Perhaps we can have a slightly more granular system than giving a fuck, yes/no, 1 or 0, black and white. May I suggest perhaps we count how many fucks a country has to give for women? On that scale, we would properly see that the US gives far, far more fucks about women than Saudi Arabia. I’ve been there. Do not casually equate the two.
Could this be as a simple as: they have a superfan who is older or has some other condition that causes them to be incontinent, and they wear an adult diaper?
I mean isn’t he exactly wrong? Unrestrained AI development is what could lead to the creation of a malevolent daemon with the potential to destroy mankind.
Yeah I’m not fool enough to call myself a gnostic atheist, and I do agree that there is much we don’t know. Recently I’ve thought a lot about what a narrow band of sensory experiences we rely on to perceive a vast and complex world around us. So I think what you say is true even in a very literal everyday kind of way. We barely have a pinhole to look at this universe through. Science is all about working around that so we can understand more.
Frankly I find heaven the greater mystery. I can imagine many forms of eternal suffering. But perfect bliss? That’s really not in our nature. I’m not sure there is any version of that where I would be “me” anymore.
Maybe it’s just hell or oblivion.
I would dearly love to believe that there is something other than oblivion waiting. However I know that my yearning for this doesn’t make it true, and that yearning is probably the source of the fairy tales everyone tells about this.
If I had proof that the afterlife existed and I faced either eternal joy or eternal suffering based on some dogma I had to obey…? Fuck that’s oppressive. Makes me feel like some cosmic kid’s action figure. What does my choice matter with that kind of coercion? Maybe oblivion isn’t so bad after all.
So you don’t believe you’ll go to heaven.
Seems to me that the survey could easily include people like you and me.
She rescued what, a few thousand people? Kirk offended millions!
But surely it won’t happen until after God sees those files. They might affect who gets raptured. /s
Of course they will. It reminds me of the Chappele’s Show skit about what kind of evidence he would need to actually believe a black man is guilty. We’re going to need Trump to personally watch her pee while lactating, with Steve Bannon, Ivanka, and Charlie Kirk present as witnesses.
When I was young, an age ago, the word terrorist had a specific meaning, which was someone committing shocking acts to strike fear and hysteria into the general public and thereby influence society and policy.
Then 9/11 happened and although the 19 attackers were most definitely terrorists by the old definition, somehow the definition drifted until it meant “inhuman opponent against whom we are justified to suspend the rules and respond in any way we want to.”
Ironically, this usage itself is designed to inspire fear and keep people from looking too closely at what’s happening. “Oh no! Terrorists! Fine! Just kill them! Keep us safe!” Using people’s fear to justify whatever our military and government want to do comes ominously close to the old definition of terrorism.
We didn’t need two paragraphs to tell us religion has been divisive throughout history. However let’s not oversimplify. The black people terrorized by the KKK were also Christians. Fateh were also Muslims so Hamas didn’t steal their popular support just by being the right religion. Religion is a thing. Not the one and only thing going on.
Weirdly, it is actually true that both the KKK and Hamas have bought support in their communities by doing good public works for people. It’s not what they are best known for, but I don’t think shadow organizations survive for long without building some support somehow.
Two youts
They both got shot, apparently, is the link. He was their guy, and he got shot. Therefore, he’s just like MLK! /s
Think about the reaction you can get spraying people with water. They’ll cry out, close their eyes, shield their faces and run away.
I don’t know if you can call it “battery” which is often what people mistakenly expect from a definition of assault. It’s assault if you run up to someone with your fist pulled back like you’re going to punch them. It’s battery when you punch them.
That’s the terrifying thing: Republicans are no longer conservative and we don’t know what the hell they are.
Slavery was such an ingrained institution that there was for sure some disruption brought by ending it - even some disruption for the enslaved.
People can mine this for evidence that the Union harmed people by ending slavery, but that’s a bad faith outlet for slavery apologists, and nothing more.
Good change can be disruptive. I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though. It’s kind of right there in their name.
Yeah 23 years ago and we get a present tense headline.
Yeah, wow. It’s not enough to keep Sharia law from ruling the land. It’s not even allowed to rule a private individual’s life by choice. So much freedom!