Alien Nathan Edward
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short
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rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Steam@lemmy.ml•List of countries that cannot make a PSN account, following the Helldivers 2 controversy.English8·1 year agoOman I know where this is going
your conclusion doesn’t follow from your premise. the ability to live indoors is going to be important to people even if they think the system by which we decide who is allowed to live indoors is kinda shit.
How do you think it came to be that most Americans believe that in China you can have your home seized for being impolite?
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.ml•YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blockedEnglish7·1 year agobizarre restrictions around background play
there’s nothing bizarre about it - the free version is shitty on purpose
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Security@lemmy.ml•Amazon storing classified US government documents improperlyEnglish61·1 year agoI work in a HIPAA-covered industry and if our AWS and GCP buckets are insecure that’s on us. Fuck Amazon, but a hammer isn’t responsible for someone throwing it through a window and a cloud storage bucket isn’t responsible for the owner putting secret shit in it and then enabling public access.
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle.English2·1 year agoI agree, it’s what you do with the money. Jesus tells you what to do with the money, and either you do that or you don’t.
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Privacy@lemmy.ml•I did not know the origin of the quoteEnglish33·1 year agoWhy would I fix something when I can bitch?
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle.English6·1 year agoI’d be curious to see some actual source on that. Shit like that happens all the time and I find it fascinating.
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Privacy@lemmy.ml•I did not know the origin of the quoteEnglish3·1 year agoBut humans being kind to humans means everything
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Privacy@lemmy.ml•I did not know the origin of the quoteEnglish64·1 year agoDownvoted.
No matter how right you are you don’t get to be a dick.
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle.English3·1 year agoThat Jesus talks of a rich person here is irrelevant
it’s your god, of what he says you get to decide what to ignore and what to value
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle.English19·1 year agoIn fact, they like to think that the verses only make sense out of context. No matter how many other verses you can cite across multiple books where Christ makes it clear He’s commanding you to abandon the idea of worldly, material possessions and dedicate yourself and your wealth to helping other people and spreading the word, they’ll go “No it was just a gate” and keep not doing what Christ told them to while pretending to be Christians.
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle.English3·1 year agookay, but you can look at the specific perplexing or illogical view when making that judgment and if that specific illogical view is designed to promote your own wealth the needle on the bullshitometer moves a bit closer to “grifter”
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle.English111·1 year agoGod can save anyone.
Well yeah, but if you’re a Christian you believe that it’s literally God telling you that you can’t be rich and go to heaven. God may make an exception, but it would be just as absurd for you to count on being an exception to this rule as it would be for you to count on being the exception to the rule that “none come to the father but through me”. If you’re rich, you’re just as damned as if you were never Christian to begin with.
Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeto Memes@lemmy.ml•Never seen a Camel walk through the eye of a Needle.English64·1 year agoChristians are so desperate to ignore Christ that they literally made up a gate that they called The Eye of the Needle and said that’s what Christ was talking about. This gate, which definitely never existed and was not at all what Christ was referring to, was supposedly a bit narrower than other gates and a camel could get through it if it was only carrying a moderate amount of wealth rather than an extreme amount.
“Hey did you hear about Mary’s kid? Yeah, the commie. They picked him up on Friday. I knew some shit was gonna go down, but it’s a shame. He made us a really nice table back in the day.”
I love this thing where buying something has been replaced by buying an alterable, revokable license to access that thing. It lowers costs and adds flexibility for producers, which allows them to save money, and they pass that savings on to me in the form of higher prices and my shit that I paid real fucking money for just disappearing one day. Then they explain that I never really “owned” it despite the fact that they use the word “own” in the marketing material, because it’s also legal to use words that have known definitions in agreements and then later explain that you were actually using an entirely different, secret definition of that word that’s actually the opposite of what you very purposefully implied.