His intention is to travel across the surface of the ocean. If he visits the sea floor, there will have been a problem

Florida has BBQ? I’ve been there a bunch and have never heard of it

Nah, fuck that shit. Texas politics suck hard, but not like Florida suck. The Texas Legislature is out of their minds, but they still follow rules of procedure. Florida’s government is fucking gone

This has become the culture at many if not most large companies. Only the people who are willing to totally debase themselves and incessantly parrot the company line rise to the top, and that has an inverse relationship with talent.

I didn’t say that. Yahweh used to be a part of a polytheistic religion and over time became the only god. That doesn’t make polytheism and monotheism the same thing, but it does make Allah and God the same god as the Yahweh from the original polytheistic religion.

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The etymology of some words have previous origins, but that’s it.

What are you basing this on? It’s pretty settled among historians that the Abrahamic God is Yahweh, who was previously a minor deity in the Canaanite pantheon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

The concept of God in…all of Abrahamic monotheism…is very different from other religions (including the pagan religions of the time), it’s way less bestial and/or anthropomorphic and local.

Whoa. Super judgemental here, and also wrong.

Semitic polytheism transitioned into Abrahamic monotheism by way of Yahwism, a variety of Canaanite paganism centred on Yahweh, the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah. In this process, Yahweh was syncretized with El, the supreme god of the Canaanite pantheon, whose name “El” אל, or elah אלה is a word for “god” in Hebrew, cognate to Arabic ʼilāh إله, and its definitive pronoun form الله Allāh, “(The) God”.

It’s a headline not based on the article for sure. There’s no question about it existing

God that article made me queasy. As a Texan, I hope for a day when we’ll have state leadship who is interested in protecting the people of Texas rather than lying and covering up to protect exploitative business leaders

Isn’t there evidence that the Canaanite gods El and Ba’al were merged into Yahweh, who remains to this day the Christian god and the Islamic Allah? These people are burning their own god

Edit: My Lemmy client is messing up and won’t let me respond to comments. Just wanted to add that yeah, the Muslim Allah is the same Abrahamic God that Christians and Jews worship. In fact, the name “Allah” is directly derived from the god “El”:

The majority of scholars consider[Allah] to be derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- and ilāh “deity, god” to al-lāh meaning “the deity, the God.” Originally, ʾilāh was used as an epithet for the West Semitic creator god ʾIlu (the Ugaritic version of El), before being adopted as the proper name itself for this god

El, Ba’al, Yahweh, God, and Allah are all wrapped up in each other

This reads like even medevac helicopters will be grounded. Don’t have a medical emergency in a rural part of the Trans-Pecos, I guess

Every time I glance at her picture, I think she’s wearing a hospital gown and hospital band. Freda Jackson just looks like she should be in the hospital

Edit: I looked this story up, and her beef was definitely with the British travel agency that fucked up multiple aspects of her trip, not the people of Spain. This is just Daily Mail nonsense

First guy: “I’ve never been manic in my life. I’m not bipolar."

I’m just highly skeptical of this.

Second guy: That wasn’t the worst of it. At that point he had blown nearly $12,000 trying to create world-changing code. He became manic, and his concerned therapist called the cops to check in on him. He was institutionalized for nearly two weeks

Yeah that sounds right. Regarding “AI psychosis,” everything I’ve read indicates it exacerbates existing psychoses, it doesn’t create them. That’s not to say it can’t mess with people’s psychology, especially the stuff around suicide, but I think the “AI psychosis” the media portrays is not real

I’ll always support all vaccines. They’re preventive medicine that reduces healthcare utilization in the long term

The National Guard is a part time job, one weekend per month and two weeks per year. Unless you get called by your governor, that is, to patrol the streets of New Orleans indefinitely with no end goal. Also, no one around you wants you there. Not a surprise that a mistake like this would happen under these circumstances.

Also, going to the bathroom in the French Quarter can be an ordeal for anyone, honestly

What evidence is there of that?

And are you implying Kid Rock hasn’t gotten plastic surgery?

What, you don’t like being manfluenced? Something off-putting to you about manfluence? What’s wrong with being a manfluencing manfluencer?

Yeah, I said when it functions well

Fuck, now the Parry Gripp song is stuck in my head. My son moved on from this a couple years ago, but the horrors persist