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I read that as “Jews are all healthy and always have been” the first time and it was still funny
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Something something lots of cardio something.
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Trapick posted:Saturday, but yeah. I love all the clever tricks Rabbis have figured out over the centuries. Look up Shabbos goy, or Sabbath mode on fridges/elevators for more. Nothing beats the KosherSwitch.
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Dec 17, 2021 05:11
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children's blood don't run cheap
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Dec 17, 2021 05:48
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GNU Terry Pratchett.
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Dec 17, 2021 05:52
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Traditions are cool and fun. My buddy the other day was telling me about the chiefs in his hometown delivering justice to some thieves and the metric was along the lines of who was able to eat at the end of the day. I like the idea of a religion providing inspiration for critical thought and I wish that were always the case.
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Dec 17, 2021 06:00
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I recall some science professor writing about how some Orthodox Jews came to him asking detailed physics questions, and he was so happy to help them because he thought they'd found science and wanted to better understand the world. But he eventually realized that all they wanted to know was enough to interpret the Torah better. (I can't recall the exact thing they were trying to figure out, but it was along the lines of understanding whether flipping an electric switch causes a spark, which can be considered a fire, which is prohibited at certain times)
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Dec 17, 2021 06:18
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For the record, the easy mode is to just round down. I'm 5'8" on all official papers and just say I'm 5'7" and have never once gotten poo poo for it.
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Dec 17, 2021 07:06
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Yeah, under-promise and over-deliver. I tell people I'm 6'1", because I'm sure as hell not 6'2".
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Dec 17, 2021 07:34
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I can't stop laughing at "These Crackers We Made While We Were Running Away "
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minato posted:I recall some science professor writing about how some Orthodox Jews came to him asking detailed physics questions, and he was so happy to help them because he thought they'd found science and wanted to better understand the world. But he eventually realized that all they wanted to know was enough to interpret the Torah better. You're probably thinking of a bit from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"; the question they originally asked was "is electricity 'fire'". (To which the answer is emphatically "no," by the way. Electrical sparks are not fire.)
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Dec 17, 2021 08:10
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Warbird posted:That is 100% a thing you can do but iirc you’re going to need to head down to Texas or our west somewhere to do so. It's apparently fun enough that it's a problem because the people making $ off of helicopter eradication tourism are now incentivized to keep feral hogs at high, easy-to-shoot concentrations and hinder actual eradication efforts
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Dec 17, 2021 08:48
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Dareon posted:I feel like a lot of the various religious dietary restrictions in particular sprang out of food safety. Pork? Shellfish? Hard to store for long periods without refrigeration and prone to many nasty diseases. With shellfish, maybe. But pigs are one of the first animals that people domesticated and people ate it without issue. Even in modern times, Anthony Bourdain did some poverty tourism and watched hog anus be cooked in a way that would have been primitive in the bronze age (just throwing it on a fire! Once you have invented fire technology, that is the easiest way to cook things). Viewing it through the lens of health is at best limiting and more often becomes a secular "how so" story. You could take the secular approach that it was sociological, so there are health-correlated concerns with fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. To benefit people living close to the sea in the Levant. And to keep them there, a prohibition on eating foods more inland. Even that is deeply uncharitable. One of my Muslim friends was arguing that Allah made pork edible so of course it is good. But Allah asks that we not eat pork. It's a rule for the sake of having a rule. The fun part of Jewish jurisprudence is that you can bounce the various rules against each other and create something wonderful.
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D-Pad posted:Does nobody remember the goon who made a giant gently caress off spear and hunted hogs at night shirtless with night vision goggles and a drone with infrared? He spelled out PETA with pig corpses and posted the pic here. That thread was awesome. ...why do you think I said you should hunt hogs with a spear?
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Dec 17, 2021 09:25
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Learn this ONE WEIRD TRICK to staying Kosher! YHWH
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Vitruvian Manic posted:It's a rule for the sake of having a rule. The fun part of Jewish jurisprudence is that you can bounce the various rules against each other and create something wonderful. Mishpatim: The ones that generally any society would have, i.e. "Don't murder" Edot: The ones that are specifically Jewish and commemorate things i.e. "Observe Passover" Chukim: The ones that make no sense, but God said to do them so  i.e. "No wool-linen blend fabrics"
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Dec 17, 2021 10:37
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Teach posted:because I'm sure as hell not 6'2". And those are 2 seperate measurements.
