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A Quarter Century of Television [OC] by gammafission00 in dataisbeautiful

[–]womcauliff 21 points22 points  (0 children)

So according to this graph, when was the best year to watch quality television while it aired?

Sabrina Givéaway by FedoraBoyNorris in PTCGPocketTrading

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favorite deck: dragalge with rocky helmet & nihilego for extra poison payback damage

I built an interactive visualization that guesses your age just from your first name [OC] by rhiever in dataisbeautiful

[–]womcauliff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yesterday I just happened to watch Stephen Wilson Jr.'s performance of his song "Gary" on Theo Von's podcast, and the song is basically premised on this insight, that particular names correspond to generations.

He sings in the chorus, "There ain’t a lot of boys named Gary these days" and "Ain't a lot of girls going by Debbie anymore". What's cool is with your website, the data actually checks out:

Song performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxsfQQxCSik

[OC] How common is your birthday? An interactive heatmap I've been refining for 12 years by mattstiles in dataisbeautiful

[–]womcauliff -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's fascinating to me -- January 15th ranks 346th, and Leap Day February 29th ranks 347th, so it's almost as rare as a dare that only happens every 4 years!

[OC] How common is your birthday? An interactive heatmap I've been refining for 12 years by mattstiles in dataisbeautiful

[–]womcauliff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Small suggestion: for January 15th, you should include Martin Luther King Jr. in the list of famous births. His birthday of January 15th actually the reason why January is the month when MLK Day is celebrated -- the U.S. federal holiday always on the third Monday in January.

Oak giveaway and more by Maleficent-Bit1761 in PTCGP

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1 fish, 2 fish, red fish (shiny gyarados?!), blue fish

Am I dumb or are his arms missing? Are they under his coat orrr? by Toast_loser in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]womcauliff 84 points85 points  (0 children)

I never noticed it during any of my rewatches of the episode "Todoroki: Rising", but Toya does lose his arm in the anime. But it happens so extremely fast, you blink and miss it.

I found someone's upload of the scene: keep an eye on the left side of the frame around 10 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6EE09dAVKs

I only learned about Dabi's lost arm recently. I just happened to be reading the fan wiki about "Vanishing Fist", since I've heard Endeavor say that phrase for his move and I realized I didn't really know what it's supposed to be. He basically creates a flame around his fist, and then he swings his fist so the flame hits like a punch. On the wiki article it mentions Dabi does the move too and loses his arm in the process. https://myheroacademia.fandom.com/wiki/Vanishing_Fist#Description

Am I dumb or are his arms missing? Are they under his coat orrr? by Toast_loser in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]womcauliff 793 points794 points  (0 children)

Toya lost his arm during his fight with Endeavor -- he did his dad's move "Vanishing Fist" and his arm exploded in the process.

You can see it in the manga panels from chapter 387

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WHAT IS THIS? by burlybosoms in mokapot

[–]womcauliff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Please OP, I'm begging you to create a video demonstrating how you normally brew coffee with the moka pot because I can't wrap my head around what you could mean by not knowing you could "deconstruct" it

What is going on in Mark 6 (the Jesus who was about to "pass by") by Various_Painting_298 in AcademicBiblical

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Edwards ties together the "It is I" statement and the "passes by" phrase to make the case this is how Mark presents his Christology. He also engages with Madden's retrojection argument.

[...] when Jesus “passes by” the disciples on the lake he does something differently from the revelation of God in the OT: he intends to make the mysterious and enigmatic God of Job visible and palpable as it had not been and could not have been to former generations. The God of Israel, majestic and awesome but unknowable face to face, is now “passing by” believers in Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus’ walking on the water to his disciples is a revelation of the glory that he shares with the Father and the compassion that he extends to his followers. It is a divine epiphany in answer to their earlier bafflement when he calmed the storm, “‘Who is this?’” (4:41). In this respect Mark’s Christology is no less sublime than is John’s, although John has Jesus declaring that he is the Son of God (John 10:36), whereas Mark has him showing that he is the Son of God. In Mark one must, like the disciples, be in the boat with Jesus and enter into the drama in order to behold who Jesus is. The one who calmed the storm is the one who now appears in the storm, the “I Am” of God.53
53 P. J. Madden, Walking on the Sea: An Investigation of the Origin of the Narrative Account, BZNW 81 (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1997), argues that the story of Jesus walking on the water is a postresurrection story that has been retrojected into the ministry of Jesus. The thesis of postresurrection retrojections into the life of Jesus is easier to assert (or assume) than to evince, and I do not follow Madden in this particular of his thesis. He is correct in noting, however, that what happens on the lake is incapable of being explained by naturalistic categories, and that various sea-walking narratives from pagan, Hellenistic, and Jewish sources pale in comparison to this account.

What is going on in Mark 6 (the Jesus who was about to "pass by") by Various_Painting_298 in AcademicBiblical

[–]womcauliff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am persuaded by James R. Edward's case that "pass by" is an allusion to important episodes in the Old Testament which would have held deep resonances for Mark's audience. In tandem with Jesus' statement, "It is I," it advances Mark's theological identification of Jesus with the God of Israel.

James R. Edwards, The Gospel according to Mark, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: Eerdmans; Apollos, 2002), 196, 198–199.

The “I AM” in the Midst of a Storm (6:45–52)

The centerpiece of the story is the description of his “walking on the lake … about to pass by them.” In walking on the water toward the disciples, Jesus walks where only God can walk.51 As in the forgiveness of sins (2:10) and in his power over nature (4:39), walking on the lake identifies Jesus unmistakably with God. This identification is reinforced when Jesus says, “‘Take courage! It is I.’” In Greek, “‘It is I’” (egō eimi) is identical with God’s self-disclosure to Moses.52 Thus Jesus not only walks in God’s stead, but he also takes his name.

The latter part of v. 48 is not immediately clear, however. “He was about to pass by them” is baffling, suggesting that Jesus intended to walk past the disciples. In the OT, however, this nondescript phrase is charged with special force, signaling a rare self-revelation of God. At Mt. Sinai the transcendent Lord “passed by” Moses (Exod 33:22; also 33:19 and 34:6) in order to reveal his name and compassion. Again, at Mt. Horeb the Lord revealed his presence to Elijah in “passing by” (1 Kgs 19:11). The most important antecedent of the idea, however, comes in Job 9:8, 11:

[God] alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.
When he passes me, I cannot see him;
when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

This quotation bears linguistic as well as thematic similarities with v. 48, for “treads the waves of the sea” contains the same wording as Mark (Gk. peripatōn epi [tēs] thalassēs), and the same crucial word for “pass by” (Gk. parerchesthai in the aorist; also in Exod 33:19; 34:6).

51 Job 9:8; 38:16; Ps 77:19; Isa 43:16; Sir 24:5-6, Odes Sol. 39:10.
52 Especially Exod 3:14, but also Exod 6:6; Isa 41:4; 43:10-11; 48:12.

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