Asidonhopo
@Asidonhopo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Personally, I never travel anywhere without it 2 days ago:
Nope, you’re thinking of the Lost Generation, nope Silents were called that because like Gen X, they were fewer in number than the post-war Boomers, and becuase they were generally known for being cautious and thrifty, having grown up in the shadow of WWII but too young to fight in it.
- Comment on Personally, I never travel anywhere without it 2 days ago:
I think it’s more about easy portability than discretion.
- Comment on Personally, I never travel anywhere without it 2 days ago:
Not sure if you’re implying it but the Silent generation was sandwiched between the Greatest and the Boomers.
- Comment on Scandal 5 days ago:
Uniparty? More like Lemon Party
- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 1 week ago:
Even gay folks had a much harder time in the 90s, it’s hard to even imagine now but its like night and day.
- Comment on Production can't keep up with demand (corporate greed) 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen this meme used in its un-reversed nonironic way.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
Also, in Dr. Hillman’s book Original Sin: Child Rape and the Church he outlines how medieval and earlier rape of children by church leaders led directly out of Jesus’ pederasty, something the priests wrote at length about using Jesus’ actions as justification.
His other book The Chemical Muse was instrumental in getting academia to admit the widespread use of recreational drugs in antiquity.
Dr. Hillman doesnt get any money from the purchase of these books and he encourages you to pirate them.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
Hey they crucified him for being arrested in the Garden of Gesthemane (Mark 14:51-52) in the middle of the night with a naked ~12 year old boy with a bandage on his junk (some drugs and eunuchs shit) - somehow Christians miss this crucial plot point of his big act. All the other apostles were at that time, out cold on the drugs he had given them.
Crucified between two other traffickers too, lestes in the Greek, same sort of people who held Julius Caesar for ransom - after Caesar got free he instituted crucifixion as the standard punishment for traffickers.
They mistranslate it as thieves and say Jesus was marked as a political rebel or something but the mob of people and heavily armed soldiers that came for him were very justified in their anger.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
You might be interested in Dr. Ammon Hillman, his doctorate is in classical philology and he has a masters in immunology as well, he’s been reading and translating Ancient Greek for 35 years, including a lot of neglected medical texts. He asserts that both the Old and New testaments of the Bible were originally written in Greek, within a couple hundred years of each other. He has a lot of praise for Satan and the figure’s apparent origins in Greek culture (Diana Lucifera and other mentions), and talks about Satan predating both Judaism and Christianity.
Hes also got plenty of scorn for Jesus, who according to his seemingly rigorous translation of the Greek bible was on a lot of drugs throughout his life and during his death, and was sexually exploiting and trafficking minors (the Apostles apparently ranged in age from 10-19)
He did some decent interviews on the Danny Jones show and on Hamilton Morris’s podcast, and Ammon hosts a live stream a couple times a week at Lady Babylon on youtube. The name of his channel comes from Medea, a “sorceress” from Scythia who became queen of Babylon at one point. She was Hecate’s daughter and sister to Circe from the Odyssey, and apparently was the first named person in history referred to as a “Christ”, a term that he has showed at length refers to the use of drugs in antiquity. We get the word “medicine” from Medea.
Pretty outlandish if you’re not familiar with him but despite his sometimes abrasive and eccentric presentation style I feel like the picture he paints of the ancient Greek world during the few centuries around the time of Jesus makes a lot of sense, and I appreciate that his channel is non-monetized and he doesnt accept donations for what he does sharing what he’s found in half a lifetime of studying Greek source texts.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
Its food for the new poor. The generationally poor were eating chicken wings back in the 80s for $0.19 a pound and loving them. Now, after the dreadful gentrification of wings post-9/11 we’ve got ways to stretch a dollar you’ll never learn unless you marry in.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
Les pieds de raccoon, such a delicacy
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
This is a decade or two past the true ideal. Not pictured: the 5-inch sliding control that mechanically adjusted between recirculated and exterior air and the drivers and passengers pull-knob by the feet that let exterior air flow in directly. A heavenly touring experience.Image
Also on the one pictured in your post, I find those lit press to toggle ac and def buttons with indicator lights wore out over time and required a ton of force to switch on the cars I’ve had with them.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 3 weeks ago:
Are they actual cut crinkle fries from a potato or are they like, formed potato matter because I could see the first one being pretty good. I will miss the straight cut with the potato skin on it from before though, yum.
- Comment on turkey 3 weeks ago:
Strange Aeons’ take on it was also entertaining.
- Comment on I ate: Arby's Steak Nuggets 3 weeks ago:
The arby’s near us closed years ago, am I to understand they have discontinued their straight-cut fries in favor of crinkle cut???
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 month ago:
As an American, round corn chips are the best, glad you’re enjoying them
- Comment on This hairstyle is really going to....take off. 1 month ago:
There exists an animated version of this image
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 1 month ago:
Maybe its gayer to bottom for both men and cis women though, maybe “gold-star” gays are leaving some arguably gay acts still on the table
- Comment on sticker 1 month ago:
Ancient Egypt dint stop using 𓁡 just because everyone was familiar with the Khnum-with-Ankh meme, why should we?
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 1 month ago:
I feel like I had a near-miss
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 1 month ago:
What if people are naturally bi/pan and either learned or chosen aversion to one sex or another makes them either gay or straight? In a hypothetical world free of antigay bigotry couldn’t a person be dared to kiss or otherwise get close to someone of the same gender and realize it turned them on?
I dont know but isn’t “born gay” or “born straight” kind of similar to gender essentialism?
I’m all for a world where people have as much opportunity to choose as possible, but I also realize people put a lot of stock in what they’ve already chosen. Perhaps it’s like a long term relationship where someone feels their partner is the “only one” for them, following a breakup they often find there are other partners they’d be happy with too.
Just my thoughts, no offense intended. Not really looking to share my own experiences here but they sort of make more sense in the theory I’m explaining here.
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 1 month ago:
No one should…
- Comment on Should I _really_ be enjoying myself? 1 month ago:
I went wow and thought that was elegant stippling on the possum but I zoomed in and saw it was JPEG
- Comment on What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently? 2 months ago:
Vanishingly close to 0%. People are social creatures and rely on each other to survive. Without the intricate web of interreliance that society relies on only a few extremely healthy and resourceful, profoundly insane people would survive as truly independent entities, a tiny number of these might “thrive.” Probably numbered in the hundreds or thousands worldwide.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 2 months ago:
The US Census Bureau keeps track of things like that? Huh… TIL
- Comment on Foolproof advice 2 months ago:
Nilered did a video on this, it’s technically at least cheese-adjacent
- Comment on Trump to blacklist countries for imprisoning Americans 2 months ago:
Last I heard there were Palestinian Americans in Israeli prisons
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 2 months ago:
Fuck it, this is the year we win the war on christmas.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 months ago:
I blame Newt Gingrich
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 2 months ago:
I remember when my friend visited Arizona and they came back with a full color newspaper-style police publication with hundreds of mugshots and the crimes they were accused of, these were published weekly and widely available. Pretty fun to browse through, wish my state did that.
