Hayekian serf

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never takes long for the haters to arrive. She's an excellent actress,

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She really isn’t.

She’s not a good actress at all. However she has been anointed as a good actress by producers

The same producers who have lead Hollywood into economic turmoil

I trust Ken Burns with history about as much as I do a chimp to sail me to Italy

Adam and Eve and the early stories are just that-stories. They are meant to be moral lessons. But saying “the bible” shouldn’t be trusted is an absolute idiotic statement.


Old Testament stuff isn’t just floating in space either

Tel Dan Stele ? “House of David” (David was real)
Mesha Stele ? Israel + events line up
Siloam Inscription ? Hezekiah’s tunnel matches exactly
Taylor Prism ? Sennacherib attacking Judah recorded outside the Bible

Egypt side
Merneptah Stele ? earliest mention of Israel (~1200 BC)
Semitic people living in Egypt = confirmed
Ipuwer Papyrus talks about Egypt in chaos

not saying that proves everything
but it’s clearly tied to real history, not just made up

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now New Testament

11 guys say they saw someone they knew was dead alive again

then they get tortured and killed for it

not one of them says “yeah we made it up”

people die for beliefs all the time
they don’t die for something they KNOW is fake

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and it’s not just the Bible saying it

Tacitus says Jesus was executed under Pilate
Josephus mentions Jesus and early Christians
Pliny says Christians worshipped him as God

so even non-Christians confirm the basics

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this part always gets ignored

women are the first witnesses

in that culture that actually hurts your case

if you’re making it up, you don’t write it like that

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and the tomb

no body was ever produced

critics didn’t say “he’s still there”
they said “the body was stolen”

which still means the tomb was empty

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you don’t have to believe it

but you do have to explain
why the tomb was empty
why the people closest to it were willing to die
and why it all started right where it could’ve been shut down

“they just made it up” doesn’t really cover all that

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this is comical. She was doing everything that Trump wanted her to do. Which was basically nothing at all. He always has a scapegoat.

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Come on man- I’m no Trump sunshine pumper, but she has been actively working against the man from the jump.

And if that isn’t the case- she’s completely incompetent

It’s starting to look like the don’t have a real plan here.

I’m still taking a wait and see approach before I form an opinion- and hope some sort of end game plays out that makes it worth the costs.

But Iran has been two months away from a nuclear weapon for 20+ years. It’s the neocon version of climate cultist climate apocalyptic warnings.

I don’t disagree with the OP in spirit- but we are not oil independent_ and that’s a good economic sign not a poor one.

We will be an importer of oil whether he says otherwise or not

I’ve found that Claude has the least left leaning of the AI chat bots I’ve used

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discussions about suicide

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Yeah the PG-13 rating was silly

But even this was done in the context of either starving to death in space because of a one way mission, or taking another option.

Yeah- heavy stuff for sure, but it wasn’t done in a pro euthanasia manner or anything evil.

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How is PHM for kids? I have a 6.5 year old and he's seen a good bit of movies that are what I guess I'd call "soft PG-13" movies. Like he's seen Jurassic Park and whatnot.

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If he can make it through the parts before Rocky gets there without being too bored- I find it hard to believe he won’t like it.

Heroic movie about someone with originally no intention or inclination for heroism. Optimistic and fun- which are hard movies to find in modernity.

Mine are 13 and 9. Everyone in the family enjoyed the heck out of it.

I can’t for the life of me figure out the PG-13 rating. Maybe there was a word or two I just didn’t catch- and I’ve seen it twice.

There was one drug reference I remember by one of the astronauts- but it wasn’t what you’d think.

Ad Astra


An absolute sludge of a movie

Say what you want about Denmark- but the parties at least somewhat listen to their citizens.

Her party went from pro immigrant to institutionally the toughest crackdowns on immigration in Europe including bringing back the term ghetto