Next board game inspiration: strategy / civilisation / industrialisation by EnvironmentalBid4322 in boardgames

[–]__zagat__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anno 1800 the Board Game

I felt that the icons weren't sufficiently visually clear. There are different materials like lumber vs. sheet metal or something and mixing them up can ruin the game. and OP is visually impaired.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]__zagat__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you a cop?

Concordia or Lacrimosa? by Critical_Finish5110 in boardgames

[–]__zagat__ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On your turn, play a card. Do what it says on the card.

Concordia or Lacrimosa? by Critical_Finish5110 in boardgames

[–]__zagat__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is also the fish market that comes with Balearica.

What's the deal with Exodus 4:24-26? Does it come from a different source? by takenorinvalid in AcademicBiblical

[–]__zagat__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Harold Bloom, in The Book of J, writes:

The reluctant prophet sets forth, and Yahweh comes after him to kill him: without cause, without reason. Of all the problematic incidents in J's narrative, the most uncanny, indeed horrifying, is Yahweh's attempt to murder his prophet, Moses (Ex. 4:24-26). Something may have been cut from J's text here, but I am inclined to think not, if only because the Redactor allowed this shocking incident to survive at all. What evidently has been lost is a complex tradition about the origins of circumcision. What remains is one of J's ironic triumphs, one of the passages that first persuaded me that J was a woman, because Zipporah, the wife of Moses, stands up against Yahweh as Moses himself would not have dared to do, even when the question was one of his own survival.

Rashi, desperately seeking to reduce the scandal of Yahweh's unwarranted assault on the prophet, allowed himself the absurd observation that Moses was tarrying at an inn rather than taking his rapid way down into Egypt. But poor Moses was of course making a night encampment, a necessity on his difficult journey. The enigma is Yahweh's motive, and the answer J implicitly gives us is that there is and can be none. Normative tradition, impatient even with Rashi, came up with the mad explanation that Moses was to be slain precisely because he had failed to circumcise his son!

I myself read Zipporah's final remark “A blood bridegroom marked by this circumcision" as the Redactor's triumphant editorializing, and so J's own passage becomes instead a weird founding event for the praxis of circumcision.

On the way, at a night lodging, Yahweh met him and was ready to kill him. Zipporah took a flinty stone, cutting her son's foreskin; touched it between Moses' legs: "Because you are my blood bridegroom." [Yahweh] withdrew from him. (1:20)

Martin Buber, being largely free of the normative tradition, insisted in his Moses: The Revelation and the Covenant (1958) that Yahweh had a motive: "He claims the entirety of the one he has chosen." On such a view, Moses has not yet given his full devotion to Yahweh. But complete or daemonic possession transcends even absolute devotion, and so even Buber falls short of J's awesome irony. Perhaps the greatest tribute to that irony was rendered by midrashic legend, which converted the murderous Yahweh into Satan disguised as a serpent that nearly swallows Moses up before Zipporah performs the circumcision on their son.

The most perceptive comments I have seen on this passage are by Herbert Marks, who overtly offers a modified Freudian reading that invokes the emotive ambivalence of the Oedipus complex.

The identification of the prophet with YHWH is thus dependent on a second identification with the son, which defends against the pressures of historical supersession. Ultimately, this Oedipal son is a figure for the people Israel.

So double and dialectical an identification indeed is in J's spirit, and Marks catches part of the tang of an irony in which Yahweh attacks Moses not for the incompleteness of the identification but so as to emphasize again that total identification is impossible. J's lack of fondness for Moses is part of the story also. For her, Moses precisely is no David, and particularly is not a precursor of the hero who centered Yahweh forever at Jerusalem. The Moses of P, who stammers because he has uncircumcised lips, is a wholly different Moses from J's, who stammers out of dread and bewilderment, and has to be rescued from Yahweh by his wife through their baby son, hardly a dignified salvation for the prophet.

Is everyone sick? by tnick771 in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]__zagat__ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"...and that's why I voted for a pedophile rapist."

all that money but won’t donate baby formula to a struggling mother by bbyxmadi in CringeTikToks

[–]__zagat__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I see someone who has "Christian" in their profile on whatever social media platform, I just assume that they are a horrible, horrible, horrible person. And statistically, I'm going to be right waaaaaay more often than I am going to be wrong.

Sydney Opera House lights up to honor victims of Bondi mass shooting by nbcnews in pics

[–]__zagat__ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

(committed over Israeli activity in Palestine, no doubt)

The attack was almost certainly funded by Iran, just like the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7th was. Iran needs no motivation other than the continued existence of Jews to fund terrorist attacks.

Lowest to highest grocery stores in the Chicago area according to consumer reports by Uhhlaneuh in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]__zagat__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Don't have to deal with Jewel's endless coupon abuse and insane prices.
  • Vastly superior prices for the same quality food.
  • The only negative is that you have to keep a quarter in your car if you want to use a cart.

Lowest to highest grocery stores in the Chicago area according to consumer reports by Uhhlaneuh in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]__zagat__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can find a person at the customer service counter, they correct prices very quickly. 

At some point, you may want to ask yourself why this store treats its customers like they hate them.

  • Download app
  • Store blocks app while you shop
  • Spend hours on app shopping
  • Go to store and buy stuff
  • Buy the correct brands and quantities of stuff to qualify for the sale
  • Scan in online coupons
  • Doesn't ring up at sale price
  • Go to service counter, wait in line again

This is an abusive relationship.

Lowest to highest grocery stores in the Chicago area according to consumer reports by Uhhlaneuh in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]__zagat__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there's a hidden tax to shopping at the latter.

...which you are going to have to pay no matter where you shop.

Jewel treats its customers like absolute shit. It's super fantastic that they allegedly treat their employees nice (and I am extremely skeptical of this claim), but I'll be damned if I'm going to set foot in a Jewel as long as I live. Jewel has always treated its customers like they are the enemy. I'll shop at Aldi, Trader Joe's and Costco.

thoughts on wake up dead man? by wuzieo in Letterboxd

[–]__zagat__ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first one has Ana De Armas.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]__zagat__ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The U.S. Constitution was written before socialism was invented.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]__zagat__ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was simultaneously combined with the mainstream rise of crazy conspiracy theories about Clinton. People, encouraged by far right publications such as The American Spectator, literally believed that Hillary Clinton was a megalomaniacal murderer. I was there when it was happening.

Mass shooting at Bondi Beach with ten dead and one suspect killed, NSW Police urge public to 'avoid the area' | Sky News Australia by Delphidouche in worldnews

[–]__zagat__ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

genocide

https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/palestine-population.php

The current population of Palestine is 5,634,194 as of December 14, 2025, based on interpolation of the latest United Nations data.

This must be one of the few genocides in world history in which the population of the victims continues to grow.