JackbyDev

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

You can always checkout the branch and run it yourself.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

We should get ahead of the curve by making Markcoin then. Let's do halfsies on an ICO.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, in the book of Revelation in the Bible as a sign of the end times followers of Satan will have a visible mark on them. Many evangelical Christian conspiracy theorists believe that in a literal sense. Paired with many conservatives also not wanting the government to be able to track them, a national ID system (as opposed to state IDs) has never really gain traction.

You can read more about this here if you're interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Mark_of_the_beast

Some fundamentalist Christian groups, as well as various Christian writers in other traditions, interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object in the right hand or forehead with the function of a credit card, such as RFID microchip implants.[73] Some of these groups believe the implantation of chips may be the imprinting of the mark of the beast, prophesied to be a requirement for all trade and a precursor to God's wrath.[74][75] Similar objections were raised about barcodes upon their introduction.[76]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some groups associated COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing with the mark of the beast, or that it was a microchip in the vaccine.[77] Some religious leaders spoke out against this as a misinterpretation of Revelation 13:16-18.[78] Medical institutions such as Hennepin County Medical Center noted this in their fact sheets about the vaccine.[79] A similar version was spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to vaccine passports as being the mark of the beast.[80]

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 30 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The same group that pushes for voter ID laws refuses to implement a national ID system because they're afraid of the mark of the beast.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago

TL;DR: Rotisserie chickens are smaller on average and price per pound usually more expensive except at stores like Costco. So you see similar numbers but don't notice the size.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago

I remember working on the deli when we'd markdown the chickens. Folks knew when we put them out and how long we waited before doing it. There was generally a little crowd of 2 to 3 folks when we'd do it on the weekend. Sometimes they'd get impatient and ask us if we were gonna come do it. Which, to be honest, I don't really blame them. I don't remember how much of a savings it was but it was significant. It's sort of like "hey buddy, let's stop the charade, I need to get going, can you come mark these down a few minutes early?"

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Well obviously the propaganda I grew up with is better and clearly didn't affect me at all..

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 24 points 1 week ago

There's a big difference between "hey kids, use this machine, it has Internet access and Brand products" and "hey kids, ask me anything you'd like, and I'll give you the Brand approved answer."

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 65 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They're putting AI in children's school laptops? Not only teaching them to think less, but letting a corporation directly influence them?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, I absolutely am.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

A romantic attraction to something going through you? Lewd!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

☝️🤓 why do you have an emotional attachment to wavelengths of light?

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