One of the cornerstones of the religion they profess to follow is that followers will be beset by false prophets who try to lead the faithful into wickedness. It's the origin of the idiom "wolf in sheep's clothing". Followers of Jesus are then advised that they'll be able to tell who's who the same way you can tell that rotten fruit means a fig tree is blighted: you will know them by their fruits. In other words, if you listen to the warning and take even the slightest notice of what Jesus tells you is the right way to live, you won't be led astray by people who pretend to be spiritual authorities but preach things Jesus said are bad things for any human to do, such as proclaming their own righteousness, claiming to be more Godly than you, and openly seeking riches and power. Whether you believe in Christianity or not, what it comes down to is that these people are "following God" in a way they are, word for word, told not to. By God.
It's like if you tried to start up a Anarcho-Capitalist club and then immediately set up a hierarchical power structure and began extracting dues from the members to fund a project that disproportionately benefits the poorer members. It's like if you taught a class on healthy eating and then began extolling the benefits of swallowing batteries.
A video showing a human resources executive firing an employee while brazenly admitting she is breaking the law, and threatening to scupper the man’s future job prospects, has attracted more than a billion views online....
I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....
as much as I liked Pike and his crew in season two, SNW leans too heavily and knowingly on the franchise’s campier canon for my taste (I know I’m in a minority with that opinion
Yeah I read as far as I needed to, as in, I read all of it because the part I quoted was at the end. And for doing so, I should be praised and thanked, because it wasn’t a good read.
Pro tip:maybe don’t try to ride roughshod over people whose entire ideological basis is the phrase “you can’t tell me what to do”. Do conservatives not even understand themselves anymore?
And all the arguing in the world won't change the way things are going. ActivityPub isn't the standard. People want to be Mastodon-compatible, not ActivityPub-compatible. Much of what Mastodon is doing isn't part of ActivityPub, it's their own API.
What LLM wrote this repetitious and borderline incoherent article? Or does the author really think circular logic repeated ad nauseam causes their point to become valid through some kind of rhetorical cytogenesis?
The municipal authority of Wuhan, Hubei province, reported a hacker attack on the local seismic monitoring center. Investigators claim that a Trojan Horse virus was used to steal information from data collection stations of the seismic recording system....
So do you still just get 50 Yuan for each one of these, or are they paying any better these days? You’d think they would at least tell you to occasionally post about something else.
The tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has been a truly consequential presidency, even a transformational one. In less than three years, he has built a record that should unify US progressives, including those on the radical...
Alarming Report Warns Of ‘Greatest Threat To American Democracy You’ve Never Heard Of’ ( www.huffpost.com )
An annual report from the Southern Poverty Law Center describes a burgeoning new form of Christian supremacy sweeping the country....
C'mon Charlie! ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14361659
‘You won’t find work’: China human resources executive admits to illegally sacking worker, dares him to start labour dispute ( www.scmp.com )
A video showing a human resources executive firing an employee while brazenly admitting she is breaking the law, and threatening to scupper the man’s future job prospects, has attracted more than a billion views online....
Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character” ( trekmovie.com )
Young voters explain why they’re bailing on Biden, and whether they’d come back ( www.nbcnews.com )
xkcd #2869: Puzzles ( imgs.xkcd.com )
xkcd.com/2869...
On the end of Discovery
I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....
The paranoid, predictable panic over Osama bin Laden and TikTok - The Washington Post ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Without paywall: archive.is/lkOWM
Sitting near a billionaire ( reddthat.com )
Jim Jordan's allies tried strong-arming his GOP critics. It backfired. ( www.politico.com )
“The one thing that will never work with me — if you try to pressure me, if you try to threaten me, then I shut off,” GOP Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart said.
ActivityPub? ( scripting.com )
And all the arguing in the world won't change the way things are going. ActivityPub isn't the standard. People want to be Mastodon-compatible, not ActivityPub-compatible. Much of what Mastodon is doing isn't part of ActivityPub, it's their own API.
USA and China intensify confrontation ( lemmy.ml )
The municipal authority of Wuhan, Hubei province, reported a hacker attack on the local seismic monitoring center. Investigators claim that a Trojan Horse virus was used to steal information from data collection stations of the seismic recording system....
Take another look at Joe Biden. His is the presidency progressives have been waiting for. ( www.theguardian.com )
The tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has been a truly consequential presidency, even a transformational one. In less than three years, he has built a record that should unify US progressives, including those on the radical...
Floating otters ( lemmy.world )
Sea otters floating around in Morro Bay
Biden jabs Trump on jobs ( thehill.com )
Fans reacting to the announcement of Star Trek: The Next Generation ( lemmy.world )
It’s so bizarre to read this in the present, knowing how incredible TNG was, but I get it - the original crew WAS Star Trek to them....
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