Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker shot a cop and survived. They threw him in jail, but ultimately the charges against him were dismissed and the city of Louisville settled with him for $2 million.
If the tunnel has decent structural integrity, Musk will be long dead before he would need to pay the piper on this one.
50 years from now, teenagers in Las Vegas will tell stories about the "secret tunnels under the city." And at some point a very expensive building is going to collapse into a tunnel and the kids will be shocked that the urban legend was real.
And everyone will have basically forgotten that Elon Musk was responsible for, and later abandoned, this ill-conceived vanity project.
I've since left the church and I don't disagree with you. It shouldn't be necessary to involve religion in providing needed services to a community.
But I also haven't seen a lot of non-religious organizations offering practical services directly to the people who need them the most.
Don't get me wrong: there are a lot of great nonprofit organizations that do amazing work. But they aren't necessarily offering subsidized daycare or affordable housing on a scale that meets the needs of the communities where they operate. And very few of them are reaching out to people in rural areas. Churches still have something of a monopoly in those places.
I think this is largely due to the fact that faith communities have more cohesion than secular groups. All of the small secular groups I've been involved with have fallen apart after a year or two because the bonds that hold them together are simply not as strong as those in churches.
The whole bit about giving 10% of your income to the church as a duty to God is a fantastic racket. It means that the true believers think that God is keeping a ledger, and therefore they are more likely to support their church financially. So people in churches are literally more invested in their religious community, which gives their church the resources to provide services as social outreach.
And that's not even getting into the power structures within the church and the role of a pastor as leader (that was missing from all of the secular groups I had experience with). Or the organizing power of a group of dedicated little old church ladies.
There are a lot of elements that churches are better at harnessing. And I haven't encountered a good solution for creating a secular organization with the same kind of strength.
You have a valid point about the historical unfair distribution of labor in heterosexual relationships, but for the love of Jesus, can you not just let the guy have a win?
Your whole response is very "all lives matter," and it's extremely off-putting ... even to me, a woman who is very firmly on your side about the unfairness of the emotional and domestic labor workload that is foisted upon women.
Read the room. This conversation is an opportunity to recognize that men could do with some encouragement sometimes for doing things well. That doesn't mean women don't also deserve encouragement when they do something well.
Both things can be true simultaneously. But we're not talking about both things here. Don't derail the former conversation to try to make it about the latter. Surely you can see from the downvotes that your digression isn't getting any traction.
People who might otherwise listen to what you have to say are actively dismissing your ideas because they are not receptive to those ideas as a part of this conversation. If you find that is a common theme in your experience, it's probably because you aren't making ideal choices about how to start these conversations. (Unless your whole goal is just trolling, in which case ... congratulations, I guess?)
The old saying is trite, but it's also true: you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
One of the best things my family church did to reach out to the community was running a low-cost daycare center in our tiny rural town. It helped local families, bolstered the church's finances, and brought new families into the church.
Unfortunately, it was an Assembly of God church with toxic teachings that I'm still working through decades later. So ... straights and roundabouts, I guess.
This sounds very similar to the Kentucky online portal for teacher certification. It looks like it was made in 1996, and it functions slightly less well than it looks like it should.
I think the reason male and female get equated with biology is because biologists need to describe individuals in terms of characteristics within the species.
Like, "I live with a small, white, female felis catus and a tall, Caucasian, male homo sapiens" is a weird way to tell people that I live with my cat and my husband outside of a scientific context.
If they catch the guy, obviously he should stand trial. That's how the law works in the US. But I think that jury nullification could be the appropriate response to a trial.
This guy might be the closest thing we have to a modern-day Robin Hood. And while we all agree that Robin Hood broke the law, no reasonable person wants to see the Sheriff of Nottingham win.
As a teacher, I have a really strong aversion to framing this as a simple battle between states.
What you're talking about may well come to pass, but in reality what it means is that an entire generation of children in poor states -- through no fault of their own, but solely because of the geography of their birth -- will be woefully undereducated and therefore not competitive in the university admissions process or the job market.
Whatever face-feasting-leopard karma we think the adults who voted for Republicans might deserve, their children should have the right to a proper education rather than be saddled with a legacy of poverty and ignorance. And in your scenario it's apparently going to be up to the blue states to care enough about these kids to help ensure their rights.
I theorize that the fragile straights aren't actually straight. Which I assume is what the developer is poking fun at with the quotation marks.
Our social default is still to assume that most people are straight. It doesn't make sense for a straight person to have a driving need to prove that they are straight ... unless they think someone would have a good reason to put them into a "non-straight" category.
I'm sorry that was your experience. I'm sure it was hard, but I'm glad you made the choice that means you're still here to tell your story.