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That's not a British thing. It's called Mega Drive everywhere in the world, including Japan. Sega America rebranding it as Genesis is the outlier.
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:That's not a British thing. It's called Mega Drive everywhere in the world, including Japan. Sega America rebranding it as Genesis is the outlier. thank you for explaining the joke and now like a frog you have dissected, you understand it better but it's loving dead
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Memento posted:thank you for explaining the joke
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:That's not a British thing. It's called Mega Drive everywhere in the world, including Japan. Sega America rebranding it as Genesis is the outlier. 
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Dareon posted:I feel like a lot of the various religious dietary restrictions in particular sprang out of food safety. Pork? Shellfish? Hard to store for long periods without refrigeration and prone to many nasty diseases. e: oh there's another page lol e2: - moses Splicer has a new favorite as of 15:01 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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Dec 17, 2021 14:31
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I'm 5"8", which is two separate measurements, the length of each of my testicles.
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Roblo posted:...why do you think I said you should hunt hogs with a spear? I'm saying you should hunt hogs with a spear. Nothing tastes better than meat you risked your life for Except in the literal sense, because uncastrated hog meat tastes like poo poo
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Dec 17, 2021 15:47
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The best Jewish ruleslawyering I know of is some rabbi saying that you can fly on the Sabbath, but only if you keep a seatbelt on, because at that point, you're considered to be wearing the plane.
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Foxfire_ posted:One of the way Jewish laws are sometimes divided are: I have no idea if it counts as chukim but one of my absolute favorite things about Judaism -- which was never well-explained in the reform synagogue where I grew up -- is Sukkot, where you 1) build a nice little hut outside and eat your supper in it (and maybe sleep in it?) and 2) hold a lemon and some different branches/palm fronds together and wave them around in the air. It is not enough to merely hold them as you say the correct prayers, you gotta give 'em some motion. Shake those leaves. (I grew up in a household where, if the weather was good, sukkot was just "can we 'camp out' in the tent in the backyard?", so my level of understanding of the holiday is...not nuanced.)
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https://twitter.com/netflixisajoke/status/1339994167032725504?s=21 I know it’s altered by people to a degree but I like the extra effort for this one
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https://twitter.com/jzux/status/1470845861236076544 https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1471550750492966925 https://twitter.com/baddanadanabad/status/1471551534781534210 https://twitter.com/KamerynJW/status/1471582949225250822 https://twitter.com/isosteph/status/1471673201327579136
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Okay, I might just be going crazy, here, but have the average likes on a popular tweet exploded over the past couple of months? It used to be that we'd rarely see a tweet over 100k, and they were usually reserved for something like the president shidding on camera, but now you get a sort-of funny observation from someone with 20k followers and it tops 300k likes. Has the twitter user base tripled since June? Changes to how virality works in the algorithm?
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Riatsala posted:Okay, I might just be going crazy, here, but have the average likes on a popular tweet exploded over the past couple of months? It used to be that we'd rarely see a tweet over 100k, and they were usually reserved for something like the president shidding on camera, but now you get a sort-of funny observation from someone with 20k followers and it tops 300k likes. Has the twitter user base tripled since June? Changes to how virality works in the algorithm? Twitter has been "encouraging" people to use the algorithmic timeline, which shows tweets from people you don't follow That view gives viral posts a lot more reach
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TorpedoFish posted:I have no idea if it counts as chukim but one of my absolute favorite things about Judaism -- which was never well-explained in the reform synagogue where I grew up -- is Sukkot, where you 1) build a nice little hut outside and eat your supper in it (and maybe sleep in it?) and 2) hold a lemon and some different branches/palm fronds together and wave them around in the air. It is not enough to merely hold them as you say the correct prayers, you gotta give 'em some motion. Shake those leaves. Lemon? It’s a citron, you Philistine.
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If y'all are interested in more "rules in the Bible and potential rules-lawyering thereof", check out The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs. I really enjoyed it.  Wikipedia posted:In the book, Jacobs discusses biblical rules, both the obscure and the well-known, and tries to follow them as literally as possible. He even attempts to stone an adulterer and to offer animal sacrifice. He also goes to visit numerous religious groups in order to show their particular views on the Bible, as well as their methods of worship. Some of the people Jacobs meets and talks to in the book:
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So, uh, where do I buy a biblically correct angel. I need this Edit: Of course, the answer is Etsy Endymion FRS MK1 has a new favorite as of 23:05 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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Holy poo poo. Read the article in question if you haven't already, folks.
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