Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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  • Not always. The vast majority of the time the police never bother to charge the actual criminal, in part because of their bias against the victim, and thus there’s no room for anyone else to step in. In other cases, the justice system fails. Richard Pollett’s killer is still walking free. So is Richard Burden’s. Chris Culver and Geoff Havill’s killer wasn’t even acquitted by a jury, but by professionally-appointed judges.



  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldidk
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    3 days ago

    I don’t think I’d agree you must believe in the Nicene Creed to be Christian. Did Christians not exist prior to 325? Or perhaps even 381, when its current amended form was created?

    I’d definitely say being non-Nicene puts a bit of an asterisk on claims and opens you up to discussion about whether or not you’re truly Christian, but I wouldn’t say it’s a clear-cut thing.




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    Uh uh, I specifically said I was only talking about how each religion got started. So in Scientology we’re talking about a science fiction author who had previously said the way to get rich is to start a religion. The nature of that religion is irrelevant.

    For Mormonism, we’ve got an American treasure hunter who happened to find American-Jesus fanfiction written on some plates, translated them by looking into a hot with a rock, and then when asked to repeat it to verify it said “whoops, I lost the plates, but here’s some other ones that tell the same story but slightly differently”. And nobody outside his inner circle was ever allowed to actually see the plates to verify their existence.

    So in one we’ve got a wild story full of very lucky coincidences and circumstantially-suspicious claims. And in the other we’ve got a much simpler story, but it’s pretty explicitly telling us it’s a scam.


  • Let’s do a quick hypothetical. A solo traveller from De Moines, Iowa going to Disney Orlando. We’ll be leaving on 28th July and returning 30th, giving us one full day at the park. I picked those dates for being approximately the cheapest option on an Expedia search for flights.

    • Flights: $357 return
    • Hotel (at Disney): $288
    • Park entry (using the “1 Park per Day” option I got when trying to book the hotel): $823

    That’s $1468, before you add in even basic meals, let alone snacks and souvenirs a person is likely to want on a theme park holiday, or travel to and from the airport. And I chose there to look for dates that were cheaper. A real person might not have that option.







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    8 days ago

    Oh, I see. That seems…very non-obvious, given it only refers to “ICE vehicles”, and a certain subset of ICE vehicles are a popular target for vandalism because of their association with the kind of person likely to be a fan of the ICE government department (and because of their even greater overall societal harm than regular vehicles).