Because some people use it as a thin veil over their actions doesn’t mean it’s the root cause

I firmly disagree with this premise, I think religion’s particular mix of social othering and righteous justification are the root of a great deal of evil in the world.

You have to get kinda close for spell-check to step in and it’s really bad at fixing problems at the beginning of a word.

What a religion calls for is almost never what it enables.

how is the world a better place because the banned prayer rooms in universities?

I don’t think public funds should support any religion, and I don’t think universities should support unsubstantiated claims.

Antisemitism doesn’t happen without religion. Think about everything downstream of the Judaism/Christianity/Islam splits. Think about the impact of The Church being the de facto cultural force in Europe for a millennium. Think about how much harder it is to whip a population into supporting your expensive conquest without a Divine Right or Moral Imperative. Sikhism exists because of how shitty life was under Islam and Hinduism in the region, their current “mostly chill” status does not negate the past suffering.

And in a broader sense, consider how much fraud exists because people are willing to accept claims not backed by evidence. The normalization of magical thinking is probably as harmful as the actual power wielded by entities like the Catholic Church.

I don’t think the good comes anywhere close to balancing the evils justified by religion.

I think they wanted “sovereign”

I don’t think you need to be a very good welder for that particular project.

It’s all made up bullshit anyway, they can declare whatever “rules” they want.

Ugh. Pascal’s Wager for technophiles.

The argument is that there is no “you” without memory.

You think that guy is “dominating the industry”?

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John Kellogg salivating in his grave.

Unironically one of the worst human beings in history.

Weird how every time the region tries to be more autonomous they’re violently opposed by right-wing authoritarians and that has short-term impacts on morale.

“I thought that hairy, man-sized biped was a deer” is a lot less compelling as a legal defense.

How dare people write fiction with icky things in it.

One-day strikes are the same as one-day protests. Good visibility and networking but no actual pressure on their own. Ideally a general atrike would be “indefinite until our demands are met” but the US doesn’t have enough class unity or social safety net for that right now.

(Context for people not in the PNW, Mox Boarding House is a board game and card shop with an attached restaurant.)

When you have the space for it sure, but urinal stalls seem like an exorbitant luxury 99% of the time I need to pee. I’m fine with a wall-to-wall stainless steel trough.