Small_Quasar

Israel knows it can do whatever the fuck it wants as long as it's actions don't personally offend Trump.

The kiddy fiddler is being played like a fiddle.

I'm confused. Calling neolibs centre-right is leftist gatekeeping?

Well, you've got to admit getting us to poison ourselves with mushrooms is a bit more subtle than Skynet's plan.

Of course there's probably aliens. I mean, there's a non-zero chance we are alone, but I think most astro-scientists would confidently say they are most likely out there somewhere even with our current problem of only having a sample size of one (us).

What I worry about is if the average civilisation is less than one per galaxy at any point in time, then we're probably never going to meet them. Even if humans (and our descendant species) are about for millions of years.

Is it still shit?

I was hoping it was going to do a No Man's Sky.

Just a wedding band. Can't remember their name. But they were pretty decent!

Oh, that's definitely happening, regardless of anything else. I bet you Washington has started including necessary corruption in cost analysis the same way Banana Republics do.

People seem to think belief (or lack thereof) is a one dimensional line.

Theism - Agnosticism - Atheism

But it's more like the political compass with Theism - Atheism on one axis and Gnostism - Agnosticism on the other.

Theism/Atheism is a comment on whether you believe in god(s).

Gnostism/Agnosticism is a comment on how strongly you hold that belief (or lack of belief).

Are you absolutely certain there's no god? Then you're a gnostic atheist. Believe in god in sort of a wishy-washy way? Then you're an agnostic theist.

I'm a die hard atheist, but I also consider myself an agnostic. Because although there's no evidence of a god it's also impossible to prove a negative.

To be a gnostic atheist would actually take a leap of faith I'm not willing to risk.

I've decided to worship the reconstructed proto-indo-european pantheon.

OG gods for the win!

Reminds me of a two partner joke I made up when I was eight or nine.

What do you call a fly without wings?

A walk.

What do you call a frying pan with legs?

A wok.

I'm not American... but I am Scottish/British and I've never quite understood the whole being proud of your country thing.

Unless one is a hypocrite it's always been clear to me that if you're going to be proud of all the good shit your country has done you've also got to be ashamed of all the bad shit.

And with a few centuries of colonialism under the UK's belt (and before anyone says different, no, Scotland very much partook and benefited from it) I seriously don't have the emotional fortitude to feel that much shame.

Feeling pride in your culture? In your community? Fine. But in your nation state? A bunch of administrators with delusions of grandeur wrapped in a flag? I'd argue that's unnatural because nation states in no way played a role in our evolutionary psychology.

Maybe I'd feel different if I was born in a wee inoffensive country somewhere... but I hope not. Nation states are pragmatically necessary but I don't think we should be getting too invested in them.