My UU ordained friend is a nonbinary activist who was in Minneapolis during the ICE shit.

The first time I went to a UU service, I was invited to a rationalist group that meets there.

It’s all of the good things about religion (ie - community. People who will meal train for you when you are in trouble, people who will teach your kids good shit) without much of the baggage.

I’m personally going to start attending either a UU or a really loosely Methodist group just for the social aspect. I think one of the failures of atheism is the lack of acknowledgment of the benefits of community and ritual. There’s not enough “third places” in the world, and churches can fill that roll quite well. Perhaps this is just my own recent near death experience speaking, but it’s good to have a community that cares about you.

You have to be friends with the governor to be let out.

They even brought her chick fil a.

It’s a jail that regularly kills people.

They say second death this year in the article, but if you talk to homeless folks, the trick is to kick you out before you die so it doesn’t count.

Possibly Apis because the context of the story is the Israelites waiting for Moses to come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments, just after their escape from Egypt, but worshipping bulls was a huge thing in the entire Fertile Crescent area so it could have been anything. Bulls are kinda a big deal at the time period - you see lamassu with human heads and bull bodies guarding lots of temples and palaces in Mesopotamia.

Moses is so pissed about the golden calf because he was literally just talking to god. He leaves them alone after getting them out of Egypt and they immediately get into polytheism.

The actual early Israelite religion was polytheistic, had temple prostitutes, burned cannabis for ritual purpose, and very likely had child sacrifice - probably of the first born.

Could include the bite marks from the teenager he orally raped.

Ya know, I’d rather just have plain text website designed for 4 gb or less. I’ve never been in the financial position to have 16 gbs, and it’s far worse now. I just want to not be denied access to text because all websites want to secretly run so much JavaScript and all the other shit. Eventually I’ll give up on the web and just be happy on gopher and Gemini.

Most middle and high schoolers use chromebooks nowadays.

“Hate crime.”

They won’t investigate racist or homophobic murders as hate crimes, but teenagers annoying the racketeering scam masquerading as a religion is a “hate crime.”

Let’s not let the UK off the hook - just listened the Jimmy Saville behind the bastards episode, and it seems like certain types of people just get to rape kids.

Taylor Swift in particular has had thousands of pornographic pictures generated of her, which is fucked up.

The Department of Defense wouldn’t hire me to teach because I’m trans lol. Wonder if the kiddy diddler would pass their background check.

I’m moving states to be even be allowed to teach. I would absolutely lose my current position if it I was outed.

I’ve heard of vigilante groups doing it for content. There was a case I remember from last year where a man was attacked - the person he was talking to never claimed to be underage, but was a group of people trying to make something for a YouTube channel or something. Didn’t find the article, but the search terms “innocent” “pedobait” and “vigilante” provide enough search results to suggest that it might be a problem.

In Russia, Ghana, and undoubtedly other countries but those are ones I’ve read specific examples of recently - it’s not uncommon for gaybashers to get on apps like Grindr and get entirely away with it. Likely that one of the strats is to claim to be pedobaiting.

Might run into more problems at the school board meeting (this one is from Tennessee)

God, You Are Hot’: US School Board Member To Teen Girl Student During Public Meeting

Perhaps one could even build a second FAA, to create more opportunities for training for civilian ATCs… but that would make Oklahoma very sad.

I listen to Knowledge Fight too, and I’m pretty sure there was the whole bit about him not pissing on the kids graves. Maybe you can count that more on the talking shit about court proceedings, but I’m pretty sure there have been multiple times I’ve heard since the court rulings that he’s also suggested the dad of one of the victims was intellectually disabled within the last year.

Fixed. Darn phone crashes when I change tabs.

Trump appointed judge fuckery.

The deal was made with the victims consent. I think more than the money, the goal is to get him to leave them alone, which requires de platforming because he just won’t fucking stop. He continues to defame the victims on air pretty routinely.

Watch the Trial of Tim Heidecker and then clips from Alex’s trial and it’s spot on. If the Trial of Tim Heidecker hadn’t came out first, you would have sworn it was a parody of Alex.

You’ve clearly never worked in a university biology lab.

Out doing fieldwork Graduate student: “Hey [my name], smell my finger!”

Turns out, certain species of ant smells like blue cheese if you crush it.

My favorite was a post grad that let a tick feed off her for a week to prove it could prey on humans.

RFK Jr is the kind of unhinged mind that did deserve better. That doesn’t make the perhaps thousands to millions of deaths that we will be able to trace back to him both directly and indirectly less reprehensible, but I really have had very similar conversations to the one you just tried to “reductio ad absurdio” describe.