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The quote button is still there and it still shows the number of quote tweets:
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But something changed. When you click on the quote button now you get these two options:
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There once was an option to just view who used "repost" and who used "quote". Further you also saw what the people added as reply to them quoting a tweet. Like you see the account Adolf Hitler, see a tweet postet on April 30 1945 saying "Fuck this shit" and saw that Stalin quoted it and added "lol".

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I have no idea why they changed this.
 
Musk on Ukraine requesting Starlink Crimea.

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If anything, Elon pretty much does not want a World War III on his hands, especially if it means tanking the reputation of Starlink through the form of nuclear war. I don’t deny Elon’s peace making abilities, but it still shows the business tactics from him.
 
translating text from ancient hebrew or aramaic to greek, then to latin, and then to other european languages offers plenty of opportunity to fuck something up (whether deliberately or accidentally is besides the point)
Probably Off Topic, but the KJV was an attempt to NOT do that and was direct from the original documents to English. The ones you buy now are also updated with the texts found in the dead sea scrolls and stuff. It's a very accurate English translation (and if you want slightly more modern language you can get a NKJV). It's them there Catholic translations that have the compounding error problem.
 
Probably Off Topic, but the KJV was an attempt to NOT do that and was direct from the original documents to English. The ones you buy now are also updated with the texts found in the dead sea scrolls and stuff. It's a very accurate English translation (and if you want slightly more modern language you can get a NKJV). It's them there Catholic translations that have the compounding error problem.
Didn't KJV plagiarize a bunch from the Tyndale Bible?
 
What peace making abilities? Nothing Musk said did anything to dissuade Ukraine, and they were able to launch their attack without his help anyway.
And WWIII did not happen as a result.

1) Musk is not a peacenik. Remember him saying ā€œWe’ll coup who we wantā€ in relation to lithium rich countries? The idea he’s some humanity saving dove is a joke when he’s a nihilistic shitlord about literally everything else.

2) Musk absolutely is a shill for Russian interests, for business and worldview-related reasons, or is at the very least a useful idiot. His actions were directly controlled by the Kremlin here.
 
And WWIII did not happen as a result.
Yes, it was clearly a bluff to scare him. That is why Musk should not be making these decisions. He's not competent to deal with foreign officials and their geopolitical games. The Pentagon now has contracts with SpaceX to take decisions out of his hands.

2) Musk absolutely is a shill for Russian interests, for business and worldview-related reasons, or is at the very least a useful idiot. His actions were directly controlled by the Kremlin here.
Directly controlled by the Kremlin? That is lunatic talk.

Russia hates Starlink and has tried (and failed) to jam it. Musk rushed to get Starlink operating in Ukraine when its infrastructure was being levelled, and Starlink is, and has been, vital to keeping the Ukrainian army functioning. If Musk were a Russian shill, he wouldn't be letting them use his service at all.
 
Russia hates Starlink and has tried (and failed) to jam it. Musk rushed to get Starlink operating in Ukraine when its infrastructure was being levelled, and Starlink is, and has been, vital to keeping the Ukrainian army functioning. If Musk were a Russian shill, he wouldn't be letting them use his service at all.
He’s tried not to. Between interrupting service after being chatted to, and his rhetoric about ā€œend the war and stop the killing guyzā€, it’s clear which side he’s on, but there’s a limit to what he can get away with due to, as you rightly said, the DoD having a say in it.

He did prioritise it to be enabled in the first place, when it was good PR, that is fair.

Directly influenced by the Kremlin would have been a better choice of words.
 
Probably Off Topic, but the KJV was an attempt to NOT do that and was direct from the original documents to English. The ones you buy now are also updated with the texts found in the dead sea scrolls and stuff. It's a very accurate English translation (and if you want slightly more modern language you can get a NKJV). It's them there Catholic translations that have the compounding error problem.
Which Catholic translations? One of KJV’s sources is the Vulgate (JV) which is the basis for Catholic English Bibles (CEB). The Douay-Rheims (DRB) even used the KJV for its major revision.

There are newer CEBs that are based less on JV and more on the Masoretic Text (ā€˜Hebrew’ bible in medieval Hebrew, MT) and Nestle-Aland New Testament (what ā€˜scholars’ believe to be the original text but not actually the original text, NA), with heavy corrections from the Septuagint (LXX), Byzantine texts (Byz.), and JV. Byz. lines up very closely with the KJV’s NT source ā€˜Textus Receptus’ (essentially a critical edit of Byzantine sources into a single manuscript, TR).

Different CEBs rely on different amounts of JV, but even the DRB is not just a straight Vulgate translation anymore. CEBs acknowledge that St. Jerome either made mistakes or used words and idioms that don’t apply today and so have been corrected either by an old Protestant school of thought (traditional sources: LXX, Byz.) or new Protestant school of thought (Jewish sources: MT, NA). There is a rift in the Catholic about which school is better and that exact same rift exists in Protestantism and even in the Orthodox churches to a lesser extent (they are pretty much in agreement that (N)KJV NT+English LXX is best).

Are you thinking of the NIV and related which are based on MT (but still not solely, because the MT has too many problems to be translated directly; but NIV relies on just about every source possible before settling for the LXX; it is an anti-LXX translation) for OT and NA (with footnotes regarding missing verses) for NT? Because that line is quite different from KJV because the sources are substantially different from each other. Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) favors LXX readings over MR in many places and there is still a lot of controversy because of that. It essentially proved a century of biblical scholarship as wrong but they still haven’t admitted to it yet.

So I would not say CEBs have anything to do with muddying translation. JV is hardly used as a source for any CEB, with even the DRB revised with the KJV (and the DRB is hardly used). So you don’t have a compounded Hebrew/Greek -> Latin -> English problem, and keep in mind that the KJV itself was influenced by the Vulgate, and there are instances in the KJV which are Hebrew/Greek -> Latin -> English, the most famous of which is the verse where we get the name Lucifer. The most you can say about CEBs is that they editorially inject Catholic traditions where they don’t exist in the source text. This may be possible, but that would be editorialization, akin to what Jehovah’s Witnesses did with their bible, and has nothing to do with compounding errors from translation.

What has been far more problematic is the favoring of MT and NA over LXX and Byz./TR. For one, MT isn’t even able to be translated to English directly, unlike LXX, and NA is favored because the sources for NA are ā€˜older’. And yet MT is much younger than LXX. Supposedly that’s because it is in ā€˜Hebrew’ but it’s not even the original Hebrew the books were supposedly written in. It’s like if Shakespeare was translated very well into French, and then an hundred years later, very poorly into more modern English, and the latter was used as the basis for translations into Japanese instead of the French one.

99% of people’s issues with different bible translations can be rooted to the differences caused by suddenly favoring different sources from tradition. It’s a miracle the NKJV used the same sources as the original KJV (plus DSS).
 
It's a very accurate English translation (and if you want slightly more modern language you can get a NKJV).
It's personally my favorite, because of its literary style, but it has a number of inaccuracies specifically deriving from King Jimmy's obsession with witches and political leanings. Despite this it is generally the one I use.
 
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