And ubiquitous site to site transporting

Almost choked on coffee from this

WOW!

This makes me think of the band Everclear. Every song of theirs is exactly the same. Dun dun dun dun dun da du-un Yeah! dun dun dun dun dun da du-un Oh yeah! Insert lyrics about gardens or daddy issues. However, speed that same song up and call it “Amphetamine” and it kinda slaps.

Coldplay is a band where I can recognize that there is talent, but I just cannot like them. The songs “Clocks,” “Yellow,” and “Viva la Vida” are good. Outside of those, I just don’t like them.

The cast. That’s what I love about the show. The writing can be uneven and often downright contradictory (they ignore the whole “we have limited photon torpedoes” thing from the pilot pretty much immediately and have fun counting the number of shuttle craft they wind up destroying over the course of the series). But the cast is great, especially after a season or so when everyone has figured out their characters a bit.

I legit had to look up whether or not it was the same actor. This is one of those things that, in the pre-internet days, you could say and people would just have to believe you. Like that legend that Marilyn Manson was Paul from The Wonder Years.

Why Zordon look like Buzz McAllister in this photo tho?

And therein lies the problem: Diffusion and Large Language models (and their, heh, clanker ilk) cannot originate anything. All they can do is remix what’s already there. It’s ultimately stagnation in creativity (which, to be fair, is what we’ve largely been seeing in capitalist-owned media the last couple decades or so, with the proclivity toward remakes/reboots, etc.)

Weird, I was just thinking of this scene yesterday, then again with this post

Erman is a terrible scholar, for one. The other thing is that, for centuries, the Septuagint was used as the Bible. It wasn’t treated like a translation the way we do. It’s that, for a long time, the Bible was Greek. It had been Hebrew, then it was Greek, then around the 600s or so it was Hebrew again. That later Hebrew Bible is called the Masoretic Text and was the one chosen by Protestants for the Old Testament because, in their thinking, the Hebrew was older than the Greek. But they didn’t really consider the fact that the Masoretic Text is over a thousand years newer than the Septuagint (it being a reconstruction of the Hebrew Bible based on re-translating the Greek with the aid of the Samaritan Pentateuch, etc.). So the Septuagint used the Greek term for “virgin” which is the only reading the gospel writers would have known. The Masoretic Text translates the relevant Isaiah passage with a Hebrew word that means “maiden.” And there’s some argument out there that they did so in opposition to the Christian reading of the passage. There’s a really great book about this entitled When God Spoke Greek.

TL;DR, The “virgin” reading is accurate to the ancient understanding of the Isaiah passage because that was the only one they had at the time. The “maiden” reading is known to us from a Hebrew text that is at least 600 years more recent than the time of Jesus.

Upvoting because both weeb and still oddly fond of the Chrysler PT Cruiser.

“Let me guess: sOmEoNe StoLe yOuR sWeEt rOll?”

I added a thing to my auto-correct that automatically turns “ye” into þe (back when I learned about this, several years back). I always forget about it until I either get to typing too fast and make a space before finishing “yes” or making Kanye jokes (rare these days tbh) or quoting from the King James Bible (much more common than you’d think).

I think þ is just neat and I do wish it would return to þe English alphabet.

By chance, have you ever read the novel Ella Minnow Pea? I feel like you might enjoy it if you haven’t.

I always see it as T-rexes with a table saw lol

I’m an Episcopal priest. At a parish I served in some years back, we had a custom of giving kids animals from the nativity scene to carry in procession and place around the manger at the Christmas Eve service. I would be at the end of the procession to place the Christ child in the manger and then cense the scene before saying the opening prayers. I do so and happen to catch something out of the ordinary: a tiny rubber dinosaur has somehow made it into Bethlehem. So I start the service by noting this and the church has a good chuckle.

No one ever fessed to putting in there, but it became a fixture in the parish’s nativity scene from then on (with kids occasionally clamoring to be the one to carry the dinosaur in the procession).

The Bible is not a single volume but a collection/anthology of writings put together over many centuries. Further, the canon of scripture was decided after several hundred years after the writing of the most recent book (Revelation). Which is all to say that the Bible, at least in the cited references, cannot be self-referential because “the Bible” didn’t exist at the times of those references. They were all individual writings. So Revelation, for instance, is referring to the words of the prophecy contained in Revelation, NOT the Bible.

Oh hey, my neighbor is in this strip!

The librarian at my grad school had a book cart in her house and would not let her husband put a book anywhere but on that cart once he was finished with it. Power move.