As opposed to emergent behaviour

Tbh kinda sounds like they trained it to blackmail

Let me add this, if religion provides comfort or makes someone want to be a better person? That carries value still.

This might have been better in unpopular opinions.

But I don’t entirely disagree with you. There certainly are some true believers out there, some are better people than others.

But there are also a lot of people who use their status as Christians to essentially cover up their true personalities, there’s a lot of people who believe that just because someone goes to church that they are a good person.

I was raised Christian, but left because I just saw too many people preaching one thing but then doing the opposite in practice. There’s a lot of hate attached to a lot of Christians and I personally believe that’s against the true intended spirit of the religion.

There’s also the general history of how the church was used to control and such. But that’s a discussion I really don’t want to get into.

I mean not to offend, but arguing with a strong believer is a waste of time. The basis of religious belief is to trust without evidence, but that goes against my personal belief that nothing can be proven to be true without at least some evidence.

Maybe her view on proper parenting is also skewed by abuse? Not that it makes it ok. Was just talking with my psych, apparently the way my mother treated me growing up is considered abuse, just not the physical type. It really fucks with your head when you grow up with that sorta treatment.

Either way, don’t settle for abuse. Keep notes about incidents times, dates, what happened, any photographic evidence of bruises from beatings. Go see your local police if you trust them, if not try to look up any youth assistance groups.

Just keep learning new things and decide which things you want to continue to chase. Some things are easier than others, but people do these things and also started at a point where they might have known nothing. It’s about how much effort you are willing to put in to gain these skills.

Of course you gotta do stuff to pay the bills now, but don’t let people destroy your ambitions for the future.

They got what everyone wants, and they want to make sure everyone remembers that. No doubt prices will raise due to interrupted supply. China will probably benefit when they resume trade with selected countries

Love this one

If you’re sticking with that period of English comedy. Vicar of Dibley

Kinda how it feels in Australia as well. Older politicians making changes that improve their own lives and seem uninterested in long term planning (examples such as privatising water and electricity and selling the biggest telecom company off too)

Agreed. If they decriminalise and regulate it, sex work is much safer for all involved. People gotta pay bills and if sex work is their chosen profession, good for them.

I do like that in my country, if there’s an emergency, you don’t need to think about it. You just get help without fear of being financially crippled for life.

I feel bad for Americans that you can’t easily get medical help, even in emergencies.

I feel more and more justified about piracy every article I read about licensing and stuff just getting taken away after having paid good money for stuff

Only if they buy the argument that it’s too difficult to explain what the hidden charges are for so they shouldn’t have to.

Sliders. One of those accessible sci-fi shows that helped instill a love of the genre

I’m not saying they’re in the right, but once you put stuff on the internet it’s near impossible to stop people doing what they want with it

I wish they improved the net code when they re released it on steam. Loved playing it as a kid, was looking forward to a modern co-op experience

They had a free week recently. But it ended up taking almost the entire week to actually successfully install and launch it. So I played it for maybe 5min

Yeah this is one of those things where you don’t have to like the guy to want to take advantage of the tech. Elon is a loud mouthed idiot, but he’s somehow spawned some cool companies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law