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I think it's evangelical Christianity. Persia (Iran) is often maligned in the Bible and the apocalyptic Book of Daniel refers to the "Prince of Persia" as a spiritual opponent, and some have identified this figure with Satan himself. The struggle between Christianity and Islam is also framed in apocalyptic terms by many radical pastors, and Iran is a powerhouse of Islamism. The Black community also has a lot more interaction with "Islam" than most white people in America due to popular, black-centric, Islam-themed religions (Nation of Islam, 5 Percent Nation, etc.) that cropped up throughout the 1900s as an alternative to the "white man's religion" of Christianity. This interaction may lead to higher degrees of fear of an upcoming "Islamic invasion" that has been fearmongered to death by pastors all around the country since 9/11.

Homosexuality is punishable by death by stoning in KSA

I undermine you have to be over a certain age for this one but 877-CASH-NOW

The CSB hasn't been shuttered yet and the chemicals industry is fighting this hard. I am pretty involved with industry groups and everyone is telling each other to call their representatives to fight this. Shuttering the CSB does not help chemical companies - they are not a regulatory agency and can't issue fines or anything. All they do is investigate incidents give recommendations for how to avoid similar incidents. This is effectively a free service for chemical manufacturing companies, and even from an evil capitalist perspective, the types of incidents investigated by the CSB cost a LOT of money and can easily bankrupt small or medium sized companies, and seriously harm big ones. A plant exploding is not good for business because that plant is not making any money any more. The types of safety incidents that companies make money not preventing are the minor ones, like a guy getting an arm cut off by a motor or dying from a fall. Major incidents like those covered by the CSB are bad even if you're a heartless capitalist who doesn't care if people die.

This is pure stupidity that only hurts people AND businesses, and benefits no one except maybe industrial insurers who can charge for investigations? But even then they benefit from the government doing it for free so idk who could possibly benefit from this. My guess is it's short-sightedness from DOGE morons who saw a government agency that doesn't "do anything" and wanted to cut it. Even by Trump standards this is completely idiotic. I haven't seen anyone get a response to any of their letters but I won't be surprised if they're completely ignored.

Then again, the chemicals industry has been disproportionately fucked by the tariffs and Trumpian "protectionism" directly harming a sector that still makes a lot of stuff in the USA. Maybe it's because Tech has deeper pockets or they truly don't care about corporate interests, but the chemicals industry is reaping what they've sowed here because all the big dogs supported all this shit through PACs and are getting completely fucked over.

I feel like this 3.5% shit is a psyop to get people to do planned, permitted, and non-disruptive protests that have zero chance of actually accomplishing anything instead of organizing strikes, sit-ins, shutdowns, and other things that actually work, because hey, everything will just magically work out if we just get to 3.5% right? No need to turn the screws on the people in power or actually disrupt anyone's day and force them to listen to your platform when you can just have a nice day in the sun with your quirky sign with all your friends and it will magically make change happen because there are a lot of you.

The third that didn't vote are just as guilty as the third who voted for this because they saw what was possible and decided they didn't care if it happened.

Even more than that, just proving Maxwell was right was a key stepping stone to all of modern physics. Maxwell, not Einstein, was the first to show that the speed of light is invariant, and Einstein's Relativity was a framework for explaining how tf physics works if that's actually true. Prior to Einstein, physists all just kind of assumed there was some flaw in Maxwell's theorems to lead to this crazy speed invariance, but as the evidence just kept piling up in favor of Maxwell, they started having to wrestle with the uncomfortable thought that this could actually be true. In this sense, Hertz can also be thought of as an important step to Einstein and beyond, and almost all of our modern technology.

What do you suppose happens at this magic threshold? I'll give you a hint- it's nothing. We still have to do the work to actually make a difference. Protesting and building momentum is good, but we can't just wait until we hit this magic threshold and pretend that will fix everything and rest on our laurels.

But why does it work?

I can only imagine the euphoric mixture of dread and excitement that the engineer who came up with that one must have had right before presenting it to the rest of the team. The realization that all hope for normal solutions had been lost and abnormal solutions were needed, combined with the requirement of absolute confidence in these facts to present this to managers. I am jealous, this is a feeling most engineers only get a few times in their careers.

Why 2026? Isn't everything on YouTube made before 2026

Face/Off. Golden desert eagles, Nic Cage at his cagiest, John Travolta and Nic Cage swapping bodies, legitimately great action scenes, and Nic Cage grabbing a woman's ass while wearing a priest costume. Just an incredible movie.

If you look at renderings of what 4D objects would look like intersecting 3D space, this is what I imagine for those. Seeing 3D cross sections morphing continuously but inconceivably into each other without being able to even comprehend the true form of the thing you're seeing glimpses of would be terrifying.

No. Second to none means the best, this means the second best.

Surprisingly not as dangerous as you'd think, ignition point of gasoline is higher than the typical cigarette. Not safe by any means, but under normal conditions a cigarette will not ignite gasoline vapors

Part of keeping an open mind is realizing when you were wrong. Most recently, I have realized that liberalism, at least as practiced in the USA has no future, no possible way to defeat the rise of far right politics, and no real plan to even try. It's an inherently unstable system that only worked because of the post-World War 2 economic boom and the ripple effects of that boom. Now that things are evening out again, American liberals are just sticking their heads in the sand imagining that it's the 1990s and that all things can be fixed with a healthy stock market, when that wasn't even really the case back then and it's becoming more and more obviously false as time goes on.

We need something drastic to change and fast, or we're just completely fucked with Trumpism. Socialists and other left-leaning groups are the only ones that realize we need to fight hard and fight now, and establish alternative centers of power to corporations and the government, instead of just hoping that the corporations will be good or that the government will stop itself from doing bad things. I don't even think a fully socialist economy will even work at least in the short term(not opposed to it in principle, I just think we need hybrid economies short term to ease into it), but if I have to pick between that and whatever the fuck the Trumpists are trying to make, it's an easy choice.

I was super in favor of capital punishment until we had to do an essay on a controversial topic in my senior year of high school and as I was researching for it I was like "wait a minute this actually sucks ass." Capital punishment kind of only "works" if your underlying assumption is that the justice system gets it right every time, which is not true at all. It also isn't even a good deterrent- it makes no difference on capital crime rates whether the death penalty is a possibility or not. So the only reason to have it is that your own sense of "justice" requires criminals to be killed, even if it doesn't actually help anything and even if it doesn't prevent more crimes. And again, that denies any possibility that the justice system ever gets things wrong and wrongfully convicts someone.

Yeah all the Cubans I know are incredibly conservative due to hating communism so much they're willing to get behind any movement that opposes it. Honestly though that makes me feel less bad for them.

Did studios get a cut of game rentals? I don't actually know how that worked

Surprisingly a lot of these can be fixed with an air fryer. I spend less money because of mine because I can make small amounts of crispy snacks without having to get fast food, and they reheat fries like nobody's business.