My understanding is that the trinity from the nicene creed is a political document (not truthful nor religious) and it was designed to be universal(a translation of catholic) so that natives in each land (Christians and pagans) could have lip service that “we believe what you do” by the political catholic clergy who were the only ones allowed to interpret scriptures (or you had a Heretic death penalty) until the political power was secured, and after power was secured, a creed and rosary was enough to keep free thinking in line.
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Well, something that the Mormons have is they tried out communism. They called it the law of consecration. They had some fun times with trying to handle being productive and redistribution and poligamous. They ultimately concluded that they weren’t ready for it yet so they went back to default capitalism with tithing and poor/fast offerings.
Tl;dr: Mormons believe in a kind of communism in heaven, and they go hungry for 2 meals (24 hrs) to remember to give generously to the poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_consecration?wprov=sfla1
Holy clothing must not be damaged unless you plan to do the ritual of discarding (shred abd burn). As a windbreaker has at least 4 holes when worn correctly, it is indeed holy.
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ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•broke some ice off the roof and manhandled it out of the walking paths.1·2 months agoThat’s ice damming. Basically it can be prevented with proper ventilation of roof cladding/shingle nail board. Normally eaves, baffles, and turtle/ridge vents will be enough to prevent icicles more than. 6 in long.
I want a tale of deliverance from pharaoh across the red Sea that feels like playing skyrim (crazy magic going on! And civil war progression)
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•TFW you see the toilet paper after the first wipe when your haemorrhoids flare up badly3·3 months agoGround up plastic FTW: miralax
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.ca•United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma71·3 months agoits common practice for insurance to have a “total coverage” contract with a provider, so they say 876 is coming out of next month’s insurance check to you, and the difference is between you and these clients… or you can eat it.
No cash ever flows back to the insurance company from a provider.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.catoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Alabama Church Calls Blacks Who Vote for Trump 'Ignorant Stupid N----' Who Will Bring Back Slavery2·5 months agoAccording to US case law. The power to tax is the power to destroy, so the state government cannot tax federal government.
There are several arguments for taxing church and I can’t help but think that soon we will be just having a closer relationship between church and state if the pastors start pandering for the current government.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Biden announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwideEnglish2·6 months agoLead culinary water pipes (or lead soldier) is a problem, but lead shower pans (that affect the sewer water) are the preference in many USA cities.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•These 100-year-olds say working beyond retirement age is what keeps them going: 'I'll work for as long as I can'1·9 months agoWell, I didn’t post my sources and you didn’t post sources. I think I am right but I don’t want to spend the time looking it up when I am straight up told that I’m lying. I’ll address your four points off the top of my head though.
- life expectancy has changed drastically for different populations and subcultures in the usa. Tweakers have a much lower life expectancy. White collar work has a much higher life expectancy. Blue collar… I bet you are right that it is about the same. I read that the current average is 74 (so 10 years longer than when retirement became codified into law) However shortly after the industrial revolution was the information revolution, so most of the gdp of the usa and other western countries is produced by these long lived white collar workers.
- yup I agree. Blue collar life expectancy is about the same as when retirement was first codified into law
- money turns to worthless over time unless it is invested and earning interest. A government is in the business of “Accountability to taxpayers on a election Cycle period”. Therefore, the government is highly incentivised to kill the golden goose and spend the money and claim that they invested it wisely into roads and stuff. If I recall correctly, that is exactly what happened to the social security program, and we are now paying out as fast as it comes in. Regarding “not tied to the Wallstreet casino” as what makes an investment more financially sound, I don’t follow the logic. There is some well established ways to make money on wall street:
buy and hold a low cost index of funds that diversified risk away from a single company. Have a mix of equity vs fixed income based on how soon you intend to start needing to rely on fixed income. Put your money in this exact index fund and don’t worry about market ups and downs.
If you follow that investing instruction, you beat the social security administration every time in the last 30 years if you paid in the whole time you worked for 45 years.
