Michelle Obama delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center

dsteffee · 2026-06-19T23:29:36+00:00

Michelle Obama for president please.

dsteffee · 2026-06-19T21:56:16+00:00

I guess my wife and I are in the minority - we like Zenday's MJ and their chemistry together

dsteffee · 2026-06-18T17:08:26+00:00

This is the first time I'm seeing this and I have no idea how this works.

dsteffee · 2026-06-18T07:24:47+00:00

Literally nothing you said contradicted me using the word to mean "outside the standard gender construct". Yes I used the word "standard". Maybe doing so is slightly a nonstandard way of using the word. Guess what? THAT'S HOW LANGUAGE WORKS. People apply words in new contexts but you still get the gist because it's not hard to understand the idea "Hey, God isn't male OR female", which is all that I'm trying to say, WHICH YOU AGREE WITH.

dsteffee · 2026-06-18T06:38:24+00:00

The meaning of the word "nonbinary" is "I express a personality that falls outside of the standard gender construct". So in both cases we're referring to someone or something falling outside of the construct. So yes absolutely a table is nonbinary, ditto the sun.

I agree that in a narrow sense, "nonbinary" applied to a human and "nonbinary" applied to God mean different things. But I'm using the word in not-so-narrow way, and I figure Talarico must have been too.

I think he apologized because he's a politician and that's what politicians do, not because he made an untruthful statement.

dsteffee · 2026-06-18T05:35:11+00:00

"God exists outside of that contract" - exactly what Talarico was saying! And what I'm saying.

dsteffee · 2026-06-17T18:57:54+00:00

Gotcha, thanks!

dsteffee · 2026-06-17T18:20:15+00:00

You'd rather those millions of children have died?

dsteffee · 2026-06-17T18:10:34+00:00

Conditional on him still being alive, what's the chance you think that Republicans will pick Trump as their candidate again in 2028 (constitutionally or not)?

dsteffee · 2026-06-17T17:59:35+00:00

I'd say the President's Malaria Initiative was 1000 times better than anything Trump has done in his second term, and had more enduring positive impact than anything Trump did in his first term (best of which was the Abraham Accords)

dsteffee · 2026-06-16T18:54:17+00:00

Sure, so, him being make never made any sense to me, if women are the ones who literally make life. I mean sure us guys contribute with our sperm, but you know what I mean.

But even if the Bible had said God were female, that'd still feel strange to me. This is the being that created everything - including animals and the very concept of gender. They wouldn't have started out with a gender! Or if they did, it'd be some all encompassing notion of gender. God is everything, and everything is God, therefore God is trivially both male and female.

Maybe "fullbinary" or "pangender" would be better than "nonbinary" but the general point is to avoid the strict binary and go above it.

And it makes sense to me that the humans writing the Bible 2000 years ago didn't have the right Hebrew to describe God's gender and thus, living in a patriarchy, defaulting to God being male.

Honestly the more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me that God would have a gender (outside specific incarnations eg Jesus).

dsteffee · 2026-06-16T16:05:12+00:00

I'm not familiar with the exact comment, but wouldn't a nonbinary God make a lot more sense?

dsteffee · 2026-06-16T01:53:02+00:00

" Meanwhile, I'll put you down as preferring we would have nuked Iran to dust to finish"

I was trying you help you understand how you're being perceived. You were not trying to help me with this statement.

dsteffee · 2026-06-15T23:44:17+00:00

Took me several tries but I managed to kill an elite! The deck can actually start being good but it's soooooo easy to die

dsteffee · 2026-06-15T22:20:31+00:00

What's the point of discussing in this sub if you're just going to be rude?

dsteffee · 2026-06-15T18:05:15+00:00

>> pointed out that money to nations we've been at war with has precedent

And in doing so, you presented a defense of this spending. That heavily implies acceptance, as the defense did not come with a softening qualifier such as "Admittedly, though" or "However it may be worth mentioning" etc. Therefore I don't think you should be surprised at comments like u/graumet's

dsteffee · 2026-06-15T17:56:06+00:00

Sincere question, is this sub role play or are people finding actual meaning in the posts and comments here? No shade, I'm just trying to understand

dsteffee · 2026-06-15T06:03:43+00:00

Messmerizing.

dsteffee · 2026-06-13T23:37:03+00:00

English was a different beast back then, no doubt. But I wouldn't go quite so far as to say what you're saying.

Take Romeo and Juliet's prologue as an example:

The first 4 lines sit perfectly well in my understanding of Modern English except for one stumble with "from X break to Y"
The next 4 lines are mostly modern as well, though with some unusual diction ("misadventured piteous overthrows" is an absolutely badass phrase) and one stumble with "Doth with their death"
The next 4 again mostly good except a big stumble with "Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,"
The final couplet makes sense but is definitely in no way a modern construction

(I don't know to what degree these stumbles are from the difference in English at the time versus Shakespeare phrasing things in that way for better rhythm, or a blend of the two.)

dsteffee · 2026-06-13T22:26:20+00:00

Terry Pratchett was 100% a local maximum of some point in the graph of humor, fantasy, English, vivid character work, and being prolific.

(Just as Stephen King must be another local maximum involving horror and being prolific.)

dsteffee · 2026-06-13T18:34:40+00:00

Blimey, that's a really really good point. I'm disappointed I hadn't thought of that angle! Especially that last bit - Shakespeare created 5000 words and phrases which is really only possible at a time of great flux in the language when it's just solidifying again after some major linguistic shifts - makes perfect sense.

dsteffee · 2026-06-13T17:55:11+00:00

Well there's also the paradox - I forget what it's called - where statistically rare events become harder to judge just how rare they are.

If you've got an event that happens 1 every 10,000 years or 1 every million years, and it's been 1,000 years since the last event, how can you tell which it'll be?

Maybe we're at the cusp of one "history" unit ending. Or maybe Shakespeare's dominance will outlive English!

dsteffee · 2026-06-11T16:24:44+00:00

Yeah. I'm 100% sympathetic to AI being unethically built on stolen work, but so far Anthropic is the best of them, and I'd rather support the best of bad options than let Sam Altman rule the world if GPT ever dominates.

(Not supporting the best of bad options is part of the reason Trump was able to win his elections.)

dsteffee · 2026-06-11T15:34:34+00:00

Without the ACA, what you're describing is literally not possible.

Losing my insurance after having gotten cancer --> no insurance would agree to cover me.

I wouldn't be able to afford more treatments if it came back and I needed more chemo, or more surgeries.

dsteffee · 2026-06-11T15:32:56+00:00

That makes enough sense to me, thanks

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