True it wasn’t mindless - just idiotic

What I’m saying is there’s a chance a churchgoer or a pastor is doing it for selfless reasons, where that is never the case for sports.

I never said otherwise.

But the whole point here is we’re talking not about selfishness we’re talking about manipulation.

Manipulation of others to do ones bidding is not the purpose of sports. Panem et circenses sure but not “do my bidding proles”

And I’m extremely aware of how people act and grow up in religions: I grew up in a very hierarchical religious structure and have seen the well intentioned abuses that people earnestly trying to help inflict on others. Manipulation is manipulation, ill intentioned or otherwise. And when you get higher up in a hierarchical structure that professes faith you will reach a point where everyone knows it’s fake and chooses to act otherwise.

Because none of the crew can step foot on American soil. It’s a Singaporean vessel with an Indian and Sri Lankan crew. They don’t have visas and so they’re denied entry.

The bureaucracy of DHS knows no limits and has no compassion.

At some point in an ecclesiastical hierarchy someone is manipulating people for their own benefit, knowing they’re doing so. They profess miracles while knowing there are none.

Above a certain level all you’ll find are charlatans.

The only religions that do not operate like this are unaffiliated churches, mystical, or nontheistic religions like Buddhism, Jainism etc.

If you profess a god and have a hierarchical structure your leaders manipulate you for their own gain or prestige. They do not believe.

You don’t have to defend the brutal dictators to shit on the fuckwits in the CIA.

You can, in fact, hate both.

“I need supreme authority to transfer control to the proletariat once the revolution* is complete!!1!”

* never completes the revolution

You can play sports and not be manipulating people.

You cannot lead a church and not be manipulating people, even if unwittingly.

On the One hand I live in a major metro. On the other hand I have family out in bumblefuck middle of nowhere. So I’ve gotta have the US only bands.

It’s tragic the 1 VI Is a Europe only release. I was looking forward to picking it up in the US.

Amigo - the corpos already know. They also know that anyone who hates ads enough to install and maintain ad blockers is also not going to click on ads. They’re wasted impressions. The amount an advertiser pays to put an ad in front of you is a rounding error compared to the amount they pay when you click.

When I worked at G I had a Linux laptop. It came pre-installed with Firefox and uBlock origin in addition to Chrome.

If Google is distributing Firefox with uBlock internally to employees they know about ad blockers.

It’s similar to how scam emails always have egregious spelling errors: they’re trying to select out the people that won’t fall for the scam.

Which he’s still working on.

People can do 2 things.

Grids*

Ducking autocorrect

No need for power generation dedicated to the base load.

Nuclear power generation is base load only: it does not full the role of a peaker.

Battery + renewable technology is already the primary source of power on many grids and the trend continues accelerating in that direction.

There are plenty of good arguments against SMRs: none of them include terrorism.

The theory was always that you could get economies of scale if you were building the same reactor every time in a factory and transporting it to install somewhere else. In practice those economies never materialized (did they even exist?)

Meanwhile solar, wind, and batteries have plummeted in cost. There is no need for base load power generation if we have sufficient battery storage and an oversupply of generators - which is entirely feasible for wind and solar.

It helps that it’s being called “southern chiv” which I presume is either southern chivalry or southern knight.

Harper’s also noted that this was published weeks before a presidential election.

I called it in the layoff announcement and people said I was crazy

I’m not positive I’m understanding your term naturalistic but no neuroscientist would say “we are just neurons”. Similarly no neuroscientist would deny that neurons are a fundamental part of consciousness and thought.

You have plenty of complex chemical processes interacting with your brain constantly - the neurons there aren’t all of who you are.

But without the neurons there: you aren’t anyone anymore. You cease to live. Destroying some of those neurons will change you fundamentally.

There’s no disputing this.

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And some have 0 boobs and 0 testicles. Gender affirming care probably evens out

It’s legal to be topless in New York. She didn’t commit a crime or anything.

A significant number of homeless in CA and WA have at least 1 job as far as I know.

Fast food workers make up 6% of the CA homeless population, for example.