Cosmic Cleric

where I am wondering if they are just payed to do so by the pharma industry.

I believe the medical insurance companies, and what treatments they will approve/pay for, has a big factor in this.

Ugh, why’d they have to get NDT to do that anyway.

He just seeps with smug assholery.

Really lost respect for him over his Pluto stance and related book sales.

being able talk about things is crucial for a democracy to function.

This is a thing that really bothers me these days, has me worried.

There’s such an emphasis on “killing the messenger” (vs the message) and shutting down discussion, that we haven’t seen in previous ages.

I don’t know why it’s a new thing, maybe it’s just astroturfers/bots, otherwise it’s the newer generation being okay with censoring others, and that’s a bad thing (censoring others).

That’s why you always quote what you’re replying to.

It’s why I stopped using door dash.

Are they any good alternatives that you would suggest?

Users used bad passwords. Their accounts where accessed using their legitimate, bad, passwords.

Just as an anecdotal counterpoint, I am a 23andMe customer who did receive notification of my account was accessed and personal information obtained.

This was my password at the time: 7Kk5bXjIdfB25

That password was auto-generated for me by the BitWarden app.

So for what it’s worth I don’t think my password was a ‘bad’ password.

Oh it’s not that, it’s just there is so few presidents that didn’t win their second election, and you listed all of them except one particular democrat, is all.

The last incumbents to not be reelected were Trump and HW Bush.

Funny that you didn’t mention Carter.

How so? Honestly asking.

An hour, or multiple hours, isn’t unexpected anymore with search engines

I’m not debating that search engines are not as good today as they were in the past, but I got to push back hard against the OP, as well as yourself, as far as the temporal measurement in hours, for trying to do a single search.

That’s just not believable. You and the op have to give some real world examples of that.

Google search failed to even find a hollywood movie, even after 1 hour of attempts.

That’s just not believable. What was your search criteria?

The next time I see her I’ll let her know that Sharpiemarker told me thst I shouldn’t bother asking. /s

Seriously though, that point I was making was more rhetorical in the context of this conversation, but generally speaking, when you get in someone’s face about something and you press them on the matter, then they tend to have to put real thought behind their stance and defend it, versus just saying stuff for political intake.

TL;DR: it’s rhetorical dude/dudette, relax.

If there’s one person whose head should be put into a jar Futurama-style, it would be him.

And to her I would ask, “Do laws just truly not matter any more?”.

I’m not assuming, I’m asserting that those gospels are heavily edited and censored by the church, so who really knows what the original intent was?

That’s one hell of a debate catch-all escape hatch you’ve got there.

If you’re arguing that what we’ve all been told about Jesus’s intent and teachings are not true, then that’s a completely different discussion to be had, and we’re wasting our time discussing this current subject.

You are assuming though that Kinzinger is…

arbitrarily changing the definition to fit their argument

…, which he is not doing. He’s using the definition as defined by Jesus.

Or, as @agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com puts it …

Jesus would not recognize modern Christians by almost any measure

by arbitrarily changing the definition to fit their argument.

I don’t think he was doing that though, but instead was stating that what Jesus says is Christianity is different than what today’s people say Christianity is, via by how they actually act, as “Christians”. In other words, Jesus practiced Christianity different than today’s Christians.

Or are people not allowed to say to someone else that they do not act in the way that the group they are in says they should act?

This is such a weird way of announcing/implementing a $3/month increase for Prime video by Amazon, and a lot more destructive PR-wise too.

In their defense, it was pretty clear to me what they meant from the get-go and your replies seemed unnecessarily hostile.

I truly don’t think I was being unnecessarily hostile, as I did assume they were astroturfing in a stealthy sort of way (as I described). For that matter, the fact that you’re defending them makes me suspect that you too are astroturfing to protect them.

The onus is on the speaker/commentor to speak fully, if they want to be understood fully, so that assumptions are not made, and misunderstanding do not happen. Trust me, I learned about that recently myself here on Lemmy lol.

I stand by what I said.

I was speaking about any army from any country.