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  Current charges are under state law, not federal. The president has no power to pardon a state conviction. No supreme court and no congressionally passed law can change that. Once Trump becomes president again and the Republicans take both...
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  Also: Yes, Charles has always spoken German very well. I believe that both he and his father have conducted long interviews with German media in fluent German. I don't know whether this capacity has spilled over to his sons, though....
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  The giveaway was Chas' perfect pronouncination … The giveaway for what? Please elaborate. (Disclosure: I haven't followed the visit at all, apart from the brief summary in yesterday's evening TV news and a press review this morning on the...
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  Unless he is actually imprisoned is there anything to stop him being elected president if its a state (rather than federal) charge? You're wrong in your intuition that being actually imprisoned would stop him being elected. There's nothing preventing...
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  Meanwhile, Brexitland's new prime couple are on their first state visit to a EU member. Any thoughts on that? (In Germany, the most noteworthy (and controversial) detail seems to be that punk rocker Campino was wearing a tailcoat (as was...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  …here's what one Japanese travel blog has to say about The Most Kawaii Place in Japan… I honestly can't say whether that article is meant seriously or just bathed in the thickest possible sarcasm. Poe's law in action....
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  I really don't want to go on with this, but dear little Adolf's own writings go on & ON about being christian, ok? No, they don't. See the excellent History for Atheists on the topic: https://historyforatheists.com/2021/07/hitler-atheist-pagan-or-christian/ Also, you might...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Quantum of Nightmares
  pyramids with temples on top are canonically not Egyptian You're right, that should have been obvious. I blame the word 'pyramid' for my conceptual blindness. The meso-american buildings are strictly speaking not pyramids, precisely because they have a flat...
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  Do you know where the rest of the Lovecraftian gods ended up? You put Nyarlahotep in the U.K. and Cthulhu in the U.S, but where are Dagon, Hastur, Yog Sothoth, Ithaqua, etc? Also, is Cthulhu explicitly "The Sleeper in...
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  Not specifically related to Quantum of Nightmares, but to the Laundryverse in general: I, for one, would really like for DEEP SEVEN to get involved in the affairs on the surface of the planet at some point. I'm waiting for...
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  Please read what I wrote a little more carefully. I don't assume that anybody here would want to use or even advocate violence. I get that you're only discussing possibilities. But what worries me is that you all seem to...
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  An ossuary is a place containing all the bones of the dead soldiers An ossuary has nothing particularly to do with soldiers. It's simply the place where the bones are stored after a grave has been dug up and...
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  Re: making a point about the climate catastrophe by bringing down airliners and killing or not killing the passengers while doing it You all seem to have very violent fantasies. Why is the use of extreme violence so unquestioningly normalized...
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  the FDIC insurance limit of $250,000 Up here, the limit of insured accounts is lower, but it's also on a 'per user' basis. No matter how many bank accounts with a bank I have, the insured total is the...
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  The part we disagree about is that there's one type of ownership. No, you don't disagree about that. In fact, I believe you're in perfect agreement about that. Pigeon is only noting that the British Colonial government of the...
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  … if I ever get to do another pizza. I haven't had one since I was put on the strict LOW CARB diet. Don't despair! A low carb diet doesn't mean that you have to completely forgo pizza. Here's...
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  Look up "Filial Responsibility Law". I did (well, I followed the link and read the newspaper article). There's nothing in it pertaining to the claim that children are liable to pay for their deceased parents. All examples mentioned in...
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  There were multiple version of Judaism before then. That's a question of semantics (and definition). I wouldn't use the terms "Judaism", "Jewish" and so on for anything before the Babylonian exile, because they're anachronistic for that time. What you're...
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  And something like flip-flops for the sandals. The Maasai have you covered there: https://22196.forumromanum.com/member/forum/entry_ubb.user_22196.2.1110529342.1110529342.1.massai_sandalen-mount_kilimanjaro.html This also answers the question what to do with all the old car tyres. ;-)...
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  The Judaism that is practised today came into being only after the destruction of the last Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. And it's interesting to ponder in how far its development was influenced (and even triggered) by...
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  And Judaism itself is a rewrite of older beliefs, done under king Josiah. While the reforms under Josiah (whose actual extent at the time is not quite clear) are certainly an important step on the way, the beginning of...
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  Elderly Cynic: Yer whaa? I was taught that book was a single story, and I can assure you that my background was mainstream Anglican. Heteromeles: Ever hear the first ten chapters preached as a single coherent narrative? I didn't....
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  whitroth wrote: Let's see: Hersh, the US[.] Whoever this is: Ukrainians. The "whoever" in this case is a research network of ARD Hauptstadtstudio (the news arm of the main public broadcaster, "Kontraste" (a political magazine of that same public...
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  breaking news: Apparently a Ukrainian group is responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. (Link only in German. I haven't found an English one yet.) https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/nord-stream-explosion-101.html...
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  Moz wrote: Catholic-Protestant (what were they protesting about?) The name derives from the Speyer Protestation of 1529. And they (6 Princes and 14 free cities) were protesting against the ban of Martin Luther: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestation_at_Speyer...
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  icehawk wrote: The idea that you need some sort of physical "being-in-the-world" to learn to think like a person is one that philosophers of mind have argued for a long time. Our minds are very much the minds of...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Sadly regurgitating older works isn't really scholarly—even in theology. Although ChatGPT would certainly excel in an unfortunate, but long standing scholarly habit: making things up on the fly and passing them on as old tradition....
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  Pigeon wrote: Remind me not to approach any tall buildings if there is any chance that you might be about. ?? Was that a joke, or do you disagree with by comments? I believe it is a joke based...
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  For a moment I thought you were talking about launching the building by means of exploding senators. Same here, only I thought of launching rabid idiot US senators into space. Which would be NASA's brilliant plan to get rid...
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  And now for something completely different, a free-enterprise geoengineering scam. No monitoring, no instrumentation, just let it fly: https://gizmodo.com/make-sunsets-solar-geoengineering-sulfur-climate-change-1849931460 Yeah, because what could possibly go wrong with blasting a lot of sulfur into the atmosphere....