Jerkface (any/all)

Sooooo… he’s NOT leaving YouTube?

You’re not going to satisfy unmet emotional needs with logical arguments.

Ran an ISP on a Pentium 90 and a few 486s. Linux and FreeBSD!

An “off” switch… She’ll get years for that! Off switches are illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AZZVnNw60&t=26s

what’s the difference between a free range cage and a cage? The comfort level of the animal.

I think you are making a rhetorical point unrelated to animal welfare, but in point of fact, “free range” hens do not enjoy a meaningfully greater level of comfort. The only way to reduce these suffering of exploited vulnerable individuals is not to pay for their exploitation in the first place.

Regardless of whether they are conscripts or mercs, the whole premise of this post is that they are deeply ignorant. And their ignorance is being exploited to the detriment of both themselves and others. These three people are clearly not people that need to be demonized (*) and dehumanized, except so that we can feel good about killing vulnerable victims on the other side before they can kill us.

*) Criticism and demonization are not the same thing. It is absolutely fair to be critical that they are not sacrificing themselves for others. To mock them as “clowns” and insist that they deserve to die for being stupid is not criticism, it’s self-manipulation.

Being happy that they were stopped before they could hurt others is a few steps removed.

In your mind, what does that have to do with the emotional tone of this post?

I’m completely pro-Ukraine, anti-invasion, anti-Putin. But. I can’t take joy and amusement from these three conscripted young people marching obliviously to their death. The emotional tone of this post and many of its comments are fucked up.

When the original authors of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote their words in the original Greek, they were not imagining blindness to be a metaphor for clinical depression. Or even for feeling sad, if that is what you mean. While many people understand these passages as referring to literal blindness, blindness is often used as a metaphor in the Bible, for example for ignorance, pride, deception, and unbelief. You can attempt to take it as a metaphor for the modern concept of depression (which of course they did not even possess) but to do so, you are clearly reading into the text. And it’s not clear how the message of Jesus is meant to cure your depression, the way it can presumably cure you of spiritual ignorance, unbelief, etc.

I’m trying to understand if you are advocating reading into the text intentionally, but it’s not even clear if you’re aware and accept you’re doing that at all.

I’m going to claim brain fart. I’m horrified to find I had thought that it was about, like, modern Israel. Dumb.

OTOH, it sounds like you are suggesting taking interpretations like that; reading things into the text and adopting the symbols for our own purposes. Blindness wasn’t a metaphor for depression. You have to insert that as a modern reader. The text doesn’t fully support it and you have to creatively interpret at times. I don’t think that’s very satisfying.

Genuinely, that’s not how literary criticism works.

Yes, yes. Very clever. Not contributing but don’t you look smart.

The point is that they are fucking miracles. It doesn’t matter whether they are “impressive” or “lame” when they prove that the natural laws of the Universe do not apply. Whatever the effect of the miracle is less significant than the simple fact of it and what that implies.

What’s it about when he curses that fig tree cuz I heard some stuff about the non-literal symbolism.

I didn’t come here for toxic masculinity and gender shaming. Sort your shit out.

I use a teletype. My scrollback is INFINITE.

You dropped your friggin’ > in another thread and I just stepped on it. Pain like Lego.

You’re talking about a service, not an open source text like source code. A service can’t be “open source” unless it lives on a computing block chain like Etherium or something, because actual human beings have to do things on private assets.

It’s easy. You just pay money.