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  • I mean, nymphomania is a real thing, but its a lot more rare than you might think.

    Its also legitimately debilating.

    ADHD person can’t hold focus or forgets important things, remembers seemingly random things?

    More or less, modify that with uncontrollably becoming immensely lustful, horny, having visions of fucking whoever you are currently talking to or looking at, needing to get off, regardless of whatever your current social or environmental context is.

    Makes all kinds of activities that require sustained attention and focus pretty difficult.

    Anyway, the one I met, who described all this to me… she didn’t whimper pleaaaase.

    She made herself very enticing, in mannerisms, flirtatious attention, teasing and tempting me… after learning the kind of person I was, learning the kind of things that would… make me want it at much as she did.

    So there ya go, there’s an anecdote of how sex works for a diagnosed nymphomaniac.


  • Personally, I think it is more likely than not that somebody named Yehoshua existed, and did at least some of the things described in the Bible.

    Because there were a good number of other Apocalyptical, Messianic Jewish type preachers/cults around the same time, the same area.

    Getting conquered by the Romans … yeah, makes sense this would make people think they’re living in some kind of end times, a seemingly unstoppable heretical force is now in charge of near everything, forcing the Jews to endure heresies and descrations… surely God must be pissed and have something up his sleeve, to make things right.

    I’m a fan of Paulogia’s minimal witnesses hypothesis, basically, you more or less only need Paul and Simon Peter to have something approximating post-bereavement hallucinactions or guilt based psychotic breaks, and then word of mouth and legendary development takes care of the rest from there.

    Jesus, imo, probably was a real dude, who got crucified for eventually causing too much trouble. Thats entirely believable to me.

    Resurrection? Miracles? Uh no, but, its pretty believable to explain how things roughly similar to, or based on things he may have actually done, got exaggerated and reformulated into the original Gospels.

    But yeah, as Price says, he very directly states that he thought he would return before all of his contemporaneous followers passed away.

    So… thats why a good deal of the theology is basically based on “well he did actually, in a way, from a certain point if view.”

    … Because he very clearly did not do so literally, matter of factly.

    It gets even more wild if you look into the ‘Gnostics’, the Sethians, the Valentinians, etc, the stuff that didn’t uh, make the final editors cut, as it were.


  • The… only thing I think I technically agree with them on is that… the holy day should by rights be Saturday, not Sunday.

    Beyond that… yeah, some of them are very pleasant, delicate people… whats his name, the guy that Hacksaw Ridge was about… basically fairly close to a real story, he was an Adventist, thus a Pacifist, refused to pick up a weapon during WW2…

    Became a medic, saved I think around at least 100 soldiers lives, got a Medal of Honor.

    But the flip side of this is that, as best I can tell, at least some of their Preachers/Pastors, they’ve been conspiracy theory crafting intricate explanations of how the Catholic Church is more or less the most heretical thing that can be, Pope is the AntiChrist, etc etc, many, many other details… been doing that for decades.

    I’ve managed to not meet too many Southern Baptists, due to being nowhere near the South at any point in my life… but yeah, what you say about them comports with what I’ve heard… seen on youtube, from people covering absolute nutjob, modern fire and brimstone preachers and ‘prophets’.

    Dear lord that’s a whole can of worms there, people and branches that make prophecies and encourage other members to… or, who claim God is directly talking to them… makes for a whole lot of dramatic nonsense real fast, such as the recent Tiktok Rapture mass psychosis event.

    If we ever doubted how those old tales of things like ‘dancing madness’ happened, well, now we know.

    Sometimes people just kind of… euphorically, collectively, snap.





  • If a private company hired you to kill people…

    … and you broke their NDA…

    … they will hire someone to kill you.


    I get what you’re trying to ask, but oh boy have you picked a silly example.

    Long story short: Uh, basically you have to sue or be sued, to find out how enforceable an NDA actually is or isnt.

    But:

    Big company have money.

    You? Not have as much money.

    NDAs are mostly effective tools of stifling speech by way of intimidation, not by way of legal legitimacy.

    Sure, I’m sure many scenarios exist where a clause of an NDA is enforceable if you violate it… but there are so many different possible laws and jurisdictions that come into play… you’d have to be a lot more specific.








  • You don’t need to suspect that, you need to be 1000% sure of that.

    Even in good economic times, what is it, like 90% of newly started businesses fail in a year or two?

    Yeah, the ‘start your own business!’ advice is yet another laughable boomerism, easily dismissed by a casual glance at any data from the last 50 years, but no, no, they know better than reality, donchaknow?

