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  1. You guys need to be more careful. Excluding CaptainAnt, the rest of you are edgeing towards rational discussion. That kind of thing is haram around here.

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  2. 44 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    Wait - I should not have cornered the market on playful sea monkeys and chinchilla ranches?

    You need a herd of emus. They are the next big thing. Taste like chicken.

  3. 19 hours ago, Hal Finney said:

    Pretty bullish on the price after watching this. $1T in ETFs globally. If 1% of that is passively allocated into BTC etfs that’s $100B slowly over the course of a year.  At the current price of 40k that’s 2.5 million BTC. There’s not that many sellers out there. Price will have to go substantially higher. 
     

     

    ETF is so bullish for the price that I wonder how they can let it happen, honestly.  Still possibility of some fuckery.

     

     

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  4. 4 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

    What a complete load of worthless horseshit. Muslims spent centuries carrying the torch of knowledge for mankind while European Christians wallowed in ignorance, superstition, and filth. 

    There’s nothing inherent in either religion that would make the followers of one more capable of good or evil compared to the other. 

    Islam does not accept secular government. And the Koran is not Islamophobic. It is clear, for example, that the penalty for homosexuality is death. women are treated like slaves in Islam. Muslims are taught to hate jews and christians. These ideas are not compatible with democracy.

     

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  5. On 12/13/2023 at 6:04 AM, LTtxfan said:

    Damn Sark got this team to believe... 🤘

    Badass video shots in here...  

    Texas Football Big 12 Championship Mini-Movie [Dec. 12, 2023] 

     

    I still can't believe we ran the table after OU. Just an amazing run. I was convinced we were not going to make the championship.

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  6. 5 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Hey, he just saw a great opportunity to be islamophobic with some plausible deniability baked in, let him cook, I guess. Some posters here will love it.

    Sam Harris | Home of the Making Sense Podcast

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    In recent days, crowds of thousands have gathered throughout the Muslim world—burning European embassies, issuing threats, and even taking hostages—in protest over 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper last September.  The problem is not merely that the cartoons were mildly derogatory.  The furor primarily erupted over the fact that the Prophet had been depicted at all. Many Muslims consider any physical rendering of Muhammad to be an act of idolatry.  And idolatry is punishable by death. Criticism of Muhammad or his teaching—which was also implicit in the cartoons—is considered blasphemy.  As it turns out, blasphemy is also punishable by death.  So pious Muslims have two reasons to “not accept less than a severing of the heads of those responsible,” as was recently elucidated by a preacher at the Al Omari mosque in Gaza.

    The religious hysteria has not been confined to the “extremists” of the Muslim world. Seventeen Arab governments issued a joint statement of protest, calling for the punishment of those responsible. Pakistan’s parliament unanimously condemned the drawings as a “vicious, outrageous and provocative campaign” that has “hurt the faith and feelings of Muslims all over the world.” Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while still seeking his nation’s entry into the European Union, nevertheless declared that the cartoons were an attack upon the “spiritual values” of Muslims everywhere. The leader of Lebanon’s governing Hezbollah faction observed that the whole episode could have been avoided if only the novelist Salman Rushdie had been properly slaughtered for writing “The Satanic Verses.”

    Let us take stock of the moral intuitions now on display in the House of Islam: On Aug. 17, 2005, an Iraqi insurgent helped collect the injured survivors of a car bombing, rushed them to a hospital and then detonated his own bomb, murdering those who were already mortally wounded as well as the doctors and nurses struggling to save their lives.  Where were the cries of outrage from the Muslim world? Religious sociopaths kill innocents by the hundreds in the capitols of Europe, blow up the offices of the U.N. and the Red Cross, purposefully annihilate crowds of children gathered to collect candy from U.S. soldiers on the streets of Baghdad, kidnap journalists, behead them, and the videos of their butchery become the most popular form of pornography in the Muslim world, and no one utters a word of protest because these atrocities have been perpetrated “in defense of Islam.” But draw a picture of the Prophet, and pious mobs convulse with pious rage. One could hardly ask for a better example of religious dogmatism and its pseudo-morality eclipsing basic, human goodness.

    It is time we recognized—and obliged the Muslim world to recognize—that “Muslim extremism” is not extreme among Muslims.  Mainstream Islam itself represents an extremist rejection of intellectual honesty, gender equality, secular politics and genuine pluralism. The truth about Islam is as politically incorrect as it is terrifying: Islam is all fringe and no center. In Islam, we confront a civilization with an arrested history. It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

    As Sam has said, Islam is the mother of all bad ideas. Their antisemitism and antichristianism is dogmatic, it is in the text.

     

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  7. 5 hours ago, statsman said:

    I’m not ready to condemn Palestinians in general for anti-Semitism, even buying these poll results. They live in a world where there is no “other side” opinion available. Their leaders have it all figured out for them. It’s kind of like surveying white southerners in Jim Crow America about race relations. After experiencing a civil rights movement, mass opinions began moving. 
     

    I mean, sure. But do you see Christians killing muslims and screaming "God is Great!!!!WHARRRGABRBBBBBLLL" No. Because their definition of a "good person" in simply different than ours.

    The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

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  8. On 12/11/2023 at 9:48 PM, bernorange said:

    For sure, the entire crypto space generally moves as the whales play Bitcoin and Ethereum.  But lately there are signs that some of the larger market cap alts are starting to find independent footing.  Avalanche and Chainlink are both making serious moves with big institutional players (and their token values have outperformed lately).  There are also some interesting projects happening on Polkadot's parachain tech though it's token has not quite caught the same fire as others (yet?).  I have no idea why Cardano has appreciated so strongly over the last week or so.  I try to keep tabs on news highlights for these things, but the space is too vast and moves to fast to keep on top of everything. 

    Solana has a lot of developer attention and excitement and is recuperating from FTX shock IMO.  Time will tell if SOL's recent moves are just a post-FTX equilibrium or the start of something more significant.

    Ali coins make me think of the old joke about "I wouldn't fuck her with your dick". YMMV.

  9. 54 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    And of course no sooner than I issue my learned prognostication than SCOTX hands down its decision, showing my prediction to be 100% wrong.  So let this be another small rock upon the mountain of evidence demonstrating why nobody should ever listen to my pontifications.

    The AG was reading from the law and applying the facts. The Supreme court did likewise. The treating physician did not certify the medical requirement for the D&C, but that is a requirement, the hospital has a procedure to follow. It was not followed, then somehow an activist lawyer got involved.

    I assume you read the court's opinion, they seem to indicate, as the AG stated and I said early on, that this never needed to be in a court.

    I personally think the law is too restrictive.

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