Phew
But that's beer being less popular...
A. Please be sarcasm.. B. That's.. not communism. C. Especially in this case, the safety issue affects everyone else on the road, too. If someone crashes into you while playing with their Apple Play, congrats on…
> the rising popularity of atheism How can not-a-thing have rising popularity...
Then there are people who say, "I'm not religious -- I have a relationship with God"
Atheism is just a-theism, not-theism. If you are not a theist ("i believe in a god or gods"), you are an atheist. You can be atheist and agnostic - most atheists are.
As a counter example.. Ireland is in the process of removing their laws against blasphemy (there was a referendum late last year. the country is now going through the process of carrying out the removal).
I thought the problem was they are more difficult to fly, less stable.
Hopefully the increase goes to the drivers...
I guess I led with the wrong thing. Mainly pointing out that they are not, in the strictest sense anyway, "directly quoted from Jesus" (and it kinda boggles my mind that he wouldn't have the foresight to write things…
Numerous variants of the Golden rule predate Christianity and there are few if any direct quotes of Jesus that survive. The gospels were written decades later. Oddly Jesus doesn't appear to have written or had someone…
Also Jesus: no need to wash your hands if you give to the poor you hypocrites, what goes in the mouth comes out of the body! 1800 years later: humans finally develop the germ theory of disease and can stop dying of…
> Another is a worldview that values selflessness, altruism, and honesty. I don't think those things can exist apart from religion Religion doesn't have a monopoly on those ideals. They are not even solely human ideals.…
How the &$#! do I read this
Someone showed me this strip ~10 years ago when the place I was working briefly instituted a similarly counterproductive incentive policy. I just Googled "Dilbert code me a minivan"
Obligatory Dilbert https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
One thing I notice is she says the ride app GPS took the driver through local roads instead of the highway. I had a similar experience with Uber recently. There is a road that goes pretty much straight from the airport…
> Is the remedy worse than the disease? Depends on where you live. In some places the entire way of life will be destroyed through drought or rising sea levels. In some places your gas may be a bit more expensive.
Whatever is convenient in the moment so that they can continue doing nothing and selling oil or sticking it to those educated elites who don't know nothing about the real world. They'll just keep moving the goalposts…
Twitter is horrible
Yep, it's designed to punish blue states
Just kind of laughing at the idea of people making $1.4M having a tax "burden" like it's weighing them down.
Why is this all contained in one big json document? Am I that out of touch with modern coding??
I couldn't quickly find a link/reference, but I remember reading a couple years ago that, when shown images/photographs, in the West we spend most of our time looking at the foreground objects, while in the East (might…
Well it is "scientific American"...
Phew
But that's beer being less popular...
A. Please be sarcasm.. B. That's.. not communism. C. Especially in this case, the safety issue affects everyone else on the road, too. If someone crashes into you while playing with their Apple Play, congrats on…
> the rising popularity of atheism How can not-a-thing have rising popularity...
Then there are people who say, "I'm not religious -- I have a relationship with God"
Atheism is just a-theism, not-theism. If you are not a theist ("i believe in a god or gods"), you are an atheist. You can be atheist and agnostic - most atheists are.
As a counter example.. Ireland is in the process of removing their laws against blasphemy (there was a referendum late last year. the country is now going through the process of carrying out the removal).
I thought the problem was they are more difficult to fly, less stable.
Hopefully the increase goes to the drivers...
I guess I led with the wrong thing. Mainly pointing out that they are not, in the strictest sense anyway, "directly quoted from Jesus" (and it kinda boggles my mind that he wouldn't have the foresight to write things…
Numerous variants of the Golden rule predate Christianity and there are few if any direct quotes of Jesus that survive. The gospels were written decades later. Oddly Jesus doesn't appear to have written or had someone…
Also Jesus: no need to wash your hands if you give to the poor you hypocrites, what goes in the mouth comes out of the body! 1800 years later: humans finally develop the germ theory of disease and can stop dying of…
> Another is a worldview that values selflessness, altruism, and honesty. I don't think those things can exist apart from religion Religion doesn't have a monopoly on those ideals. They are not even solely human ideals.…
How the &$#! do I read this
Someone showed me this strip ~10 years ago when the place I was working briefly instituted a similarly counterproductive incentive policy. I just Googled "Dilbert code me a minivan"
Obligatory Dilbert https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
One thing I notice is she says the ride app GPS took the driver through local roads instead of the highway. I had a similar experience with Uber recently. There is a road that goes pretty much straight from the airport…
> Is the remedy worse than the disease? Depends on where you live. In some places the entire way of life will be destroyed through drought or rising sea levels. In some places your gas may be a bit more expensive.
Whatever is convenient in the moment so that they can continue doing nothing and selling oil or sticking it to those educated elites who don't know nothing about the real world. They'll just keep moving the goalposts…
Twitter is horrible
Yep, it's designed to punish blue states
Just kind of laughing at the idea of people making $1.4M having a tax "burden" like it's weighing them down.
Why is this all contained in one big json document? Am I that out of touch with modern coding??
I couldn't quickly find a link/reference, but I remember reading a couple years ago that, when shown images/photographs, in the West we spend most of our time looking at the foreground objects, while in the East (might…
Well it is "scientific American"...