    Just… yeah, I’m sure all the banks are really just itching to give out a $250,000 business startup loan right about now.

    Not like bank failures have been steadily climbing, not like the credit markets are seizing up, bond markets going fucking haywire.

    No no no, everything’s just fine.

    … I suspect people are going to very shocked to discover the differences between a recession and a depression.

    History is apparently stupid though, learning from it is evidently a social faux pas… we just love continuously having to learn what mistakes look like by slamming our faces into them with reckless abandon.


  • Ok, so you admit the scenario I describe is possible, just not ‘likely’ in your view… after initially dismissing it.

    Did you read the article?

    What happened was not that the whole main rocket zoomed right past a Starlink Sat, while still doing the initial burn sequence.

    What happened was:

    “If confirmed, this incident occurred nearly 48 hours after payload separation, by which time the launch mission had long concluded. CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems,” the company added in another X post a few hours later.

    … One of the sats released by Kinetica 1 whizzed by SL6709 at a 200m distance. 48 hours after the Kinetica 1 launch.

    So… that would have occurred during when said K1 deployed sat… was doing some kind of orbital stabilization manuever, most likely, no?

    Either that, or, even worse… it wasn’t, it doesn’t have much of its own ability to trim and adjust its own orbit… which would mean it is just stuck, on an eccentric orbit, possibly stable, possibly not… that crosses above and below the altitude Starlink sats are at… and there’s like ten thousand of them…

    … which CAS Space does not seem to either have accounted for, or have the ability to account for.

    So yeah the situation that is currently occuring, that is from the article we are talking about, yeah, that does not to me seem like an unlikely thing, given that it is, or something pretty close to it, seems to be currently happening.


    Given that CAS Space said:

    “CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems,” the company added in another X post a few hours later.

    That would seem to me to imply that they had previously been in contact with SpaceX, to be able to coordinate launches and do trajectory deconfliction… but that this coordination ceased… for some reason.

    https://payloadspace.com/china-calls-nasa-on-orbital-conjunction/

    Looks like China’s been asking for help from NASA with this sorta stuff in the last few months… I guess SpaceX didn’t get the memo?

    Nobody’s sure what the … correct procedure or chain of command is here?

    … Does Starlink actually publish and make all its Sat locations snd trajectories, in highly accurate detail, available to Chinese space companies/agencies?

    Thats a legitimate question, I don’t know.

    You’d have to have basically a real time syncronizhed data sharing operation going on, given how many Starlink sats there are, how often they make orbital adjustments or fail.


  • How is it an interesting thing to do?

    Hateful bigotry is bad, is that your point?

    … Religion is the only one of those things that, by definition, constitutes a worldview that… very often serves as a generator of violent bigotry, in and of itself.

    ‘Race’, gender, sexual orientation, those things can lead to the actual enactment of violent bigotry against outgroup members… but they have to be paired with an accompanying worldview and/or material economic situation of disparity for that to arise.

    Religion is the only one of those that doesn’t need any extra components for its adherents, its members, to enact violent bigotry against outgroup members.


    I’m not justifying violent bigotry.

    I’m explaining what causes it:

    So long as there are idiotic squabbles over nonsensical and contradictory and logically incoherent worldviews, that are deeply held with great conviction, there will be violent bigotry.


    Further, ‘race’ itself is an ultimately incoherent construct, it is a worldview, one that is just so ingrained into so many that we don’t even realize this.

    People groups exist, ethnolinguistic groups exist, heritages of haplogroups exist… ‘race’ doesn’t, ‘race’ is a way of thinking, promulgated by some societies, that just clumsily and incoherently defines people into ingroup and outgroup members, and then oppresses the outgroup members so hard that they are functionally forced to adopt it as a practical, lived identity.

    Imagine trying to do the ‘one drop rule’ with the US conception of ‘white people’.

    Oh, sure, you’re uh I dunno, Norweigan, eh? Well, there’s actually a German, and even a Spaniard, somewhere in your set of great great grandparents, so clearly, you’re some kind of white mochalatto, not really pure white, thus impure.

    … Absolute nonsense.


    Gender and sexual orientation?

    These are unchangeable, naturally arising aspects of people, that some other people with some worldviews may choose to hate, or not.

    Religion?

    Very often the worldview that chooses to hate.

    ‘Race’?

    Yeah, more complicated, more like a clumsy worldview that is enforced onto others untill they adopt it or have no choice but to adopt it… by certain other kinds of worldviews, which are very often religions.

    With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.