But it’s an outlier right? I guess that’s why it’s joked as an additional force in the comic, because even by “maths just describes reality” standards, it’s weird. Like, it feels like a particle “knows” if the state is already occupied, and that’s why it can’t occupy it. But that implies some communication - the conveying of some force - else how does it “know”?

Google keyboard weirdness. Maybe because I’m of an age where you put two spaces after a full stop. But then the keyboard is automatically adding one to be “helpful” because maybe people don’t do that themselves anymore?

Not that I know much about this, but the Pauli principal always struck me as an observation rather than anything like an explanation. As an explanation it’s extremely unsatisfying. “Why won’t electrons occupy the same space?” “Well… because of the Pauli principal”. No… that’s not the reason, that’s just restating what we observe. Glad to see physicists find it weird too (as is suggested in the comic)

Quite amazing isn’t it how hard it is for workers to “unite”. But then at the same time in the years after the great depression, when communism still might have seemed an experiment worth trying, you get people easily giving in to fascism instead.

I know, I know, Reichstag fire etc. But fascist movements were not unique to Germany and even in socially conscious Britain the communist party never got traction.

In short, I think historically speaking people in the Western world are a bit “right of centre”, esp concerning scapegoating foreigners and seeing something ‘natural’ in monopolies being built.

One interpretation of what we’re seeing is the slow natural death of the left leaning post war social consensus, which was in some sense “artificially” created by the circumstances of the war, and we’re now returning to the historic right leaning trend last seen at the end of the Victorian era.

Obviously it’s not like people don’t dislike the downsides to being “right of centre” but I’ve often found that, given the chance to mull the idea of a much more socialist country, people are surprisingly resistant to governments having the kind of monopoly that many companies do. I don’t know, perhaps they’ve seen companies rise and fall, but once you give power to a government there’s no going back?

(I’m not talking about your average Fox news intoxicated American, my experience is with regular working people in Britain, Germany, Italy etc)

I’d been in churches and been a Christian myself for years and years and then I met an actual Christian. He was leading a team running an orphanage in east Europe. He’d sold his house so that he could start and fund the place and rescue kids from the sewers, prostitution and heroine. The kids there were happy and healthy and played around him like he was some father abraham. He and his team would go out at night to rescue the kids from living in the drains. He told us about an 11 year old boy who he had warned repeatedly (the kids were legally free to leave) and who they had found just a few nights ago dead in a sewer from a drug overdose. He wept bitterly at all the things he thought he could have done better. He was a great big bear of a man, big beard, looked like he should have been a Russian lumberjack or something. What I thought was particularly sweet was him crying didn’t disturb any of the kids happily playing about - they were evidently used to seeing him vulnerable, this gentle giant. From time to time as they played about they’d stand next to him, as if just resting in his protection for a moment before their chase game would carry on. Any child next to him he’d fondly put his hand on their head as he talked to us with tears in his eyes. I have never met a man so humble or who so thoroughly dismantled in an instant what I thought was a ‘good christian life’ in the West.

But they asked the female news hosts to wear a headscarf /s

Downloading ADHD_memory_cheetsheet.pdf, phone suggests save name as ADHD_memory_cheetsheet(3).pdf…

Industrial accidents, yes. Some gruesome ISIS stuff, some cartel stuff, yes. But “weird fetish shit”, no

the “fun” part of secular biblical research is trying to backward engineer the circumstances that create the new testament as we have it. it is far harder than it looks. the mythcist position is discarded by most serious secular scholars.

I’ve been on fora and social media for almost 30 years and have managed to avoid ever seeing this video. AMA?

At the meeting for employees with concerns about the ‘efficiency’ drive

Elon: “ok, anyone with the time to come to a meeting like this is clearly not busy enough, you’re fired”

The Mithras cult did not have any particular attachment to trees, you are probably confusing it with Saturnalia. But even then people did not bring a single solitary tree in, Saturnalia was celebrated by decorating rooms with many evergreen plants and branches as was common in a lot of winter solstice celebrations. The act of bringing in a single evergreen tree and decorating it came much much later, medieval times.

16m deaths is a profit margin

I believe it’s a little higher than general population but not by much. The sad truth is vocations with access to children have higher abuse rates (vicar, teacher, pastor, coach) because any adults with access to children have higher abuse rates. Religions authority is abused for sure, but the sad truth out of the Catholic and Anglican abuse scandals is that a fair number of abuse cases didn’t involve abuse of power. By that I mean in some cases it wasn’t an overt feature, there were cases of 14, 15 year olds acting out their attraction to older youth pastors and those people taking advantage by not saying no. That is clearly still illegal. But I only mention to illustrate that a feature of the higher abuse rates was - sadly - just the amount of contact time with children, rather than “religion” itself.

And all that’s really just to say, although I know “paedo priest” is a well established meme, the sad truth is that any contact between adults and children had to be safeguarded whether they’re priests, drag queens, or cross dressing bishops…

That, sir, is a 9 with a cape

What happened 3 years ago?

Someone, somewhere is getting off to this…

C’mon, you’re smarter than that

The dog was a decoy

Tbh honest I was surprised Biden was even a consideration back in 2020, he was too old even then and it made the criticisms of Trump’s age and mental health not land so well. The moment it was a close call in 2020 the plan should have been ‘popular dem by any means necessary’. Not, double down on aging incumbent when they rarely do better on re-election. I can’t tell it if was hubris or a complete failure of the party apparatus to believe it could come up with someone more appealing than Trump…