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Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.
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IDK about other places, but a ton of cities in Kentucky have preemptively banned data centers from being built
This is really the one issue that unites people on all sides of the political spectrum.
after they retire and are trailing into their mid-late 40s i think they get kinda fat btw. just some real solid Guys w the same strength they had but no real need to keep up a Performance Body
and you know shane has the time of his life rubbing his face into ilya's belly and his soft tits
*sniffs* I smell antisemitism. Yep. Antisemitism. Say that you hate diaspora Jews and don't think they should have been allowed to make their offerings to G-d with your whole chest.
@dancinbutterfly I am perfectly willing to admit that I don't know everything that might be antisemetic, but I am not entirely sure how it applies to the original post.
The general gist of the versions of the story that I've heard (from how I've always heard it told at least, mostly back when I was in Sunday School) was that when Jesus went to the temple during Passover there were a bunch of people who had turned it into a marketplace where they were selling livestock, and that they were turning a location meant for worship into some kind of marketplace. Also that the money lenders were taking advantage of people while doing the exchanges, and it was generally really scummy business being done.
The message they always seemed to apply to it was "Jesus doesn't like when people try to turn houses of worship into markets, and he really doesn't like scammers and con artists. Don't sell things in church, and especially don't use it as a place to con people."
I'm not entirely sure where exactly the connection to offerings would come into play.
You need to remember that the New Testament is literally not figuratively Roman propaganda written by people who are trying to survive following a failed uprising after the majority of the indigenous population have been slaughtered and exported to the West as slaves or escaped to the East.
So.
The money changers are at the Temple because Ancient Judaism wasn’t like Judaism today where each synagogue is self contained. It was a temple religion. Ancient Judaism was a temple religion Hinduism and Buddhism is where sacrifices are made. For Temple Judaism with the Holy of Holies, be the time Rome colonized Judea, Jews made grain and animal sacrifices a monotheistic G-d.
Before the Romans sacked the Temple and stole our treasure (you can see a depiction of the theft on the Arc of Titus next to the Coliseum), the BeitHaKadosh, aka THE Temple in Jerusalem was the place in Temple Judaism that people came to to make pilgrimage to G-d. Just G-d. He is only there. Temple Judaism was centralized.
Come to the Temple. Spend the shekels you can afford get the portion of the right kind of goat and grain. Make the sacrifice.
Very organized.
So why are money changers at the Temple?
Well Jews live all over the world. That was true then as it’s true now.
We have for example fragments from hundreds of years before the Christian bible was written of a letter written from a Jew in Egypt to a relative in…I think it was Samaria??… talking about Passover preparation. (@prismatic-bell you know the one I mean )
So you’re a Jew from Egypt with Egyptian money and you need an unblemished goat to make a sacrifice unto the Lord your G-d, how are you going to get it? You found a good goat but the merchant only wants shekels.
The money changers do a service. If they are Jews and they do it at a fair rate? They they did it within the Commanments of G-d and enabled other Jews to serve G-d.
Jesus is an uneducated carpenter reacted like angry teenager who read a blurb about what divinity could be but who doesn’t understand that all of these things - the marketplace the livestock the money changers - can and do exist to serve G-d as it functioned in Temple Judaism.
Jesus’s response is Roman. He just reacted decided to destroy the Jewish way.
I don’t bother to entertain the “was Jesus real” question. The writer decided to write a story that distains and destroys the entire functioning of Temple Judaism.
It’s antisemitism.
I'm going to gently suggest this one wasn't actually intended by anyone as antisemitism. While the text being referenced here is indeed antisemitic, I feel like it's one of those "you don't even know what you don't know" things. Sort of like this article I read last year about how the worst getting-to-know-you question a white person can ever ask a Black man is "so, what do you do?" It comes across as confrontational and potentially judgmental for reasons I don't remember all the details of, but it comes down to how socioeconomic pride functions in Black communities. I read that article and was horrified because I'd always learned "so, what do you do?" as a polite conversation-starter. It never would have occurred to me that someone might find it not just rude, but belittling.
I suspect this is in the same vein. Most people are not hanging out with Temple-era Jews and have no reason to have learned this, and Christianity itself has this weird duality where the "old testament" might be allegorical, but because the "New Testament" takes place in Roman times where record-keeping became so much better, clearly it's actually accurate and this stuff was actually said and done.
....of course there is the fact that a lot of the "history" and social records at this time were hagiographies designed to gas up whichever leader you needed on your side, but I don't think most people know that, either. The only reason I knew it as a teenager is because I read American Gods, where they tell you (correctly) Herodotus was known as both The Father of History and The Father of Lies.
Look, this is something I'm extremely passionate about, so indulge me for a minute and let me tell you how this should have been done.
The RIGHT way to do this would have been to have a month-long event that went to twelve different cities, with Philadelphia hosting during July because that was our capital (insofar as we had one) in 1776; the other eleven stops could have their own significant-in-the-Revolution days (for example: Washington crossing the Delaware on 25 December, the start of the First Continental Congress on 5 September), and you could get commemorative items from your stop's specific event.
All fifty states AND FIVE TERRITORIES should have been invited to attend, not charged for it. And we should have done it Colombian Expo style: respected thinkers and educators speaking, concerts, "come look at our wild new inventions," and cultural events. If I was in the Oval Office my first thought for this would be to contact ethnic leaders to see who wanted to tell their story. Tribal leaders. Civil rights leaders. Local arts groups. Let us celebrate your food, your art, your dance, your place among our people; and let us also recognize that the flip side of the coin of amazing inventors and economic prosperity on a global scale has been devastation and exploitation. You can't tell the story without both. It's not fair to leave out things we've done for good (Mark Twain! Jonas Salk! Airplanes! Comic books! Musicals!), but it's equally unfair to leave out the lives we've taken and futures we've destroyed. We can't do better if we don't look at these things and say "no. Not again. Not on our watch."
