Aurenkin
@Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The big bang left a carcass and we're the maggots. 3 days ago:
What came first, the maggot, the fly, the carcass or the cockatrice?
- Comment on Australian defence force officer stripped of security clearance over loyalty to Israel 3 days ago:
Based on what was said in the interview this officer should absolutely not have any kind of security clearance.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 days ago:
Exactly, I really don’t get the all or nothing thinking where you can’t even acknowledge something unambiguously positive.
- Comment on I miss them so much. 5 days ago:
It is yes I believe it’s second only to rice.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 week ago:
What’s the whole weeping and gnashing of teeth thing, is that something different to hell?
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a biblical scholar but my understanding was there was biblical basis for it. Especially mentioned by Jesus as he was an apocalyptic preacher. Something like this sounds like it fits the bill pretty well:
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Like I said though I’m not a biblical scholar. Although I’m not sure simply being denied an infinite reward is that much better really. It’s still effectively an infinite punishment for something you have no control over.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
I agree he said a lot of cool stuff for sure but ultimately he was a apocalyptic preacher. I think it’s immoral to tell people they need to accept your God or you’ll go to hell, personally, so that’s one not cool thing.
“Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
Pretty messed up given that belief is not something you can even really choose.
- Comment on If I'm at threat to lose my job because I never shut up about politics free speech means nothing to me. 2 weeks ago:
And good luck to you, mate. Pushing back against maga is a worthwhile goal I just don’t think pissing off everyone at your workplace or people who engage with you is the best way to go.
- Comment on If I'm at threat to lose my job because I never shut up about politics free speech means nothing to me. 2 weeks ago:
Well sure, unless you want to pretend you’re achieving anything other than making yourself feel smarter by throwing around gotchas and completely failing to engage in any meaningful discussion. If you want to call it something else that’s ok but it seems based on your replies all you’re interested in doing is preaching to yourself to reinforce your own ideas.
- Comment on If I'm at threat to lose my job because I never shut up about politics free speech means nothing to me. 2 weeks ago:
Sorry people aren’t receptive to your mental jerk of sessions at work then I guess.
- Comment on If I'm at threat to lose my job because I never shut up about politics free speech means nothing to me. 2 weeks ago:
This whole manner of engaging in a discussion is just really annoying and most people probably won’t find it worth their time to engage with you, let alone people who just want to do their jobs. Maybe spend some time learning about how to engage with people productively or you’ll be in for a bad time whenever you step outside your echo chamber.
- Comment on If I'm at threat to lose my job because I never shut up about politics free speech means nothing to me. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe try shutting up about politics? Work isn’t really the forum for that generally although it can depend on your relationship with your colleagues. If you want to talk politics try doing it with other people you have a closer relationship with, nobody owes you a forum for political discussion.
- Comment on National NBN outage affecting TPG, iiNet, Internode, Vodafone 2 weeks ago:
Wait, you guys are getting NBN? It’s going to take a whole month before my place is connected.
- Comment on The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler | They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps. 3 weeks ago:
If you’re saying shit like “orange man bad” unironically I really don’t think you do.
- Comment on Multiple health agency websites on HIV, contraception taken down to comply with executive orders 3 weeks ago:
What you don’t know about can’t hurt you, after all. Seems legit to me
- Comment on HoMM3 is still fun! 4 weeks ago:
Those were awesome as well. I just remembered the necropolis faction as well, I think it was in 3 that you could get insane numbers of skeletons / skeleton archers. Probably 5 as well.
- Comment on As Kingdom Come Deliverance II releases, what are your memories of the first title? 4 weeks ago:
For whatever reason this YouTube video about playing the game after 100 hours is burnes into my brain.
- Comment on HoMM3 is still fun! 4 weeks ago:
Do you have a favourite faction? I seem to remember really enjoying tower but it’s been a while.
- Comment on friendlyjordies | manufacturing your consent. 4 weeks ago:
Agreed there too, my friend, nobody is
- Comment on friendlyjordies | manufacturing your consent. 4 weeks ago:
Anyone who gets their house fire bombed for exposing corruption is deserving of respect in my book.
- Comment on Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them 5 weeks ago:
I remember reading about the implications of overlapping fire seasons a while ago. Pretty terrifying stuff honestly. I think it was back when Bill Shorten was proposing a big investment in firefighting.
I’m really sorry you had to experience those fires up close, that would have been horrifying to the point of being life altering. Tasmania is a beautiful part of Australia at least.
- Comment on Australia | PM promises ‘strongest action possible’ against Russia if death of Australian Oscar Jenkins confirmed 1 month ago:
I hope that’s true. We are not a nuclear power nor a NATO member so ‘strongest action possible’ should be quite impactful without any escalation from what Russia themselves have already done.
- Comment on Philippine Catholic devotees mass in Manila hoping for a miracle 1 month ago:
Well I was going to help you out but you didn’t go touch the magic rope so 🤷
- Comment on What time can you mow the lawn on a Sunday? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of weekend noise restrictions 1 month ago:
Oh nice, I thought it was just an antiquated rule that folks didn’t really follow anymore myself included. That sounds a lot more sensible.
- Comment on What time can you mow the lawn on a Sunday? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of weekend noise restrictions 1 month ago:
You’re also not meant to run an air conditioner before 7am or after 11pm on a weekday and between 9am and 11pm on other days.
- Comment on Ethics and Morality thrown out the window 1 month ago:
The children yearn for the sheins
- Comment on One what? 1 month ago:
One Trump hotel, obviously
- Comment on Employee of the Year 1 month ago:
Boeing
747 - Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 1 month ago:
Fair enough. My life would be quite a bit worse without it personally. Nobody is forcing you to have one though, if it’s genuinely not doing it for you you can always get a dumb phone.
- Comment on Live virus samples lost in major Queensland lab breach 2 months ago:
It might even drive me to stop drinking!