See? Then it just becomes an affordable (if cramped) house.
I’ve also known people who had their own massive custom built catamaran that they lived on. Traveled around the world on that thing, accepting paying passengers to travel with them part of the way.
I’ve read that Mohammed even wanted to merge his movement with Judaism, but Jewish leaders rejected him, and apparently that set some bad blood.
Are you sure about that 3000? I thought at the time it was mostly the 6th year of the rule of some king, emperor or governor (Herod, Augustus or Quirinius, most likely), although the Bible doesn’t even provide those kind of dates.
As far as I’m aware, having a single universal reckoning is something that Christianity invented in the middle ages. But still based on the rule of Jesus as king, of course.
I’m a Christian in the Calvinist tradition, but I try to follow Jesus more than Paul. Paul was in my opinion very much a pragmatic who tried to spread Christianity in Greece, and was willing to compromise a bit with Greek sensibilities (which included slavery and misogyny). When in doubt, I look to Jesus instead.
Also, I think Calvin went a bit too far overboard on some things. The reformation was a good thing, but that doesn’t make him right about everything.
My car cost €8000, and that’s also about the budget I have for a boat.
Yeah, but people with more expensive cars than that are still likely millionaires. I’ve been thinking of buying a boat for years, but that boat would still be a lot smaller than these. (And I still haven’t because it’s not just the purchase, but also maintenance and mooring.)
Although friends of us do have a boat that might be that size. They also live on a houseboat. They don’t have a regular house, and if they have a car, I haven’t seen it.
So I guess middle class people can own a boat like that, but it takes sacrifices in other areas.
Best comparison to that is still the million Covid deaths, at least half of which were completely unnecessary had Trump not intentionally sabotaged the US’s pandemic preparedness and then sabotages the Covid response with misinformation and withholding support.
But Trump did it out of malice, whereas I believe Mao at least thought he was doing something good. But both are narcissistic idiots.
But we’ll see if Trump manages to cause a real famine. It could still happen.
He’s definitely not ideologically a maoist (partially because he has no ideology beyond power and narcissism), but personality wise he shares a tendency to reject expertise, believe he knows best, and cause disasters out of stubborn narcissistic stupidity.
Although his death count is still 1/50 of that of Mao.
Does he personally own 10% of Intel now? Or does the US government? From my understanding it’s the government, which makes it a kind of partial nationalisation.
It was absolutely a dirty deal, and Trump and his flunkies are enriching themselves, but I don’t see how Intel is enriching them.
Even so, it smells more of the kind of incestuous business-government relationship you get in fascism than the nationalisation for the people you get in socialism/communism. The US govt now has a special interest in one particular corporation that can be counted upon to do its bidding without a legal framework, while Intel can count on special treatment from the government while still being mostly privately owned.
But that’s not going to stop me from throwing this nationalisation in the faces of anti-socialist Trump supporters. Let them figure out and explain it’s more like fascism than socialism.
I don’t quite understand why Trump hates Comey so much. He probably wouldn’t have been elected without Comey’s help. Has he said ‘thank you’ even once?
Congressmembers are only a minuscule fraction of the population of DC. And the rest of the population never voted for any of them. So the vast, vast majority of people in DC are unrepresented.
Give him time. This is just the first year of this term.
He did nationalise 10% of Intel. Without paying for it, even, if I understand correctly.
Cool. A couple of decades ago I read about former astronaut/physics prof Wubbo Ockels working on something like that but with kites. I’ve never heard of any production version of that coming off the ground. I hope this does better.
It does, and it includes a browser, which is slightly annoying because I was already using Firefox. Not sure which one is better, actually.
To be perfectly honest with you, I’m not entirely certain on the difference between Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. I didn’t care much for either of them, but now, Jimmy Kimmel is okay to me. That was a beautiful monologue.
You’re making a lot of assumptions. All we know is that in the end he was released, so they didn’t actually have any reason to arrest him. Whatever the issue was with how he sat, there was no basis for arrest, and probably no basis to call the police at all.
Maybe he did put his dirty shoes on the seat, but the article doesn’t tell us. Nobody does. All we know is that they wanted to arrest him, but couldn’t. Whatever he did wasn’t serious enough for it and yet they tried and held up a train for it.
It is of course only his side of the story. More info would help. But without more info, there’s no reason not to believe that he was harassed mostly just for being black. It’s not like this is the first time that happened.
He did it while black. That’s clearly an arrestable offense.
I am baffled by sensible words coming out of this man’s mouth. Has the situation become so dire that Ted Cruz and I ended up on the same side?
He’s like a gaudy king Midas; everything he touches turns to kitsch.
But what will the next president do with it? Tear it down? Turn it into low-cost housing?