nelly_man

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[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not an expert in the Bible, but I don't think it really ascribes omnipotency to God. I think it's better to understand it as God being able to do all that can be done. So He may have limitations, but they are such that no other being can do something that He is unable to do.

From that sense, He is not able to save humanity freely, but he can set forth a process through which He can achieve this goal with some cost. I.e., He can create a divine being (that is either Himself in whole, Himself in part, or a direct descendant of Himself depending on your interpretation) that is able to spread His message and display an act of extreme self-sacrifice.

I don't really understand exactly what the sacrifice did or what needed to be fixed, but I do think the stories make a lot more sense if you accept that God has some limitations. For instance, I assume that Noah's flood was his first attempt to fix the problem (by killing everybody except for the most righteous of His creation), but it failed because He can't do everything and doesn't know everything. And the story of Jesus was His next attempt to sort things out.

But that's just me thinking about them as fictional stories that really need to be edited rather than a divine and infallible truth.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's no need to be fair here. Insulin is absolutely essential for diabetics, and the head of the FDA trying to proclaim that cooking classes are a viable alternative is nonsense. For type 1 diabetics, no amount of healthy eating is going to get their body to produce insulin. For type 2 diabetics, it is possible to eventually get to a point where you can be stable without insulin, but not for everybody and not right away. Insulin treatment is the only way to survive with diabetes for an extended period of time, and the focus needs to be on ensuring that insulin is both affordable and accessible.

Yes, there are things to improve in our food supply, but don't let that distract from how egregiously insane his comments are about diabetes.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I think it started around when he married Jenny McCarthy, who has long been a very vocal anti-vaxxer.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It has already metastasized in his bones, so it's much more aggressive than most prostate cancers. After metastasizing there, three 5-year survival rate is about 33% with a median survival time of 21 months. But it's also very rare for it to have already spread elsewhere before being caught, so I'm assuming that means that this is even more aggressive than normal and that 21 months would be optimistic. But I'm not a medical professional, so I can't say how valid this assumption is.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was Gen X.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think a better example for you to follow would be how "a napron" turned into "an apron."

However, I'm not a fan of "noone" as it doesn't look like it would be pronounced as "no one." It could perhaps be "no-one" or "noöne", but they seem off as well. And very few people use umlauts in English to signify that the two consecutive vowels are separate sounds (The New Yorker is the only publicaton that I know about that does this, but I'm not sure if they stopped).

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The WI Supreme Court consists of 7 justices who are elected to a 10 year term in a "nonpartisan" (though definitely partisan) election. They are the highest appellate court in state law and deal with issues related to the state constitution. Their decisions can be appealed to a federal court if it is in conflict with the federal Constitution, but otherwise, it would be the last court of appeal.

Of particular note are cases dealing with electoral law and districting. Wisconsin has been considered the most gerrymandered state in the union since about 2010, and it's led to situations where Republicans secured a supermajority in the assembly despite receiving a minority of the votes. The right-leaning Supreme Court dismissed challenges to these maps and allowed Republicans to enact laws that entrenched their power in the state (such as unfair electoral maps, restrictive voter ID laws, and removing powers from the governor after a Democrat was elected). Swinging the Court to the left is seen as the best hope of restoring fairness to our elections.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a reference to that schizophrenic guy who thought God told him to build an operating system as the third temple. He posted a lot of crazy videos online, including some where he claimed that the CIA was following him but that they glow in the dark. A couple of years later, people on 4chan started to refer to CIA agents as "glowies" in reference to those videos.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wasn't really aware of much of his personal views until just now, but yeah, I can see why people would smear shit on his statue. Supporting Trump and his ilk is deserving enough. But attending his victory party and joking about becoming the governor of Canada is ridiculous. It sounds like he wants to be the dumb-Quisling to Trump's dumb-Hitler.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think the fact that you move the character around during the battle precludes it from that genre. Auto battles usually have two phases, a shopping or building phase and a battle phase. You prepare for the battle in the former but have no influence on the outcome in the battle phase itself.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Waze has been owned by Google since 2013.

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I think the deal was $13 per pizza when you buy two. Toppers around me has a similar deal that is always available. One large specialty pizza is $23, but they have a deal where you can get two large pizzas for $12 each instead. A small order of sticks is $10, and a large order is $15. So two large orders of sticks (which are the same size as a large pizza) with two large pizzas with the deal would be about right.

 

The context around this is the concept of the Right of Ancient Light. Under English law, windows that have enjoyed a sufficient level of light for at least 20 years are recognized as possessing a right to ancient light.

Once conferred, the owner of the property can invoke this right to prevent the construction of a building that would obstruct the level of light that enters these windows, or they can be compensated monetarily to give up this right.

The video doesn't explain this aspect, but the barriers were presumably set up so that his windows would never acquire this right, thus allowing the neighbor to develop their property sometime in the future without concern.

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