Oh it gets funnier!

Kashmiris believe Jesus is entombed in Srinigar, and died an old man there after a career preaching incognito in Rome.

There is a tomb there, Buddhist style with footprints carved on the lid… but with odd slightly asymmetrical scars in the metatarsal area. Apparently. You can visit the building but the old tomb is inaccessible due to an important muslim tomb above it.

Another rumour there is that a temple was being renovated around 60CE and a persian stoneworker left graffiti on the back of a step that had local news including ‘the prophet ‘Issa’ has come healing and teaching from the West’. Roughly in time for a major Buddhist conclave.

There’s more local legend about it. Fun alternative narrative. Would be a nice place to retire anyway.

You’d think. Maybe. We don’t know for sure. Thomas was a contemporary so same generation.

The RC church is a hungry amoeba.

• virgin birth (old Egypt)
• tree worship (N. Europe)
• Saturnalia (Rome)
• eat and drink the god (Greece)
• etc.

I’m butchering a 2 millennia story, but it illustrates how christianity fares in hinduism, and it even has some evidentiary support, so…

When the apostle Thomas was sent to India, he wound up in Cochin and began establishing a ministry or fellowship there.

He was frustrated by the lack of convincing required, or resistance to his ideas, without singular devotion.

The creator instantiating one more avatar is no stretch as Hinduism is pretty sophisticated in narratives, so Issa/Jesus just got added to the list that includes Krishna, and to this day you can buy hindu iconography with Jesus teaching compassion.

(Dude did succeed in forming a strictly Christian community though, and so arguably the oldest Christian sect is there.)

I think you have the start of a good plotline for a sf comedy.

20th C thinking.

• NATO countries would tool up fairly quickly on a war footing
• strategic advantage is no longer about tanks and artillery, it’s about the next few generations of drones
• dirty tricks haven’t even begun, really
• energy capacity is at this weird turning point of shifting production options and efficiencies, makes predictions harder
• Ukraine’s industrial capacity has changed to a war footing and they now export drones
• a non-democratic Ukraine would be a risk as big as oligarchy Russia

That’s great bud just take yer shoes off in the house

Note how “terrorist” is often applied to those resistant to resource/land based occupation/exploitation.

Ooo, cooling mat! Well then, no wonder it’s still running. One of the easiest laptops to fix, too, so you could just repurpose it.

Also, when you buy an Air, consider whether you are going to be gaming or not. If not, a M2 with 16 GB of RAM can be a lot cheaper than new, and my 16GB M1 is still awesome even for some intensive use.

To add: my favourite mac of all time was probably my 15” 2012 with a matte hd screen and upgraded SSD drive (which only took 10 fucking minutes, le sigh). All the ports!

Keep that thing off the internet if you can. Security is kind threadbare on that abandoned macOS.

Fantastic form factor for non internet tasks though. The 2011 model is worse for thermal management and the fans work harder so may need replacement, listen for rattles or silence from one side. Keep it ventilated on all sides including bottom.

Debian should run very nicely on that if you want modern software features and low-worry internet security.

…unless you have watched Star Trek and the like.

Clown dystopia, that story.

It is a statement of intent; cf. other Confederate speech restrictions.

I taught 3rd year humanities students in a communication related course who could not string words together into a coherent sentence. All their writing was education gore and I could only get through it by briefly pretending it was avant garde. We collectively let them get that far with core incompetencies. Shame.

Oooo, sepi gets it!

Well many seem to think that ‘real threats’ includes smashing fashion store windows and throwing bricks at lackeys in uniforms. Performative violence is just story building material for those who control the narrative.

Effective violence is directed surgically at assets, or at processes and procedures. That means sabotage that costs the oligarchs and not small business, vandalism that makes you think, disruption of the trickle up effect, and personal fear for individuals ONLY after the other escalations.

Of course in the USA the ammosexuals are pushing cart before horse and people are dying for the news cycle.

And to paraphrase one of the members of the Frankfurt school: “the role of psychotherapy is to allow a healthy individual to function in an unhealthy society.“

Oh, out west we called it the Flu Trux Klan

Sad tragedy, lack of support. My brother was lucky enough to get help from conscientious objection groups and get out before being haunted by the decision.