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[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Leap year creator

That's Julius Caesar. Sort of...

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

00:00:00 is the 1st second of the day. 23:59:59 is the 86400th second of the day. That's 24 hours.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. The link I posted is a followup to that story, in which the Biden campaign says those rumors are false.

You have to read more than the headline (but even the headline has a hint that this is not Biden speaking directly). The article says "Four people who regularly speak with the 77-year-old Biden told Politico that it is unlikely he would run for reelection in 2024" It's just rumors at best. More likely it's propaganda to get people to not worry about his age.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Even Biden said he was only going to run once.

I don't think Biden ever said that he would run only once. The news was that a few anonymous sources who were supposedly close to the Biden campaign said that he would not run for re-election and his campaign then denied that.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474059-biden-campaign-denies-one-term-report/

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

This is the third eruption in the same place in the past two months, if 'a volcano erupts near Grindavík, Iceland' was on your bingo card it should have already been marked. And having 'any volcano erupts' on a bingo card would make the game too easy since there are about fifty volcanos erupting at any one time.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml -4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

No, it's better. There is a comparison in OP's link. (rank choice is called Instant Runoff Voting)

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Mystery religions were very popular in the 1st century Greek world and Christianity is essentially a Jewish mystery religion. 'Mystery' literally meaning 'secret knowledge'. The story of Jesus telling a parable and then secretly telling the apostles that there is a hidden meaning is itself a parable with the author of the gospel saying that the entire gospel is filled with hidden meanings to be found.

It's terrible way to spread a message and inevitably ends with people inventing their own meanings and losing what the authors originally intended to convey.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

There are plenty of historians that think Mythicism should be taken seriously.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/21420

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