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I know the writer and editor had a lot of options to go through when choosing a lead photo for this story, but I think they must've simultaneously said "that's the one" when they got to this pic.

Fair enough. I don't see Mormons or Jehovah's as 'not Christians' though, nor do they as they believe in Christ as the son of their God - which is really all it takes to be a Christian fundamentally. However I do agree that the practices of the Mormon and JW church are very manipulative and controlling to their followers in the way cults often are, and overall a negative impact to the lives of most of their followers (except those at the top).

When people brand certain Christians as not Christian because they don't follow Christs teachings the way they believe they should be followed or by some other personal metric then it quickly becomes a 'No True Scotsman' situation.

Would it shock you to know that ALL of these are in the Steam terms of service also?

The only really sus one to me is the forced arbitration clause, and Steam also had that til they were pressured to remove it by multiple legal cases, including a class action brought to them by Steam users just last September. It is only sus because it's outdated - companies are generally removing them now rather than adding them. https://www.legal.io/articles/5540864/Valve-Removes-Mandatory-Arbitration-from-Steam-Subscriber-Agreement

RE: remaining top 5 bullet points, 3 of the remaining 4 bullet points are uncontroversial bullet points about anticheat. The fourth is banning modding, which is also just a heavy handed anticheat attempt, and not uncommon for online games to add to their ToS to allow banning at their discretion. Either way its clumsy at the least as some mods can be harmless eg HUD mods for colourblind people and deserves some negativity - but not to this level, given everything else is just so boilerplate.

Collected data types: these are all for if you buy stuff with a credit card / paypal / etc off 2k/parent company Take 2. Remember, they sell games with in-game purchases. They also have an app which has location permissions option which is what the precise location is about.

So yes - again, as OP said, this is nothing controversial if you have paid attention to ToS meaning and content over the past 20 years.

Aside from the forced arbitration crap - which Steam, Microsoft, Amazon, Lyft, Uber, Google, AT&T - and hundreds of other major companies all snuck into their ToS over the years, and many have now been legally pressured to remove by consumer rights group. That is stupid because it shows their legal team is behind the times, companies are mostly removing their forced arbitration clauses nowadays because it has been the cause of many lost class actions.

I can completely believe you - but this man is a certified psychologist and has lectured and even written psychology textbooks, right? When I watched a few videos in the past (circa 2017) to find out who this guy the alt right was falling in love with was, I took away from it that broadly he was a grifter selling himself & books, but as for his discussions on psychology I'm a layman so couldn't digest some of it. He sure does seem to think the world starts and ends with Carl Jung though, almost every problem had a solution that came back to a Jungian archetype.

Lol that this has a downvote already.

"Don't be mean about my AI gf! She's real to me!"

He literally wanted to open a church and deliver servons every Sunday. He is not an atheist, he is just a charlatan.

Highly recommend anyone interested in him read this article / open letter written by an (ex) close friend and colleague, back in 2018.

https://curtismchale.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/I-was-Jordan-Peterson%E2%80%99s-strongest-supporter.-Now-I-think-he%E2%80%99s-dangerous-The-Star.pdf

He is 100% a Christian - a rather devout and conservative one at that, he just doesn't like to admit it in public as he doesn't like to agree to any premise on anything he believes in, or really any statement he's made - as he'd then have trouble linguistically dancing around it when it was no longer convenient for whatever argument he was in.

If you've not read this open letter / article written by a colleague and (ex) close friend of Jordan's way back in 2018 I highly recommend it to everyone researching him. Though it is long it gives a lot of insight into who he is behind closed doors, and his aspirations.

https://curtismchale.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/I-was-Jordan-Peterson%E2%80%99s-strongest-supporter.-Now-I-think-he%E2%80%99s-dangerous-The-Star.pdf

Succinctly put. In retrospect his behavior is classical grifting, but because he's so well educated in psychology and has spent decades lecturing students he's well armed to win over the 16-30yo disenfranchised/semi-intellectual male audience without them realizing.

Hmm I dunno, take a look at any bird-of-paradise or male peacock and tell me that the dinosaur's descents aren't beautiful.

The reality is we have a very loose idea of what dinosaurs really looked like, because what remains of them is so many millions of years old that it's decayed completely, or if we're exceptionally lucky - been fossilized. Feathers, skin, colours, fluorescences, bio-luminescence - 99.9999% lost to time, and could have been very beautiful.

So.. You know that leaving the porch lights on 24/7 is part of the light pollution problem that kills insects, right?

Many, many countries have 'historical claims' that mean nothing in current day geopolitics.

Claiming that 'Taiwan is not a country' is enough for me to know that this will not be a fruitful discussion.

Literally the first line of the 'Taiwan' Wikipedia article:

"Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia."

Even worse - he named his space vessels 'Starship' - implying that they have the ability to travel between stars.

They will study this man's narcissism in future history classes alongside Trump. The era of the ego.

Expecting people to wade through 8000 word articles in the hope of finding mention of your claim is why you're being downvoted.

Imagine someone making the claim, 'Jesus hated gay people, it's obvious' and then when probed for a source, responding, 'this is common knowledge available anywhere:
https://thekingsbible.com/'

Great article, shares a very timely perspective that highlights the enormous long term benefits of investing in students and exchange programs.

None of the Trump admin or their MAGA followers will read it of course.

Meta don't need to see your chats to get a lot of value out of WhatsApp.

They can see who you message (the phone number) and from there they can probably ~90% of the time identify who that person is via Facebook/Instagram databases. They can see who you message when, and how often you message them, and what time of day you send and recieve messages - all of that is very valuable to help them create an advertising profile for you.

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