OP, this is the most correct answer. Then the gods from the goat herders and gods of the sailors and gods of the farmers ended up sort of getting glued together into responsibility groups, and then get names, so sure, there was a god of vines and grapes and wine, which was likely just the general “please god bless my vines” god for the area where lots of people grew vines and made wine.

There are similar practices among animist peoples in Sun-Saharan Africa, where local cults are just how people still do things, with their local gods for the village or the cluster of villages.

Also worth knowing is that when Greeks and Romans traveled, they didn’t say “we have a god of war, and it’s Aries, and your gods are false and that’s the end of the conversation.” They would show up and say “What do you call the god of war? We call him Aries.”

It’s news to me that it’s still around.

Does “it broke containment” mean it didn’t have permissions to anything and still managed to delete all the files it could find?

I feel like we could do this with 4 tech oligarchs right now and it would still be accurate.

Better than my name for it: The Tarditron 3000

Sure they have - Baby gets what Baby wants. If baby wants the objectives of a war to be Iran sends him a cool fire truck to play with, that’s how he defines “winning” the war that day.

To be fair, esoteric Buddhism does exist. You’re correct that the photo in question is not of that.

In a plastic tub by a guy in a tank top at a store that sells more than 1 product with “swole” in the name?

I’m not stopping you.

The question isn’t if you’re useful to Lemmy or not. We don’t deserve to exert any weight on your heart with opinions and upvotes.

Are you doing something you think is worth your time, with or without external validation? Is this something you would do if you thought it was basically the internet version of putting messages in a bottle?

When you are old and on your death bed, what will the value of your reddit karma be? What is the value of it now?

Do things that matter to you. Do things that help you grow and be a better person.

To be fair, the anti-malarial drug Meflaquine/Larium does the same thing to people a bit after you take it.

There are bioaccumulative toxins, but nothing over the counter sold in a plastic tub by some guy in a tank top will get rid of them. And some, like lead, have symptoms that are not reversible. Lead poisoning is a lifelong condition. So a magical “detoxifying” shoe insole or smoothie additive isn’t going to do much. I think @nightshade@piefed.social 's point remains that any toxins that stay in the body are either gone for good after a short time, or there to stay.

Realistically, it’s likely that someone with money was denied access, and used their money to hire lobbyists to make this a political problem.

“We called ourselves the MOD Squad, short for Merchants of Death.”

Looks like Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms have a whole new set of friends.

Oh no, it was very specific and hard to cram all the words in to the time. Typical Sora is that it’s either screaming or long pauses.

It was used almost exclusively for slop and slop-based ads or videos that shouldn’t be slop. I was on there yesterday and some account had 2 videos of a woman in front of a plain wall talking for 15 seconds about tax implications for investments. A real human could have filed it with an iphone in 3 minutes.

But now that’s Google and Grok’s problems, I guess.

He can be apolitical in public, and I wish more idiot celebrities would be. You and I don’t need to know his politics. It doesn’t help anything in the grand scheme of things.

100% agree that he’s a very bad leader. That wasn’t his role, his role was arrogant, risk-taking playboy. Keep in mind that the TOS years were the late 60s. TOS ran at the same time as the Smothers Brothers, Green Acres, and Bewitched. Arrogant, risk-taking playboy is a prime white male media main character trope that spans generations and decades. No one likes an asshole - unless it’s YOUR asshole, then it can get shit all over and you expect someone else to clean it up. Kirk broke rules, did whatever, fought everyone and banged everyone else, and always came away a winner. THAT was his role.

Even for the TOS movies, they tone him down into a “leader” a bit and it’s really just being the guy everyone has to listen to. It’s an ensemble of subordinates who largely do whatever, he barks demands, and because it’s a movie/show, they’re always working towards the same goal and get the job done.

Ah yes, it looks like your gift is crystal-clear visions of random things that will most likely happen a week later, that really have no bearing on the situation but make you feel like you should be able to control it and make it useful. But you never really have time to work on that.

Also, you’re smart enough to tell people how they’re about to fuck up before they do, but you also carry a family curse, so they never listen to you.

My Trump-voting prepper parents in a nutshell. They wanted an excuse to eat 5 gallons of powdered eggs? Well guess what, now’s your chance.