That, and good thing there isn’t a new pandemic brewing in birds and livestock.

Never has been.

There is meaning in the endless toil, one can find peace in knowing that the boulder will never reach the top. Let go of expecting a reward for reaching the top, and appreciate the rewards in pushing the boulder.

This is exactly why I purchased a steam deck. My gaming PC died (RIP to a real one), and I needed something for general use more than I did for gaming.

Walking is the lazy option for me, getting into a car, driving, finding a spot, then parking just to walk to the place anyways is too much hassle

What’s wrong with propaganda?

It’s not careless, even if we launched him on an escape trajectory there’s a chance he’ll come back. Deorbiting him into the sun is the safest option.

This time they’ll hook an AI trained on his posts and the gibbering of monkeys to Twitter and nobody will be able to tell the difference.

Psychedelics help you find out who you truly are underneath all the social conditioning.

Some people are assholes to the core and mushrooms reveal it.

Religions are a single axiom and nothing else? Which ones?

If you reduce an entire religion down to a single axiom, then sure, they can be entirely contradictory.

But religions aren’t like that, they are each a thousand different beliefs, rituals, and directives. There are enough similarities in message to see a commonality between them.

Like you said, it’s all the same path to God, some paths are a bit more meandering than others, and some claim that there are no other paths.

You have to accept that religions can be wrong about some things to have the view that they’re all different paths to God.

Plus everyone should turn a critical eye to their own religion, every holy text and every doctrine has both wheat and chaff.

That Tolstoy book sounds interesting, I’ll have to check it out.

There are versions of the Bible where Big J’s words are written in red text, that’s what I would recommend to people so they focus on the part that matters (for Christians)

Nobody’s getting the money, it’s going to predetermined “winners” like last time so it isn’t technically a lottery.

And it’s not about the money, it’s about getting people to vote that wouldn’t otherwise

if marxist-leninists aren’t far left who is?