I’m an IT guy right with you but I’m also a linguist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description?wprov=sfla1

Doesn’t really matter cuz the Jesus they care about is the fictional Jesus in the story.

It is.

But the accurate perception is also really bad. Israel is committing genocide

Underrated joke of all time

Why are there ads in Gmail what is this? I have never seen ads in my Gmail app

WOOOO

The trick is really to give Joe as much hell as possible so hes scared we won’t. Doesn’t mean we have to keep our word.

just by being the biggest player in the system so all the activity is on their server, then they shut it down and leave the rest of the drivers with a big hole in the community.

Roboto Slab, Iosevka

I Don’t think it’s even that deep. For them, it’s not a political philosophy or any kind of real philosophy. It’s just a personality trait. Or LARPing.

It’s interesting the types of phrasing they use, like shatter. I never think of stars as rigid, more ethereal even though I know how they work

Assuming there’s enough supernatural power to sustain a torture pit of fire for all eternity, It’s probably trivial to just have you suffer non-stop regardless of any hypothetical limits.

However, even in real life pain receptors are distinct receptors in your body that don’t dull themselves after a while, the way our smell and sight receptors do

I’m wondering what kind of peace they think they’re asking for. Israel has a buffet of oppressive laws that deny Palestinians access to water, land, and infrastructure, and allow the IDF to raze villages at their discretion and detain people indefinitely without evidence, all under the pretext of fighting terrorism and protecting national security. Meanwhile Israel has been the occupying force in this region for decades. Remember they are, by definition, not on the defensive. These laws actually do discriminate against Palestinians, and make life very hard for them.

I wonder if this is the kind of peace where Israel thinks “why won’t they simply accept our oppressive laws and let us displace them and take their land? Why are people fighting back all the time? We just want peace!”

I cannot stress enough that settlers and housing developments come at the same time as the military, and they work together. Like it’s not even a terrorism thing. They are just chasing Palestinians around with housing developments to justify forcing them out. As far as I can see the only way Israel’s operation could be peaceful is if the Palestinians literally just accepted their widespread displacement, dispossession and sometimes even mass murder, but we know that’s not how peace works :)

Overwhelming plastic garbage

Yeah exactly, for them it’s about the culture, in which language is a huge factor.

My friend talked a lot about the forces at work. Not all of it was simple capitalism. Disabled people are notoriously hard to design for because each disabled person is different and has different needs. This kind of business is not scalable and disabled people are already a minority. Even proper hand wheelchairs are fucking expensive cuz only a couple companies make them.

I went to a NTID school, the community there does not consider themselves to have a “disability” literally. To them, it’s just a language.

If by “not even hard” you mean “costs as much as a car”, then sure. My friend also let me know just how costly power chairs are.

I’ll echo the words of my friend, who is a permanent wheelchair user:

“Yes, I identify with my disability as part of who I am, but I would still take a cure without hesitation”

Yes, people with disabilities identify with their disability, so even in a fantasy setting I can see how their disability would be part of their character.

But every disabled person I know would figuratively leap at the opportunity to reverse their disability with magic. It is also basically impossible to use a wheelchair while holding something like a wand or a staff or a fireball in one hand, so if there’s enough magic around to push a wheelchair, there’s probably enough to make your legs work. That’s why somebody has a good reason not to expect a wheelchair in a fantasy world. I can see how somebody who doesn’t really know any disabled people would panic at the idea of a wheelchair being part of the narrative or something like that, and I can sympathize with it.

How come it landed directly on him and barely did more damage than a bootleg firework???