This diagram looks so familiar, and yet so… interesting

It’s in my to do list to buy

North Korean hackers are no joke. They’re probably one of the best hacking groups in the world. They provide a lot of revenue to the government and they do very impressive espionage.

It’s important to note that even though they stole the plans, this doesn’t mean that they can build it. They don’t have the material science or manufacturing processes to build the planes. At most, they can come up with countermeasures or sell the PLAns to some other country

but on people who make poor decisions.

What types of poor decisions? Decisions in faith? Family? Finance? Fitness? From the top level comment of the comment thread I read it as finance as that’s the thing related to food in the original post. I read this story as our stewardship of things God gives us. (Everything from the work of our hands to our minds to our relationships to wealth) He who is given much should use them and not keep them hidden away for later

little talent

Talent refers to money in the literal sense (Or more accurately a weight for metals which could be traded as money) It is a large amount of money.

The parable of the wedding feast is about people neglecting their faith and still expecting to be a part of the Kingdom of God. It’s not about how much money they have, but instead if they actually practice their faith. If you know the scriptures, but say you’ll be righteous later, then you’re that person who isn’t clothed for the feast. We are called to keep our faith and grow faith in others with the gifts that God gives us.

Supply Side Jesus on the other hand tells us that it’s not worth investing our time and resources into people who are poor, and that instead the rich will lead us to have an efficient church. That is fundamentally backwards to Christianity, as it is the poor, the hurt and the suffering who need it the most. There’s a reason why some churches put the Beatitudes in their liturgy. But at the same time, this is how our welfare system is run. To get the freeloaders off

I did, and though we can expect those with a talent to be profitable, what about those with a tenth of one?

Let’s put that parable in modern terms. One day a hedge fund manager decided to leave the country for a while to his other home overseas. He went and told His workers to go and be profitable with the money. And so he gave one a million dollars , another 100, 000, and another $50,000.

The one with a million dollars, invested his money and time into making a new business. He managed to turn that $1 million into $2.3 million. The one with 100,000 managed to make $170,000 with shrewd investing. But the man with $50,000 sat on it and didn’t do anything. He put it in a savings account and left it there.

The hedge fund manager came back, and saw how successful the other managers were. And he asked the one with 10k "Why didn’t you do anything with what I gave you?

The one with the 50 k said “I didn’t want to lose any of the money.”

The manager rebuked him though because he could have at least taken 1 year bonds and beat interest.

It’s a parable about using what God gave you. God gives us gifts to bring in profits. Not in money, as that’s not what God really needs, but in faith. You could live for a while with 50k even. But there are people who live paycheck to paycheck who don’t have that 1 talent of silver in the first place. They’re paid 800 dollars bi-weekly. Rent is 800 dollars. Good luck living with 800 left for everything else. And you still call them lazy

What does Jesus say about people with money? Two things stick out to me. The first one are the Rich donors to the the synagogue, and the poor woman who gives a quarter of her wealth to it. Jesus remarks that the woman gave more than those Rich donors ever will. The other is about a rich man who seeks to enter the kingdom of God and ask Jesus how to do this. Jesus tells him that he must give all his money to the poor. The man was disappointed because he had a lot of wealth.

What boggles my mind as a Christian is that we idolize Rich people and shame poor people. When in fact The most pious people I know, are poor

Prosperity Gospel is a scourge and a poor excuse to claim that God is on the side of the rich.

That’s the thing that breaks my immersion. I know that 200 years would make the area completely taken over by nature. It would look more like Horizon rather than Fallout. Not sure I’d dig trenches or anything, but radiation would be much more minimal. Nukes would also have a limited area, so the cities would die, but farmers, small towns, and everyone else out in the boonies would survive and rebuild. Hiroshima is a thriving city nowadays, with the building that survived still there

Relevant link https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Helltaker is a little puzzle game that is free and short and sweet

You’ve gotten a bad date for the last eighteen dates because you can’t discriminate between people.

What would you replace it with?

I got the opposite conclusion from how Facebook managed to take marketshare from MySpace. They allowed bots to take content from the other service and it made it easier to switch

A lot of those gospels are Gnostic writings. Those came around 200 AD and were a real decision in the church. Had The Gospel of Mary been front and center, Christian Theology would be very different indeed.

The Gospel of Mary isn’t necessarily Gnostic, but it slots into other Gnostic texts from the time. Gnosticism was dismissed as heresy early on in the Church. There’s a church father named Irenaeus who wrote a book called Against Heresies describing the movement.

This actually used to be a very contentious issue in the early church. It wasn’t as rosey as some people like to paint it as. Myself as a Christian, I take it as an interesting read, but not authoritative.

I’ve got three. The first two aren’t traditional card games, but the third is absolutely a card game.

Rounds is a little 2d multiplayer game with a couple of circles that get cards to unlock new abilities every time they loose until one player wins the whole set.

There’s Friends vs Friends which is similar, except you use the cards for that round only. Oh and it’s furry and 3d. It’s a lot faster.

Third, there’s tabletop simulator. I recommend everyone gets this game as you can play any card games or board games that are on the steam shop, which is all of them.

Mentally fit, and physically fit enough to pass basic training and not get scoffed at. A lot of reading involved too. Can involve PTSD. Drones from the field? Standard soldier stuff. They’re only a few kilometers at most away from their drones

I think he locked everything after I started to call him out for posting Jimmy Dore’s antisemitic videos. I’ve since blocked the community.

You’re blocked too

Much of it is due to mismanagement of the economy after the fact. After the Korean war, the government heavily promoted heavy industry at the cost of infrastructure and trying to be self reliant to their own detriment. They used policies to try and feed the people by using as much land as possible to farm. This was a disaster though since they did not follow any sustainability practices. The government would give the land to people who would produce more food and this incentivized poor sustainability.

They invested much more into heavy industry than anything else, for defense reasons. North Korea has one of the largest artillery parks in the world, so much so that if there’s a country that could supply the war in Ukraine, North Korea would likely be it. They prioritized this over the civilian comforts which while there was civil unrest, it would be squashed.

There’s also a whole lot of corruption too and there’s a building that really symbolizes that called the Ryugyong Hotel. It’s a really prominent structure in the Pyongyang skyline and it took decades to build. Much of the aid that the Soviet Union and China sent was wasted. They sent quite a bit too since they were competing with each other for influence.

South Korea also had a lot of issues too when it started out. The whole Korean peninsula was destroyed after the Second World War and Korean war. It had issues with corruption as well and was coup prone. The US also gave generous amounts of aid to the South Koreans, almost the whole government budget at times. South Korea didn’t adopt the self sufficient approach that the North Koreans did and allowed more freedom of thought (though they still practiced strict censorship) In a way, Korea is very much like the Chinese where they rose to prominence due to manufacturing and foreign capital. They largely avoided the incredibly destructive policies that China went through so they rose a lot earlier (A whole different story, look up the Great Leap Forward)

The whole region in the future is going to have issues as they are all aging (except North Korea unless the data is different than reality) That leads to older people who are no longer productive. South Korea is also really dominated by corporations, where Samsung alone controls a ridiculous amount of GDP. North Korea though is a Hermit kingdom like the Hermit kingdom of years past and very few people make it out.

And you just want to mock me. You’re blocked

Here’s the BBC on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYGiwhOuBo

I’m going to follow your suit and fill up my block list. I can’t take this anymore