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@freemo Most people were not aware there were real vaccines available for Covid-19. In fact, there weren't in the US. (The DNA based shots were almost as bad.)

@freemo A fair point - but when was the last time Congress actually set a budget? (Was it under Clinton?) It's been nothing but CRs for many decades.

@freemo My daughter and son-in-law got the sino-vac (non mRNA). They wouldn't have gotten anything, since Covid is not dangerous for healthy young people - but they were required to get something because they were pilots. So the Sino-vac essentially gave them Covid.

@freemo The problem is that the mRNA shots were called "vaccines", and that is what "anti-vaxxers" are protesting against. It was never against real vaccines. At the RFK level, there is protest against *untested* vaccines - essentially all real vaccines developed since 1986, when Congress absolved Pharma of liability for vaccine injuries. Before 1986, each vaccine went through about 5 years of testing. Now, new vaccines (e.g. "flu" vaccine) goes through at most 5 days of testing.

In the case of flu, it is similar enough to previous vaccines that new vaccine injuries are unlikely (and there has been no increase). But more novel new vaccines, like the RSV is more worrisome. Hopefully, while there was only days of testing before release, there are non-fraudulent records kept of injuries as it it used (since there is no liability).

@freemo If you're doing something actually harmful to others, like smuggling hard drugs, the Soros prosecutor will let you off anyway.

@freemo https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-study-links-ozempic-vision-loss-confirms-harvard-research

@freemo @Ponygirl @ryan

Agnostics can be further divided into at least:

1) soft agnostic - I don't personally know if there is a God or not, but I'm not ruling out the possibility of knowing.

2) hard agnostic - it is impossible in principle to know if there is a God or not. Those who think they do are wrong.

@freemo What I kept hearing with your original joke were the countless Batman sitcom episodes I watched as a child, and Robin would exclaim: "Holy ____ Batman!" Fill in the blank with some especially ludicrous aspect of the story.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/spenceralthouse/the-definitive-ranking-of-robins-exclamations-from-batma

@freemo "holy" means "set apart". So unless you have set a particular moley apart for religious purposes - it is an ordinary moley. A moley becomes sacrilegious when a holy (set apart) moley is desecrated, or an ordinary moley is used to mock holy moleys.

@freemo In the G. K. Chesterton novel "The Napoleon of Notting Hill", the king of England in the future is chosen by random selection from a pool of all eligible citizens.

@freemo I have limbo proximaly everything.

@freemo @stux Ironically, a similar provision was made for the Jews when Haman obtained a decree allowing their extermination. Esther 8

"By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions. The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar."

The decree to allow their extermination could not be revoked. But the additional decree gave official permission for the Jews to arm and defend themselves.

@freemo Defunding *local* police, but increasing funding and staffing for Federal police. (IRS, FBI, etc)

@freemo @mapto @avlcharlie "Lay not up for yourselves treasure on earth - where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal, [and inflation doth devalue]."

Investing in people is also a thing:

For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings. Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

@freemo The Christian claim is not that atheists in particular can't be moral, but that NO ONE is good.

"They have all gone astray. They have all together become corrupt. There is no one that does good. Not even one."

Religion just washes the outside. The result is what Jesus called "whitewashed sepulchers, full of dead men's bones".

@freemo I run my own email. What I mean is the spam coming from gmail.com domain is the worst. So I need to block them by default.

Or maybe that's what you meant.

@freemo It get a lot of fake invoices like that. Seriously considering making gmail.com whitelist only.

@freemo Disciples: "We have two swords." Jesus: "It is enough."

IMO, the point in this case (where Jesus was knowingly going as a lamb to the slaughter as a sacrifice for the whole world) was to make it clear that Jesus and his disciples were NOT SLAVES. Slaves were not allowed to carry a sword.

@freemo Where does positronium exist? Those are massive forces to keep positrons together in any kind of (atomically) close proximity!

@freemo You can never be 100% certain that what you see is a physical reality. It might be an optical illusion. But if you run around refusing to believe the evidence of your own lyin’ eyes, you might be a leftist.

It is quite possible to make a mistake in math too. That doesn’t change the underlying (abstract in the case of math) reality. It just means having the humility to admit when you are wrong.