Made up, for a given value of made up. They weren’t completely inventing things whole cloth, and had some surviving material to work off of. That and Babylonian records. They had those too. Since Babylon was gone… Well, finders keepers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Historicity

The TLDR; no mentions of Moses in Egyptian or Persian texts until about the 4th century BCE. He may have been a Hebrew specific quasi mythic figure based on a possible real person. But there’s no evidence at all.

Which makes sense, because that’s the timeframe that the Achaemenid Empire conquered Babylon and started letting the exiles return to Judah. Exiles who compiled a new Torah from scraps they saved and from making shit up.

Everything before the Babylonian Exile was made up, because the Babylonians sacked, well everything. They destroyed the First Temple, and took away the nobility and priests.

It was only after the Exile ended that the Hebrews became monotheistic… Sort of. There has been some noises before the Exile, but afterwards it was official.

It was also after the Exile that the stories of Noah and Moses were first added to the Torah.

As a note, the Epic of Gilgamesh has a flood story, and as an ancient Babylon story, would have been available for the hostages (the Hebrew priests and nobility) to read.

Or maybe some Russian State backed programmers have tried to slip in backdoors in various key systems, numerous times. Including one that almost went live on millions of machines.

Fun fact, -40C and -40F are the same temperature.

Then 575K and 575F are the same.

Why are people just repeating the same thing over and over?

I don’t mind the odd asshole who refuses to play ball, so far up their own ass they think they’re so special and that the spoiler effect doesn’t apply to their vote.

If that is, they’re silent about it.

The second they start advocating for others to join them in their stupidity, they go from a harmless idiot to an active threat to democracy, exactly as bad as the MAGAt they likely are.

Most of the “centrists” if come across tend to regurgitate hard right talking points.

There’s an old joke. The parties change but the message stays the same.

A group of Nazis have cornered a group socialists when a centrist comes along. The centrist listens to both sides, how the Nazis want to kill all the socialists and how the socialists don’t want to die. Thinking long and hard on it, the centrist says that there’s a compromise to be had, just kill half.

I was wondering what that expression was…

I’ll say that Andy Weir got most of it right on how to do manned missions to Mars.

You build a huge space station, and then use that as the ship that goes to and from Mars.

Then the actual mission on the surface lasting a month or three before the astronauts pack up and head home.

What’s worse is the links to white supremacy in all this shit.

The origin of many of these ancient alien slash ancient apocalypse “theories” are 1900s Germany.

People who were looking for a “scientific” reason why Germans were the superior race.

The core thrust of every “ancient” whatever theory is that ancient people were idiots and had to be shown how to pile rocks into a pyramid shape or shit.

The imaginary people who “showed” ancient brown people how to do shit are always depicted as white.

It’s even worse. In order to get by in game, you need to pay a bunch of subscriptions.

You may not, but the company that packaged the rice did. The cooking instructions on the side of the bag are straight from the FDA. Follow that recipe and you will have rice that is perfectly safe to eat, if slightly over cooked.

Two main methods, the first is with a fishing pile like normal. The second is to get down into the water and feel up under the bank. If you wiggle your fingers a catfish will latch on, and you can just pull it out by hooking your fingers into the gills.

Over on reddit there’s an entire genre of this sort of fiction in /r/hfy

Some parts of the punk community punch Nazis on sight, yes. Particularly in the British punk community.

Except the truth is that no, almost every venom is safe to ingest. Provided you don’t have any cuts in your mouth or throat.

Snakes are not immune to their own venom. They don’t need to be, because their stomach acid can break it down.

As can ours.

It’s not a remake. It’s a sequel with the same director and writing team as the first one.

It also has a few truly disturbing scenes.

Now I’m thinking about a pair of elves is the worst sort of codependent relationship, but one light year apart.

They use sign language to constantly argue and make up with each other, but because of the one light year delay, they’re maybe never quite at the same place in the argument/reconciliation cycle, both of them arguing with their counterpart one year prior.