I feel like it’s weird to talk about kids learning hygiene or bathing or grooming at work is weird.

But super important to actually teach your kid- and id put this in that category.

Are they really scientists? Or are they anti-science quacks who can’t even look at a chart and recognize the numbers are changing?

Dude’s totally wanking off out on the street corner.

Wil Wheaton makes me almost not hate Wesley.

Poor guy. I wanted Wesley to get killed off soooo many times.

This may seem pedantic. But it was after they had been asked to leave.

Said another way, they were trespassed and left to leave on their own recognizance and instead of leaving they vandalized school property, publicn urination I’d also usually some type of crime… and they potentially exposed their genitalia to children.

Seriously. Lock these idiot fucks and slap on a sex offender label.

We should wall off Florida and call it America’s cock ring. After getting all the fascist to move there.

The thing is… arch…. You can actually fix. Most times.

Unlike the proverbial him.

(Not that you should have to.)

First… yes, as far as it goes. That said there’s some problems with it on the whole.

Keep in mind, this is a thought terminating cliche saying by Vulcans to explain “the logic” of self sacrifice.

The thing about logic is it can be used to justify all sorts of horrific things. (For example, the us nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)

It’s also important to note that, in general, I don’t really disagree with it here. That doesn’t make it any less of a cliche or problematic when applied to things like social policy.

Consider Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Some needs are themselves more weighty than others.

that guy’s need to get to work on time doesn’t outweigh my need to dress safely, even if there’s a dozen of them behind me- and never will.

Similarly, if the needs of the many (say, to feel safe) are juxtaposed against the few, whose need is to stay alive…. The needs of the few outweigh the many. One might say “but that doesn’t happen”… but we do. All the time.

Right now, the most extreme example are all the people that defend Israel’s right to genocide by insisting that Israel has a right to defend itself.

That said. Billionaires don’t need to make money. And they don’t even need to exist, for that matter.

Yup. So during the Abbasid caliphs, religious scholars weren’t as influential. They were definitely Muslim, but they weren’t opposed to science.

But then, the religious scholars became both more influential and more conservative. The secular scholars started asking questions that were, how shall we say, uncomfortable?

You can also see this shift in the transition from a more rationalist Mu’tazilite tradition to Ash’arite.

This is the inevitable shift. As science seeks an understanding of the universe, through observation and experimentation rather than faith it’s finding an understanding that best explains a universe without god.

It is inevitable that the religious mind either abandons their faith, or abandons science. (Unless of course we stumble onto evidence for god. But, I don’t believe that’s gonna happen.)

Ultimately, if god existed and created everything… science would be another form of worship.

Can we talk about how this guy literally does not believe in 175 year old, settled science?

For the record, the Arab world wasn’t always anti-science. It was religion that got them there.

Not all authoritarian regimes are anti-science. Some would be very interested in things for domestic use, it might be slower, and such, though.

The end of facism is always the same. Eventually the regime falls and these clowns get what’s coming to them. It’s not an ‘if’, it’s a ‘when’.

They might win tomorrow. They might win next week, ext year. But they’ll lose.

All it takes is one fire to get out of control, and there are dozens of fires burning. Potentially hundreds. All it takes is one loss and we start winning. And they will lose.

Time is not on their side.

you and me both.

you and me both.

Yes. I totally agree.

guess my point is that the ICE agents need to look at what happened to collaborators after the nazis were removed. it’s not going to end well for them.

On a general note: IQ means nothing. I mean a lot of IQ tests use pattern recognition tasks that can be helpful but still, having a high IQ says nothing about you ability as developer

to put this another way… expertise is superior to intelligence. Unfortunately we have this habit of conflating the two. intelligent people some times do some incredibly stupid things because they lack the experience to understand why something is stupid.

Being a skilled doctor or surgeon doesn’t make you skilled at governance. two different skillsets.

history sanitizes these assholes as “collaborators”. and then talks about people that did the nazis’ laundry. or worked in the brewhouse or maybe helped with local councils or something, as if the launderer and wait staff really had a choice, or there weren’t gangs actively helping with the hunt.

Or maybe he bombs Bejing for shits and giggles.

Most drivers are good at driving,

[x] doubt. :P

but that’s just because I assume everyone is a terrible driver. Around here, we have people struggling with the whole zipper merge thing, though.

Just to clarify…

How bad is Budapest traffic? Is it LA? Or New Jersey?

You can, yes.

They didn’t seem to, but they can.