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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Onesimus was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston by teaching the variolation method of inoculation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
One of the most terrible things about the English education system in Ireland is its ruthlessness. I know no image for that ruthlessness in the natural order. The ruthlessness of a wild beast has in it a certain mercy—it slays. It has in it a certain grandeur of animal force. But this ruthlessness is literally without pity and without passion. It is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated, with a multitude of far-reaching arms, with many ponderous presses, carrying out mysterious and long-drawn processes of shaping and moulding, is the true image of the Irish education system.
Onesimus was an African man who was instrumental in the mitigation of smallpox in Boston by teaching the variolation method of inoculationen.wikipedia.org ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I The Asshole? How judging other people’s dirty laundry became the internet’s favourite pastime.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
was in 1990s tv too
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah but it won’t taste the way it used to
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, July the 19th was a sad day
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The exponential relationship is between speed and energy, rather than height and speed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

They use steel more effectively, but use other resources like wind, land, labor, and electronics less effectively, and all of which are harder to recycle

Wind is a renewable resource. Saying wind is not easy to recycle is incoherent.

As for less labour-efficient, I’d’ve thought that’s part of solarpunk: being less capital-intensive/more labour-intensive.
It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised onessolar.lowtechmagazine.com ↗
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Swiss Researchers May Have Solved Hydrogen Storagehackaday.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s about fragility
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dictionary is more useful than Urban Dictionary⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Because you can use it in both the country and the city
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Depends on culture and stuff.

depends on income level tbh (because that influences amount of space and number of beds)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
they invented those too afaik
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my girlfriend gaslighting me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

this is the most blatant overblown reaction ever.

correct take
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my girlfriend gaslighting me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

she begin asking a series of pointed questions: “What would you do if you found out that I was gone?”, “What would you do if the CCTV on our street is broken by chance?”, “What would you tell my mother if I went missing?”, “If I was actually kidnapped, would you kill the guy for me?”

Yeah these sound like tests.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're thinking about something and reach a conclusion that's super outside the mainstream, you could be right, but also could mean you should reinspect your assumptions.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

When people speak of the ideas that revolutionise society, they do but express that fact that within the old society the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie. The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just... a little...... farther⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
what a good little bit of art
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

The new testament stories were written well over a hundred years after

Not right. These were written 20 to 30 years after: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle (“Fourteen of the 27 books in the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to Paul. Seven of the Pauline epistles are undisputed by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder.”)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What do you think of what Ehrman says here at 1h45m25s that the mythicist theory isn’t taken seriously by the academy because it’s mostly pushed by people who seem eager to dunk on religion: invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=GzjYmpwbHEA&listen=1
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
But at what cost???
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is my 666th post. AMA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I did my 333rd recently, the post of Choronzon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Agreed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

The title of this post is asking about “Jesus Christ,” which we all know to mean the son of God and the guy that resurrected after 3 days.

lol no… this thread is not talking about anything like that hahaha. Read it.

Obviously people don’t come back from the dead or transform into cheddar cheese; we don’t need historical research to tell us that.

His given name was יֵשׁוּעַ‎ or Yeshua, which is Jesus in one speech-type, عيسى (ʿIsà) in another, as well as a lot of other variants.

‘Christus’ in Latin seems to refer to the same person; Tacitus wrote “called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well that’s an entirely different question. Entirely different field.

“the son of God, who was crucified and rose again on the third day” is for silly Christians.

The question under discussion here is about Roman-era history.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

There’s 0 evidence or recorded documentation that a resurrection ever happened. That’s the big one.

The question in question was “Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

They very likely was someone named Jesus, because there were many people with that name.

The second one doesn’t use that name. Read the sources.

There’s 0 evidence or recorded documentation that a resurrection ever happened. That’s the big one.

Well of course, but that’s common sense. Dead people stay dead as a rule.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A literature search. The web is full of rubbish.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There were a lot of people that shared that name, and a lot of people were crucified at that time.

That implies each source says: “A man called Jesus was crucified”. The article you provided (if you read it) should have told you otherwise.
- Flavius Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, year 93-94: “About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.”
- Tacitus’s Annals, year 117: Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

In terms of literary evidence there is exactly 1 historian who is roughly contemporary and mentions Jesus

Misinformation.

There’s Tacitus’s *Annals" (year 117), Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews (93-94), Mara bar Serapion’s letter to his son.

Seutonius (Lives of the Twepves Cæsars) and Pliny wrote about the conflict between the Romans and the followers of Christ (or Chrestus) around that era.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What are you driving at bringing up the semantics of ‘contemporary’??

The only time that word was used was when you said (incorrectly), “That is contemporary literary evidence of his existence.” – the annals are centuries after the 6th-century reign of Diarmait at Tara. We don’t have any 6th-century manuscripts. The situation in the Roman Empire is quite a bit better, lots of texts.

Would you say that a person called Caius Vipstanus existed because Tacitus mentioned him in his annals a few decades later? Isn’t that valid inference from the text?