CTHlurker [he/him]

unwoke-ing the Bible has to be in the top 5 biggest heresies committed by the American Evangelical movement, which says a lot

Protestant cannonization is a strange thing to observe. Particularly because it’s supposed to be directly in violation of scripture, but whatever. Americans are terrible and their christians are litteral demons.

I can’t answer for americans, but in my country the way it works is that the actual contractual agreement is only a socalled “framework” which includes a bunch of smaller contracts that are each more deliverable. When the project is delayed, that usually means that there is either a problem with the work (I.e. management keeps changing specifications halfway any work being done, which means that previous work has to be scrapped) or the company delivered something subpar (happens a lot with infrastructure projects where I live). If something happens that requires you to redo some of the previous work, the private company can then usually bill the government for the labour at a much higher price than was agreed upon initially. If any of the smaller piecemeal contracts run over budget, usually the entire project will be delayed, as the project is fundamentally planned as a series of smaller contracts that each have to be fulfilled before the next step can be initiated.

The railroad tracks are REALLY old (allegedly) and aren’t at all built for higher speeds than what was possible in 1976 (or whenever Carter took office).

Pork is considered unclean and a lot of muslims in the west will probably have a quite negative attitude to being served it. However it is at the end of the day just a type of food(product) that you aren’t supposed to eat. If you accidentally eat it, you ask for forgiveness and move on with your life, since you clearly didn’t intended to break the rules of God. At least thats the explanation that I was given in my local mosque when I asked them about it.

Also it’s genuinely wild to me that right wingers STILL think that bacon / pork wards off muslims like a crucifix does vampires. Like, how are they still so fucking dumb.

Liberals do kind of want to tap into collective discontent and anger. It’s just that the anger is directed specifically towards the Trump administration and not ya know, the people whom Gavin are also beholden to. A lot of liberals are feeling very powerless right now, because they went to a bunch of protests, did as the cops asked them to do, and nothing happened, and Gruesome Gavin is deliberately tapping into that feeling of anger and powerlessness by acting like the blue trump that these people so desperately desire.

Redditors will continue to hold this opinion until Russia begins persecuting and executing someone they think is even less of a human. Like how Putin was initially in the good graces of the west because he was fighting muslims in Chechnya

Do not do this in any place where zionists might be armed. None-zero chance that a court in the US or another anglophone nation is going to acquit if you wear a paraglider and a keffiyeh

Gonna have to add Ukrainians to the list in a few years time, as soon as they stop being useful to the empire

Evergreen tweet. It’s been rattling around in my head for the past couple of years and occassionally I will almost say it out loud at my work, before I realize that these people are so brainbroken that they don’t know anything

“anti-lumpen immigration restriction” strikes me as the “the working class is only middle aged white people who work manual labour jobs, and everyone who does a service job or is unemployed is an enemy of the workers” that we all love to see from the NazBols over in the US.

Totally agreed. It’s a lot of money for the NYT to spend on something completely unnecessary, I was just saying that the actual pay that the assistant gets is not enough to live decently in NYC, which I guess is a pro for Mr. BedBug

We love our Turkish Intelligence Agents, don’t we folks

Allegedly Bruce Lee did that a whole lot, which made his muscles quite compact compared to other people who were lifting the same weigh. No idea how true it is, and the fitness space is so filled with misinformation that I can’t even factcheck it.

Isn’t 81k in New York City like, poverty level wages? From what I gather from Mamdani and his campaign, the CoL in New York is absolutely nuts and you can be hardpressed to stay housed on something close to 100k/year

My dad spent most of my childhood telling me and my brother some of his weird stories, so I don’t really get surprised by “lore-dumps” anymore. Usually he would point to various scars on his body and tell the story of he got them. The stories had an interesting effect though, because both me and my brother grew up to be more careful than most of our peers, which I think was the intended effect. It does also mean that I don’t really have anything interesting to tell my kids when they get older, so for now I plan on just making them talk to the cool people in my family.

Doens’t Oklahoma have such bad teacher pay that people are leaving for fucking Texas? And the state has cut school funding so much that some schools have to go to a 4 day school week, because they literally can’t pay a teacher to work 5 days a week, despite teachers making a pittance

I mean, there is a pretty big differences in how a lawyer run society tends to solve social issues and how an engineer run society tries to solve issues. In my country, most of our parliament is lawyers, and they try to solve every issue with either more detailed legislation (a favourite of theirs, just after complaining that legislation has gone too far and needs to be cut back) or with more/heavier enforcement. From what I can read about other countries dominated by lawyers and libs, they tend to see things the same way. In China, the people that run the country tend to have a lot of engineering education / experience, so they usually try to avoid using cops / legislation to solve social issues, and instead try to nudge people through infrastructure instead. From what i can see in videos, China seems to have taken a smarter approach to traffic and congestion than most western countries.

I’m 99% sure its Nigel Ng and his Uncle Roger character. On one hand, the accent he does makes me quite uncomfortable, but on the other hand, his reviews of Jamie Oliver were really funny when he began posting them.