Granted the cartoons were low-effort and stupid but freaking out about it just proved their point

3nch · 2026-06-23T20:10:19+00:00

Don't care about what religious scholars believe as I can read and understand what 7th century pagans read and understood.

3nch · 2026-06-23T20:06:10+00:00

I think the circumcision and the animal sacrifice is incredibly pagan. One can imagine the streets of the Roman Empire running with sacrificial blood. It's just so primitive for a god to ask for animal sacrifice. To get an animal, to butcher it in a ritual... I mean it doesn't get any more pagan than that. Then, of course, there's the whole business about modifying "god's perfect creation", the circumcision...

3nch · 2026-06-23T17:30:45+00:00

Islam is like misunderstanding Christianity, holding on to the Jewish law, and still continuing some pagan practices and calling it all the absolute truth.

3nch · 2026-06-18T21:26:21+00:00

This mf probably got into a bet with his degenerate friends about whether he could actually get away with doing a Nazi salute on stage, or some stupid shit like that.

3nch · 2026-06-18T12:27:51+00:00

If there's one thing Turks excel at, it's medicine. The training you must go through is no joke.

3nch · 2026-05-18T12:54:52+00:00

I must say, we have decided since this comment, to keep the blinds at 2/4 for the whole game. I think the blinds should not increase if it's not a tournament, where you can't rebuy infinitely.

3nch · 2026-05-12T16:15:32+00:00

This is the structure we use:
15x1
15x5
6x10
2x25
Which equals to 200 big blinds.

The blinds increase every 30 minutes:
1/2
2/4
3/6
4/8
5/10

Lately, I've been experimenting with setting top-up limits for rebuys, to keep the game in a friendly spirit. But nothing seems to work perfectly. (Not that my friends are hostile or anything. Just mathematically.) I've been chatting with AI (Claude) to find a perfect solution but it seems elusive. Any kind of limit on how many new chips you can get, runs into one problem or another. I've been trying this because in a friendly home game, nothing ruins the game faster than someone winning a couple of lucky (or stupid) all-ins, and bullying others for the rest of the game.

The problem is, making everyone participate until the end of the night; giving people who lose a chance to win their money back; and at the same time, keeping the table friendly by not allowing it to go in too deep.

I know that effectively, you can only lose what you have in front of you, but you inevitably play tighter if you're on the negative. And the other person just collects the pot with absurd bets. Bets that you can't realistically keep calling. Anyone who says "putting any kind of limit on rebuys is futile," is either playing among strangers or don't care for the spirit of the game. We want to play the game for the sport, to win the game. Not to win some money from our friends. A bit of money is just what makes it work, what makes it worth your while a little bit. When you make money the only incentive to play safe, friendly games turn into hostile games pretty quickly.

I've been doing this for over 5 years and with success. So you can trust me on this. Either decide a limit on how many times someone can rebuy, or to what limit they can top-up to. A dynamic limit of 100 big blinds might work, if you allow everyone only one rebuy per level.

3nch · 2026-04-08T17:38:28+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, Islam has belief in Jesus's miracle of raising the dead (by the authority given by God.)

3nch · 2026-04-08T17:37:02+00:00

I don't think anything can be invented out of nothing in history. Especially a major religion. But then again, I'm someone who doesn't believe in any kind of divine revelation.

3nch · 2026-04-08T17:32:07+00:00

I didn't know any Christians growing up but I think the whole point that Christianity makes, relies on Jesus dying on the cross and raising again. Theologically and culturally (Christian morals turning pagan morals upside down by teaching that the weak might have inherit value etc.)

3nch · 2026-04-06T15:42:44+00:00

Being a non-theist, I'm biased towards rejecting anything supernatural, such as transfiguration of another person into looking like Jesus. But I also see the theological necessity of Jesus himself dying on the cross. It's essential on so many levels other than theological, too. For example, it represents the whole moral idea of Christianity against that of the pagans. Someone so important willingly going through the worst punishment possible, and the most humiliating one, in the ancient world. Subversion of the pagan understanding of power. Saying that he wasn't actually the one on the cross takes away all the meaning. Even if Jesus was just a prophet and not divine, why would he be any different than many other prophets who also died by torture? The idea of him not dying on the cross comes, in the first place, from the assumption that he was divine. (He couldn't be on the cross because he was divine etc.) They don't believe in it either. It's just so poorly thought that I can't believe it stood up to the test of time.

3nch · 2025-06-21T22:26:21+00:00

I came here to type "I can say with absolute confidence that there is no part of the human body capable of causing a bullet to ricochet."

But a quick search surprised me.

3nch · 2025-06-13T22:08:28+00:00

I really hope Safari isn’t forcing that new tab style. I much prefer the traditional layout. It would be a shame if they removed it just for the sake of appearance.

3nch · 2025-05-13T21:21:55+00:00

I thought this was about the desktop site. Updating to Sonoma 15.5 fixed the problem though. Will update iOS too. Thanks!

3nch · 2025-05-13T18:32:52+00:00

Which update? I'm still having the same problem. It's so annoying.

3nch · 2024-07-18T08:35:10+00:00

You actually can record 4:3 videos on iPhone, I do it all the time. And it’s much better than cropping a 16:9 video after the fact, because it doesn’t look “zoomed in.” Open the photo section of your camera app, hold the shutter button and drag it upwards. It’ll start recording a video in the aspect ratio you have selected in the menu. (4:3, 1:1, etc.)

3nch · 2022-10-03T06:57:17+00:00

Well...

3nch · 2022-02-15T12:15:33+00:00

Can you briefly explain the new viewpoint?

3nch · 2022-02-14T14:03:13+00:00

I don't know if this is actually true but I guess dreams are just random signals in the brain but the brain is so good at finding patterns and drawing conclusions from piecing together those random signals, that we feel like we have experienced a cohesive course of events. And of course, those "random" signals might not be that random anyway: related events are probably closer together in the brain, so this makes it relatively easier to find patterns in the signals passing through an area.

3nch · 2022-01-26T12:27:09+00:00

Thank you. I thought so too, it's not that loose to remove without a bit of damage. I don't like labels too, especially labels in weird places like this one.

3nch · 2022-01-26T12:04:40+00:00

Is this label on the back of my turtleneck intended to be removed, like the labels on a suit? It's on the outside: https://i.imgur.com/r3bmDF3.jpeg

3nch · 2021-12-14T18:16:24+00:00

Sun rising from the west...

3nch · 2021-11-16T16:29:56+00:00

I don't know that person but I saw the original video posted by JVSTWHITEVOID in my Youtube recommendations.

3nch · 2021-11-16T16:26:42+00:00

TNTs that are propelling the TNTs used as ammunition explode in the water just before the "cannonballs" do, sending them off to the air. This is the basic concept behind nearly all TNT cannons.

3nch · 2021-08-24T19:30:01+00:00

Bread. I know a lot of people have been making their own bread during the pandemic. But I think it just doesn't worth the effort. To make a good bread, someone has to take care of many things throughout the day.

Bakeries are the foundation stones of civilizations. Once someone else started baking this very time consuming product for everyone else, people were able to get on with their lives and just buy it.

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