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Mole

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  1. In many cases, these personal “north stars” are built on ever expanding conceptual houses of cards that don’t have much basis in reality. In their thinking, letting go of these other concepts means letting go of their north star. It’s a pretty foundational approach to a lot of preaching, both religious and political. It’s easier to convince someone to your way of thinking or acting if you make them believe that their core values are under attack. If we are unable to separate ancillary beliefs from the core belief (assuming the core belief is right, good, or helpful), there’s a certain gravity to the mess of core and ancillary beliefs that attracts new beliefs, creating some sort of intellectual black hole. Who knows what kind of degeneracy will attach itself to even good core beliefs? This past year has been pretty instructive. Even your statements about faith were perceived as some sort of indifference to human suffering. Historically that makes no sense, but in 2021 it’s a pretty reasonable interpretation.
  2. When my son was born, I became acutely aware of how much our culture feeds into the natural terror and angst of being a parent. If you listen to the “experts”, seemingly every choice is fraught with lifetime consequences. It’s scary enough being a parent, but our culture likes to amp that up to 11. It didn’t take long to realize how that baggage made everything, including parenting, harder. Most of the expert advice mostly boils down to loving the kid and staying involved anyway. I’m not sure how to square my experience with a parent being talked into faking a drive-by with his child and subsequently running over the kid. At least the father is engaged and actively listening to his child and they weren’t just staring at a screen.
  3. I can't decide if people watch too many movies or not enough. This is what happens when people are bored and watch a medium amount of movies.
  4. I know it was pretty forgettable, but:
  5. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
  6. The CR has taken an extra weird and dark turn today. Do some deep breathing, listen to some good music, watch some basketball tonight, and let’s all try to come back tomorrow with just a normal amount of existential angst. Relax; the sun will eventually consume the remains of everyone and everything you’ve ever known or loved. It’s gonna be ok.
  7. I’d like to lose another 20 pounds. Anyway, all this ice cream won’t eat itself.
  8. The Men in Black scenario is a 50% probability since either it’s true or it isn’t. On an unrelated note, I’m a terrible poker player.
  9. I had to bury a good dog this weekend. He was getting old and showing pretty serious signs of heart problems, so I knew it was a matter of time. His last moments were one last time outside on a beautiful day, mealtime, a few moments of rest, and a few minutes of labored breathing while my son and I sat on the floor with him. I had been debating for a few days if it was time to take him in to be put down, but I guess he got to go out on his own terms.
  10. Fraud is the wrong word to use for the Georgia Kemp/Abrams election. The actions that have been alleged are perfect examples of institutional racism. Systems that are on the surface-level are “color blind” but clearly are designed to disenfranchise certain voters more than others. If you move more often, if your name is harder to spell and someone somewhere mistypes it, etc, you might be more likely to get purged. Allegedly of course. But it wasn’t fraud since it was plainly done through the system. Allegedly, but also very openly. It also seems strange to have the head vote counter running their own election for governor.
  11. This is another one of those things hackers use to guess your password if your password is about steak and toast like me. Don’t fall for it.
  12. Mole

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    This is a good comment... for me to poop on.
  13. Am I that bad at math or reading? I don’t understand one of the following: 15%, more than, 1 out of 6.
  14. 1. It’d be an interesting study to see how church attendance affects individual behaviors. In other words, is the evangelical a better tipper on Friday night than Sunday afternoon? Are group dynamics at play? Late vs. early service grumpiness? I suspect that the proselytizing and Chick tract stuff goes way up after church, but the money thing would be interesting to learn. 2. Setting aside the day of the week issue, the treatment of the Sabbath is addressed a few times in the New Testament, both by Jesus and in the Epistles. I don’t see any biblical justification for an outright prohibition on going out to eat after church, although individuals might make different choices based on their own conscience. Using the Sabbath as a gotcha betrays a preposterous reading of scripture that nearly matches the ones found in some evangelical churches. Using the Sabbath as a gotcha is also what they did to Jesus, so checkmate, atheists. 3. when I worked as a server, the jerks and cheapskates seemed to come pretty randomly. The stereotypes never seemed to hold up for me. I was also terrible at my job, so the difference between a bad tipper and a reasonable tipper wasn’t significant.
  15. Alternate hypothesis: there’s a mostly even distribution of rude and cheap people across most demographics. There might be some trends among the cultures of various groups, but nothing that would explain the consistently stated experience of servers. Therefore, the belief that the after-church crowd is unusually terrible can better be explained as a reaction to the plain hypocrisy of coming from church and treating a server poorly. There is probably a similar mix of rude and cheap people in all demographics, but the rude/cheap post church customers are more memorable. Every server has that story. Don’t be one.
  16. When my kid was a newborn, my wife bought some snot sucking tube/filter contraption called a Nose Frida. You would hold one end in your mouth, stick the other end in the snotty nose and suck. I was horrified. She used it twice and got sick twice.
  17. Wasn’t Brisket’s dying children meltdown after the OU game or some other ugly loss? I’ve been trying to figure out what horrifying national event aligned with a terrible loss weekend to figure out which game it was, but there are too many candidates.
  18. That sounds like a Mitch Hedberg setup.
  19. Should have been a blinking envelope.
  20. If Russ isn’t in an Orville Redenbacher ad by next week, they’re missing a prime opportunity.
  21. If a group of sergeants major bought a time share together, would it be the sergeants major’s time share?
  22. https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819584210
  23. I was growing fond of the ... Also, it’s funny that the FitLump thread, which is a plainly political topic, manages to stay free of politics. Somehow everyone can play nice there, but a worldwide disease is just too much to discuss without losing our minds.
  24. I’m looking for supporting evidence that this is actually what the bill calls for. Besides the tweet referenced above, I can’t find anything that actually supports this. Everything I find suggests something notably different. If the tweet is accurate and true, it’s maybe the most horrifying bill in a long time, but saying and writing true things should matter. The tweet conjures up images of grieving women paying the miscarriage fine and having to fill out form 666misc or something. That’s far different than a healthcare provider filling out some paperwork and letting the woman grieve in peace. You can be against the political posturing of casting miscarried fetuses as people needing death certificates without resorting to possibly false imagery of the ultimate in bureaucratic cruelty. And remember, I have no idea what I’m talking about when it comes to this subject, but I do know that tweets that put me into a blind rage(which such a bill should do) are often trying to manipulate and distort the truth. To me at least, that sure looks like what’s going on.
  25. Do women currently have to pay for those and fill out the forms of it happens after 16 weeks? Or does the provider do this somewhat silently apart from the hurting woman? The tweet used very specific language to describe something horrifyingly cruel — fining women and them filling out paperwork after a heartbreaking and very private experience. My guess is it’s more designed to establish a stronger basis for the fetus as a person. However anyone feels about that agenda, it’s not the plain cruelty depicted here.
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