I was going to say “drop kick” but remove has a nice professional sound to it too.

Tarrifs on Russia will be pointless

Nope!

Sure thing, let’s just go to the unredacted Mueller Rep- AW GODDAMMIT

Or never knew them to begin with

It’s been amazing to watch an entire country flush its goodwill down the toilet in relatively no time at all.

It doesn’t say what region the draftees will be coming from.

There’s a fair chance they won’t be coming from Moscow.

Like, 100%.

Well he’s got a puppet running the US so, why not.

ooooo those French! ;)

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So ordered.

Unfair Use

Remember WeWork? It’s the ultimate example of putting tech-coloured lipstick on a pig.

Daaaaaaamn

That’s re-victimization. People do people stuff, like using social networks.

Giving one’s real name and real information to a social network who is intending to track everything one does or says and the people one does or says it with is idiocy and it has never not been.

People do people stuff like not listening to people who have constantly been telling them not to push the button.

People stuff also includes continuing to use these horror networks for years after knowing full well they shouldn’t.

In July 2022, Twitter confirmed that someone had exploited the vulnerability before it could be fixed. “After reviewing a sample of the data offered for sale, we confirmed that a malicious party had taken advantage of the problem before it was addressed,” Twitter stated at the time.

lol

So the ridiculously overvalued pump-and-dump paid for the real assets that he then destroyed but will bail out with the magical cauldron of venture capital so everything’s just fine.

Can’t see any problems here.

This explains some of the reasoning, although because it was 350 CE they can’t confirm anything with 100% certainty. Such is history.

What is certain to anyone who has studied it even a little bit is that the winter solstice was near-universally recognized by all cultures prior to the common era.

December 25 is very often the solstice, or close enough to it that it was selected by some as the annual celebration for their deity of choice. As the article notes, in Rome that was the birthday of Sol Invictus. It’s also the birthday of Saturn, Mithras, and depending on whether you believe some fourth-century Christian authors, also Horus.

So Pope Julius “chose” - note that no one is in any doubt the date was selected, it wasn’t like Jesus’ old birthday cards were found and everyone knew that was his actual birthday - Pope Julius chose Dec 25 as the annual celebration day for Jesus. That became known as his birthday. But it wasn’t. What it WAS was the winter solstice.

No. I mean, first of all let’s start with the fact that both Winter solstice and Spring Equinox were so-called pagan holidays that Christianty subsumed. Right? Let’s start there.

Then let’s understand that those so-called pagan holidays were traditions based on earlier - much earlier - observances. And those observances were astronomical in origin.

The winter solstice is when the sun stops moving for three days - it rises in the same location whereas all the time before that it had been moving slightly every day.

After those three days it starts moving back. That’s the birth. Life is born again. We’re going to make it around the sun another time. That sort of thing.

Spring / Vernal equinox is when we make sure everyone has progeny. Rabbits. Flowers. Eggs. Chrisitanity decided to appropriate this one to mark Jesus’ ascent into heaven. Fine. But irrelevant. Because it has nothing to do with life on earth - very literally, it’s about leaving earth and going to heaven.

That’s why there’s such a disconnect about crucifixion and rabbits and eggs. They don’t have anything to do with each other because the church yoinked a pagan tradition to keep people from celebrating it outside the church.

Not really! I mean like - why does life exist? Is there any relevance in the idea of reincarnation? Does time exist outside of us? What is “good works”?

Someone hold forth on a personal story that exemplifies something good.

You’d think we have enough stoners to get something like that going, but not really. And the esoterica side of Lemmy is very tiny and not well-attended.

tbh I think tumblr’s got more of a corner on that kind of work/vibe.

Not that Lemmy can’t or won’t become that but at the moment it’s more like alternate reality reddit which atm is just fine for most people.

The thing I notice is there’s not really a good substitute for talking about the big questions yet.

I mean, I’m not missing any religion, but practically there was an hour or so a week dedicated specifically to thinking and talking about life from a non-materialistic perspective, and I think a lot of people now just - never do.

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Like all religion, it can be messed up and carried on.

Sort of like when the winter solstice turned into “dead and buried three days, then rose again” and a bunch of zombie religions are still around.