The chaos agent in me wants her to keep slinging shit at Congress

Religion is neither necessary nor sufficient to engender qualities of generosity, self-control, avoiding violence / advocating for peace, treating people well etc.

Those also aren’t the types of “beliefs” I’m talking about and you know it. I specifically mentioned magical thinking and in this context “belief” is not a reference to believing in being generous, but belief in the supernatural, god, spirits, etc … magical thinking. More to the point, believing in those, the books that espouse them, and expecting other’s around you to believe / act based on those same beliefs is my problem; doubly so when preached from my elected representatives.

Indeed we can. Because “belief” is not based on reason. Therefor it is ALL in the same basket as something I don’t want in my government. If I believed (get it!) any of them could be trusted to govern in a secular manner I might be less salty. But I have been given very little evidence that they** can.

** They = anyone who openly, loudly, repeatedly identifies themselves by their magical thinking while campaigning / governing. They are more than welcome to believe what they want so long as they keep it out of the way of deciding my way of life. I still hold a place in my heart that thinks that’s possible, but it is getting smaller every day as I watch the [religious text]-thumpers screaming louder and louder.

Yup, I 100% have a problem with Muslims in political office. Same as I have a problem with Christians, religious-Jews, Hindu’s, etc who identify by their magical thinking and uses it to govern.

I 100% have no problem with any humans in political office who use the best data available and reason to govern and elevate the human condition

Trump in a Dump

No we won’t. Now git of mah lern

Honestly a perfect job for AI. Input job description, input your full highly detailed resume, “tailor my resume to highlight knowledge skills and experience that align with the job posting” then do your final polish.

Nailed it

Not arbitrary.

Since 2019, the meter has been defined as the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠1/299792458⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyper-fine transition frequency of caesium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

This is the way.

The most dangerous person is the world, is one convinced of their own righteousness.

They love to talk tough about 2A, and the three boxes of freedom, and peace thru power, right up until someone takes them up on it.

I wanna party with this one!

Thank !

Thanks for the tips.

I’ll skip the copaganda ones ;-)

Toby Turner

I have no idea who that is, and a quick DDG search tells me I am a better person for it :)

I’m sorry you said WUT MATE?!?!

Every episode with Munch in it is fan service. That man was a national treasure!!!

Yeah I know it’s a wide range of art, and there is likely stuff I would like. It just hasn’t tickled my brain yet.

Meanwhile, I did love Arcane, but I also know calling that anime is likely to start a religious war ;-)

TIL why I can’t get into anime but didn’t know it.

Bit OP isn’t wrong about medical, legal, and police procedurals.

Anyone: “How do you know you’re not sick anymore”

Me: “When I forget that I possess a nose!”

G5 piano note

'72 Gen X here, I HEAR YOUR CALL!!!