Miles O'Brien

Honestly I wouldn’t even bother saying it’s an annotated Bible, as long as it’s pulling from a translation of the Bible that a church would use, it’s the same Bible.

I love when someone tries calling me out on not using “the right” translation, because depending on how the conversation has gone up to then, I will either pull out a king James edition, or start listing any of the dozens upon dozens of English translations available, asking if this one or that one was valid enough, until I’ve made my point.

My Bible when I first read all the way through was a new living translation children’s adventure Bible. It had a few illustrations in the family-friendly well-covered areas, mostly new testament. I thought it was pretty fucked up in some parts already, and they did kind of change the phrasing and language to be less obvious to children what is being said.

The one I usually use for reference now is a new international version with no annotations or additional context that was gifted to me when I graduated highschool.

So a court has told another court to stop looking into court cases (and the people not following court orders) and let people not follow court orders.

So court orders are meaningless.

The Bible I read definitely had something to say about nobody except god knowing when jesus was supposed to come back.

Certainly never said you could summon God with a blood sacrifice.

Then again, most Christians have never read the Bible. If they had, they would probably be like me and no longer believe.

Damn, that goal post shifted in a single comment!

Their feelings.

You poll them on policies, and suddenly everyone is a “far left extremist” for wanting safety nets and basic standards for human existence.

Former coworker kept saying he was republican, but he disagreed with them on a fundamental level about nearly every social issue, including guns.

He was all for anything and everything about collective bargaining, the workers uniting against management, but god forbid you use the “U” word.

Agreed every day about this social safety net needs expanded, that program needs better funding, more programs like this or that should exist for people in need, but once the dreaded “S” word comes out, suddenly everyone is a commie. Cause you know how socialism is actually communism and all that.

As former enlisted, I wonder if at any point while floating to the ground they thought to themselves “holy shit, I’m gonna die in a desert for pedophiles, why did I go along with this?”

At least one gets to think twice for now, but I doubt they will.

*that isn’t personally losing their house

They tend to only care when it hits them

Military personnel taking time out of their taxpayer-funded training exercise to get some social media material.

As former enlisted, an argument could be made they were AWOL. They were not in their designated place at their designated time, and did not have permission to do the thing they did.

This right here is why I can never trust a “Christian scientist”

You cannot convince me that your findings in anything are unbiased when you believe in something with no evidence.

As a person of faith, you would not abandon your faith if presented with evidence that says your god doesn’t exist, you would abandon science and simply ignore it, or worse hide/sabotage it.

As one of the former enlisted you speak of, I say feel bad for the individual that didn’t see any other way out, but still call them the easily exploited idiot they are for agreeing to go die for the current regime.

They heavily police what enlisted personnel can watch and who they interact with when on base and everything, so it’s a little easier to understand why one of them who doesn’t have many left leaning friends might not see “the other side” of the conflict, but I would argue you cannot be an adult in modern day and see things the administration gleefully admits to, and then think any conflict they desire would be justified.

I would happily sit my ass in a prison cell for refusing to go to war in the middle east, but then again there’s a reason I didn’t last long in the military. Not even long enough for them to make an “honorable vs dishonorable” determination lmao.

So yeah, sorry for rambling a bit but to point :

Feel sorry the individual couldn’t see any other way out, but know they collectively had many opportunities to not be there.

“Our glorious handling fees” vs “their barbaric tariffs”

… Okay no really, who ever in their right mind considered us a “liberal democracy”?

Hell yeah. I’ve actually used the S10 as an example of the max size I want a truck to be. Stretch the cab forward to the unnecessary engine bay and make it a crew cab with no nose.

At this point I’d take a modern truck if it was offered, but I’d be looking to trade for something smaller immediately. Modern trucks are just too grossly oversized, and I, as an adult, often can barely see over the hood of modern trucks. And tons of trucks around here have lift kits installed, making them even less safe for pedestrians

I heard about them a few weeks back, messed around on their site building a couple different trucks, from the one I would actually buy, to the one I’d get if I had all the money and time to go out to the middle of nowhere for a week long camping trip.

It’s neat!

I’ve been wanting an EV since the day I got my license at 27ish. Up to then I had been cycling everywhere, and didn’t really need long distance or cargo capacity beyond what I could carry in a pack and saddlebags.

Ideally I wouldn’t need a car, and public transit would provide the majority of non-bike travel, but that’s not the country I live in. We’d rather elect officials that dump money into fossil fuels.

Currently I need a small form electric truck with at least 2ft of ground clearance and preferably no giant nose on the front that small children can hide behind, with at least 100mi of travel on one charge and the ability to go 300mi in one day with full size charging stations.

Of course like many people, my biggest hurdle isn’t finding one that I like, it’s finding one that is even remotely affordable. And assuring me the used market of shitty half-dead cars that will require many thousands more in mechanic costs due to the simple fact that if something breaks on it, I can’t fix it as simply as a gasoline engine vehicle.

3/4 of Americans can’t even afford an EV.

North Korea really hates the ocean.

What did the ocean ever do to north Korea?

I’ve been managing to drag some of them further left, I think, through conversation about things.

A few are 100% on board with a union as long as I keep calling it “collective bargaining” and don’t use the scary U word.

A few are on board with most social safety nets, especially when they find out Healthcare would cost less than it currently costs them in taxes alone, let alone not having to pay for insurance anymore, but the second you call it socialism or use any sort of word like “welfare” then they panic.

Individually I think I’m breaking some of them, but collectively they’re fucking idiots.