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True. But that would mean no proofreading.

09.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Note this is from a reporter who calls it the *Straight* of Hormuz.

09.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The people who objected, I might mention, all became anti-Trumpers.
(The man who runs the site was prominent among the first Never Trumpers. Still is.)

09.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

King's bigotry had a wide spread of targets and mixed in anti-Blackness and misogyny. Have Ogles and Fine gone there?
I was regularly in an online conservative space for most of the Bush/Obama years. Comments like Fine's were regular there although others would object to them.

09.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ogles/Fine haven't said anything that wasn't a common idea among the GOP base for the last 25 years. Also iirc both stick to Islamophobia and its variants. King was explicitly white nationalist, it took a few years for them to actually take action, and they'd probably do nothing now about him.

09.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A golem can observe the conditions around them. Can Adam do that?

09.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is he observant in any way?
I know nothing about him beyond his posts, but I never had the sense he is.

09.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The emphasis on sex is just Christians imposing their own misreading on an already existing text. Just as they do with most of the "Old Testament".

06.03.2026 12:49 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not only are there antisemites who have Jewish spouses and kids, but there are antisemites who are Jews.
There's a long line of them going back to Roman times.

05.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Any relation?

05.03.2026 13:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At least he didn't mix it up with Chanukah or Pesach.
(And there is a gragger in there.)

05.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus's real innovation there was expanding the definition of adultery so that the man's status as married made it adultery even if the woman wasn't married.

04.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not divorce.
His view on divorce was almost exactly the one held by Beth Shammai: only for adultery. Beth Hillel were the ones who said a man could divorce his wife for any reason.

04.03.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I can't even say it once. Slowly.

04.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tbh, I've only seen people who support both the Presbyterian minister and the ex-Blackwater mercenary, or who oppose both. I haven't seen anyone oppose one but not the other.

04.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's more habemus filium, isn't it?

03.03.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Platner just gives a bunch of standard antiwar rhetoric.
Mills calls out the people who are letting Trump getting away with what he wants, including the person who is most Maine-relevant.

28.02.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And Greenwald decided to retweet Nick Shirley's endorsement of that video.
If you don't remember, Shirley is the guy who invaded Minnesota day care while trying to find Somali "fraud".

26.02.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Non-Orthodox tend to just fade into being one of many groups that are leftist, progressive, or centrist but have no reach among Jews who don't already agree with them.

26.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Given that it's an ongoing process for the last two decades at least, intense is not the word I would use.
But increasingly it's Orthodox groups that are overtly religious and tend to be socially conservative who can claim to be communal voices for Jews, not ADL or the other legacies. /1

26.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This obviously would have been useful

22.02.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1)My weather apps have been relatively accurate about temperature this winter but not accurate about rain (forecasting more than really happens).
2)I assume Trump's staff and budget whacking NWS/NOAA have to impact forecasting ability.

21.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

....and an AdΓ»naic targum running at the bottom of the folio.

21.02.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How about
"She's so beautiful not even a bad hairdresser could ruin her looks!"
Or
"How wise she is to show us why the rafters should never see the wife's hair!"

17.02.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If they ran ads against him, wouldn't it mean they did it purposefully (as a warning to others)?
Probably don't need psychic powers to predict they'll be spending some money on behalf of the GOP candidate.

06.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

He could have saved space by dropping the first two paragraphs.

03.02.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They were (in relative terms--I don't remember the precise amount) expensive when I was in school in the 1970s. Which is why the only one I got was for senior year, so we could sign everybody's pictures, and which is why it was my mother who paid for it, not me.

31.01.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not proficient in Hebrew so I've davened mostly in English all my laugh (mainly Orthodox or traditionalist siddurim). I agree about the beauty of Hebrew but the English versions don't sound cringey to me.

30.01.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any federal agency. Not just law enforcement.
I mean, can you trust anyone who is hired by RFK Jr? (Or who would willingly work for him?)

30.01.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So maybe that's why they stopped minting pennies....

28.01.2026 03:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0