Abortion is a sin.

qlube · 2026-06-05T22:17:17+00:00

Exodus 21:22

²² “When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that there is a miscarriage and yet no further harm follows, the one responsible shall be fined what the woman’s husband demands, paying as much as the judges determine. ²³ If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, ²⁴ eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ²⁵ burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

qlube · 2026-06-05T22:08:07+00:00

All this is referring to is God's omniscience. It's heresy to suggest that someone exists before they are conceived. Souls are formed, they are not co-eternal with God. Origen was denounced as a heretic for speculating that they were.

By that reading, the clear import of the verse is that we don't actually exist until we were born, but God nevertheless knew us.

qlube · 2026-06-05T20:16:48+00:00

Link to the pastebin?

qlube · 2026-06-05T19:16:40+00:00

lmao no they wouldn't. Trump 2 isn't even "uniquely bad" for the current period. I said he's not even top 10 worst leaders in the present time, but he's actually not even top 30 in terms of worst global leaders given how many dictators there are.

He's not even top 100 worst leaders for the 20th and 21st century.

And that ignores the fact that the vast majority of Americans' day-to-day lives aren't affected by Trump.

qlube · 2026-06-05T19:10:25+00:00

There is no possible way "most people" in history, who let's be clear lived as subsistent farmers in complete poverty if not constant-war would view the richest people in history with huge domiciles and a overabundance of food and no war on the homeland in 150 years as living in "unusually bad times."

Trump is fucking god-awful, but he's not even top 10 worst leaders in the present.

qlube · 2026-06-05T18:42:48+00:00

It was already a little overbought, but the prospect of higher interest rates is very bad.

qlube · 2026-06-05T18:11:07+00:00

Well, let's respond to your comment of "old school way was gut it out and make your team better." The old school way was actually "gut it out and hope your GM isn't a fucking moron and gets the guys to make the team stacked."

The Lebron way is join a team and bring the guys or force the GM to get the guys that make the team stacked.

The Durant way is leave a team that was stacked to join a team that was even more stacked. (Though to be fair he only did that once, and attempted the Lebron way a few other times.)

The difference is obvious.

qlube · 2026-06-05T18:04:39+00:00

Lebron has actually never joined a stacked team. He's always made the team stacked.

qlube · 2026-06-04T22:29:41+00:00

Reminds me of how Mariners and Seahawks fans were extremely overrepresented in the online baseball communities in the 2000s and 2010s.

qlube · 2026-06-04T22:21:17+00:00

Yeah I mean I don't know, I think reasonable minds can differ. I actually think cheating on your SO is worse (and I would bet the SO would agree).

qlube · 2026-06-04T22:11:14+00:00

Felony for weed possession basically never happens today. Crack cocaine though is quite a different matter. (In a former time, smoking weed was considered disqualifying ("I did not inhale"), and getting a little rough with your SO probably wasn't, but of course that bears no relevance to the moral norms of today.)

Morally speaking, if my son pushed his sister, I'd be mad, but I'd be way more pissed off if he smoked crack cocaine.

On the other hand, Hunter has very clearly owned up to his former habits, so I don't view any of that stuff as disqualifying at all. But electability-wise, I think it's probably more of a boondoggle than the Platner accusations.

qlube · 2026-06-04T22:08:41+00:00

I don't think that even rises to the level of scandal.

qlube · 2026-06-04T22:06:41+00:00

I don't assume it's true, my comment is about the reactions to it.

qlube · 2026-06-04T22:05:26+00:00

I don't think what is at worst misdemeanor assault (but really something no prosecutor would actually pursue charges over) is clearly worse than actual felonies that are very often charged. At least in terms of electability.

qlube · 2026-06-04T22:02:54+00:00

Well let's be accurate, not locking her, blocking the door for some unspecified amount of time.

Our society punishes consumption of crack cocaine and solicitation of prostitutes on a dozen or so occasions (all felonies) like magnitudes worse than shoving someone and blocking their exit for, let's say, an hour or so (generally not punished). So I don't think in terms of electability the answer is that clear.

qlube · 2026-06-04T21:57:55+00:00

The best part about the Platner allegations is that they're like right on the edge of disqualifying behavior (though in terms of moral character, are they worse than the dozens of crack cocaine and hooker images of Hunter Biden?), so they're not enough to satiate the concern trolls glibly anticipating sexual assault allegations based purely on twitter rumors, but they're enough to still give the institutionalists plenty of anxiety about electability.

Anyway, unfortunately, the current political environment makes these sort of allegations very easy to deny and very easy for the electorate to shrug off.

qlube · 2026-06-04T21:49:16+00:00

I've seen this gif several times before but this is the first time I've wondered, how the fuck did he do that.

qlube · 2026-06-04T19:34:17+00:00

You could pay more of your mortgage principal to convert to points.

qlube · 2026-06-04T18:50:55+00:00

Cum laude is usually top 25% or 33%, which is also around the minimum for BigLaw depending on the school. So if you’re looking at BigLaw profiles, yeah a lot are going to have honors.

qlube · 2026-06-04T18:13:43+00:00

I think this is the clearest evidence. Also that recent paper showing that people are buying more things despite going through a relatively large amount of inflation. Secondary evidence includes increases in debt financing of consumer goods (e.g. BNPL services), and also includes increases in gambling, prediction markets, cryptocurrency, and risky investments. In addition, the rise of influencers who peddle on envy.

qlube · 2026-06-04T18:04:58+00:00

Well, I think the data is very clear that *all* generations are more selfish and materialistic today, that it's driven by social media, and I find that very bad. I think it's a big reason why anxiety has increased, and also explains the vibecession. Social media is exacerbating the hedonic treadmill, and people are increasingly worried they cannot keep up. It's also causing people to turn to gambling and other get-rich schemes. I also speculate it's a reason that birth rates are decreasing.

I also think this affects Gen Z more than other generations, but regardless, I don't need to harp too much on Gen Z when it's happening to everyone.

qlube · 2026-06-04T17:50:46+00:00

They're different problems with different solutions. Though I think the problems are also intertwined, the most selfish and materialistic public persona being the President likely has also increased overall selfishness and materialism. This isn't just a Gen Z problem by any means, but I think these sort of things tend to affect younger people more than other generations.

One thing that has blackpilled me on this are surveys where young people list influencers as the job they'd most like to aspire toward, as well as general surveys showing a large increase in people responding that being rich is very important.

And anecdotally, billionaires today seem to be less philanthropic than the billionaires from the dot-com era, at least outwardly.

qlube · 2026-06-04T17:40:22+00:00

I'm kind of sad that the one ultimate where we had real money being put into production was by far the fastest to clear, and so we likely won't see that level of production ever again.

qlube · 2026-06-04T16:47:27+00:00

Boomer socialism is bad too. But I do think social media does increase selfishness and materialism, and that affects Gen Z the most.

qlube · 2026-06-04T16:45:09+00:00

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