The state fair format is extremely American; I think that was a good choice, I'll give credit for that where it's due. But "that was a good idea" is as far as it goes. Because this doesn't look like a state fair. It looks like a church revival on the third day when all the tents are out of food and everyone is hot and tired and wants less Jesus and more air conditioning.
It could have been so good. My only hope is that we have a Democratic president in 2037, and that they take the opportunity for a Constitutional Celebration Year (it'll be the 250th for the Constitution that year, and ours is the oldest constitution in continuous use in the world), and do it right.
iirc like half of what's described is what was already in the works for the 250th celebration before Trump scrapped it all in favor of...whatever the fuck this was
unironically how I feel about birthright citizenship and a/c
And Fahrenheit
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"Do People Really Do This?", Shane Hollander & Ilya Rozanov [Hudson Williams & Connor Storrie], Heated Rivalry | 1.04 Rose
Feb, 2026
Do you ever think about how Shane Hollander (who for years thinks he's incapable of falling in love) and Ilya Rozanov (who for years thinks he's incapable of being loved) meet and just fall the fuck in love?
✨ Pregnant Shane headcanons! :) ✨
1. He aborts that thang
#ILYA might keep a pregnancy #shane sure won't #fandom is saturated in humor about ilya knocking up shane #but like #that is deeply entrenched #in people equating sexual position with gender identity #literally take out the fact #of whose dick goes in whose hole #look at EVERYTHING ELSE about their personalities #ilya is shane's babymama 1000%
I've been reading ton of Heated Rivalry Social Media Fics, and while I love a good "Ilya gets added to the WAGs chat" or "Hollanov post anonymously on Reddit" fics, what I think we are really missing is a "Ilya finds out about Hollanov Shippers/Conspiracy Theorists and creates a tumblr account and becomes a BNF and has a whole social circle shipping him and shane" fic.
Shane in the locker room of any given All Star Game after he and Ilya get married and are playing on opposing teams for the weekend: If we don't beat those guys I will actually spend the rest of my life thinking about it. This is your only chance to prove to me that you belong in the NHL. This is not a friendly game, this is a grudge match to the death. I want you all to lock in like you have never fucking locked in--
Meanwhile, Ilya: Woohoo boys let's play some fucking hockey [Timber by Pitbull blasting at full volume]
Cliff Marleau, probably: Hollander's gonna kill you in cold blood, man.
Ilya: Cliff. Cliff let me look in your eyes when I say this. I know. I will enjoy it very much. My night ends the same whether I win or lose, Marley. Anyway. [Song switches to Party Rock Anthem] LET'S MAKE THEM WORK FOR IT BOYS. WOO
Cliff: Dude what is this playlist.
Ilya: It is called 'Prom Night 2013.' Was a good year for me, Marley.
#hollanov#heated rivalry#game changers series#every year at all-stars#they get so competitive and brutal with each other#every year there's a fucking panic#that they are about to divorce#right up until they post a picture afterwards#of their post-all stars game date night#romantic bath except it's an ice bath#gatorade in wine glasses#wearing sports bandages like lingerie#and their fans relax again#or just tailspin even further#like#THAT'S what their flirting is like?!!? -@nyxelestia
That one idea that i spin in my head sometimes where ilya invites cliff and svetlana over the the cottage and Shane invites rose and hayden over
And its all going fine until hayden has to leave, cause he has kids, and cliff rose and svetlana all hook up on the big sectional
much to shane and ilya dual delight and chagrin.
#ironically they would probably also want to keep their throuple a secret#svetlana's dad is a pretty prominent political figure in russia#which is not much kinder to lesbians than to gay men#rose does not need the reputation as a puck bunny#or for the man who#(however accidentally)#hurt her friend and ex-boyfriend#on the surface cliff would benefit#in the typical toxic masculine bro-y way#from the world knowing he's got two beautiful girlfriends#but like BECAUSE he's so deeply entrenched in it#he knows the public at large#will never see their relationship#for what it is#not to mention he doesn't want these girls he likes hurt by him#or by being with him#or alternatively#cliff is basically acting as a beard for them both#the public at large constantly engaged in the gossip#of thinking cliff marleau somehow has these girls fighting over him#so many possibilities here -@nyxelestia
Heated Rivalry + Textposts: Mating Dances
my favorite Shanebug moments [ pt.1 ]
Imagining Shane in primary school so excited for his birthday because he can't wait to share his passion for hockey with his friends. His parents try to gently convince him to have his birthday at home or at a swimming pool or pizza playplace or something but he's adamant that it be at a skating rink. Turns out he's the only kid in his class who knows how to skate so the kids who do show up only come for cake and refuse to get on the ice at all. Which is devastating for Shane, obviously. After that, he doesn't even try. No point going through that disappointment again.
Thousands of miles away Ilya's father tells him he's too old to celebrate his birthday now that he's in school, and should focus on his studies and training instead of partying. His mother tries to make up for it by taking him on a special day out, and gets yelled at by his father for being too soft on their son. Ilya refuses to celebrate after that. He doesn't want to get Irina in trouble again.
Once they're married, Ilya and Shane have combined birthday parties at the Ottawa rink. They're attended by all their friends. Everyone gets on the ice and they have the best time. Even if they're horribly hungover the next morning, it's the best. They're so so happy to celebrate growing older together every single year.
✨ Pregnant Shane headcanons! :) ✨
1. He aborts that thang
