My human instincts are always "oo the scary atheists they're so smart how will I answer their intellectual questions-"
but 98% of the time it's someone who's argument literally boils down to "Well Christians believe that all gay people should die so Check and Mate!!!!"
and I'm reminded that they literally don't even know what we believe. The vast majority of people don't have "intellectual" arguments against us because they are literally operating off of the weirdest propaganda caricatures imaginable. Half the time their arguments would be valid - if Christians like they fear actually existed.
Gold Apollo denied all involvement with the explosive pagers, telling NPR outside its offices in Taiwan that it was a Budapest-based company
The TL;DR of this story (18 September 2024) is that the Taiwanese company says the booby-trapped pagers used in the 17 September attack in Lebanon were made under license by a mysterious Hungarian company called BAC Consulting.
Three years ago, Hsu [Ching-kuang] says he was approached by a Taiwanese woman Hsu says he only knew as “Teresa” who claimed to be a local representative for a Hungarian company named BAC Consulting.
After more than two months of negotiation with Teresa, Hsu agreed to sign a contract to sell Gold Apollo’s pagers to BAC and additionally, to let BAC use Gold Apollo’s trademark on his [sic] own products.
“She had already flown several times to Europe to contact [her colleagues],” says Hsu. He says he was also told BAC also had interests in East Africa: “From beginning to end, they never mentioned Lebanon.”
And:
About a year after BAC signed a contract with Gold Apollo, Hsu says they came back to him with an unusual request: they wanted to design their own products but put his company’s trademark on them.
“They said they wanted to cultivate a cohort of engineers,” Hsu says he remembers BAC telling him. “I told them, the stuff you make is neither easy to use nor is it aesthetically-pleasing. Why not just use my products?”
Hsu also noticed their payment transfers were “strange.”
While BAC is located in the capital of Hungary, Hsu said the company paid Gold Apollo from a Middle Eastern bank account that was blocked at least once by their bank in Taiwan.
This sounds to me like a front for an intelligence agency, probably either Mossad or some Mossad contractor.
not taking into account our collective desire to see him play in europe forever messi is kinda smart as hell to soft retire at mls already bcs his level is so high everyone is seeing him as a football deity who’s absolutely tearing it up and he’s neverrrr gonna be seen as someone who overstayed his welcome like a certain someone :3c
YESS! He made the best possible decision taking everything in consideration. Not only he is at ease like he wanted, he is still (and always will be) exciting to watch so he is renovating the whole leage rn unlike that certain someone :/
been doing research on firestorms for “smashed your bones” and.
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well, it would be poetic justice if Ozai’s fleet was so good at their work that the winds of the fires dragged the airships into the fires they just created, wouldn’t it.
I know this might come across as a stupid Papyrus thing but the second page makes more sense I promise- and Undyne doesn’t know either tbh. They didn’t have parents to explain this stuff to em. hah. hah. hah.
...Nah but it would’ve definitely been in books and Fell’s read nearly everything in the underground. He’s panicking and his first reaction was to call the smartest monster he knows.