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  • This is actually (spoilers for terrible movie Scales: Mermaids Are Real) the climax of the movie Scales. Mermaids can control water and their blood heals people in that movie, so hunters are trying to get their blood and then one guy tries a last ditch bad guy move and the main character pulls all the water out of his body and he horrifically melts.

    Kind of made me side with the hunters at that point it’s a horrifying power.





  • $2 Trillion was more than the discretionary budget of the US. It literally couldn’t be done.

    Which is why it was a stupid promise and literally anyone with any expertise could tell you that. Which shows you how unserious Musk is about this.

    Now that he cut the promise in half and it’s still politically impossible but not literally impossible, I reiterate my request…say how you plan to do it. Give us a rough idea what programs are being cut, even the easiest 20%.

    By having the conversation about the number alone, we’re buying his political premise. The money is not there for no reason, these are democratically popular government programs, that’s why they exist. So which popular programs are you getting rid of to save this money?


  • This is sorta the beginners philosophy question. There are plenty of answers, it’s not the “gotcha” it appears to be. Those answers unroll into all sorts of branching other conversations but they exist.

    Maybe it’s because free will exists.

    Maybe there’s a greater purpose for what we call “evil” that results in more good.

    Maybe it’s a definitional thing, where “evil” to us is always going to be the most-evil existent thing so if existing evils were gone “evil” would still exist but it would consist of aggressive kitten licks or something. So “evil” can’t not exist, but it’s not because God can’t get rid of what we call “evil” now.



  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzJudas
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    Matthew says he hanged himself, Luke (in Acts) says he…bought a field and burst open in it.

    Acts 1 18:

    “With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out”

    Doesn’t change your point really I just think it’s a fun inconsistency to think about. One option so much weirder than the other.


  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldOh no
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    No we do have commemorative $1 coins, Sacagawea had one and they’re fairly common change from vending machines. There’s an older Susan B Anthony. Harriet Tubman had one but I’ve never seen it.

    There was a set of quarters where the back was related to each state.