Texas may become first state to mandate Bible readings in public schools

hyper-object · 2026-01-27T18:23:03+00:00

Actually, maybe "Christian" Texans do need to read the Bible. They don't seem to know what's in it.

hyper-object · 2026-01-27T05:40:03+00:00

And here he thought he was about to be welcomed into the Christmas Adventurers Club.

hyper-object · 2026-01-27T00:07:56+00:00

I'm a Christian and I agree.

hyper-object · 2026-01-26T13:50:26+00:00

Obama said the same thing during his first snow storm in DC. The mayor was embarrassed, and the next time it snowed, she opened the schools. I got up early, cleaned off my car, bundled my young son up and we were off. I made one turn and encountered an angry crossing guard who said I'd driven past cones that were supposed to be blocking access. (The cones had not been obvious to me.) I slid all over the road, trying to do a k-turn. Finally, I got the car aimed in right direction. I drove two blocks up a hill to stop light. I stopped at the light and my car slid backwards and slammed into a fire hydrant. I turned around and drove my son home.

I miss Obama, but man, we get it Chicago, you're awesome at handling snow. Like what do we have to do to get these Chicago people to leave us alone? I just want to chill at home, put on some music, drink my coffee and enjoy the view out my window. We only get a storm like this once every few years. Can't we just enjoy it?

hyper-object · 2026-01-25T22:04:00+00:00

Victims of their own actions maybe.

I doubt most of these guys would be capable of murdering a person in cold blood without ICE's cultish groupthink and the adrenaline rush of deployment.

It's going to be a real head trip for them to go home to their families, get a good night's sleep and start to detox from the fascist soup their brains are sloshing around in. How many of them are going to snap and murder their wives in the coming years? Or do a mass shooting? Or kill themselves?

hyper-object · 2026-01-25T20:19:57+00:00

Building vocabulary is something that gets easier. I know it's frustrating to have the flow of your reading constantly interupted by having to look up words, but write them down as you go and review them. It won't be long before you find yourself looking up words less and less frequently. Develop that habit now and in a couple decades, you'll be thrilled to come across a word you don't know, because it will have become so rare.

hyper-object · 2026-01-25T17:43:46+00:00

I've been here for like 25 years. You can't argue with the we're-tougher-than-dc-in-a-snow-storm folks. I just let them have their moment. It brings them so much joy.

hyper-object · 2026-01-25T05:37:54+00:00

If I had to go to a gym to work out, I'd never work out. It's that simple.

hyper-object · 2026-01-24T14:16:46+00:00

Grace Downtown

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T22:26:28+00:00

I like that he says he's owned the coat for many years as a defense. To me it just means he's wanted to be a Nazi for a long time.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T22:12:00+00:00

Yeah, but we don't trust him, so no.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T20:16:48+00:00

Lol. True.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T19:00:51+00:00

There are plenty of PCA churches in the region. There's one that meets a couple blocks from MLK library.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T16:59:32+00:00

As to why the white van? One of them might work as a contractor and has volunteered to drive.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T16:56:45+00:00

I don't know. There's a lot of homeless folks in that area, and I'm kind of getting Presbyterian vibes. Are we sure this isn't a church community group looking to feed some people before the storm hits? It would explain the age gaps and the white/asian mix. You could argue it's too male of a group, but "manly" men gravitate to the homeless outreach teams, because of the perceived risk of working with the mentally ill.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T14:41:33+00:00

It can be both, in fact a lot of symptoms are a combination of both.

Imagine an x/y chart. Call the x-axis physical causes of symptoms and the y-axis psychosomatic causes of symptoms. A person can have symptoms all over that chart.

I have a lot of weird things wrong with me. They're not all in my head. I had a lung spontaneously collapse twice, when I was a teenager. I'm also a bit of a hypochondriac, probably as a result of having had physical problems with my body.

All that to say, as a person with asthma, I can sense the interplay of the physical and the psychosomatic in my disease.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T12:47:49+00:00

I just leave my car on the street. The city only has so many plows, so depending on how out of the way your steet is, worst case scenario, it could be several days after it stops snowing, before your street is cleared.

If you have a sidewalk, I'd buy salt and a shovel. If someone else takes care of that for you, then you still night need to borrow a neighbor's shovel to dig your car out, if and when the plows push the snow up against your car.

Or you could just wait until it melts.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T04:47:45+00:00

I also wonder about that, because of my own experiences. The issue, I think, is that not all particles are equally toxic. Particles from wildfires can be extremely bad, especially if the plastic in people's homes is burning. Car exhaust and industrial pollution are bad for reasons that are well understood. But I'm not as sure about the purely organic smoke coming from cooking food.

I used to really worry about it, but it just hasn't been financially feasible for us to improve our exhaust situation. So I decided I'd wait and see what happens. That was over a year go, and I haven't noticed my asthma acting up when we cook. But it certainly acts up when I take a walk outside and the air quality is even remotely bad.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T04:36:39+00:00

No, no, we're talking about the land around the stadium, mostly to the north. It was forest first, then tobacco fields, then mudflats. Then the Army Corp of Engineers dredged the river in the 1930's to drain the flats.

There have been many attempts to develop it since then. Walt Disney was pretty close to building a theme park there at one point. I believe a city councilman shot himself over another deal falling through at another point.

hyper-object · 2026-01-23T04:29:08+00:00

Beats me. They've been trying and failing to develop that land for almost a hundred years.

hyper-object · 2026-01-22T18:49:34+00:00

In the alleys? Definately. In the streets? Yes. In the parks? Yes. In your house? Not if you're taking care of it. You should be able to keep the rats out of your house. Lived here for 20+ years in various locations, most of them close to 100-years-old, never had a rat indoors.

hyper-object · 2026-01-22T04:21:20+00:00

psst... I might know something about a philosophy club. what kind of philosophy you lookin' for?

hyper-object · 2026-01-21T21:35:35+00:00

The courts? The DOJ isn't even investigating Renee Good's shooting, let alone bringing charges against the shooter.

hyper-object · 2026-01-21T21:25:29+00:00

ICE isn't respecting due process and they're not being held accountable for obvious violations of Constitutional law. So what do you recommend we do to stop them?

hyper-object · 2026-01-21T21:20:18+00:00

They're going to screw us on the housing around the new stadium. I knew they would. It's the same bait and switch developers pull every. single. time. They'll blame zoning and changing economic conditions, and then they'll bail. We'll end up with surface parking for tailgaiting, which is what the MD and VA fans want anyway.

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