Afaik mail-in ballots were not the deciding factor in the 2020 election, which Trump lost handily. He was never ahead on election night, though that wouldn’t stop him from claiming it

Until very recently, Republicans had an edge in mail-in voting, however after Trump started deriding it, a not small number of Republican voters stopped using it.

Also skewing the numbers is that Deonacratic-led states largely allow everyone to vote by mail if they’d like, whereas Republican-led states strictly limit mail-in voting to people who meet certain criteria. This means that Democrats are overrepresented when you look at a national count. Oregon and Washington don’t even have in-person voting, only vote by mail. Republican-led states limiting mail-in voting predates Trump though, because they try to limit anything they can related to voting.

This has become the culture at many if not most large companies. Only the people who are willing to totally debase themselves and incessantly parrot the company line rise to the top, and that has an inverse relationship with talent.

Stand! - Sly and the Family Stone

What kind of information are you looking for?

As someone who’s been watching TV since the 80s, no, this is not Netflix’s fault.

On your birthday, you get to pick

I didn’t say that. Yahweh used to be a part of a polytheistic religion and over time became the only god. That doesn’t make polytheism and monotheism the same thing, but it does make Allah and God the same god as the Yahweh from the original polytheistic religion.

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The etymology of some words have previous origins, but that’s it.

What are you basing this on? It’s pretty settled among historians that the Abrahamic God is Yahweh, who was previously a minor deity in the Canaanite pantheon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh

The concept of God in…all of Abrahamic monotheism…is very different from other religions (including the pagan religions of the time), it’s way less bestial and/or anthropomorphic and local.

Whoa. Super judgemental here, and also wrong.

Semitic polytheism transitioned into Abrahamic monotheism by way of Yahwism, a variety of Canaanite paganism centred on Yahweh, the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah. In this process, Yahweh was syncretized with El, the supreme god of the Canaanite pantheon, whose name “El” אל, or elah אלה is a word for “god” in Hebrew, cognate to Arabic ʼilāh إله, and its definitive pronoun form الله Allāh, “(The) God”.

It’s a headline not based on the article for sure. There’s no question about it existing

God that article made me queasy. As a Texan, I hope for a day when we’ll have state leadship who is interested in protecting the people of Texas rather than lying and covering up to protect exploitative business leaders

Isn’t there evidence that the Canaanite gods El and Ba’al were merged into Yahweh, who remains to this day the Christian god and the Islamic Allah? These people are burning their own god

Edit: My Lemmy client is messing up and won’t let me respond to comments. Just wanted to add that yeah, the Muslim Allah is the same Abrahamic God that Christians and Jews worship. In fact, the name “Allah” is directly derived from the god “El”:

The majority of scholars consider[Allah] to be derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- and ilāh “deity, god” to al-lāh meaning “the deity, the God.” Originally, ʾilāh was used as an epithet for the West Semitic creator god ʾIlu (the Ugaritic version of El), before being adopted as the proper name itself for this god

El, Ba’al, Yahweh, God, and Allah are all wrapped up in each other

This reads like even medevac helicopters will be grounded. Don’t have a medical emergency in a rural part of the Trans-Pecos, I guess

I’ll always support all vaccines. They’re preventive medicine that reduces healthcare utilization in the long term

The National Guard is a part time job, one weekend per month and two weeks per year. Unless you get called by your governor, that is, to patrol the streets of New Orleans indefinitely with no end goal. Also, no one around you wants you there. Not a surprise that a mistake like this would happen under these circumstances.

Also, going to the bathroom in the French Quarter can be an ordeal for anyone, honestly

There was a subreddit dedicated to this, I don’t recall the name of it. People would upload a short recording of themselves humming a song and people would try to identify it. I would frequent that community

What, you don’t like being manfluenced? Something off-putting to you about manfluence? What’s wrong with being a manfluencing manfluencer?

A 32 oz bag of dried beans is $2. A 2 lb bag of carrots, also $2. Cook these together and you have a ton of meals