TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Goyim is also not a slur and refers in many instances ALSO to Jews, since it just means "nation." I don't know if you live in a jewish community, but people _definitely_ use the word "goy" in a derogatory manner
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
It's funny how that's not even close to a difficult question. Feynman is so impressed with their logic when a teenager could answer that question in one sentence.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Allowing electricity in Shabbat will completely change the Jewish life, and the amount of impact the community has on the individual. you only think this because electricity was _already_ prohibited. Imagine a world where electricity wa
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Probably not. It's not the elevator that's nonkosher, it's pressing the buttons.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This is a fascinating idea and not something I've ever heard brought up. Do you think the authorities would allow a length of wire with a current passing through it to be erected in their city?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I'm not religious anymore, but none of this strikes me as particularly compelling. I can take up the part of the theist here. >Like, if God is a truly omnipotent and all knowing, why would he/she care that you're tearing t
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>There seems to be a streak of moral fairness here: don't work on the seventh day, and don't use your power over others to force them to work either. It's not prohibited for non-jews to work on the sabbath though, it'
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The laws aren't the literal word of God though, because a lot of them come from the rabbis. The problem is that we don't have the rabbinic authority to overturn laws that don't apply anymore, so we're stuck with what we
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>sound extremely convoluted to me. A switch's express purpose is to break and complete circuits to direct current. It is part of the object's usage, part of the creator's intent on the object's utility. It has modes o
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
You're not "getting around the laws" you're following the laws.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Alexa has opened up a whole new avenue of hacks. Previously you had to get light switches with random timers if you wanted electric light on Saturday, but now you can make an Alexa routine that is triggered by certain words or motions s
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Anything will sound dumb if you dumb it down enough. In actuality A) the eruv only works on a specific case. A public domain needs to have a very wide street with 600,000 people who pass through it every day, which places with an eruv don&#
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Because then they would lose profits. If labor becomes more expensive, maximal profit would be found at producing less and charging more, but overall profit would decrease.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This is a great question, not just in space but also very far up north where it doesn't always have a sunrise and sunset. I don't remember exactly what the answer was, but I do remember reading something good about it. Maybe I&#x2
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
It's a bit like if someone says something about how "quantum mechanics means that your consciousness can alter reality" and you said "that's not what it means" and they said "okay then what is the correct
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Lol the Jewish Theological Seminary is definitely not Orthodox. I'm surprised they even know enough halacha to know how to explain it; maybe it's gotten less orthodox over time.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Yeah obviously an electronic shabbat goy is prohibited.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
You misunderstand. The key is to get into the room (as opposed to the presumably electronic locks which are usually used) and the elevator is set beforehand.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
That's the status quo, where the government doesn't intervene in issues of repair.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The most mysterious of countries
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Because then I can't install any of the apps that are no longer on the app store.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Lol why are you so mad that people want to eat vegan cheese. Maybe people just enjoy eating vegan cheese.