Not just that, but I’ve yet to come across anybody who has actually refrained from doing the bad thing they want to do because of some fear of God. They might be afraid of legal consequences, but belief hasn’t prevented rape, theft, envy, murder, or anything else among even (especially) the leaders of the religious.

So no, not believing in God doesn’t make atheists rapists and murderers, and believing in God doesn’t prevent the devout from rape and murder.

Not that Hamas is any better. The point is there are no good guys here.

True. But if you saw a 20-year-old asshole beating the shit out of a 10-year-old asshole (even if the 10-year-old started it), you wouldn’t hand the 20-year-old a bat.

“I have about three drinks a week and get drunk maybe once or twice a year. I’d say I’m the picture of moderation, but I’m not really concerned with how you feel about my drinking habits.”

I was in a group that traveled the country and stayed in school gyms over the summer. I can tell you, the worst school bathroom I had to poop in had a combination of all the worst things:

The toilet paper came out one piece at a time, like a napkin box at a restaurant but facing down. It was also this super thin ply.

The “stalls” were actually just small walls that went up to your shoulder (when sitting) and forward to your knees (when sitting).

They had a mirror running the full wall opposite the “stalls,” so you had nothing to look at but the wall of dudes pooping or furiously pulling individual tissues of tp out.

AT A HIGH SCHOOL. That shit should be considered abuse. I am so sorry for anyone who had to go to that bullshit school.

I’ve got an… overly simplified answer:

To a bigot, your challenges are annoying so they would avoid talking with you. So if you do want to engage with them, constantly (and aggressively) challenging their bigotry will prevent that. But why would you want to interact with bigots unless you absolutely had to? Their bigotry chafes you as much or more than your challenges chafe them. But also, if you live in some backwater place, and constantly seeking out and challenging bigotry means everybody around you wants nothing to do with you, then you’re going to have a rough time.

In the same way, a vegan person challenging your dietary choices chafes you, and they may feel (and you may understand) that they have every reason to make the challenge, but it still is likely to prevent you wanting to engage with them. If most people around them are not vegan, and they seek out opportunities to challenge people, they’re going to have a bad time.

But I also think there is a big difference between being in the minority and seeking out opportunities to challenge people (e.g. vegans in meat-eating society) and being the majority and seeking out opportunities to challenge people (e.g. religious area and self-righteous pricks starting conversations by asking if you are worried about going to hell).

If you can legally work, you should be able to legally vote!

You would just change the time you consider “working and living hours” based on when daylight is for you, e.g. if sunrise is at 1400 (instead of, say, 0700), your “day” would be from 1400 to 2300.

The Star Wars Holiday Special with the Ewoks?

I mean, even their science is called “magitek,” so I think it’s magic all the way down.

Where I live it would cost at least twice that. The veggie burgers would be about $12 per pack of two, buns would be around $9 (but only come in a 4 pack) and the Danish would probably be $8 or $9.

Real beef is still way cheaper. A pack of probably 15 patties is around $40.

I live in Alaska. Frozen stuff is a premium. And otherwise prices are all over the place, and supply depends on what came on the barge.

I feel like that’s the equivalent of a person from 100 years ago hearing about the internet, and saying “so if I wanted to get somebody a message in a hurry, I could pen a letter, have someone take a picture of it, take the picture to a developer, and then send that over the internet to somebody?”

I mean, you could, and it would be better than what you have to do now, but the actual way they’d do it in the future is probably a lot better.

I hated it with the exception of Uhura’s song, even fast-forwarded through La’an’s song, but the second they mentioned it reaching Klingons I was invested.

And when they hailed the Klingons it did not disappoint.

In Final Fantasy XIV, the Shadowbringers expansion (HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD). Through the vanilla game, and then two expansions, you’re either directly or indirectly fighting the Big Bad Guys, whose motivations, history, and abilities are largely unknown to you.

But in Shadowbringers, one of them just kind of… hangs around. Not in the nefarious cloaked form, but as a hyper-powerful sometimes companion that you’re not strong enough to fight, and you can use the little help he gives, even if you don’t understand his motivation.

Then, over the course of the expansion, you learn more about the guy, learn why he and his group are doing what they do, and as horrible as it seems, it makes perfect sense. And from an objective, 3rd person view, he’s right. He even takes you to the Final Day of his world… and the beginning of yours. But even though he’s existed for thousands of years and has seen the entire history of your world, he’s finally at the point where he can see your side. But he can’t stop, because he’s fighting to fix his world. And you can’t stop, because you have to save yours. And the irony is that both are trying to save the same people, the same world, but either of you winning means the end of one or the other’s version of it (think a reverse Tuvix situation).

It was just such a deep feeling to know the other side was right, but still having to fight against them because it would be wrong not to.

Also the music slaps. Especially after summoning 7 other “fragments” of yourself to give Big Man a smackdown.

You will almost certainly annoy or piss off some Southerners (Those of the United States south of the Mason-Dixon Line, that is), then.

So definitely do it.

So what does he mean by “private property” if he’s not talking about the things normal people own?

How do the two halves of your brain decide who gets to operate controls?

So I’ve read through this whole conversation between you and PseudoSpock, and at the beginning you definitely had some good points, but you’re coming across awfully entitled.

There are some people who really enjoy training and can quickly shift from their workload to training mode quickly (I’m one of those), and make it clear that you can always come to them when you want to learn something because they value training above just about everything else.

And then there are others (probably most) who have to me an effort to change gears, are trying to get through their own work, and don’t appreciate constant interruptions from people trying to get ad hoc training on their own schedule with complete disregard to the schedule of the person they’re getting training from.

It seems like you are assuming and forcing coworkers into the position of the former. And worse, when it’s pointed out to you that it’s problematic to a lot of people, you’re doubling down and saying other people are the problem instead of rethinking your own approach.

I think you need to rethink your approach.

I think the biggest issue is religious people that can only view things through the lense of their own perspective equate any belief system with religion. And since we, as humans, categorize everything, everyone has a “belief system,” even if you believe in absolutely nothing (nihilism).

So “atheism” is considered a religion, believing in the scientific method is a religion, and believing in the inherent and equal rights of people is a religion.

I absolutely hated that episode for most of it, even fast-forwarded through a few parts, because I am sick of every TV show needing a musical episode (or four, fricken Magicians…ugh).

And I said through most of it that the only redeeming thing, the only thing I was continuing to watch the episode for, was because they mentioned it got to the Klingons, and I wanted nothing more than to see the Klingons singing.

And boy did they not disappoint. We rewound and watched the Klingon section two more times. Just amazing. Made up for the whole thing (mostly).

If they were capable of thinking in that way, I imagine they’d just assume they were going up for hunting or warmth or something. Plenty of fish go near the surface, too. I imagine halibut don’t think salmon are breathing when they go to the surface or jump out of the water.