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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you value your time, then maybe only watch finished shows with excellent word-of-mouth/ratings? If it declines instead of ending while still good, then stopping where people suggest? Possibly also skip the initial seasons if it only gets good later.

If you want to talk around the water cooler about the most popular zeitgeist shows, then maybe make exceptions for those that are the buzz after their 1st few episodes like Game of thrones, tho you should be prepared to quit the show after a few consecutive poorer episodes indicating its almost certain decline. (PS: I'd recommend stopping before Game of thrones' 6th season).

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

Released in 2011. I'm not sure the USA will withdraw from NATO until just before Russia invades a NATO country, instead using their membership in it to sabotage Europe and to provide information to Russia.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Aid organizations the world over scrambled to prove their work saved lives, seeking permission from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue operating."

Maybe those who proved they were doing good, were the ones then to get the axe. The cruelty is the point - especially I've found, by the kind of people who claim to be Christians. Maybe lying by saying ghosts and souls and gods and heaven are real, it inculcates lying into all aspects of a peoples' actions.

Rubio's lies, and these actions are helpful in getting Trump more support from the kind of people who voted for him. The deaths and cruelty is the point.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 80 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

  • Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
  • Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
  • Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
  • Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"

So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 months ago

"never will" "promise"

I do not think these words mean what you think they mean.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because they blocked you? Maybe they don't want to see posts from people who don't summarize the articles in the subject/title?

(The current subject is from the source, "Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News".)

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

I haven't seen any reliable sources say this yet.

An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country's public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa's minerals should be withheld from US, but I've seen no reports that it actually will be.

I also couldn't find anything at the government's website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

According to https://www.infographicsarchive.com/united-states-ranked-by-national-and-state-parks/ NJ has the 5th highest percentage of the state covered in national and state parks: 7.28%

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If someone does something psychotic a lot, does that make it ethical for someone-else to do it even once?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

"should [be] emulated" or "should [have been immo]lated"?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

LA county is the 2nd biggest oil producer in California, California is 12th biggest oil producer in the USA, the USA is the biggest oil producer in the world.

Face, meet leopard.

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