spauldo @ spauldo @lemmy.ml

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Why would Satan want to discourage bad behavior?

It's a lot more likely he's putting on a beard and becoming Santa, rewarding good and bad kids alike. That explains why your bully got that GI Joe aircraft carrier and you got a $4 Go-Bot.

(Just to be clear, in case anyone wants to argue religion with me - I believe in Satan about as much as I do Santa.)

Sure, but did you do it in your 20s?

I drank from the garden hose in the 80s. Probably the 70s, too - I don't remember.

Yeah, but for whatever reason toy zooplankton and algae just never sold well.

Nope, Deuteronomy clearly states that it's only OK to murder your own kids, and that's only if they're being rebellious.

It's not that weird. Like you said, agnostics are more likely to prefer an evidence based approach rather than eat all the hyperbole going around. So what do we know?

Did the church cover up pedos? Yep, that they did. And they deserve the ire they get for it and more. Do pedos make up more than a tiny percentage of the church? No, they don't. That's the facts.

I'm agnostic and was never Catholic (I was Pentecostal in my youth, but that's a completely different nightmare...). I don't like that the church covered up sex abuse. It makes me trust the church as an organization less. But I also don't assume the local priest is banging his alter boys.

The abortion/murder thing isn't something scientific. It's a value judgement about whether a particular action is "right" or "wrong." Right and wrong are a human invention - the universe just is what it is regardless of how we feel about it. So it's up to humans to figure that out.

Personally, I tend to favor the rights of the mother, but that's doesn't make someone who disagrees with me wrong. It just means they don't agree with me.

"Sorry, I left it on your mom's bedside table this morning."

That sounds odd to me, since that's about when the DDT ban was really going into force worldwide. The resurgence of bedbugs in the US has been linked to our no longer using DDT.

Are we sure about that though? There are a lot of other small insects that fill the same niche without biting humans (including other mosquito species).

I remember people used to complain, "what about the bats?" until we found that mosquitos make up at most 2% of a bat's diet.

Joins furry-loli-snuff community in the Federalverse

"Why don't you take a seat over there?"

For some reason the sites deeper in the internet that contain that sort of thing usually contain a ton of assholes as well. Not sure why.

It's stories like this that make me glad to have joined the Air Force during peacetime. The closest I got to what you're experiencing is walking from my car to the office.

Quite possibly. I wouldn't know. Either way, Microsoft is an American company and plays by (or subverts, or writes) American rules.

Money is power. Get enough of either and you get corruption. Some people fight the system, some people learn to profit off it. If it doesn't work that way in other parts of the world, then it's because their systems work differently than ours.

Edit: quite possibly, not quit possibly. I'm a touch typist. I type every day. So why does my typing get worse with age?

True, but he didn't.

Charter schools are a bit of a hot topic in the US right now because the GOP is pushing them really hard. There are pros and cons - it's a complicated issue.

I never said he was moral, either.

Ecchi doesn't bother me as long as it's a reasonable part of the story. Tsugumomo, for instance, has so much ecchi that it detracts from the plot. For Kanojo mo Kanojo, the nature of the story pretty much dictates that ecchi is going to happen - they're trying to work out how to have a polygamous relationship, after all, and sex is part of that. Honestly, they should have explored that part of it more in my opinion.

As far as the ending - ::: spoiler spoiler no, not really. I feel like Marika should have been a side character/occasional nemesis at best. The way she took over things detracted from the story - and there was plenty of areas the author could have chosen to explore instead. I feel like there was a lot more potential for the story. But kudos to the author for not giving us a "this won't work, let Saki have him" ending. :::

Sure, but that's how business works when you're as big a company as Microsoft. And he was good at it.

I never said he was a nice guy, only that he was good at business.

I just tar up /home and /etc, install the new system, untar my backup to a directory inside my home directory, and then copy only the stuff I wanted to keep.

I see a fresh install as an opportunity for a new start.

The important bit is that he doesn't want Oklahoma children to know anything about the Tulsa Massacre either.

There are some signs that even some other Oklahoma Republican politicians are getting sick of his crap, but Walters was elected so the governor can't just fire him (not that he would... he's another piece of work himself).