Old Man Glas

Just saw him earlier today!

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If you are a tabletop gamer but you are anti-trans, then you are an amadán and an idiot and should go fall off the face of the planet, thanks!

(Gaming, comics, movies, music; so many of my loves have been enriched by outstanding trans folk, and some close family and friends are, as well.)

She did amazing stuff for one of my favorite hobbies (tabletop roleplaying games), so I think it is very cool that Goodman Games did a memorial for the late Jennell Jaquays on her birthday (she was just a couple years older than I am and passed in 2024, if I recall aright).

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Of interest to me!

Writer friends, beware of what he mentions in his caution - AI-driven "offers" to publish, etc.

This is what I think is the intent, as well. And it's a bad thing for us in America.

(My opinion, your mileage... er, kilometers per liter... may vary!)

But what I notice is that the Evangelical focus on Fundamentalism ("You must believe THIS literal interpretation!") and imminent eschatology sure does seem to run in the same circles as patriarchal white supremacy. So I usually assume religious Fundamentalism is manipulative.

As a Methodist (and thus a Mainline instead of Evangelical Protestant) I reject both Fundamentalism and the Draper-White hypothesis myself. Since my denomination and myself are fine with a 13.8 gigayear universe and various mechanisms of evolution, I like science and distrust anti-science dogmas.

I'd trace the Rapture fixation to John Nelson Darby's Dispensationalism in the 1830s and to the Millerite Movement that led to the Great Disappointment on 22 Oct 1844.

Black cat perched on a smiling human's back and shoulder; happy little beastie.

My voidkitty makes me happy (she's my fourth cat and second midnight kitty over the past third of a century).

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Judge Karin Immergut's experienced view matches my own understanding of our U.S. Constitution.

In turn, the many people who are saying "What gives them the right to limit our power!?" and decrying efforts by our judiciary to make us return to (mostly) following our laws sound a lot like bullies.

This is fantastic, in my view!

(In my own view, I am happy with your religion or rejection thereof IF you feed and house people - be it locally, in Gaza, in Sudan, or wherever people need food and shelter - and if you don't spread hate or disease.)

As a church-going United Methodist* with a fair number of Jewish friends, and who used to be Baptist long ago, I think this sadly sounds like it fits what I see.

(*UMC Methodists are Mainline Protestants rather than Evangelical Protestants; think "Progressive" and LBGTQIA accepting, if it helps.)

(Pretty sure I typed in vitro, not in vivo. But what they did was amazing: modifying and repairing some of Ashanti's marrow to give her an immune system that has lasted a lifetime. She is now 39.)

Approved Cellular and Gene Therapy Products Listing of licensed and approved products from the Office of Therapeutic Products (OTP).

Think what I am saying sounds "far future"? Think again. Here are the current FDA gene therapy and cellular therapy products:
www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

Astute observation; what they did in 1990 was much harder than to do it in vivo.

But I fear you missed my point:
We must do a better job of discussing this as a society since we HAVE been modifying human genomes for 35 years. And any "eugenics" proponents are just being racist and very outdated.

Direct Order vs Lawful Order: Understanding the Difference Explore the crucial differences between direct and lawful orders in organizations like the military, and learn the importance of legal and ethical compliance. Understand the need for critical evaluati...

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But soldiers and sailors reflect America, too. 😞 IHL protects POWs ☆&☆ civilians, but U.S. media no longer cares.

Here is a discussion of the sort that I heard decades ago. We intended no more My Lai atrocities... but Cheney snd W. brought us Abu Ghraib and Gallagher. 😞
ucmj.us/direct-order...

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Note "that I will bear true faith and allegiance to [the Constitution]... and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."
www.army.mil/values/offic...

2.5 Enlisted Oath
www.army.mil/values/oath....

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Here is the oath that enlisted soldiers take. Note how it says that "I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice"; the officer's oath is similar.

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@tsal.outof.coffee is indeed a veteran. And as they note, soldiers and sailors are only supposed to follow lawful orders.

But then the President and SCOTUS are supposed to uphold the U.S. Constitution, as well. One problem in human societies is how we follow or abuse our laws.

No, Bluesky.
(Sorry, sorry, had to! ^_^ )

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Pay attention. 😞

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash

Insanity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Heh.
Doubly amusing because - while I dunno about the first - you can look up and see that the rest are accurate.