Edmund עמוס זוהר S

The belief that intrusive thoughts are expressions of a person's "authentic" self, more than the higher-order moral thinking that rejects them, is a culturally Christian belief, reflective of the teaching that "sinning in one's heart" is as real as one's actions.

They call it the Mandelson Effect when you're sure he must have been arrested for misconduct in public office years ago

LONDON (AP) — Police say former UK ambassador Peter Mandelson arrested in misconduct probe over his ties with Jeffrey Epstein.

Trying not to be angry but...

The growing number of concentration camps across this country, in which FORTY PEOPLE that we know of have died, elicit a fraction of the outrage that the murder of white protesters did

Watching you all underreact has helped me realize how my family was allowed to die

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

I'm a US citizen and my own mother is telling me "don't visit the US, it's not worth the risk"

Sweden's COVID response in 2020-2021 was based in magical thinking, I don't see why they would change now

If the US state can figure out tariff rebates for big business, it can figure out reparations for slavery. The difference is that the US is structurally set up to serve big business and to oppress the working class and people of color.

Potato, potato

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsEn...

US says it struck vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three men The U.S. military in a post on X on Friday said it struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three men, in the latest such incident.

Oh and they’re still indiscriminately executing random people at sea with no evidence, warrants, trials, or verdicts. And absolutely no one is doing anything about it, I guess.

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

"Your direct ancestor (14 generations) Elizabeth Rosina Dalton appears in this photo"

I sincerely doubt that

Sometimes I feel like you need to be put up on blocks and rebuilt like a classic car

Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

My great-grandfather's first child, Alice, died just a few months old of Spanish Flu before the Army shipped him to France in 1918. That ended his relationship w Alice's mother and set him on the path to become an auto mechanic and get together with my g'grandmother. If Alice lives I don't exist...

I had a great-uncle I never met because he died of complications from a strep infection in the 1930s. It only took long enough for that horrific era to just barely leave living memory for the people in charge to get away with forgetting.

It's like printers. The machine itself is cheap, the DRM-locked batter cartridges are where they make the real profits

I misread but "Gaping for Gavin" would not be the least apt slogan that was ever put on a button

The world is dusty. Each of us has brooms we can use as we walk. The best any of us can do is take pride in how much sweeping we helped get done. Nobody is expecting the world to be free of dust, and certainly nobody is saying your job is to sweep up all the dust in the world.

We could better say for אשר "blessed" rather than "happy". This is the happiness of Akiva: to understand, whatever fate should befall you, that the world is as it should be, as haShem designs

The punchline of course is Menachot 29b:5

You're more optimistic than me then

He was smart but he needed a smack sometimes. Isaiah 45:7 is to be looked upon with awe, not trivialization and euphemism, cf Berakhot 11b

Who said that foolish nonsense?

YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine NEW 📀 I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four {Stereo} 1966

Whoever had the idea to mix most of the drums on the left channel and just the hi-hat on the right channel, on a country-rock record in 1966, had a moment of genius

This version blows the Crickets original out of the water, mostly because of the production

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYN...

THIS MAN CREATED ICE

There had been flag officers of color in 1966 but there were no women captains in Starfleet until 1986