ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Get Glomph'd on! Thankfully I've never met someone who actually wants people to refer to them as dragonkin outside of FFXIV roleplay servers.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

The mirror is showing you the reverse side of the card

Yup! See the guy's finger is on the reverse side of the card? It's touching the N on the right side of your view. If you looked at it from where the mirror is, you'd see the guy's finger touching the N, but now it's on the left side of your view. Because you flipped, not the writing.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The context for the original quote is Jesus speaking to a "young ruler". The young ruler asks if he will be judged as a good person. He follows all the religious laws and is very pious. Jesus tells him to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor. Jesus promises the man that his reward will be great in heaven, but the young ruler cannot bring himself to do it.

I don't see this as Jesus telling everyone to live in poverty. This is Jesus testing the man's faith. Even though Jesus himself promises the man a reward for giving up his possessions, he doesn't trust Jesus. He doesn't have faith that his actions will be rewarded in heaven. The warning isn't that having possessions is inherently evil, but that one can be so tied to their Earthly possessions they can refuse a direct request by Jesus himself.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In addition to being a flipped image

Common misconception. Mirrors reflect images, but do not flip them. If you put two items next to each other, their order is preserved in the reflection, not inverted.

The reason people think mirrors are flipped is because writing on shirts appear backwards, but that's because your shirt is facing the wrong direction. Write a word on something clear and hold it up to a mirror. It's not flipped. Put the word up against your chest like it was written on your shirt. Notice how you flipped the word in order to do that.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I quoted the Bible because the image in the OP is Luigi in the style of a saint. I'm not religious.

If I said "the Sun is hot" and you said "if you live on Earth you experience temperatures hotter than most of the universe" you also wouldn't be wrong. You'd be Neil deGrasse Tyson. Most of the universe is -270°C. Earth is 15°C. The sun is 1,000,000°C. No matter how you look at it, the Sun is hot. The Earth is only hot if you purposefully compare it to cold things.

1/3 of the world make $2 a day. I made about $137 a day. Thompson made $27,945 a day. I am $135/d away from the poorest and $27,808/d away from Thompson. I'm not sure what the goal is of saying I am rich compared to the poor when I am 205x closer to being the world's poorest than I am to being a multi-millionare, let alone one of the approx. 2,700 billionaires in the world.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 99 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God

Matthew 19:24

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is "Mistress" a chess title?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 54 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I worked at a small business that hired on a new guy. After a few days he asked us if we've noticed the owner and secretary were a little..."close". I guess nobody told him the owner and secretary were married.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you draw a picture of him and then someone else posts it without your permission, then yes you'd be able to claim your copyright was violated. Copyright is something that automatically applies to any creative thing someone produces. You can't use someone's name/likeness to sell a product unless they've given you permission, but that's not a copyright claim.

These claims sound like abuse of the DMCA takedown system.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

He could want to take the stand and give a speech that will remain a public document forever

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

It's about balance. Not hard enough and the edge of the blade will bend and will need to be honned often. Too hard and the edge of the blade will chip and will need to be resharpened (or you straight up need a new knife if it's bad enough). Even just dropping the knife could result in a chipped edge if its too hard. However, some people prefer it since it won't lose its edge as fast.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

On top of what was already said, the high rating on the hardness scale will make the edge prone to chipping. There's also the fancy pattern on the blade. It's alright if you want to buy a showpiece. If you want to buy an expensive knife, you're better off with a $200 Wusthof.

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