Red 5, standing by

Faith is belief without evidence, and I have evidence everyone who has lived so far has died and the rest of us have enough in common that would cause us to die for similar reasons as those already dead. I don’t need faith to believe we’re all going to die, faith would be needed to believe someone won’t die because we have no convincing evidence for any immortals yet.

You may be interested in a paper Thomas Negal wrote about 50 years ago called “What is it like to be a bat?”

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

It’s not just about emotional states, which we can observe the behavioral states of but don’t know what it is like to experience as other animals. It’s about experience and consciousness which I think speaks to the underlying question of when other animals experience an emotional state if we can relate it to our own phenomenology for similar appearing states.

You can’t just look at the total numbers and %'s because not every vote has equal weight, the way the electoral college is set up and fptp elections means votes in contested states and districts count for much more than if you’re from a highly partisan area.

Not just humility but literally poverty as a virtue too

He should check out what Merlin did last time he overindulged, common wizard mistake

Last year Michigan received about 290 million in weed taxes, around 90 went to municipalities and county governments, 100 million to schools, and 100 million to roads.

Becky G - Como Diablos https://youtu.be/v1UNFWmcXAQ

The leopards will never eat my face

I used to be kbm exclusive but there have been some pretty good controller improvements made over the years, things like hotkey layers in Skyrim UI mods or the final fantasy MMO giving dozens of unique hotkeys on a controller, and new hardware with back buttons and shoulder buttons that keep both thumbs on the thumbsticks. Can’t beat mouse for precision, but there are tradeoffs for that.

Gross weirdos, too fragile to even have a conversation without making rational arguments illegal.

Company stooges seems a more appropriate department title than human resources, also who the fuck wants to be called a resource I’m a human being not a number.

Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, an Arizona-based conservative lobby group … spent the past quarter-century working with officials from Africa, Europe and the Middle East to oppose abortion, gay marriage and sex education not centered on abstinence … She said Family Watch has never supported anti-LGBTQ legislation in African countries and wasn’t “responsible for the treatment of homosexuals under African laws.”

Get the fuck out of here, advocating against human rights and brothers & sisters in humanity for decades has consequences!?

Classic gorilla heist mistake, always let them drive

If you put a mirror in front of Musk do you think he’d be able to recognize himself, or would he just start making threatening gestures thinking it was another male ape invading his space?

AAAA stock

When my insurance carrier stopped mailing cards they added a request to send the updated cards, pain in the ass but pretty sure most insurers are doing that now to cut corners because they aren’t legally required to send them.

I prefer voice controls to either, but don’t have a strong preference between physical or digital because I end up looking either way. Subscriptions on the other hand can fuck right off.

I had a friend who got pantsed in middle school on a field trip, pretty sure this is for him.

Citizen initiated ballot measure for a bipartisan drawn district map has helped fix that in other states. Definitely not easy but fixable.