Neither has the closure of the strait of Hormuz caused a financial crisis of a scale never before seen.

precipitate a financial crisis the likes of which we have never seen.

Can you elaborate on this? And how it is worse than the impending financial crisis due to barely mitigated climate change?

Actually it’s best if we focus on reducing carbon emmitting energy source usage. High oil prices make that easier.

Lol I legit thought

whoa a gel electrophoresis meme, I wonder if anyone recognises the sequence.

if the Bible does say being gay is a sin

It doesn’t say that.

you are basically saying sinning is okay

I think Christians think that everyone sins, if only they believed in a way that people’s sins could be forgiven.

What about Matthew 7:12:

In everything do to others as you would have them do to you

Would you have others tell you to be ashamed of something you can’t change?

ATC mistake causes collision killing two pilots and injuring a dozen more.

B boy stance by Donald Glover

Give powerthirst to your babies and they’ll run as fast Kenyans against actual Kenyans and it will be a tie and they’ll get deported back to Kenyaaaaa

I mean I guess you got me, I was being a dick.

I am genuinely interested, but I wasn’t acting like it, I was being needlessly provocative.

I’ve been learning a lot about Christian history but I’m frustrated because it (Christianity) doesn’t really make sense.

So how much child beating is necessary for it to not be hating a child? How much/little is abuse?

Beating children is not an effective way to get them to behave. But people didn’t know that (and still don’t) so they thought/think they need to beat good behaviour into their kids.

Use a bowl ffs

People and cultures have very different ideas about what constitutes abuse of children. Some cultures would consider it abusive not to cut off parts of their children’s genitals.

What’s your relationship with proverbs 13:24?

The Iranians have not gotten justice. I don’t need convincing that he was a bad dude, but his death doesn’t cement freedom, and imo the attacks reduce stability and prosperity for Iranians.

Isn’t it a probabilistic extrapolation? Isn’t that what a guess is?

I learned on the internet 15-20 years ago or so. I’ve also done 5x5 and 4x4 they aren’t really much harder, I didn’t need additional info, but when I hit the parity problem on the 4x4 I just scrambled and tried again. I mean they are harder, but not astronomically harder.

My almost 8 year old is obsessed. I went through how to do a 3x3, and wrote out the steps and he has copied my instructions into a notebook. He can do it in 3 and a half minutes with his notes. He hasn’t managed without his notes yet but he has only been learning since Valentine’s day. He just woke me up looking for his notebook.

Earlier this week I met somebody that did a Rubik’s cube independently in the 80s. (My son’s classmates grampa).

This is what a person blackmailed by Epstein would say. Gosh how could Epstein get leverage to blackmail someone like this?

Hoodoo? You do! Do what? Remind me of the babe!

Hobby tunnelers agree it’s a great escape

I’m surprised P ended up that high, the amount of autotune in it sounds like AI speech synthesizer with articulation cranked all the way 11 where it just makes random weird sounds

59.1% AI-detection™ score

A small note: that I wasn’t trying to decide whether something was AI, I was trying to evaluate its creativity. So I actually thought A was real, but that it was extremely generic… I also suspected D was AI but trying to judge on creativity, I was unimpressed with the lyrics (not that creative) but I found the soundscape it created interesting. That’s a place where my (un)familiarity with the genre was a liability. I also found the pitch of “you” in “who are you” nrar the end to be creative, like in the wrong key but in a good way.

Also I only listened to each track once, then decided where to put it in the list. Like “top”, “bottom”, “near bottom but not worst”. And I placed them as I went. If I went through the list again I’d probably swap some but that would have taken way longer and I decided it was more important to be done. I probably should have done some spot checks at the end to make sure things ended up where I wanted.