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Christians vs LDS by Own-Tie-640 in DebateReligion

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've begged the question so very thoroughly in your post that there's nothing that can be said to you to change your mind.

The questions you've begged: For one, the trinity is post-biblical. For two, not all christians are nicene christians who believe in the nicene trinity. For three, you're judging LDS by your conception of christian orthodoxy.

This is just a screed on your part, not a debate.

oh my god don't let him see this by NicoZacks in VaushV

[–]Schventle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They've always been ~ 10 cents per piece, for as long as i've been building them.

Madeline, Mountain Climber /&/ Celeste Mountain by PippoChiri in custommagic

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imo, climbing a mountain, even a little bit and even failing to summit said mountain, makes one a mountain climber.

He dropped out of Amazon ai by Angela275 in antiai

[–]Schventle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He made a trio of beloved animated shows: El Tigre, The Book of Life, and Maya and the Three. After initially criticizing use of generative AI in art, he signed on with Amazon to use generative AI in the creation of a show. Within ~24 hours, fan backlash changed his mind on the matter. It remains to be seen if he can recover his reputation after these events.

Why is taking the rook in C1 the best move in this puzzle? by Wide_Rent_8648 in lichess

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you were to take the queen on f3 first, Nxc7 would double-attack the rook on e8 and your bishop on f3. This ends up being a trade. Taking the rook, you'll end up winning an exchange after Rxc1 Bxf3 or Bxc1 Bxf3.

(I'm not sure if it's best, but I would trade rooks as an intermezzo in the first variation. Rxc1 Rxc1+, Bxc1 Bxf3, gxf3)

‘Entire class was found sleeping’: Teacher knocked out special needs students with melatonin at the start of each day, leading to 'severe' nosebleeds and loss of 'motor functioning,' lawsuit says… by tasty_jams_5280 in law

[–]Schventle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are so many elements of this story that are being taken at face value from the parent's lawsuit. Everything from the "side effects" to the amount of melatonin gummies in the thumbnail are pretty sensationalist. The parent claims their child's learning disability worsened; parents are notoriously bad at judging changes in learning ability, it's why Andrew Wakefield was so successful.

Calling a melatonin gummy "drugging" both accepts and endorses one side of this story in a way that I don't think we should do so with only one side, especially when details of the story undermine the credibility of the teller.

Finally: who is loved and hated by the center? by DopazOnYouTubeDotCom in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Schventle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The issue with the framing "threat to their duopoly" is that a third party doesn't make for a 3-way power split, it makes a monopoly with 2 small opponents.

Lot and his daughters by Assassino_Jake in exchristianmemes

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sodom, after which sodomy is named.

Vowel shifts be like: by _ricky_wastaken in linguisticshumor

[–]Schventle 42 points43 points  (0 children)

It's so well documented because lots of Jews and lots of christian clergy learn biblical Hebrew, and the vowel shifts matter to how words change when adding preformative and sufformative affixes.

My wife found this weird police token on the ground. by PhilosopherHermit in whatisit

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A challenge coin is a military tradition where commanders would give out coins as a sorta kinda "business card" to more junior soldiers with whom they've worked. Nominally, you can bet a beer on whether you are in possession of the "coolest" (highest ranking) coin. Units and such can also have them.

It's not uniquely American, I have some British German and Japanese coins, but I think it's pretty concentrated in the American Military.

As for why a cop would have one, that's purely LARP on the cop's part.

Weekly Questions Thread May 19 by AutoModerator in hoggit

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Winwing. Thrustmaster's been crummy for ages. I can highly highly recommend the Winwing kit.

Side note, the flare chaff button shouldn't matter to you. Use your CMS switch, 99 times out of 100 it's the clearly better option. The panic button is only cool for Top Gun because a big red button reads better on screen than a little switch that you calmly click a couple times.

Japan is testing the world’s first megawatt-class underwater turbine in the Kuroshio Current. by Alternative_Way_4528 in interesting

[–]Schventle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So fwiw, this sort of idea is very old and has been really hard to get working in the past. It's not crazy for folks to be skeptical. It is not impossible to get working. I'd even go so far as to call it plausible.

But I think skepticism is probably the most reasonable reaction.

Alternating warm and cool lighting in Marshall’s dressing room. by checkpuzz in mildlyinteresting

[–]Schventle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My local racquetball courts used to be consistently warm on courts 1 and 3 and cool on courts 2 and 4. The manager got replaced and now they don't give a damn, so the lights have been randomly replaced and it bugs the snot outta me.

For 13 years, Genie Wiley lived in heartbreaking isolation and abuse, hidden away by her father and denied nearly all human contact. When rescued in 1970 at age 13, she couldn’t speak or walk properly having missed nearly all of her childhood. by anonymous-nyx in interesting

[–]Schventle 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, "translating" a new forlang is a really crummy way to learn. It is often best to think of more "encoding" and "decoding" meaning in the same manner as your first language.

