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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

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  • Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments

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  • Trump has enough similarities with the anti-christ/beast without having to resort to silly numerology..

  • If the vacuum of space couldn't kill you and you had no suit...

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  • Probably because many pop science articles will mention that the background radiation of the universe is at about 2-3 degrees above absolute zero. Plus things like the night side of mars being freezing, pluto being a frozen rock, comets being made of ice etc...

  • Does anyone else get so tired and depressed from saying you're good when people ask how you are?

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  • Just give a number out of ten.

  • Why is deportation done instead of imprisonment or making people become documented? In other words, why does deportation exist?

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  • If order is to be maintained then illegal entry cannot be perceived to be a route to citizenship (even via a prison sentence).

  • Why is deportation done instead of imprisonment or making people become documented? In other words, why does deportation exist?

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  • No, I don't - how many?

  • Pro-rule

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  • Fundamentalists: "As it says in GOD'S WORD"

    God's Word: "if a foetus is fully formed treat it like a person, if it's not, don't"

    Fundamentalists: "wait.. what"

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  • Yes, it's a general feature though I've rarely come across evangelical groups that go as far as to make public proclamations of their predictions like Jehovah's witnesses did (some do, no doubt)

    Amusingly it seems the JWs might have only survived because around 1886 it accidentally predicted 1914 would be the end of the world and the beginning of the favouring of the Jews (WWI and II culminated in the re-founding of Israel)

    They re-engineered the text of the prophecy to better match the outbreak of world war (unsurprisingly). But that, together with the founding of Israel in 1948 are things they still point back to as "proofs"

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  • Looks like they have two: "Awake" and "Watchtower": https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/

    In London in recent years I've only seen Awake. Maybe Watchtower is American or only in Kingdom halls?

    they clarified that it was 11 tribes and one "lost tribe"

    As far as I'm aware there are 10 lost tribes. Only Judah and Benjamin were not regarded as lost. They might have a different view on that of course..

    They agreed that it's the gospel and many people weren't good enough Christians

    They don't see the "vast multitude" (who are believers besides the 144,000) as having a bad deal in any way. They get to live on the restored earth which is basically Eden paradise. That's why all their magazines / tracts have pictures of an idyllic life in a park / nature type setting

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  • Fairly recent (in the scheme of things) non standard Christian group

    • they don't believe in the trinity: God is god, Jesus was crafted by god - used to be an angel, the holy spirit is more like an impersonal force
    • they don't believe in everlasting hell, they believe the soul of unbelievers is annihilated
    • believe Armageddon is imminent and have repeatedly tried predicting it and failed
    • they originated from a bible study group in the 1800s and some things they are into are actually a literal reading of the new testament rather than a more pop culture or traditional view of Christianity. for example:
    • they believe the future of believers is on a restored earth, not heaven (based on Revelation). (This is why all their tracts have pictures of 'the good family life' in a park or nature type setting. That's the earth restored to be like Eden)
    • they believe 144000 special believers are elevated to rule in heaven (Revelation again)
    • they believe a letter written by the apostle in Acts telling believers to "abstain from blood" is still in force (to be fair there isn't anything saying it isn't) which they take to mean refusing all blood including blood transfusions
    • they don't believe in Christmas, Easter or birthday celebrations because they're not in the bible. Christmas trees are pagan etc
    • they practice 'shunning' family and church members who won't repent of sin which sees some parents totally rejecting their children, people acting like people don't exist if they see them on the street. (Again to be fair, this is what the new testament tells Christians to do). For this they (rightly) get flak for being cultish and overly controlling
    • they believe it's every believers duty to give people opportunity to repent hence going door to door (I think they've stopped doing this now) or standing on the street offering their standard magazine "Awake"
    • their central organisation is called the Watchtower, again a biblical reference to keeping watch for the end of the world
    • various reports of child abuse scandals typical in any organisation where you can't question or scrutinised authority

  • Is this grammatically correct: "The monkey who I'm wondering if can see my ears."

