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  • Just wanna pop in real quick and point out we didn't have plastic in the food production pipline at all for about 9,900 years out of the last 10,000-ish.

    We absolutely could eliminate plastic if we had the will. Literally 99% of our history or more has been without plastic.

  • You don't need to fight. You are both right. No one in this thread is in the club making these decisions.

  • we have such a weak-ass president and Ukraine has a fuckin chad beast.

  • Yep. I am not sure why we are hosting when we know it ends up costing a city more than it generates and we have budget shortfalls already.

    To be frank, I would like to see us just say "sorry, you know what? now isn't a great time for us after all."

    Feels like it would be best for everyone.

  • The difficulty in convincing fellow Americans of this simple and obvious fact is the truly damning bit.

  • The rotor didn't separate from the hub, the transmission and mast and rotor separated from the helicopter, suddenly and seemingly without warning based on the available video.

  • Volatility! A recipe for a booming economy!

  • To answer the title question: they start looking for something serious with someone.

  • "I am not looking for anything serious."

  • You wanna know why no one does anything? Because people post shit like this about how we are fucked and then go about their day feeling like they did something.

  • You refuse to address the "arbitrary" and "dire consequences" parts of my arguments by pointing at hypothetical religions. I will not respond to that.

    To teach someone that they must follow arbitrary rules with dire consequences for failure is unethical.

    You can decide what that means for religions.

  • All major world religions with many followers have arbitrary rules and dire spirital, and often physical, consequences for breaking them.

    I am not here to argue specifics on religions.

    I don't think I could be more clear about why I believe teaching anyone religion as fact is unethical.

  • Teaching anyone that they must be judged by arbitrary, unprovable rules or face dire consequences is unethical.

  • You are like a younger me who refused to see the 10,000 year history of abuse and realize that any system based on "because I told you so" us unethical and harmful to human life.

  • It is also important to remember that religions are human organizational structures, but their basis of authority is "because I said so." We see this structure arise over and over until it is eventually removed for something more based in reality.

  • The history books are full of religions' heinous crimes against humanity. Maybe there is some religion out there that is purely benevolent but I have never heard of it in the sea of counterexamples.

    If you are currently trapped in a religion, I am here to tell you that you can escape. Once you do, a lot becomes much more clear.