Assembled a thousand years after the fact by a group with a vested interest in solidifying the narrative to fit their own.

Hell, the Tanakh didn’t really get put together until well after Christianity appeared and it was a reaction to Christians appropriating Jewish literary culture to establish their own.

It’d be similar to people a thousand years from believing that Christian Gray is literally descended from Edward and Bella.

Exactly. An example from outside the Bible might be Achilles. There was probably a great warrior with that name in the Mycenaean Greek world. Later storytellers probably just added more to make it sound better or the material was from other warriors who were like Achilles.

Some of Jesus’ teachings definitely come from the milieu of the Roman era in Judea and Palestina.

Personally my favorite head canon is that Jesus was, or his parents were, Egyptian born Jews or Coptic converts to Judaism. It’s a reverse Obamas birth certificate. There is so much time spent establishing the lineage and explaining the flight to Egypt.

It’s Texas. The governor will pardon her.

I really hope Bowman wins the primary.

It’s disgusting that PACs exist. Citizens United needs to be overturned in some way, shape, or form as well.

There is no proof outside of the Bible and some other writings. Even those mentions seem to have occurred well after Jesus supposedly lived.

In terms of non-literary proof, there isn’t anything credible.

There’s more evidence that King David existed.

Only if you take Idaho and Utah as well.

Only because it has fallen to pieces inside the scabbard.

I’ve had a couple of their videos pop up on my YT feed. Never watched them.

And never will.

What’s next? “Zoologist reacts to Perry the Platypus”?

I’d hope that the farmer learned a lesson but I doubt it’s the right one.

This needs to be on a T-shirt. I live in Utah and this would go perfectly with my Satanic Temple Pride T-shirt.

He’s white, it’s okay.

Sales. Keeping an eye on Slick Deals. Black Friday. Clearance.

As Thomas Jefferson once said (iirc) - the more prepared I am, the luckier I find myself.

The first Shakespeare I watched was Branaughs Henry V. It actually got me into Shakespeare a bit.

His Hamlet was filmed on 70mm, giving it some great color and depth though I can’t sit still long enough to watch it in one sitting.

In general, you can’t beat The Reduced Shakespeare Companys “Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged.”

A good stop-gap while cities de-car-ify and rebuild green space.

I bought a 4TB external hdd and that helped a lot.

Recently I added 2TB to internal and I’m not too worried about space anymore.

I spent about US$250 total, buying the drives on sale.

I like having lots of games on hand bc I don’t always know what I’ll feel like playing.

Only if you’re a white cishet male Christofascist POS.

Why many word when few good?

Seriously though, “AI” itself is misleading but if they want to be ignorant and whiny about it, then they should be labeled just as they are.

What they really seem to want is an automatic metadata tag that is more along the lines of “a human took this picture and then used ‘AI’ tools to modify it.”

That may not work because by using Adobe products, the original metadata is being overwritten so Thotagram doesn’t know that a photographer took the original.

A photographer could actually just type a little explanation (“I took this picture and then used Gen Fill only”) in a plain text document, save it to their desktop, and copy & paste it in.

But then everyone would know that the image had been modified - which is what they’re trying to avoid. They want everyone to believe that the picture they’re posting is 100% their work.

It was fairly popular here in the US. Landed in some movie soundtracks. Nothing else by them did though.

Framing tolerance as a moral imperative only benefits the intolerant.

lisan al-gaib!