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  • Is this a fragment of a sentence? Because it seems like an incomplete thought.

    If there's further information to come in the sentence with the monkey as the subject you could use brackets to indicate your thought and write..

    "The monkey (about whom I'm wondering: 'can they see my ears?') did something or other..."

    This isn't strictly grammatically correct, but seems to be the most natural way it could be written and said without sounding weird.

    Or is 'monkey' an answer to some other question and you're adding that other information for context? If so, you could use a semi-colon.

    "What's bothering you?"

    "The monkey; I'm wondering 'can they see my ears?'"

  • What are your thoughts on AI?

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  • If it does then we also lose the ability to even say that that's what it's done. And if that's the case then has it really done it? /ponders uselessly

  • What are your thoughts on AI?

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  • I like to think somewhere researchers are working on actual AI and the AI has already decided that it doesn't want to read bullshit on the internet

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • My body

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • Jokes on you; when technology allows, me and my partner are going to end our marriage by melding into a supermech powerrangers style and our wedding rings will fuse to become a laser cannon

  • Is the 'stuck' economy a global phenomenon? Americans share frustrations about not being able to get ahead despite education - is this a universal experience?

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  • Depends what it is you imagine they're taking. There comes a point in wealth when you're not really talking about monetary amounts or assets per se but raw power, measured in whatever abstract units you wish to use. The hyper wealthy care about political and cultural power (a battle very much underway and largely won). They don't care so much whether the average family has $10 left at the end of the month (or $200 or -$50). The numbers become meaningless. What's important to the hyperwealthy is that whatever that number is it not be able to purchase strategic land, production, or political power. (Elon wouldn't care if every worker became a millionaire so long as bread now cost 3 million and property a billion.) Their power is felt in their exclusive access to limited resource (certain beach fronts for example, or a presidents time).

    To that end there comes a point where they're not interested in taking "money" any more, since they already entirely dominate that power dynamic. You could make the number whatever you like they're still in control. Them "allowing" a very very modest improvement in some living standards doesn't cost them anything but buys a relative amount of civil order, which is how I suspect this is likely to play out.

    The pivot to far right politics over the last 20 years is part of this. When you are artificially keeping a large part of a nation on the brink, and you don't want them to accrue traditional assets like land or wealth, then a potent replacement is to "pay" them in permission to hate.

    History shows that this is a foolish course and it doesn't last long. But perhaps a few "stable enough" decades is all these materialist hyper barons care about. Wealth and power is to be enjoyed now. There's no god or heaven only power and the future is someone else's problem..

  • Understanding DeepSeek's effect on the Capital Markets

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  • Perfect lol

  • Is the 'stuck' economy a global phenomenon? Americans share frustrations about not being able to get ahead despite education - is this a universal experience?

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  • It's very much the same in the UK and, from what I hear first hand, also in Germany, Australia and Canada

    My rough take:

    The industrial revolution never stopped, we are still very much on the trajectory that accelerated in the 18th/19th centuries.

    The trend is to concentrate wealth in a production owning class. WWI and WWII were temporary disruptions to this. The post war consensus saw great national projects and investment happen at just the same time that mixed skill labour was in wide demand thanks to technology's progress at that point. The baby boomers were advantaged by this and ended up with disproportionate ownership of land and production means.

    The last 50 years has been a slow return to trend. With production slowly transitioning from manual labour to mental labour to fully automated labour. The freak occurrence that benefitted baby boomers has not repeated.

    The trend will continue to devalue the work of most individuals. A small proportion will be able to leverage rapidly advancing technology and take a small stake in the monopoly of the 0.001%. The rest will progressively be priced out of elevating themselves into the middle class. The result being that there becomes a vast underclass characterised by renting, inability to start a family, and insecurity but just enough comfort to prevent rioting. There'll be a vast range of skill within that class, however effort with make only a token difference to wealth.