doesn't mean that there isn't any earthly consequences
Correct.
the bad guys will get theirs in the end... somehow?
Christ didn't preach to Caesar.
The bible DOES NOT (unlike many religions) set out to establish the earthly laws of Christendom. There is no Leviticus in the Synoptic Gospels. The bible preaches forgiveness because forgiving others is the best for YOU, not those who transgress against you.
The medieval conception of the divine right of kings came later, to explain how Caesar can be Christian. Because a just Caesar must do things which are decidedly un-Christian in order to create and preserved Christendom, creating law, imposing it, and condemning those who transgress it.
(Shrug)
I wasn't talking to you. I commented because Ableist keeps getting in fights and losing.
Your opinion and the prevailing consensus of 1d6 is of no concern to me (as long as they steer clear of my stuff about Alternity). What fascinates me is Able's inability to learn how to communicate with others.
You immediately called Walrus a moron for saying something true which you disagreed with. If you haven't figured it out by now, your angry marine Don Quixote schtick just doesn't work.
the alt-right is fictional
1d6chan is pretty much defending
I'm starting to think your threshold for "defending" is anything other than ignoring it entirely.
"Well, it was inevitable that the usual suspects would turn 40k into another battleground for their shit-flinging."
-1d6's first sentence about the incident.
Shrug
Frankly I think it's a pretty cool setup for a Dark Heresy character. Puritan Inquisitor gets stabbed, starts having nightmares of the skull throne, each time waking up flailing as if in a fight, leaving ever bigger dents in the wall as Khorne's power infects their body.
wants to be able to take the character out of the armor and still have them be powerful
Which they could have done with an Inquisitor. Biomancy is a thing (albeit mostly a chaos thing, but still).
You can do anything with inquisitors in this setting, they're outside the law and governed only by rule of cool. You want a super powerful female inquisitor who can dent armor with her bare hands? Have her be warp tainted, tormented by the spectre of Khorne, always half a step away from giving into bloodlust.
"I'll get you my pretty." -Witch of the West, Oz
Funny how this shit always during “on roof restoration work”
It's not a coincidence at all. It had a verdigris roof. Repairs to sheet copper are usually done with lead as a patching compound. It can be easily worked with a torch. But with very old wood, it's pretty easy to ignite something on the other side of the copper, which is a very good thermal conductor.
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Okay on further investigation it appears Notre Dame was not hot work (although it was occurring, just not on that day) but rather the scaffolding workers were smoking. The investigators found cigarette butts but couldn't conclusively prove they were the ignition source.
Do you succeed in bringing about god's kingdom on earth?
Consider it like this: The Muslims believe that there will be peace when when there are no non-believers.
Are they wrong? Rather, if they succeed, were they right?
God's will is only revealed retroactively.
When you embark on a quest in the name of god, whether or not you were righteous hinges on whether or not your actions bring about the world condition your god desires.
To put it another way... God is always on the side of the victors. Or as they put it in the film: "His god... is god."
I've seen enough to know that the atheists' pure reason, and the environmentalists' gaia are false. But as to which branch of the God of Abraham is true (if any)... that is still an open question.
The only motive that makes sense is malice.
The people you're mad at couldn't be further removed from maritime transportation. Your typical tugboat worker in the US is second or third generation in their career and has a two digit IQ cuz most of them are from the likes of fucking Biloxi.
You got unusually, weirdly vitriolic in the reply.
Yes I am, because you're questioning the patriotism of the most deep red stupid people you could imagine. I guarantee you, no inland barge accident has ever, or WILL EVER, have any connection to the international cabal you're eagerly hounding.
Foreign container ships losing power? Yeah, maybe.
I tell you all this shit happens all the time, you refuse to believe me.
I go and dig up the hard data from the coast guard about how often it happens, and you refuse to believe that too.
I get that you're paranoid and looking for any reason to find a plot amid chaos, BUT AT LEAST BE FUCKING CONSISTENT ABOUT YOUR PRECONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE NUMBERS.
On the scale between aircraft crashes and car crashes, believe it or not, river barge incidents fall a LOT closer to the CAR end of the spectrum. And it's usually no big deal because bridges are usually built for it. If it's such a big fucking deal to you, pick a side of the Mississippi and never cross it. But stop making this community look like a bunch of paranoid fucking idiots with the attention span of a twitch streamer.
How common is it for barges to come loose during flooding?
Lemme put it like this...
According to USCG data, between 1992 and 2001, there were 2,692 REPORTED commercial collisions with bridges or USACE managed locks and dams on navigable rivers.
That's an average of one collision every non-winter day of the year.
The AASHTO impact protection standards for bridge piers are deliberately designed to take a standard 35x195 barge drifting in the current of a 100 year flood.
I told you all last time:
Crazy barge shit happens all the fucking time. It's not new, it's not statistically anomalous. It's only observer bias because of Baltimore.
who do we blame
No one. To understand THIS you need to be familiar with Schopenhauer. When you say "blame" what you're really doing is conflating "justice" with "revenge". REVENGE is morally indefensible, it's a continuation of Cain's bloody cycle.
Justice is NOT about righting some cosmic scale that is set wrong by harmful acts.
The morally defensible objective of justice is to make moral laws as tangible and immutable as natural laws. The prohibition of murder should be as inexorable as gravity.
The person who kills, must die. Not for the sake of the dead but for the sake of the living who will see it done and know that for cause there is effect.
Justice is deterrence, not revenge.
On this there is one caveat that departs from liberalism, and that is that IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR THE CONDEMNED TO ACTUALLY BE GUILTY. Only that they are perceived as guilty by the community and that justice is done swiftly and known to all.
Actually the WORST possible situation is not the conviction of the innocent, but rather the exoneration of someone everyone "knows" is guilty. When OJ Simpson was ruled innocent, it made the state look impotent and the law toothless. Blackstone's formulation is an insidious poison utterly assured to destroy the legitimacy of every Caesar who decides to adopt it.
It was possible to put so many buffs on an item that simply moving your mouse over the item would cause the game to crash FROM DRAWING THE TOOLTIP POPUP.
A little, yes. The lunar laser rangefinding experiment has been recording data for 50 years. Observatories at Nice (France) and Apache Point (NM) perform the experiment regularly. You can access the raw data from CDDIS if you really want to know how far away the moon is to millimeter level precision.
We landed. We planted a flag. We brought a car and left some burnouts.
And we did it first because Americans in the sixties has massive brass balls. Its been all downhill since then.