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1dalm

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  • The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran

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  • Oh, I'm sure we bombed the snot out of not-iran during the exercise. But the lesson is that technology advantage doesn't win wars. (Didn't win Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan either. Also didn't help Russia win Ukraine or Afghanistan.)

  • The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran

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  • In the 2000s, the American military held a massive joint exercise on the invasion of a mountainous middle eastern nation. (It was obviously Iran without saying Iran.) The exercise was supposed to be a demonstration of America's military to show Iran that America really would wipe them out if a war ever happened, which looked inevitable at the time.

    A very talented US General was chosen to lead the not-Iran side. He was given the resources that Iran was believed to have at the time. And through a series of very expertly timed and choreographed attacks he won. He crushed the US Navy. The whole exercise was a massive embarrassment for the military. The big media announcements were obviously all cancelled.

    Granted, the General that was put in charge of not-Iran was extremely brilliant and had very detailed knowledge and experience of US capabilities and how to exploit vulnerabilities. But it's still studied in the military schools as a case study in not underestimating your enemy.

  • Rules of Catholic theology

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  • Not weird. Lots of gods get eaten. Not really that unusual.

  • Rules of Catholic theology

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  • Well, technically consuming the flesh of a god isn't evil if the god specifically orders you to do it in ritual and reverence to them. The moral rules of gods is different.

    It's only weird if you are eating the flesh of a god without their consent.

  • My "personal" Lord and Savior.

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  • He didn't invent it. He helped further develop it and popularize it through the printing press.

    But I'm really taking about the contemporary implementation of it which Luther would absolutely certainly not approve of.

  • The Spread of Homo sapiens

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  • I personally think your third possibility is the least likely. I just find it unimaginable that there would not have been any cultural exchange at all of the two peoples knew about each other.

    I can imagine human beings, even extremely capable ones, just missing things. In fact that happened a lot. There were many European cultures that had the technical capability to sail to the Americans for thousands of years before they did it. And there were clothes in the Americas that had the capability to go the other way, but they didn't.

    As someone else pointed out, there is a similar story for Madagascar. There were plenty of cultures that could have discovered it for centuries that just didn't. Similar stories with countless other islands.

    Honestly, I think it's more surprising that the indigenous Australian peoples discovered the continent when they did. They were the only animals to make the jump across the straight.

  • The Spread of Homo sapiens

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  • I don't know. There is linguistic, archeological and genetic evidence that the Polynesians traded with the South Americans, but I don't think there is nearly as robust evidence for Australia.

    Current evidence as I understand it is really just as that map depicts it. That they went straight from Indonesia to New Zealand, and just missed Australia.

  • The Spread of Homo sapiens

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  • I think it's such a funny quark of history that the Polynesians, despite their incredible sea exploration abilities, just apparently completely missed Australia.

  • Practice makes perfect

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  • "I only read the first two paragraphs".

  • Practice makes perfect

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  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • It wasn't the general defunding of education. It wasn't the defunding and of arts and music programs. It wasn't the anti-intellectualism.

    It was the cheap computers gosh darnit!

  • My "personal" Lord and Savior.

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  • No no...

    This is a ancient grape cultivation metaphor. They didn't have grape farms like we do today, with rows of grapevines strung on wires.

    They would grow bushes and let the vines grow up through the branches of the bush. Tthe bushes would hold the vines.

    In this metaphor the bush a the church and the branches are the people. (Or individual diocese or parishes depending on the interpretation.) But the bush is the Church. And the vine is Jesus abiding in the bush.

    Jesus is the vine. You ain't Jesus. You gotta be something else in the metaphor.

  • My "personal" Lord and Savior.

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  • I would say that specific verse you are citing it's actually specifically calling people to community in the church. The vine is wrapped around the tree, tangled among the branches. If a branch grows to far away from the main tree that's holding the vine, that's when the branch is cut off.

  • My "personal" Lord and Savior.

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  • I'm curious. Why are you here? If you think it's all made up nonsense, why did you feel the need to comment on it in an intentionally insulting way?

    Did that make you feel bigger?

  • My "personal" Lord and Savior.

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  • Certainly the notion of individualizing Christianity is as old as Christianity itself, but I would argue that the contemporary version of it is really pretty recent. Go back 50 years ago and even most US Baptist churches wouldn't recognize the contemporary version of it.

    The concept that we have today really developed in the 80s and 90s.

  • My "personal" Lord and Savior.

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  • Sorry, but we aren't reading the same Bible.

    The phrase ain't in there. And just about every verse that's interpreted as such is more easily interpreted to be about the community rather than the individual.

  • My "personal" Lord and Savior.

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  • Book, chapter and verse?

  • More than 1,000 Kenyans lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine war, report says

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  • Misspelled "kidnapped and forced to fight".

  • The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says

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  • I know this is going to sound like I'm parroting AI marketing taking points, but I don't think schools should dump AI. The tool isn't going away. Schools have to teach how to use it responsibly.

    When I say this, I mean there should be AI and technology education for the same reason we should have drug and sex education. Pretending it doesn't exist isn't helping anyone. Let's have some faith in our kids and respect them enough to discuss these issues honestly and openly.