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Unparalleled, my ass.

Reminds me of Asimov’s Foundation.

That math process for adding the two numbers - there’s nothing wrong with it at all. Estimate the total and come up with a range. Determine exactly what the last digit is. In the example, there’s only one number in the range with 5 as the last digit. That must be the answer. Hell, I might even use that same method in my own head.

The poetry example, people use that one often enough, too. Come up with a couple of words you would have fun rhyming, and build the lines around those words. Nothing wrong with that, either.

These two processes are closer to “thought” than I previously imagined.

And this is the last we’ll ever hear about it.

If you don’t want to be punished, just stop being poor.

Wealth, corruption; toMAYto, toMAHto.

Power is never relinquished willingly.

“The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary,” the Tesla billionaire posted on X on Tuesday night.

There’s so much irony flowing off of that, you can watch the sea level rise in real time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

This is an excellent point.

… Nahhh

– SEC

It takes ~55 times more energy to go to the Sun than to Mars. Let’s not expend resources carelessly.

Wait until they find out about China.

They will, hence my original comment. When there’s a hot war going on down here, you guys are going to want to pick sides. Having strong relationships with states now whose side you’re probably going to want to pick later is a good idea.

Zionism is complicated, because “Jewish” can be a religion, nationality, culture, or ethnicity/race, or any combination of the above, depending on who is using the term and in what context.

MAGA is absolutely strongly correlated with evangelical Christianity in the US.

The areas I mentioned all have states that mostly have their shit figured out. I’m not talking about Texas and Florida and Alabama, for example.

Yes, and I’m saying that religion had very little to do with Hitler’s inherently race-based ideology, even as a cover.

Religion still does enable violence. Just because you’re citing a specific example where it arguably did not does not falsify that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement#Militancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war

And let’s not forget the Aztecs, whose religion had them subjugating their nearby enemies, capturing their people, and sacrificing them to satisfy their deities. The Aztecs were so horrible that when the Europeans showed up and kind of rolled over them, those previously subjugated city-states went fucking ham on the Aztecs, completely destroying them. And the Europeans were all “Dude, that’s harsh.”

There are certainly also plenty of non-religious cases of violence throughout history, of course, for good and bad reasons. “Because a deity ‘said so’” is never a good reason.

Aryan race stuff, as exemplified in 19th and 20th century racial superiority, actually starts with lingustics.

Yes, and I’m saying that religion had very little to do with Hitler’s inherently race-based ideology.

Okay? You’re the only one talking about that, and nobody is disagreeing with you. Although I might add that Hitler and his ilk were kind of famously into the occult. Perhaps not a religion, but certainly religious.

You folks up there should be building relationships with US state governors. New England, upper Midwest, west coast. We’re on a road to dissolution down here, be ready to work with the rational pieces after the fall.

You’ve reversed the order, and that doesn’t work.

“Religion enables violence” is not the same as “All violence is caused by religion.”

But since you’re brought up Hitler.