- Taxing the wealthy is hard. There is a general rule of thumb in politics which is “those who have power don’t let it go easily”, and if those with power caused a politician to be favored, it is generally due to the bet that the politician will pay it back with a favor later. As far as I know, when you tax the wealthy, the wealthy are able to organize some governmental upsets/coops. The American revolution was headed by the “wealthy” of the American colonies. As far as I know, wealth also exits easily if a governmental administration is a hostile/unstable environment. All these things come together to make taxing wealthy people hard. In practice, the wealthy generally have a “high marginal tax rate” (tax rate on paper) but after all the loopholes from politician friends there is a “low effective tax rate” (tax rate actually paid).
Talking about raising the contribution limit is a moot point as government will be “accountable in this election cycle” by spending immediately based on my argument above.
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Did I say anything factually False? I hope to see any nuances that I missed.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•These 100-year-olds say working beyond retirement age is what keeps them going: 'I'll work for as long as I can'1·9 months agoI said it to mean agricultural work as in farm work.
-Agricultural revolution brown collar
-Industrial revolution blue collar
-Information revolution white collar
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Actual Discussion@lemmy.ca•How to make a company not suckEnglish1·9 months agoHaving retirement shares as the same shares as the company that one is working at seems to be a huge concentration of risk. If you go out of business, then people lose both current active income and future passive income. I hope that your staff diversify away that risk.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•These 100-year-olds say working beyond retirement age is what keeps them going: 'I'll work for as long as I can'73·9 months agoThe concept of retirement for working class people is new (aristocrats retired all throughout time)
- invented in Germany by a priest in 1600s but died out
- independently invented in America when a soldier in the military (late 1700s) had both his arms blown off and a law was passed for him to collect an amount for his (and family’s) maintenance from the neighbors.
Before invention of retirement, the working class had the mentality that you work until you are dead with 99% of the working class in brown collar work. During the industrial revolution where most people transitioned from brown collar to blue collar work, retirement became much more common with social mobility.
During the great depression, USA legislators picked a number “65” to be the “age of retirement” with the reasoning that it would get more young people back to work. The average age of mortality at that time was ~67 years old. They did not index that age with the average age of mortality, so as life expectancy increased, there is now a period in people’s life to be “retired”.
Problems with how this developed:
- social security in the USA is not able to keep paying out at this rate, the age of retirement should be more closely aligned with an “indexed” age whether that is the current average age of mental incompetence or an actuarially determined “you did your time, so you can now get out and your contributions should fund the government support of you”. The political cycle will probably destroy any hard to understand actuarial index, so that leaves us with the first option.
- retired people are a political force (high voter turnout). It is easy to vote to get a raise and ignore issues that would bring actual long term growth when you have a short term mentality. I think that accepting 100% of the cost of your maintenance from the government may be the price of your vote (you cannot vote if you are retired). I am sure that this is another unpopular opinion.
With that perspective, I don’t know if corporations are entitled here, or the people are just doing what their ancestors did for 1,000s of years and are owning it in a positive way.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new processEnglish1·9 months agoI cant wait for all circular saw blades to be diamond.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Roller Coaster Of Emotions: Man Visiting Graveyard Has Crazy Happy EndingEnglish1·9 months agodon’t forget the creativity like “deleted from the census” or “bought the farm” or “bit the dust”, etc. There is a poetry to avoiding a filter.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Feds look to limit farmers' ancient practice of saving seed1·9 months agoin number 3, did you mean “herbicides”
The thing is, I understand that some farmers were doing that, but some others were simply trying to grow soybeans, and they didn’t use herbicides, but Monsanto successfully sued them into never saving “soybean” seed ever again.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Study: 83% of Americans will have to work into their 70s in order to afford to retire1·9 months agohave you heard of the “wisdom of crowds”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Feds look to limit farmers' ancient practice of saving seed92·9 months agoDifferent take: seed genome is like a MP3. Piracy (illegal copying) is enforced based on IP. Seeds doing it “naturally on a farm” just means that you have grounds to sue the farmer for not stopping illegal copying.
ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Feds look to limit farmers' ancient practice of saving seed371·9 months agoStep 1: protect the IP protected seed genomes
Step 2: sue the crap out of people growing those types of plants who arent paying you. Edit: these are all soy beans including “public seed”
Step 3: increase the price now that you have a monopoly on that kind of seeds
Source: Monsanto and soy beans
I’m an athorist. I don’t believe in Thor God of thunder. No comment on the definition you were talking about. :P (Psst, I do believe in a diety, but I can’t talk about it here!)