In BC, Rustad makes Smith look smart and diplomatic. Yet the last election had these mouth breathers losing by a handful of votes.
Foreign influence, social media, lies damn lies, and the failure to implement media literacy in schools in the 1990s led us to this. Well, add the flapping tatters of colonial settler ideology as a base layer, I guess.
an XKXD for everything
For all intensive purposes, we have become too lose with txt quality, and it effects my mental health.
Well not all of us have the privilege of travelling ten whole miles and then remembering to look back, eh!
Is that Kolanaki’s Law, then?
“Any group that gets its rocks off pretending to be stupid, eventually will be filled with actual stupid people who think they are in good company.”
Roll it up with gunpowder, stick it in my ears, and light it on fire?
Oh it gets funnier!
Kashmiris believe Jesus is entombed in Srinigar, and died an old man there after a career preaching incognito in Rome.
There is a tomb there, Buddhist style with footprints carved on the lid… but with odd slightly asymmetrical scars in the metatarsal area. Apparently. You can visit the building but the old tomb is inaccessible due to an important muslim tomb above it.
Another rumour there is that a temple was being renovated around 60CE and a persian stoneworker left graffiti on the back of a step that had local news including ‘the prophet ‘Issa’ has come healing and teaching from the West’. Roughly in time for a major Buddhist conclave.
There’s more local legend about it. Fun alternative narrative. Would be a nice place to retire anyway.
You’d think. Maybe. We don’t know for sure. Thomas was a contemporary so same generation.
The RC church is a hungry amoeba.
I’m butchering a 2 millennia story, but it illustrates how christianity fares in hinduism, and it even has some evidentiary support, so…
When the apostle Thomas was sent to India, he wound up in Cochin and began establishing a ministry or fellowship there.
He was frustrated by the lack of convincing required, or resistance to his ideas, without singular devotion.
The creator instantiating one more avatar is no stretch as Hinduism is pretty sophisticated in narratives, so Issa/Jesus just got added to the list that includes Krishna, and to this day you can buy hindu iconography with Jesus teaching compassion.
(Dude did succeed in forming a strictly Christian community though, and so arguably the oldest Christian sect is there.)
I think you have the start of a good plotline for a sf comedy.
20th C thinking.
That’s great bud just take yer shoes off in the house
Note how “terrorist” is often applied to those resistant to resource/land based occupation/exploitation.
Ooo, cooling mat! Well then, no wonder it’s still running. One of the easiest laptops to fix, too, so you could just repurpose it.
Also, when you buy an Air, consider whether you are going to be gaming or not. If not, a M2 with 16 GB of RAM can be a lot cheaper than new, and my 16GB M1 is still awesome even for some intensive use.
To add: my favourite mac of all time was probably my 15” 2012 with a matte hd screen and upgraded SSD drive (which only took 10 fucking minutes, le sigh). All the ports!
Keep that thing off the internet if you can. Security is kind threadbare on that abandoned macOS.
Fantastic form factor for non internet tasks though. The 2011 model is worse for thermal management and the fans work harder so may need replacement, listen for rattles or silence from one side. Keep it ventilated on all sides including bottom.
Debian should run very nicely on that if you want modern software features and low-worry internet security.
…unless you have watched Star Trek and the like.
Clown dystopia, that story.
‘Tis a tale of competing supply chains. The Empire prevails, despite reason and the will of The People.