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pinecone_fish OP wrote

Reply to comment by missingno in The just_post conclave; apply today! by pinecone_fish

  1. Me neither!
  2. If it may interest you, the author decided to write the book because he really wanted to kill a monk.
  3. seems like a common answer! glad we've solved that bit of theo-philosophy (i guess that's not a real term? extra points to whoever pledges to make it one.)
  4. A seasteading pope! can I run the pirate radio?
  5. oh, those two. They realized that absolute truth doesn't exist, so neither can absolute falsehood. One of them still lies all the time, and one of them tells the truth, it's just you can't tell the difference anymore.
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twovests wrote

Reply to The just_post conclave; apply today! by pinecone_fish

  1. I don't know what a Sims is... I bet our Pope didn't either.

  2. Believe it or not, I haven't seen Naruto, I didn't have highschool Spanish, and I thought Tarkovsky made music. I think most Popes could say so. Now, Undertale on the other hand?

  3. The essence of God is lacking, I think

  4. The papal headerquarters should be located in Washington D.C., United States, and established by force.

  5. I am the True Pope

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rain wrote

Reply to We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next? by Moonside

I don’t know where we go from here. Neither does anyone else.

I don’t want to come across as trite, and the author makes some good points overall. But what happens when you fail to prevent the rise of fascism is fascism. The only real uncertainties are in the details, e.g., who is the first to be ground into the dirt. Everyone’s familiar with the “what would you have done when the nazis were in power” question. Well I’m afraid that now we get to see how ourselves, our neighbors, and everyone else we’ve ever known answers that question. And thinking about a lot of the people I’ve known in my life, that prospect terrifies me.

So yes, let’s plan and prepare and steel ourselves for what is to come. Let’s have general strikes (like the author suggests) and more, and when those are violently oppressed let us have riots. Because its not that we don’t know what’s coming - we do, we just still don’t want to admit it.

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twovests wrote

Reply to TIL - Baking powder has Native American origins. by Moonside

The third type of leavening, pearlash, was the precursor to modern baking powder. Pearlash was a purified form of potash. It was first used as a leavening agent by Native Americans and was the subject of the first patent in the United States, issued in April 1790.[17]

:O

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