In the Marvel UK comic issue “Stargazing”, Starscream claims that Christmas is a celebration of the birth of someone called “Christ”. Some suggest that Christ and Jesus are one and the same—a deity, in fact—but there is no canon evidence for this.

The difference is that (almost) everyone has an innate drive towards having sex that they don’t have towards doing violent things. It’s a totally different biochemical process to get horny than to get violent.

The meme is poking fun at elitism.

I don’t know what your situation is but the existence of someone fatter than you doesn’t preclude you from being obese.

“Make America Healthy Again™”

Yeah and looking at the past with rose colored glasses. There was plenty of “slop” in the past. It was such a problem in the earliest days of video games that it almost killed the entire industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

People in 2025 don’t really do ‘super advanced technology’. Like they’ve got super powerful handheld computers on them at all times and all of human knowledge accessible at all times and planes and shit, but they don’t treat it like high-tech stuff, they treat it like we treat carriages and books.

This was super common in the 1960s and 70s when hippies where the ones writing sci fi and the thought was that technological advancement would also come along with spiritual advancement to the point of supernatural powers. Star Wars, Dune, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many others freely blend the supernatural with the technological. Sure it’s not D&D magic with fireballs and shit but it’s still magic. Further, if you want to look at a modern IP with this vibe look at World of Warcraft, where there are aliens from space with spaceships and shit with one of the most stereotypical fantasy settings you can imagine.

Does it? I used to see this argument a lot on Reddit back in the early days when there were a lot more pedos on there and I don’t really buy it. Are there any actual studies on this? I feel like there have got to be better ways at managing it than that at least from a clinical standpoint

Usually that works best before you burn the factory down

I often use “Milwaukee statehood” as a rhetorical tool for any argument about states rights or why we should have 10 tiny population states. Milwaukee has about as many people in it as all of Wyoming, and yet Milwaukee doesn’t get two senators

Idk. On one hand I really appreciate the energy but on the other hand this is kind of fucked up for everyone else that works there, and I assume there were people inside when he did this. Like what are all his coworkers going to do for work now that the factory is burned down? I know that’s part of why capitalism sucks but it’s not like they can do anything about it as individuals.

No, it’s more like arguing whether Han Solo was in the prequels or not. Easily verifiable to anyone who isn’t mentally challenged

This is a level of stupidity and confident wrongness that I haven’t seen in some time. I would say this is a ChatGPT disaster but even ChatGPT isn’t this stupid. The incident on the road to Damascus was a description of a vision after Jesus’s death. Neither Acts, nor any of the gospels mention Paul in the ascension story, and none of Paul’s letters mention him knowing Jesus during his earthly life, witnessing the crucifixion, or the ascension.

Read Acts and tell me where Paul is before Chapter 8.

https://www.bible.com/bible/2016/ACT.1.NRSV

What about a search in the Bible for “Saul?” Hmmm nothing in Acts or the Gospels before Acts 8? Fascinating.

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?qs_version=NRSVUE&quicksearch=saul&startnumber=1&resultspp=250

What about a search for “Paul?”

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=paul&resultspp=250&version=NRSVUE

I think you’re getting your timeline mixed up. Paul converted to Christianity some time after Jesus died and quickly became a leader in the early church due to his prolific letter writing, with letters on all aspects of Christian life. Many of these letters (and a few that modern scholars believe are from people pretending to be Paul) ended up getting included into the New Testament as scripture because they were so popular and influential on early Christianity. However, these did not invent Christianity. All of these letters are to Christian communities that already existed in Paul’s own time, and a few of them mention how he used to persecute Christians because he was a hardcore Jew and thought they were corrupting Judaism.

This is my biggest gripe with Harry Potter apart from the anti-semitic stereotypes running all the banks. What the fuck is even the point of finding out you’re actually a wizard who gets to go to a magical wizard school and have all kind of great adventures, when at the end of it all you still find out when you graduate you have to work a shitty bureaucracy job in an office doing wizard paperwork. Bitch if I’m a wizard I’m just fucking off to the woods and using magic to satisfy all my basic needs. Who needs a new iPhone when you can shoot fireballs and shit? It’s like “Oh yeah there’s magic and they can easily use it to produce a post-scarcity society but instead they just keep doing capitalism oh and by the way all the banks are run by these little goblin creatures with giant hook noses.”

This is the most idiotic idea of his yet. There is simply no way an iPhone can be built in the US without some major investment in plants to build them and several years to build those plants

This is one instance where I’d say I’d actually prefer if he had an anime body pillow or real doll he was forming this sort of unhealthy attachment to.

Look I think Tesla’s self driving cars are bad but this is a crazy viewpoint. If you only knew how many systems that are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than cars are run almost entirely by automated systems operating on extremely simple instructions (and nowhere near having “awareness” of or ability to judge anything), you’d apparently be shitting yourself because consciousness is apparently required to make good decisions. Chemical plants have been mostly automated since the 90s running on computers way simpler than anything in a Tesla, and they have way higher potential for disaster if something goes wrong.

Self driving cars have a lot of problems right now but it’s absolutely insane to say that they inherently can’t work because there’s something special about consciousness that prohibits them from working without it. That’s like saying you can’t drive a car without having a soul or some other bullshit like that.

It’s because the game is kind of always online. The way multiplayer works is that you can leave messages in your world and other players will see them, and you can also get invaded by other players if you open your game up to it (usually it’s also a power up so you can be tempted to do this even when you don’t necessarily want to fight other players). If you could pause, it would make things weird with the multiplayer because it’s supposed to feel like a fluid real time world.