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  • That is a bit of a selection bias. What you are effectively saying is “the biblical names that have survived to today have staying power”.

    But even that isn’t true here as almost all of the names you cite are significantly different now than their original forms. Looking at your list we have Yeshua, Shemuel, Mikael, Rivka, Yohanan, Miriam, and Paulus. Adam is mostly the same, as is David (with a bit of an accent difference), but the rest didn’t exactly emerge as they were.



  • Separation of church and state is not in the Constitution. The closest you will get is the first amendment, which prevents Congress from establishing a religion, or preventing the free practice of one.

    I’m with you that religion should not be forced in schools, but you can’t use the Constitution to prevent this particular issue.







  • This is a bit late for a response, but it has to do with what protections are afforded by what entity. The US has very explicit treaties signed with allied nations. Canada, for instance is a five eye partner and thus has far less to worry about from the US than it does from China.

    Additionally, China has an ongoing bad track record with how it treats other nations. Commercial entities within China are far more at the whim of the state government and are required to act in alignment with the CCP instructions.

    People treat China differently because China is different. They very much are a different beast when it comes to authoritarian control of its commercial and private entries.





  • My power comes from the two sets of solar panels and batteries on my land. It is possible to do without fossil fuels. We’re not there yet for everyone, but the problems you point out are solvable, and if solar/EVs had the same amount of backing from the government over the same timeframe that gas/ICE cars have had, we would be in a very different place right now.


  • I am trying to think of things that are difficult for using something like Linux mint vs my last Windows install. If we are taking about doing a full, clean install of both, I think my last Windows install was way worse.

    Mint installed and just detected everything I was using without a problem. I had to tweak some minor things to get it to display on the 4K TV I am using in my living room, and there are still some games that don’t play nicely with Linux.

    The Windows install, on the other hand, required me to get drivers for the video card, WIFI, and a few other things to get all the hardware to work right. Then getting it how I like it took longer than I like and I had to visit multiple sites to get all my preferred software.






  • Been a while since I checked here and it seems pretty quiet, but I definitely have a chaotic/silly side despite an adherence to logic and reason. To that end in addition to considering myself a Stoic, I am also a card-carrying pope of Discordianism. For every act of order, there is an equal and opposite action of chaos that must enter the world. I do my part in keeping that chaos fun.

    It is one of the reasons my overriding motto is “in all things, logic… And cookies. Those are good too”.