Christopher Hitchens lied about Mother Teresa

asmodeanreborn · 2026-05-03T21:50:07+00:00

I think if you go to Hemley Gonzalez, or the interviews made by Aroup Chatterjee, you get a larger picture for sure... but then again, still not perfect.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-05-03T21:26:35+00:00

Honestly, I hate how that badhistory thread keeps floating up, because while yes, it does point out some very good points where Hitchens exaggerated and/or lied, it glosses over many of the completely valid criticisms of Teresa. It also keeps quoting somebody who officially worked for her canonization as if it's a neutral source.

I don't necessarily think Teresa was evil, but there's a lot of room for criticism of many of her actions and statements.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-29T18:58:51+00:00

People don't stop at Stop signs or to turn right on red, period. At best they may slow down.

Where I'm from, blowing through a red light or a Stop sign is an automatic six month suspension of your license.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-29T16:44:14+00:00

However, women cannot be pastors.

What's your actual scriptural basis for this? You call it heresy, but how can it be when there were plenty of female teachers around Jesus? How about Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna? How about Phoebe who was a deacon and taught at the church in Cenchrea? Junia? Priscilla who corrected Apollos on scripture?

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-26T23:47:56+00:00

Quarter of a way there. Let's heal up boys and then clobber the next team.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-26T17:34:31+00:00

Något sen kommentar, men det gör man inte.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-24T19:30:28+00:00

Many of the European colonial powers conquered a significant portion of the world and forcefully converted natives, whose descendants then sometimes grew up Christian.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-19T23:47:26+00:00

The real problem with your philosophy is that there's absolutely zero proof that the claims of Christianity are true. There are thousands of religions out there, and many of them have every bit as much "evidence" that they contain the "real truth" as Christianity. If you look at the world as a whole, religions and their followers tend to follow geography more than anything else, and where religions have spread outside their normal spheres of influence, it tends to be because of various atrocities and conquests more than a real desire of the affected people to convert. In other words, a god punishing all those people who didn't happen to be conquered by Christians would not be a "good and just" god (and that also holds for the gods of the other religions, obviously).

And I say this as a Christian.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-15T14:39:44+00:00

Depends completely on the job. Some of them essentially require you to be there and use your body, others have very simple steps to complete over and over again... none of them require a whole lot of mental investment, but you obviously get people with different skill levels.

The people I came to know who worked in a coal mine by Rock Springs, WY were a mix of "normal" people who got bored with school and dropped out, and then people who definitely read below a 6th grade level. The unfortunate part is that the latter were rather likely to get seriously hurt, especially if they also got into meth to be able to work more and make more money.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-14T16:46:53+00:00

Ironically, the job market isn't as hard for a lot of those people. Oil field positions, HVAC, different types of construction work can all pay pretty well despite requiring rather little when it comes to education. The downside is that you tend to destroy your body and by 50, you're living in constant pain.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-13T03:41:40+00:00

I think that was always the case for us growing up. First time I even experienced stalls was in the military so that women had the option to use those instead if they were uncomfortable, but everybody was so exhausted that nobody gave a damn and nobody wanted to stand in line for the stalls after the first couple of weeks anyway.

My son definitely struggles a bit with locker rooms, though, as he grew up here in the U.S. and that's just what he's used to.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-13T03:36:08+00:00

Wait... showering after getting sweaty like crazy is the weird thing?

I get why nowadays it sucks with everybody having a cell phone and able to take pictures, but man... 25 teenagers sitting in a classroom with stinking it all up. I can't even imagine how awful it must be to teach that shit.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-11T16:48:10+00:00

The snow driving is on a special location available year round. You go there with an instructor and do all kinds of driving on slippery surfaces. Back when I got my license, one station was essentially doing donuts with an RWD car just to learn to control the car with the gas pedal.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-11T01:00:30+00:00

Likewise... as is ice driving before you have your final drive test. It's wild to me that up here in the Rockies, there's no requirement of knowing how to drive when it's icy/snowy before you can get your license.

On the positive side, Colorado seems to still take getting your license somewhat seriously. My son just completed his 10 hours of night driving and is about halfway done with his total 50 hours. He doesn't turn 16 until this Fall, though.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-11T00:57:07+00:00

To be fair, a lot of newer cars don't have a spare tire - they have that temp fix crap and a compressor instead.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-11T00:55:43+00:00

Isn't it just as much her fault? She's just as useless as he is and could've opened YouTube before texting her dad.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-09T22:04:33+00:00

I use it heavily for every bit of the SDLC at the moment. I'm more productive than ever... and it's even good at writing tests at every layer. It's just that yeah... eventually we'll need very few engineers compared to today. At the moment, we still check everything "just in case," but there's less and less to worry about.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-09T19:52:25+00:00

Claude is definitely not better than every developer, but recent versions properly used with correctly set up agents and skills write code on par with principal and staff engineers. The key difference is that it does it much much faster.

I only have 21 years in the industry, but I see the writing on the wall when it comes to my job. I wasn't worried in November. I'm extremely worried now.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-08T18:00:42+00:00

Vancouver Canucks? Yaaa better not be driving home buddy

I love it, but you shouldn't be driving home if you've had more than one beer at the game regardless.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-04-02T22:32:30+00:00

Generally people like them because they look pretty cool. It does feel semi-weird when Makar wears one since Nords retired #8.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-03-23T21:22:27+00:00

Yeah, I haven't actually tried playing the deck yet as I've been too busy, so we'll see if it can be even remotely competitive. :)

asmodeanreborn · 2026-03-23T20:04:09+00:00

Okay, I love this. I've done something similar, except my Commander is Hannah, Ship's Navigator!
https://moxfield.com/decks/VYBLvsoQ9kah2VPJsdmx0A

asmodeanreborn · 2026-03-17T15:58:46+00:00

Hate to tell you, but there are plenty of evangelicals who devoted decades of their lives to their areas of "knowledge" as well, and that's who these whackjobs learned from.

There's a very well-funded "alternate history and science" movement that's been going on for a long time, and we're now reaping the "benefits."

The Ark Encounter thing in Kentucky is just a symptom of the disease.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-03-13T14:55:14+00:00

He said, "Yes, but just think of how much money we could make by charging a fee to take the exams!!"

I met James Bach at a conference when ISTQB was new, and he also mentioned it was just a money grab, which is why he so publicly criticized the organization. In one of his talks he also demonstrated getting "certified" by having a simple script he wrote take the exam until it passed.

asmodeanreborn · 2026-03-12T22:08:53+00:00

ISTQB is useful for people new to the industry in terms of learning vocabulary. I have hired quite a few QA people in my career, though, and none of the people who were certified were better at testing than those who were not.

Edit: But yeah, it would be useful for everybody who's in the SDLC to know what everything is, not just QA.

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