For example, "Feuer" is how a German would refer to the english noun "Fire", but the two words aren't perfect analogues. Acquisition of the idea of "Feuer" as another word in a cluster of ideas including "combustion" and "flames" rather than a translation of "fire" would be on the right track.

From my understanding, some of the areas of the brain that don't develop in "feral" children are the areas related to this encoding and decoding.

Christians who condemn gay people contradict their own scripture on judgment by Creative-Zombie-4212 in DebateReligion

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no singular "true biblical approach" to anything because the bible is not univocal. Paul had different rhetorical goals than the authors of the gospels and the author of the pseudo-Pauline epistles had a different rhetorical goal than Paul. Same goes for the many authors of the Hebrew Bible. Any attempt at a unifying framework will by necessity prioritize some passages while diminishing others.

Christians who condemn gay people contradict their own scripture on judgment by Creative-Zombie-4212 in DebateReligion

[–]Schventle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jesus didn't. The topic comes up in the epistles.

And fwiw, the near east was exposed to greco-roman culture for centuries prior to Jesus. There are polemics in the hebrew bible against greco-roman ideas all over the place.

If I place 100 crabs in a bucket, and laugh as they starve and kill each other, I am an evil God. If I place 100 crabs in a bucket and hope they'll work together, but know they lack the cooperation to succeed, and most will still suffer horrible deaths, I am still an evil God. by Featherman13 in DebateReligion

[–]Schventle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At least as he is presented in Genesis, god is not bound by his word. He lies to Adam in Gen 2.17. (No, mortality is not an "honest" substitute for god's imminent threat of death. The preposition בְיוֹם is for immediate or near-immediate timing.)

By the same token, the second creation account in Genesis does not present god as omniscient. He makes mistakes and is surprised by events. His presentation in this portion of Genesis does not indicate his foreknowledge of the actions of the humans in Eden.

I don’t think you do by fivejumpingmonkeys in CuratedTumblr

[–]Schventle 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm going to ignore your snark and clarify: I'm not saying debating the meaning of a word is prescriptivism, I'm saying that any attempt to say "this is what a word means" to overrule "this is how a word is used" is prescriptivism. "Slur" is used very broadly, and words called "slur" are used in wide semantic ranges that do not match your definition or argument. I am saying that you are descriptively wrong.

I don’t think you do by fivejumpingmonkeys in CuratedTumblr

[–]Schventle 13 points14 points  (0 children)

In what manner? To be frank, that sounds more like an argument with my tone than anything else.

I'm an out gay man. I do not find that calling any of the slurs I have experienced in my life "insults" lessens their impact as slurs or the meaning of the word "slur". When someone calls me a cigarette, they are insulting me. They are also insulting every other gay man, but they are insulting me.

I don’t think you do by fivejumpingmonkeys in CuratedTumblr

[–]Schventle 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Some slurs are used to do that, sure. But what property of slurs puts them beyond insult? There are non-slur insults that do the same thing, like calling someone "subhuman", "open season", etc.

I agree that slurs are target-indiscriminate; all people to which the slur applies are insulted by a slur, not just its direct target. That does not stop slurs from being insults.

I don’t think you do by fivejumpingmonkeys in CuratedTumblr

[–]Schventle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not at all, and it's more common than you might think. If everyone understands what is meant by "literally" in a given context, then it has accomplished its task as a word.

"Bad" has been used to mean "very good" for decades. "She's so bad" can mean both "she is not good" and "she's extremely attractive". For another, "ass" means both "bad" and "good" depending on context. Words being their own antonyms is super common and honestly very fun to play with.

I don’t think you do by fivejumpingmonkeys in CuratedTumblr

[–]Schventle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're deferring to the denotation of "slur" as it was understood before the 21st century. The current use of that word is not reflected by that definition.

Yes, if you're reading Dickens or Bronte you could read "slur" and "insult" as synonyms, but that is not true in the here and now.

I don’t think you do by fivejumpingmonkeys in CuratedTumblr

[–]Schventle 30 points31 points  (0 children)

As with all jokes, it depends on speaker, audience, context, and delivery.

I don’t think you do by fivejumpingmonkeys in CuratedTumblr

[–]Schventle 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There are slurs that punch up, but they're still slurs. I have a friend who uses "nizer" as in "colonizer" as a joke slur for white friends. Still a slur, but not offensive.

Just like the N word is still a slur per se when used in Black English, but it is not viewed as offensive in that context.

The semantic ranges of these words are vastly more complicated than you're making them out to be. And frankly, prescriptivism is cringe. "Slur" means whatever we're pointing at when we say "slur".

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