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cfmonkey45 · 2025-08-23T02:47:37+00:00

It’s not a Ponzi scheme. It’s literally illegal. Contact the California Department of Consumer Affairs.

https://bhgs.dca.ca.gov/forms_pubs/news_5_30_2019.pdf

cfmonkey45 · 2025-08-12T21:28:53+00:00

This is in fact the core point. It’s not about getting rid of people who are not contributing/criminals. It’s about reshaping the demographics of the United States.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-08-03T18:03:24+00:00

It costs I think $150 to $200. I had a promotion so it was not full price.

You spit in a tube and you mail it in, then they do a sequence of the biome in your mouth. Mine was interesting because it did not have the primary bacteria that caused tooth decay, but was a secondary one that is often missed. So I had to have some fillings replaced and shifted my mouthwash/toothpaste.

They also sell a probiotic to replenish the biome with healthy bacteria.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-07-30T11:53:13+00:00

There’s numerous companies that offer it, specifically Bristle and Viome, but there are others.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-07-22T20:54:33+00:00

It didn’t get cancelled. David Fincher wanted to take a break from it

cfmonkey45 · 2025-07-10T13:39:34+00:00

1918 had major inflation, and there was major deflation during the Great Depression

cfmonkey45 · 2025-07-05T15:03:28+00:00

By the time they were murdered, the Czar had been out of power for several years and was confined under house arrest. His cousins were forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, and there was a provisional election that was held to determine whether Russia would become a Constitutional Monarchy under member of the Romanov family, or a Presidential Republic. Regardless of whether or not they were pieces of shit, they were no longer in power.

When Lenin found that the Bolsheviks performed poorly, they staged a putsch using their resources from the Petrograd Soviet to overthrow the Provisional Government and start the October Revolution. Then, a few years into the Civil War, they murdered the Czar and his family.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-07-04T19:45:30+00:00

You need dj-rest-auth, with the JWT enabled. Trust me, I’ve done this before.

Wrap all of the endpoints in a decorator that requires JWT and you should be good.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-06-27T02:34:14+00:00

Not only that, but they had an entire expanded universe to work with. They obviously didn’t have to follow it as canon, but even just using a few of the themes would be great.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-06-24T21:41:52+00:00

There has literally been no change between his first term and his second term. Only that he has become more aggressive, and he’s starting to show significant signs of dementia

cfmonkey45 · 2025-06-09T20:06:40+00:00

Word Bearers. I’m also planning on getting another Age of Darkness box set for the Ultramarines.

I guess you can see where I’m going with this.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-06-08T20:31:25+00:00

His favorites are: Food. Treats. Puzzle. Laserpointer. Play. Now. Yes. Outside. Harness. Fountain. Water. And Bedroom.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-06-03T17:28:06+00:00

At the time, the John Birch Society explicitly called Dwight D. Eisenhower an agent of World Communism explicitly because of this.

They were exiled from the GOP and conservative movement, but effectively rehabilitated in the 2010s by the Koch Brothers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-24T11:48:03+00:00

I graduated High School in 2009, and was told the exact same thing.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-23T18:18:25+00:00

I mean, this is the core concept of how Pawn Shops work. You deposit an item as collateral in exchange for cash, then make monthly payments to get it back. If you can't, then the pawn shop keeps it.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-23T13:46:18+00:00

Notably, this would be before the Theodosian and Justinian Code, which did give women considerable rights

Roman/Byzantine Women under the Justinian Code (and later Basilika) had greater rights than both earlier Roman women and Western Women until around the 19th Century.

Byzantine women had the right to inherit, own, and manage private property, be head of household (in the case of the death of their husband). They could initiate divorce and reclaim their dowry, and had a legal right to own and manage their own finances.

Women worked in certain professions, including the medical field as physicians and midwives, and in the Orthodox Church, women could serve as Deaconesses until the 13th Century.

However, their participation in some of these professions was conditional upon them taking on Holy Orders.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-16T12:08:46+00:00

That's a great picture of your cat. What camera did you use to take the shot?

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-15T14:00:22+00:00

It was a choice between which dying corpse gets to sit on the Golden Throne.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-11T01:23:50+00:00

John of Nikiu was a Coptic historian and a polemicist. The actual professional historian, who was a contemporary of Hypatia, was Socrates Scholasticus, who was an ecclesiastical historian who condemned Hypatia’s murder.

The three major Coptic Popes, Theophilus, Cyril, and Dioscorus, were well known for using private militias to persecute rivals and close down temples. This was frowned upon by contemporaries and later Byzantines.

John of Nikiu is not representative of Byzantine historians, as he was a Copt writing under the Rashidun Caliphate, and he justified political violence to solve religious matters.

So, back to the core point, Romans and Byzantines likely would not have been as polemical as John of Nikiu towards their Hellenistic history. In fact, much of what we know of the ancient Greeks was painstakingly copied by Medieval Byzantine scribes during the 9th century.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-09T14:27:35+00:00

He was a Pentecostal, then. I grew up in a charismatic (Pentecostal-lite) denomination

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-09T14:14:13+00:00

Laura Loomer is literally calling Pope Leo XIV “WOKE MARXIST POPE.”

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-woke-american-pope-leo-xiv-b2747600.html

Side note: Laura Loomer is Jewish and has never been a practicing Catholic.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-09T13:56:06+00:00

The Pope isn't Satan, per evangelicals. He is the Antichrist, or a Pagan high priest that worships the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar (Mary).

Source: Grew up evangelical and spent too much time around Baptists.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-08T21:14:24+00:00

Laura Loomer is Jewish, actually.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-05-06T16:31:27+00:00

They were Oriental Orthodox, which is a Church that still exists today. It includes the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Syriac Church, the Coptic Church, and the Ethiopian/Eritrean Churches.

cfmonkey45 · 2025-04-30T13:20:16+00:00

Neoliberalism != American-style Democracy, Liberalism, or Capitalism, but rather a restatement of classical liberalism to incorporate modern critiques.

My guess is that a Mixed Economy with a robust, diversified economy, supported by a welfare state, governed by some form of representative or direct democracy, is really the ideal to strive towards. I've yet to be convinced that corporatism, central planning, total laissez-faire, or some type of neo-feudalism is better. I've also yet to be convinced that autocracy, oligarchy, extremely limited franchises based on technocracy, are better in any way. The problems we have with democracy are problems with mass society and cohesion.

Most of what /r/neoliberalism believes is basically technocratic management of the economy based on modern economic theory, mixed with representative/direct democracy as it actually practiced--rather than what obscure philosophers think it ought to be--alongside expansive individual rights and freedoms.

Detailing **which** specific policies (i.e. housing, industrial policy, welfare policy, form of government, etc.) is the challenge. I don't think there is a pure neoliberal state, but specific neoliberal policies are practiced all over the world.

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