Ohhh, friendo, there’s about 500 million Christians in Africa that are heavily besieged by Evangelicals pushing this for the political clout. It’s rampant.

Plus, that Joel Osteen guy peddled a version of this hard.

Yeah, the widely practiced “Prosperity Gospel” stuff is like a religious studies PhD designed the most anti-Christian form of Christianity for a thesis, and suddenly people started picking it up and running with it.

Remind me which level of Hell the hypocrites are in? Is it higher or lower than the one reserved for Jesus now?

Yeah, I think that seeking simple meaning is the inevitably of growing up in the mess of being online. Being offline and finding meaning in life is the purest form of rebellion to the status quo.

The number of them fully embracing and aspiring to things like tradwive life is terrifying. Their motivations are different, but the result is very similar.

Not a stupid question.

Beyond the too far to reflect light aspect, the evidence we do have is gravitational effects to other bodies we can see and track. So there is evidence that something is out there. It’s just a matter of what and exactly where.

I think the real cross-generational parallel here going back is Boomers and cars. Their parents before WWII had the equivalent of bare bones stuff, but Boomer era cars were more complicated, but also meant status and were a hobby.

Looking forward, the Gen Z and A kids are just utterly abused by the social media that we xennials/millennial told them was a safe new requirement for life. It wasn’t. It was our leaded gasoline and secondhand smoke. However, their opportunity environment is that they don’t behave like we did as consumers. Their expectation that all media should be free and immediately available is where the world needs to bend to them. As Boomers loose their grip on the economy, open source everything is going to be the world they created for us.

We don’t need to expect everyone to learn like we did because it was a unique moment in time where tinkering got us somewhere in that specific area. But can you fix a carburetor float? No, and Boomers see your lack of awareness there the same as you see deficiencies in others.

They’re gladly letting it all burn because they lazily expect it to mean easy wins in 2026. Then they’ll manage to barely take the House and maaaaybe Senate, and literally do nothing with it.

Not shocked at all.

Source: Check list of ransomware attacks daily.

As much as I hate to say Elon might be right… The problem is that critical parts of the US government run on systems older than his goon squad. There’s actual COBOL in use, right now today, by the US government.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/outdated-and-old-it-systems-slow-government-and-put-taxpayers-risk

If Elon could fix the actual problem without being a dick about it all, no one would have a problem with any of this.

The Oracle at Delphi relied on mild asphyxiation and from natural gas coming up from a fissure in a cave, and then priests “interpreting” the babbling as a prophecy.

Elder Millenials and young Gen X can have all 3 if they grew up near a busy highway in a home built before the 1980s.

Yep, I did mean that. Thanks!

It’s supposed to be an emergency solution.

However, megawatts of power generation isn’t exactly something that can be thrown together in a couple weeks. It can take months to stabilize a grid to the pint the ship can disengage.

Edit: mega, not kilo. I was thinking too small.

Isn’t it that rapping cartoon dog from the PS1?

The Red Sea is actually just another rift valley along the same edge of the plate. It just filled in with water first.

A friend of mine went from a school in the US to a French school, and when she said there were 7 continents, everyone including the teacher made fun of her.

Dogmatism goes both ways.

We separate Europe, Asia, and Africa because the Ancient Greeks invented the boundaries and terms, and the Romans kept them up.

They lived in the area, so for them, these boundaries were just names given to land on either side of major bodies of water: the Nile, the Black Sea and Rioni river, and the Mediterranean.

They considered Egypt part of Asia for a while, and anything south of the Med as the landmass “Libya.” The Romans kept up the same definitions as maps expanded, and just extrapolated from there.

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