on the second time through, and I bought him a beautiful leather-bound King James bible, but if I'm being totally honest with all the thees and thous, I have definitely considered picking up one of the modern English versions.
In the Bible and Christianity there are two separate things that are needed.
The Old testament tells us that there are rules and that God has a vision for how people should be and how the world should be, and that if you don't follow that vision it won't just affect you, it could affect your children, it could affect your lands, it could affect your people. And by the way, whether or not you think it's fair it is true. There are many people out there today who live without virtue whatever you wanted to find that virtue as, and by rejecting virtue they seal their fates.
Even if you don't believe in a God who is enforcing the rules, there is a physical world that will enforce the rules, and it is unforgiving and will wipe you and your entire bloodline out if you are too huberistic. Prior to the Christian religion, religions such as Greek myth or Roman myth saw the gods as much less fair, and that they were Petty and cruel and would mess with Petty mortals for arbitrary and capricious reasons. This represents the fact that out there in the world arbitrary things can happen. How many good people died during the hurricanes this year? Christianity's solution to this problem is to tell us that this is not the end, and if those people were good then even if they unfairly met their maker, if they nonetheless followed God's commandments they would face a reward we couldn't see. This is consistent with a god whose character is not arbitrarily changing and providing us with boons on a hollow whim, but one whose character is stable and can be relied on forever as loving his creation.
The New testament tells us that God recognizes our fallibility, and loves us and in spite of our fallibility as humans, he is willing to forgive those who repent in their hearts for all the times that they miss the mark. The synergy of justice and love is the final overall product, not just the Old testament and certainly not just the New testament.
Postmodernism would reject both of these Grand narratives. It would tear down everything, and to what end?
One thing that I do think is important is the fact that more than one ideology can exist and should exist at one time. Just as the Old testament and the New testament relate fundamentally different sorts of ideologies that must exist in synergy, Western Civilization further expands with things like classical civilizations philosophy which was the basis of the Renaissance and ultimately the enlightenment whose golden future we are living in today. I've written that length in the past that you need more than one ideology, and perhaps you need far more than one ideology. The one thing that you shouldn't have is your dominant ideology is the idea that you're tearing everything down.
Another thing that's probably quite important is the fact that where postmodernism and the current main line ideology of what's left of individualist consumerism is a road to misery, and so building to the Bible is a vision for how Christianity can help build communities. Church communities may be flawed, they are after all made up of flawed individuals, but they are important to the well-being of the individual, the community, city, and ultimately the nation. None of us are islands.
Of course, I'm just a retard on the internet so keep that in mind. I speak big words good, but I'm about his intelligence as dog digging up the yard trying to find that bone.
When my son was born, I bought an illustrated kids Bible that we are now on the second time through, and I bought him a beautiful leather-bound King James bible, but if I'm being totally honest with all the thees and thous, I have definitely considered picking up one of the modern English versions.
Which I guess is to say, he should absolutely do it. "Burn it all to the ground Biden". Lol the president who got more votes than any other president in history.
Lol can you imagine the political impact I'm doing something like that?
There would never be another Democratic politician elected for the rest of us history...
There would never be another Democratic politician elected for the rest of us history...
They actually have some hair but listened to a YouTube video that told them that if they're even a little bald they should just shave it all off.
Aliens don't yet realize you shouldn't trust everything you read on the internet.
Aliens don't yet realize you shouldn't trust everything you read on the internet.
Might as well, he's already being treated like it's entirely his fault Kamala lost the election. I bet you that he burns every bridge before he leaves, and no that doesn't mean for the maga side.
One of the ingredients in mayonnaise is raw egg. If you cook the egg, you can't make mayonnaise with it.
Even though it's in canada, it's basically a rust belt town. The whole region was largely forestry and paper before those industries were moved first to South America and then eventually just to China. The whole region has been absolutely devastated by globalization and the like, and none of these lefties care in the least as to the struggles of towns like that.
This is basically just kicking a homeless person on the street. "Get a job learning to code gay things!"
This is basically just kicking a homeless person on the street. "Get a job learning to code gay things!"
[Admin mode] Doing some maintenance behind the scenes, might be a bit slow for the afternoon. Hoping the maintenance will improve overall performance.
It just occurred to me that people who pronounce "actor" as "hawk tuah" want to tell us how to vote to run the country.
Either way, can we make John Bolton the ambassador to space and then just shoot him in a rocket into space? We can make it a lifetime appointment.
I sometimes wonder if AI will get so good someday that it'll be able to take your life's worth of social media posts and turn it into a simulacrum of yourself. Once I'm gone, will an advanced AI be able to take all my effortposts from the fediverse and create a longwinded, incredibly pretentious version of me (to fit my posts on the fediverse :P)?