Your conviction is wrong because space bunnies don't need atmosphere. Big Bunny made them that way.

As an atheist, I am completely confident in saying that while it is theoretically possible that some entity or force that could be described as "god" or "godlike" might exist, I am absolutely certain that the patriarchal god of middle-eastern sheep-herders is not and can not be it.

That god is just too absurd, too far from any description of reality, and far too self-contradictory.....and, if by some horrible chance the world is far fucking weirder than it seems to be and that god did exist, then it would be an evil god deserving our hatred and resistance, not our worship.

it's not a choice between a) not believing in god(s) and b) believing in YOUR god. There are far more possibilities than that, an infinite variety of god delusions - and many gods that are, while just as fictitious as yours, far more credible.

1. a god that communicates only through "ephemeral" "meta-communication" is either a retard or too ludicrous to believe in.

2. Mother Teresa was a sadistic psychopath.

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At one time opium was legal in the US. It was banned due to serious problems with it's abuse.

it was banned because it was popular with chinese immigrants, thus giving police (and the white society who owned them) the power to harass imprison them

Alcohol was at one time banned as well but it proved too popular to ban.

alcohol was too popular with WHITES to remain banned.

Having received morphine and other opiates in hospital for intense pain, i can assure you that it is indeed very pleasurable. One moment you are in excruciating pain, the next in bliss. I've tried street heroin once too, many years ago and IMO it wasn't anywhere near as good or pleasurable as the morphine - probably because i wasn't in any significant physical or emotional pain at the time....it certainly wasn't even good enough to be worth bothering to repeat the experience.

i've also had numerous prescriptions for oxycodone (aka "hillbilly heroin", reputedly far more addictive than heroin) for chronic pain management over the years, and have managed to remain non-addicted (i.e. i take it when i'm in pain and don't even think about it when i'm not in pain). this is because aside from occasional bouts of excruciating pain, my life isn't terrible.

It has been proven many times that addiction is a result of miserable living conditions - social, economic, and/or psychological - not a result of the drugs themselves. the addiction is to the relief of pain, whether physical or psychological.

you say that as if addiction itself is an inherently and undeniably bad thing, but just stop and think about that for a minute: as long as the addict has a good, clean supply what's so bad about addiction?

in any case, addiction is a result of miserable social and economic conditions rather than any drug - this has been proven in numerous studies.

the first, due to happen right now, is a bunch of smug posts claiming that programmers are too smart and talented for anything like that to happen to them. obsolescence is for the merit-less poor, people doing crappy non-programming, non-geek jobs - people who actually deserve to be treated like shit. it could never happen to them, they're far too important.

in a few years, when it is actually happening to them, there'll be a bunch of whining posts about how unfair it is that programmers have to compete with machines for their jobs, that was never supposed to happen to the super-smart, super-talented entitled rich white dudes...they'll all be crying something like "Google, why hast thou forsaken me?"

even then, these stupid entitled fucks will cling to their idiotic libertarian beliefs and refuse to believe that the owner class, the 1%, the bosses, the venture capitalists don't give a fuck about them and never have - if they think of programmers at all it's with resentment that they currently need some people who are difficult to replace....all worker units are meant to be slot-in replacements for each other, and they'll invest large sums of money to make sure that's the case for everyone.

it's bullshit. they're not "democratizing" anything, because selling a product and democracy are completely unrelated.

the word they should have used was "commercialise". or perhaps "commoditise". either of those are far more appropriate in that context, and actually make sense.

but they sound like grubby self-centred commercialism in comparison to something noble and uplifting like democratise.

you know what the problem is with the "everyone else is an arsehole so i have to be an arsehole too" excuse?

the problem is that you're still an arsehole. and a lame excuse is still just a lame fucking excuse.

wrong. on multiple counts.

firstly, i have no objection at all to laws banning smoking inside buildings - even dens of stupidity like casinos. but not because second-hand smoke is harmful to passersby and others who experience short-term or casual exposure, but because *workers* shouldn't have to spend hours trapped in *prolonged* exposure - unlike casual exposure there is some evidence of that causing health problems. employers have an obligation to provide a safe workplace for their employees and that includes reducing or eliminating the risk of toxic exposure. customers and other visitors can leave whenever they want. employees can't, not if they want to eat or pay their bills or rent.

as for vaping, there's no harm from that so there's absolutely no justification for banning it anywhere - it doesn't even smell bad.

secondly, i'm not a smoker, i'm an ex-smoker. unlike many ex-smokers, i don't need to bolster my will-power by demonising cigarettes or smokers. i don't like the smell of cigarette smoke any more, but that's MY problem...same as it's my problem that i can't stand most perfumes including the ghastly crap in stuff like shampoo, and absolutely loathe the smell of petrol and, even worse, diesel. i wouldn't want to be trapped in an enclosed space with any of them but out in the open I don't have any right to impose my preferences on anyone else, especially not by redefining the law merely so that i don't have to smell bad smells.

So take your sanctimonious bullshit attitude and shove that up your fucking arse.

ps: casinos are for fucking idiot losers who refuse to understand even the most basic statistics so who gives a shit what happens to them, anyway? in that situation, any health problems from second hand smoke are merely evolution in action.

it's also useless for 99.99999% of the illnesses that those pharmaceuticals are used for. cannabis is a useful treatment for some diseases. it's not a panacea. nothing is.

"natural" is not a synonym for "better" or "harmless". those who think it is are idiots - for example, i once knew one idiot hippy who routinely kept her child sedated with valerian and thought it was OK because "valerian is natural"

you know what else is "natural"? strychnine from the nux vomica plant is fucking natural.

so by your "logic", we should ban cars and trucks that use petrol or diesel - both of which cause far more damage to people forced to breathe the exhaust fumes than smoking or especially vaping. diesel exhaust is especially dangerous - highly carcinogenic.

btw, even for actual smoking, second-hand smoke has no health effect on casual exposure. there has been a small effect proven for people forced to work for long hours in extremely smoky environments (like bars were before smoking bans) - workplace regulations enforcing adequate ventilation would have been at least as effective as smoking bans.

and anyone who cares that much about corporate branding exercises is a fucking moron.

you may as well stop wasting your time - he thinks that because some marketing vermin use "exponential" to mean "magical and amazing" that that actually supercedes the word's real meaning.

this kind of idiocy is. of course, a triumph of image over substance...marketing can redefine reality to suit itself and where reality disagrees, it is reality that is wrong.

now lets see him release audio and video recordings of every meeting and informal chat that lobbyists and corporate representatives have with him, and all correspondence to and from them too.