DistortoiseLP
DistortoiseLP t1_iy1kqre wrote
Reply to TIL Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson was attacked four times in the 1980s, including a thrown bottle (followed by three missed shots with a revolver), a would-be gunman (who he neutralized), a drug-addled spectator smashing a car he was in, and nearly being struck with a tire iron. by electricmaster23
> News of the [attempted shooting] incident was the third story ever broadcast on CNN, which held its inaugural broadcast later that day.
The first story was the assassination attempt on Vernon Jordan and the second was a shooting spree on an Amtrak train.
DistortoiseLP t1_ixjtiwa wrote
Reply to Unfortunate Find At Walmart. by RedLion_the_1st
Unfortunate? I don't think there's ever going to be a better year to buy a Green Power Ranger Christmas ornament than this one. Any other year and it's just another tacky Hallmark pop culture ornament.
DistortoiseLP t1_iuflos8 wrote
Reply to comment by substantial-freud in TIL, if all the DNA in your body was stretched out, it would reach from the Earth to the Sun. And back. 18 times. by substantial-freud
No, I think Christian Nationalism is a ministry that lobbies Christian apologetics exclusively to American lawmakers and their staff:
>First and foremost, HillFaith, as an apologetics ministry, seeks to share the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a fact-driven, logical and non-judgmental way with those who work as aides to senators, representatives, congressional committees and congressional agencies.
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>Mark is a regular participant in Faith & Law activities and works with other ministries with activities and concerns on Capitol Hill. HillFaith is unique in being the sole apologetics-based ministry with its focus entirely on men and women working in Congress and on Capitol Hill.
Their videos, including the one you shared here today, are in service of that mission:
>Most of the content that appears on HillFaith is intended to answer objections of critics of Christianity and to illustrate how having a saving, personal relationship with Jesus Christ transforms hearts, minds and cultures.
The site makes no effort to hide what they're about and what they're promoting to the American government. Are you seriously about to argue with me about is?
DistortoiseLP t1_iufgt94 wrote
Reply to TIL, if all the DNA in your body was stretched out, it would reach from the Earth to the Sun. And back. 18 times. by substantial-freud
>So ask yourself, is it even possible to calculate the odds that the level of sophisticated nano-engineering required to create such a DNA strand for one cell, much less for three trillion cells?
The odds of what? That question doesn't make sense, though looking around their site I'm assuming that was supposed to suggest this claim supports Intelligent Design.
At any rate, it isn't sophisticated at all. The vast majority of it doesn't do anything, and this is much of the reason you have such an abundance of it. An "engineered" organism made in accordance to some purposeful design would contain a far leaner profile of instructions for encoding it.
>HillFaith is the ministry that God called Mark Tapscott to in 2018, and which, despite serious obstacles like the Covid lockdown in 2020 and a shattered kneecap in 2019, is now steadily maturing in its capabilities and resources, and its capacity for serving people on Capitol Hill.
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>Mark has been an award-winning investigative news reporter and editor since 1985, he was a Reagan administration appointee from 1981 to 1985, and he worked as a press secretary and chief of staff for two House members and as communications director for a senator between 1977 and 1980. Congress has been a major focus of Mark’s life and work for many decades.
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>HillFaith is rigorously non-partisan, witnessing to and seeking to serve congressional aides and employees without regard to their employers’ partisan identification or personal leanings. Jesus is neither Democrat, nor Republican, and His life-changing Grace and Salvation are available to every person.
Whoo boy. Quite a biology source you found here. I wasn't expecting this DNA trivia to immediately spiral down the rabbit hole of Christian Nationalism.
DistortoiseLP t1_iuej6h4 wrote
Reply to comment by Saturnalliia in TIL dunce caps were originally a sign of high intelligence and wisdom. Philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus was a proponent of pointy hats as a way to funnel knowledge to the mind and his followers, called Dunsmen, wore them. By the 1500s the Dunsmen fell out of favor as “behind the times”. by Aequitas05
The fun part of a visit by the Inquisition after all the other legal proceedings wrapped up.
DistortoiseLP t1_itvkw8n wrote
Reply to Guy on the pier who is already missing a leg.. and recently lost his eye in a fishing accident. 🎃 by ChaseLambeth
Was the fishing accident catching his eye with the fish hook? I wig myself about imagining that at least once every time I go fishing.
DistortoiseLP t1_itjehvg wrote
Reply to comment by jacket_with_sleeves in Two Koreas exchange warning shots near maritime border amid tensions by gaporkbbq
North Korea will become relevant pretty fast if China ever goes full Russia and kicks off a war in Asia. How they'll be relevant I have no idea, but they'll definitely be a problem for somebody.
DistortoiseLP t1_islq7kq wrote
Reply to TIL that Swiss Balloonist, Auguste Piccard, was the inspiration for both Professor Calculus, in the Tintin comics, and that Gene Roddenberry named Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek after him. by es_price
That said he originally wanted Stephen Macht for Picard and Patrick Stewart to play Data. Imagine if we got that version of TNG.
DistortoiseLP t1_is2evlu wrote
>We consider the military exercises that took place as a challenge
I imagine that's how these clowns think the world is supposed to take their military exercises too.
DistortoiseLP t1_ir7hwt1 wrote
Reply to comment by code_archeologist in US believes elements within Ukraine’s government authorized assassination near Moscow, sources say by Bluepill22
She was more of a less valuable target than the wrong one, because like the article says she was also a frequent and high-profile figure in Russia's disinformation engine like her father, and also one of their more prominent war hawks like him too. That's why they went after him in the first place.
I imagine they wanted to catch the bigger fish, but whoever blew that car up isn't crying over the death of a harmless bystander.
DistortoiseLP t1_iy26ep4 wrote
Reply to TIL there was a town in the Philippines called "Sexmoan". The name was changed to "Sasmuan" in 1991. by Ixz72
>Things got even better—or worse, depending on how you look at it—when the local port was labeled "Sex Fishport."
I'm going to say that's worse.