We are a Christian nation

MAGAs are fake Christians, ignore most of Bible, especially all the "don't be greedy" and "don't be an asshole" scriptures. You worship Fox Jesus, not the real Jesus.

Jesus said NOTHING about LGBTQ+, yet belted the shit out of greedy money changers grifting in the temple lobby. Trump would probably be one of the belties if he were alive then. The plutocrats want you to forget about the second and focus on the first so that you allow them to continue to sin and grift. Many don't even believe in your fairytales, they just swindle you for money and votes.

You are TalibanJelicals. Stay in the hills, keep your stupidstition out of our towns, and drink all the Ivermectin you want! We want nothing to do with you ignorant gullible haters. #DontTouchMagas

So your argument is "we can bigly suck because YOU guys also bigly suck"?

until they pass the basics. If they have to take remedial courses, so be it. Graduate at 21 if necessary.

in rot mode now. No better evidence than more than half of the US voted for the orange one.

This 'splains it:

TFA: "One of the course's tutors noted that students faced more issues with "logical thinking" than with math facts per se. They didn't know how to begin solving word problems."

One's gender shouldn't be the govt's fucking business at school. Tell the Talibanjelicals to keep their religion to their OWN asses, I don't believe in your Fox Jesus.

So? Healthcare is actually good for people.

AI slop is a negative, an actual detriment to society.

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another." --Malcolm Reynolds

(Ironically applies well to Joss Whedon himself. Kind of wonder if one of the show writers was thinking about Joss when they wrote that...)

The only single-source point of failure is me.

Probably much better in hilly terrain both up and downhill than diesel trucks.

You can, although i dont recomend it. That said, repurposing old macs into home servers is something I've seen a fair bit of.

I *suppose* the mac minis could be quite useful for an office mac if you have a primarily mac infrastructure, but Apple have discontinued MacOS Server since 2022, so YMMV

Its shocking how ingrained this has become for some people. I still occasionally use twitter, although not much anymore because its become a shockingly hostile place for most people, but I saw the other day some poor woman getting the shit kicked out of her because she made the fatal mistake of posting about finally getting her PhD on a *very* interesting looking paper about the evolution of cooperative behavior in ants. And the comments where just stacked with people telling her its a stupid topic and how she should be having babies and getting married instead of being a scientist.

Now, yes some of that was *definately* sexist nonsense. But theres also an underlying massive hostility towards intelligence and intellectuals, and its so disheartening to see, because it feels like we're slipping back into a new dark ages. I saw one person refered to it as the "Endarkenment".

Just teeth grinding imbiciles raging against knowledge because it might contradict their idiotic views on vaccines or whatever.

2/3 - not bad. Soy sauce is super-processed by bacteria over a year, I believe.

A raw carrot
Pringles
Soy sauce

Are all foods for sale tested before they can go on sale? I don't think so but how about this is introduced? Manufacturers of things intended to be ingested (let's not go so far as to say 'food') could pay a nominal fee which is a function of the number and quality of ingredients.

Then, on some random schedule, a random selection of foods is collected from random sales locations and a random proportion of those tested by a party other than the one collecting the items - to ensure against an emissionsgate-type scam (i.e. quality is good on submission for testing but reverts back to shady-low-quality ingredients for everyone else) or collaboration between the collector and the producer.

Voila! Food manufacturers are incentivised to provide good-quality food.

Lincoln was a Free Soiler. He may have had a moral aversion to slavery, but it was secondary to his economic concerns. He believed that slavery could continue in the South but should not be extended into the western territories, primarily because it limited economic opportunities for white laborers, who would otherwise have to compete with enslaved workers.

From an economic perspective, he was right. The Southern slave system enriched a small aristocratic elite—roughly 5% of whites—while offering poor whites very limited upward mobility.

The politics of the era were far more complicated than the simplified narrative of a uniformly radical abolitionist North confronting a uniformly pro-secession South. This oversimplification is largely an artifact of neo-Confederate historical revisionism. In reality, the North was deeply racist by modern standards, support for Southern secession was far from universal, and many secession conventions were marked by severe democratic irregularities, including voter intimidation.

The current coalescence of anti-science attitudes and neo-Confederate interpretations of the Civil War is not accidental. Both reflect a willingness to supplant scholarship with narratives that are more “correct” ideologically. This tendency is universal—everyone does it to some degree—but in these cases, it is profoundly anti-intellectual: inconvenient evidence is simply ignored or dismissed. As in the antebellum South, this lack of critical thought is being exploited to entrench an economic elite. It keeps people focused on fears over vaccinations or immigrant labor while policies serving elite interests are quietly enacted.

Splitting isn't a perfect solution, but better than what we have now. Lincoln made a mistake, should have let the South go. Sanctions could be used by both Europe and the North half to expire slavery.