@th3j35t3r would you mind including a screencap? I'd rather not play any part in elevating Musk's MAU numbers.

I can see there's going to be a market for retirement villages which attempt to give their residents the impression that they're living in a Hallmark movie. It'll likely involve employing the kind of actors who do historical reenactment to interact with residents, run the stores, cut the grass, deliver the mail, so as to give the impression of a larger world that's still white, Christian, and conservative.

It'll be like a zoo habitat if the gorillas had to pay for their captivity.

@raspberrypanda but they do work really well if you're looking to have something to dunk in your tea that will retain its structural integrity for 4 full dunks before falling into your tea.

@raspberrypanda having lived in both Scotland and the US, I can say that gingernuts are the same thing as ginger snaps.

@mach here's to the perspective-expanding properties of Jack Herer gummies.

@mach I think this is why nowadays we begin addressing strange personal behaviors as symptoms of mental illness rather than of demonic possession.

We're gradually pushing back the boundaries of our need for a god to exist at all.

@mach Albeit in a single direction of travel, I think this is what's already happening.

If you look at human progress from the time of the Copernican Revolution and continuing into to empiricism and the scientific method, we've found better explanatory models to refine our knowledge than have been provided by faith. As we understand mechanisms, we develop models with better predictive power and don't need to rely upon supernatural explanations for observed phenomena.

Post-traumatic growth has been noted as a key driver in changing the beliefs an individual holds.

Given that climate change will affect everyone, does it provide us the opportunity to come to a better shared understanding as a species?

Perhaps one in which we all come to remove faith as a valid way of coming to knowledge and accommodating new experiences into that body of knowledge.

I'm high right now in case it's not obvious.

@jeffdavenport room temp

Fingers crossed, Scotland!

@BillyBones @Render cornetto trilogy for the win

Honestly, perhaps the most shocking thing to come to terms with is that the legislators saying this stuff know they're on recorded lines when they're saying it.

Inside an Anti-Abortion Meeting With Tennessee’s GOP Lawmakers
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-anti-abortion-meeting-with-tennessee-republican-lawmakers

Which would offend you more?

Time spent making steak and sausage pie is always time well spent.

Just realized that if CA prop 30 passes, those qualifying as low income could buy an electric car with their rebate, hop over into NV sell it at a discount to the MSRP, but a massive hike to their purchase price. Rinse and repeat until you own your home.

As the cost of prop 30 will be born by the richest 35,000 taxpayers, this represents one of the most effective progressive transfers of wealth in the modern era.

As a bonus, the EV transition our planet needs gets hastened beyond our state.

Can't believe this hasn't occurred to me before, but the origin of our modern politics was just early 2000s WWE Wrestling.

It's just that now, they've dispensed with the folding chairs and body slams.

It's the same dog-whistle culture wars bullshit about the New World Order that they used to spout in their big pieces to the camera.

Cards on the table: as an atheist, a big part of my drive towards self-improvement is my daily effort to be the kind of person my dog clearly believes me to be.