Samson's Wig

We are the bomb.

He should be dragged as much as legally possible. Assholes like this who think they can lord their religion over children in a public school (or anyone else) need to be sent notice. It's insane that this cult shit is still happening in 2023.

Who in the hell are those idiots protesting? I recognize the idiots in uniform.

I quoted you but was really responding to the classic obfuscation posted up-thread. Religion, of any stripe, has really bad people involved and really good people who enable the really bad ones. The sooner the good ones wake up and do something about it the better. It's exactly the same with CrossFit.

You just have to recognize that it's just a handful of individual bad people at fault, and cannot possibly be a flaw in the underlying teachings of the religion that gives rise to all this hate and oppression. The religion is absolutely fine. It's the people who are the problem.

FIFY

I spent the ages of 8-18 push mowing my parent's acre and half yard once a week. Your story raises two questions for me: 1. Why was I too stupid to think of this brilliant solution? 2. Where the fuck were you to give me the heads up? I'm doing this now. Works beautifully with the kids too.

It seems to me we need some old school ecoterrorist types to apply their skills to taking out bitcoin mining operations. Fuck those fucking fucks. I don't see how this is any different than a Mafia protection racket.

The dismantling of the DWI unit was a good thing. What a bunch of bullshit that was, with Constitutional violations happening by the second.

In Elon's case, apparently. It's also an excellent vehicle for misinformation and spreading unnecessary panic. Even after all these years, I still don't understand the need for people to hear the news as it is happening when what you hear first is almost always completely wrong and, at best, lacks the nuance to draw any conclusions beyond base responses. Twitter's elevator pitch is exactly the same pitch 24-hour cable news used when it came on the scene: "Hear it here first!". Both are excellent sources for bad information, and because there isn't really enough news to fill up that much space they are mostly fluffed out with absolute garbage. They've helped turn journalists into a joke, as they have to spend a significant amount of time preparing content for these platforms instead of, I don't know, actually investigating things and uncovering actual truths we should know about. Both platforms are giant piles of garbage that have made humanity dumber, in my opinion. I understand the entertainment value of both, but I can't for the life of me understand why anyone stands by them as genuine sources of information.

Oh, Iran. The country we probably have the most in common with on earth.

Well, that's true. You got me.

So, it's a Tesla? I'll never understand the appeal of a poorly built death trap.

All things being equal, you're being a bit dramatic.

EDIT TO ADD: Thank you for both undermining the stereotype and showing those sentient bowls of pudding how to properly respond around here.

Jesus fucking Christ. I give up.

That seems like really harsh language for a simple mistake.

That so many engineers here can't recognize the use of hyperbole in my post to dramatize the point is a prime example of why every college student should be forced to take some liberal arts courses. It's like talking to Data from Star Trek with you people.

Nope. It was your mom.

There's a teenager popping up in Westlake and other West Austin big box stores like Lowes, pointing a camera at grown men and yelling that they're trying to fuck him and could someone please help. He's been kicked out of numerous stores. I guess this is what he's trying to do? Survival of the fittest doesn't work fast enough on clowns like these. Is stupid cleansing so wrong, if you really think about it? Harmless stupid people should be left alone to waddle through life, but YouTube pranksters, people who can't stay within their lane while driving on a slightly winding road, the Kardashians and their clones, dudes with $200k worth of boat and truck on a $40k annual salary, anyone who goes somewhere specifically to take a photo for "insta", and, I don't know, Marjorie Taylor Green, should be viable targets. Wouldn't the world be better off if all of these people were shipped off to say, central Nevada, where they can live out their lives in a walled community with no access to the Internet and pose no more harm to others? Is that so wrong? We can feed them.

It certainly doesn't hurt!

We all really appreciate it.

The only thing to understand is that we have a lot of engineers who post here, and like most engineers, they can't fathom that any other educational path has any merit. It's fucking weird, frankly, but myopia can impact anyone even if it seems like an engineer-specific trait. The fact that 99.9% of engineers work for someone who is not an engineer has never dawned on them for some reason.

What do people do who can't handle the notion that life is meaningless and that chaos is the true underlying principle of the universe? They cling to notions like religion or aliens because any explanation at all is more comfortable than accepting reality. I, for one, urge everyone to embrace and accept the meaningless and banality of our existence. For me, at least, it has actually led to much more meaningful relationships with my family, friends, and even strangers. When you get down to the bones of it all, that's all we've got: a short amount of time to share with other people. Make it count and stop staring at the heavens in a desperate attempt to find meaning in the meaningless. Too many people waste their lives hiding behind the notion that something bigger and better is waiting for them when the big beautiful thing is already staring them right in the face - and rapidly slipping away.