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It's maybe christian, and functionally meaningless regardless. Everyone's sinful, there's little point in singling anyone in particular out barring maybe some of the truly egregious sins like lack of charity towards the needy. Folks constantly seem to forget that's the one god blew up some cities for, not the homo. I'd wonder why, but the why's pretty obvious, heh.

Often opponents of an idea really are just opposed to the idea and don’t want to eliminate people. Is this the core of radicalization, where people stretch a philosophical threat into an existential one?

I mean, it's because people aren't idiots and are capable of pattern recognition. The anti-abortion crowd is entirely happy to walk alongside murderous terrorists, the transphobes are entirely willing to see trans folk dead, crippled, and generally immiserated, there was a bloody coup attempt just a couple years ago, so on and so forth. This is not just a philosophical threat. Just because the fuckers are doing the antisemite dance where they say shit just to say shit doesn't mean the rest of us have to buy it.

There's legislation trying to get passed in florida right now that would make it legal to fucking kidnap children on the suspicion of their custodial parent being okay with gender nonconforming behavior. There's legislation that's passed in other states that functionally ban trans folk from being in any public space, and worse trying to get through. We're not goddamn blind, mate. These folks aren't just opposed to an idea, they want to see a portion of our population outright destroyed.

2008 called, it misses you.

Second largest bank failure in US history happened today as Silicon Valley Bank, 16th largest bank in the country, went bust under a bank run.

From what I've seen of chatter, the current outlook is that the effect might not be as bad as the Washington Mutual collapse, as SVB was apparently fairly specialized in tech related venture capital specifically (consequentially, only something like 7% of its holdings were FDIC insured, oh dear) but, well. Lot of people are probably not having happy fun times, right now.

Do it wrong and you just end up sautéing your food instead of stir frying it.

The upside to that is then you have saute'd food, though, which ain't exactly a bad thing. Still tasty failure state is one of the more desirable things in low effort/entry level cooking, heh.

Hmm. They're probably safe on the emulation front, if they're not offering any ROMs or ISOs of games. Maybe all the more reason to get in now before they get shut down.

Specific BIOS can be a copyright issue, too, but if the emulator doesn't lean on those to function (and most don't) they're 100% fine, yeah. It's a little more complicated on the legal front than "avoid illegitimately acquired ROMs/ISOs to be in the clear", but not by much.

Basic lazy ass stir fry doesn't particularly need a big wok, just a pan and some oil (which may be optional, for that matter), for what it's worth. All it's really doing is, well, stirring whatever you're cooking while it fries. Basically anything you can put over a cooking element can manage that, woks just have a particularly good shape for it.

The behavior isn't exclusive, but it's heavily tilted, and especially so in terms of scope and impact. The specific term is plastered fucking constantly across rightwing media, in a way you don't see anywhere else. It's not a neutral term even a little, at this point, and its use in practice has a pretty damn specific nature.