Edit: Fuck some of these comments Y’all sick in the head. I’m out.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    This does come off a lot like “Let’s all ask God to do the important and urgent things I chose not to do.”

    As Dale Carnegie says, prayer is what we try after we’ve exhausted every practical option. If God exists, they clearly want us to do our best with available options before begging them to solve our problems.

    (Side note: if God exists, they have a lot to answer for, and there’s non-trivial evidence that they might be a raging asshole. Maybe a stupid choice of ally in the tough times ahead.)

    CEOs have a lot of practical options. I don’t know if Pat exhausted those options, but it’s hard to give any CEO the benefit of the doubt after the last decade of pervasive “line must go up regardless of the obvious short, medium and long term consequences for absolutely everyone concerned.”

    So pardon me if I’m not impressed with trying to pray away those consequences.

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        1 month ago

        Yep. I figure God can put their pronouns in a quick update (no doubt written in flames on a wall somewhere - basic courtesy, nowadays), or is probably content with the neutral terms.

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          1 month ago

          The Bible wasn’t written with gendered pronouns. Although God did choose to become a man, so I think this justifies the He/Him pronouns

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      He actually had what seemed like a pretty good long term plan. Buuut probably beacuse the line did not go up in the short to medium term he was ousted. I think ( Im not really sure why they fired him ).

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    If he said, “Every Thursday I do a 24-hour voodoo dance and shake my magic rattle,” he would be called a loon.

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    In 2013, Gelsinger co-founded Transforming the Bay with Christ (TBC), a coalition of business leaders, venture capitalists, non-profit leaders and pastors that aims to convert one million people over the next decade. He helped establish the Sacramento-area Christian institution William Jessup University from which he also received an honorary doctorate.

    Sweet zombie jesus… 🙄

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        30 days ago

        Peaceful protest isn’t working dude. Time to put some fear into these leeches

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        29 days ago

        The only ones “sick in the head” are the fucking psychopaths who run this country. They kill millions of people each year for the sake of profit, and yet I never hear media calling them “sick in the head”. By DSM definition , they would be psychopaths. A legitimate mental illness. And I have zero sympathy for those who take advantage of their fellow humans for their own selfish benefits. In any normal society, they would not be allowed to exist. And when the functioning of a society is not being fixed through non-violent methods, what else are we supposed to do? I’m genuinely asking.

        If I am “sick in the head”, then so are many, many others. And if many others feel the same way I do, then that means it is not the individual who is “sick”. It is society that is “sick”. And sometimes the only way to beat a parasitic infection is to crank up the heat and get rid of them. So I think it’s time we crank the heat up and start demanding a society that puts the human spirit first instead of profits for the few.

        **responding here to your deleted comment calling me “sick in the head” since I can’t respond to a deleted comment.

        Edit: Attached your deleted comment.

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        30 days ago

        Dumbfucks that failed upwards and then started kicking apart our nation’s support systems.

        Especially when they try get me to pray and fast with with them so I forget that they did it.

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    I don’t know how to not be insulted by this and I really worry about anyone person who read that and agreed with him.

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      What’s the problem? Praying so people don’t lose their job?

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    30 days ago

    I’ll pray but only if they accept my prayers that the leadership that forces me to pray will get tongue cancer and survive, just without their silver tongues.