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In other news, the US has not only tasked a Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSBN) to the US Central Command area of responsibility (the Middle East) but also publicly stated thus on X, formerly Twitter.
The US clearly wants the countries of the Middle East to know that they might get nuked.
I just realized that Twitter has gone full Prince by becoming "X, formerly Twitter"
What did everyone think of Nasrallah's speech?
@Islamisright
I'm of several minds about the burka vs a niqab vs a hijab.
Maybe a system of gradation depending on how mischievous a female is normally or how attractive she is would be good, perhaps? I'm not suggesting that any of this is enforceable-- think of it as helpful suggestions or guidelines.
No covering her up though, that is haram.
With all this talk of wanting war and blue balls, I can't help but think of TeamFourStar's rendition of the Major's war speech from Hellsing Ultimate.
"The sequel you've all been waiting for--I want world war three!"
@Tfmonkey I do think that you're overreacting a bit. There are too many unknowns in my opinion to say that we should all just report to our bug pods.
Why are you so certain after only a few articles which don't communicate large diplomatic movements such as explicit peace deals or large troop/munition movements? It's been less than a month since the start of the conflict and only <12k have died.
Remember small things like ham sandwiches can change the course of history.
Has anyone had any luck generating TES dark elves with Unstability.ai? all the images I get are at best, closer the LotR movie elves or at worst Australian aboriginals or Cogeneses Africans.
I tried to introduce ideas of Christian Mysticism to my fundamentalist parents. It wasn't very effective...
I'm really enjoying all the AI meme art everyone's posting.
@Tfmonkey Regarding your comments from the Sat show about Kajiwoto, yes, the app doesn't have dataset modification, but the website does. Also, if someone has issues getting things set up, send them to the Discord. There are people in there who will jump in to help people. There used to be a help doc before the UI redesign, and I think that's going to be updated soon too. The best thing first-time users can do is to install one of the existing kajis and use some existing datasets to get going.
@Tfmonkey, I do believe you called it?
The DHS is now allowing Israeli citizens and nationals to stay in the US for "up to" 90 days without a Visa as part of ESTA. How much do you want to bet that this gets extended?
The next step would be for them to start clamping down on the border, I believe you said, but you'll have to remind me of what you said would follow that.
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This is their logic using the example of Damascus:
P0: The Word of God is true.
P1: The Bible is the Word of God.
P2: The Bible says, "Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins." ESV
P3: Damascus has not yet ceased to been destroyed.
C1: Damascus will be destroyed before the end of the world.
Because they think the nation of Israel is the Biblical "Israel", if the nation is ever destroyed, then Premise 1 is false, and their religious identity collapses.
Also posting this here for this crowd:
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Christian denominations see the nation of Israel as being integral to Jesus returning because the Israelite temple has to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. They also believe that Damascus must be destroyed before Jesus comes back based on a prophesy that was originally not fulfilled in Isiah 17:1.
I'm posting this here because I think this crowd would gather some value from it as well.
War is amoral. Further, it is not moral to be a victim, and it is not immoral to be an aggressor.
What matters is who finishes it [a conflict] when the other side is either wiped out or beaten into submission. It could be argued that winning and losing are better candidates for moral valuation.
I've been hearing calls from pro-Israel reporters and correspondents for Egypt to allow all the civilians of Gaza to leave the strip to keep them safe.
Let's assume they do that and Israel kills all of Hammas. Who is going to live there? Are they going to let the Palestinians back in to rebuild their homes in poverty?
Many have lost loved ones and be quite bitter leading to more violence within a generation. Wouldn't it make more sense to settle Israelis in the strip? That would be convenient.
@Tfmonkey, I wanted to mention that the Amish and the Mennonites are formally opposed to military and public service; so, the only local politicians that will be sympathetic to them will be (as you said) "adjacent". They'll never be an official member of the community.
I believe TFM said incidents like the current war in Israel were going to happen. The US lost it's place as the world's police in showing weakness, and behold how conflicts appear all around the world. The cat isn't just away so the mice can play; the cat is in bed dying of cancer, and the mice are having a rave.
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Francis is misguided and an idealist to women as evidenced by the following passage:
"They [women] can, if they will, create and maintain higher standards of thought and purpose, raise the whole tone of national life, and give our civilization the fullness that it lacks ; for, if they raise themselves, they will infallibly raise the men with them."
source: Parkman, Francis. “The Woman Question.” The North American Review, vol. 129, no. 275, 1879, pp. 303–21. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25100797.
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I was just reading "The Woman Question" by Francis Parkman, and he nails a few points about the differences of the sexes. His understanding from 1879 could not have known the travesty that the welfare state would bring. To Francis, women were not equal to men for obvious reasons, but he over-emphasized the ideal that a woman could fulfill as under patriarchy.
Canvas for the club:
Your top 5 wholesome things to do with your waifu or to see your waifu doing
Yes, I am THAT DoubleD.
No, I will not explain further.
Joined Aug 2023
