Metadidact

1118 pts · April 30, 2013


Many of the early church schisms boil down to "How much magic actually happens during the eucharist, and what are the exact procedures to do the spell correctly?". Even later church schisms have large elements of "Does the magic work if you translate the words from latin/greek" and "Can the spell be performed by a woman?".

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The sycophantic automatic lie machine is not giving you good advice. It only feels like it is because the human brain has an unfortunate habit of trusting things that reinforce its prior assumptions over things that contradict them, and the big LLM's have been built to constant ass-kiss their users which triggers this habit.

2 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

The VIN of the car being driven can be discovered when the car is pulled over for driving with plates that have been flagged through this reporting scheme. If it doesn't match what is registered for the plate: Uh-Oh.

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"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine." John Adams, Letter to his wife Abigail, 1780.

5 months ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

It was a deliberate design choice... That caused several pieces of fan-art to be made, which are almost certainly what you are thinking about.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Franklin, not Teddy.

7 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

I think that's one of those soundstages with the big wraparound OLED screens.

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"Ahh, Kos, or some say Kosm... Do you hear our prayers? As you once did for the vacuous Rom, Grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy."

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The initial servers and bandwidth were provided by Bomis, a dotcom company that made a lot of its money hosting sites like nekkid.com and webrings where users could find pictures of celebrities and porn stars. One early cross-promotion of Wikipedia and Bomis is Jimmy Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) posing on a yacht with two scantily-clad women with Bomis-branded t-shirts next to him.

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#4 The community does joke a lot about Inquisitors being trigger-happy with exterminatus, but the actual material is pretty consistent about stating that ordering exterminatus is almost always a career-ender for the person who does it. Turns out, blowing up an imperial world is a really good way of getting yourself Inquisitioned, and the Inquisition is really not any more lenient against its own members.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wherever you got it from lost the audio then because it obviously is supposed to have sound.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That trademark is granted to the Red Cross/Red Crescent societies *by* The Geneva Convention.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well, there is mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam. Problem is that they lived 60 000-200 000 years from each other.

9 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Enkidu, he was a "wild man" created by the gods to challenge Gilgamesh. When word of this wild man causing trouble in his realm reaches Gilgamesh he sends a temple prostitute to "meet" with him and she spends two weeks (336 hours) with Enkidu, after which Enkidu has learnt how to act like a civilized human being.

9 months ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

The handle is like the *one thing* that can break on a pan in regular use. Every other part of the pan is way more durable.

9 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Just the tip and only for a minute.

10 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The reason in the CRL is Superseded (4), indicating that a new certificate has been issued but not applied to the site. The old certificate (which is the one on the site as of writing) was revoked on ‎Thursday, ‎24 ‎April ‎2025 23.47.12

10 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

That's not a Night Lord. That's Guilliman in the Armour of Fate.

11 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think it's a "I don't know what I'm doing and all these f'ks are stupider than me so I cannot fathom how anything got done ever" vibe.

11 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

IIRC the search helicopters spotted two mountain lions during the search.

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You ending your first comment with "is one to talk." is the point of confusion. That phrase means that the person referred to is accusing someone else of being something they themselves is. So by using that phrase you called the judge an idiot for calling Mr. Buttfucker3000 an idiot.

11 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

It's a GMO grey wolf. It's impressive they've done it on a large mammal but compared to the shit genetic engineering has done to stuff like beans and wheat it pales in comparison.

11 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Flashpoint Archive has thousands of Flash games archived and playable, along with web games made with other technologies like Shockwave, Java Applets, Unity Web Player, Silverlight, etc.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law has been proven true distressingly frequently in the last 10 years

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Correct, that is what taxes are.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty much what I was going to say.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The NYT has never been liberal. Except for the one or two pieces of investigative reporting they release a year that reveal some corporate malfeasance the rest of the time they're publishing the usual capitalist "Millennials are ruining the economy by eating avocado toast!" bullcrap. This is the newspaper that back in the 1930s had a front-page article with a headline that basically was "Good News for Germany. Adolf Hitler has been released from prison following his failed coup."

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