[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Kamala would 100% lose. Her campaign didn't have a single victory in 2020, and she was one of the first to drop out. If the Democrats had held a primary, we might have found a candidate that could beat him, but as it stands now, our best hope is that Trump finally finishes eating himself to death before the election.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

That was certainly the worst of it, but it didn't get much better for him, he fumbled over a lot of his delivery. It was much harder for him though, he was using facts and figures while Trump was just saying whatever lie popped into his head.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago

Yeah, he is getting the shit kicked out of him. Trump is spouting insane lies, but Biden is stumbling over his words on every response.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

God I miss my S10. It really was a perfect phone. I finally had to let it go when the screen cracked. Replacing it cost more than a refurbished S22 or S23, and I couldn't justify purchasing another S10, since it will probably fall victim to planned obsolescence soon.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, that makes sense. I wish I could track down where I read this to figure out if it's a bad source or I'm misremembering it. I may be mistaking Tacitus' reference to Christ, but I don't think it's that. I distinctly remember reading about some sort of population record of a Rabbi named Jesus and thinking, "Wow, I'm surprised a record like that survived." The problem is this was 10+ years ago, and search engines suck now, so I'll never find it again.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

LOL, basically, yeah.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Interesting, what kind of records do we have from Alexander's time? And yeah, I agree, the early gospels and the later Roman references probably indicate Rabbi named Jesus was crucified, but I don't think that a secondary source or religious texts really meet OP's criteria for, "physical proof." (Although we probably don't have, "physical proof," for a lot of historical events we generally accept have happened).

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I had read that there were Roman census records that proved a Rabbi named Jesus did live at about the right time, but now I can't find a source to back that up, so that's probably bunk.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Relics are almost always fake, and there are usually multiples of them at any given time. A lot of people have had Jesus' foreskin throughout the years, and I think there are 5 or 6 heads of John the Baptist floating around right now.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 98 points 2 months ago

In my experience, 100% of executives don't actually know what their workforce does day-to-day, so it doesn't really surprise me that they think they can lay people off because they started using ChatGPT to write their emails.

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