That’s only if they feel like they have to care about being “fair”. Or attempting to have ethics or agree on having a social contract.

They no longer care.

It is already well-known that requiring the Ten Commandments in the classroom is unconstitutional. They don’t think it matters or welcome the fight on it.

for some reason

Definitely one major reason has been that there’s been an incredibly effective propaganda machine constantly telling people that’s the case. It started taking off in the 90s.

That’s really nice.

We’ve also lost a lot of this, which is a shame.

I’d love to be part of bringing back being able to disagree with people on issues but still treat each other well. Like people.

I do try to remember to try. We all should.

Did he like them after that?

Because

They didn’t say that and you know they didn’t say it even imply it. You’re just being shitty.

The average voter has no air conditioning…?

It’s actually really nice to see these replies, with so many upvotes, and him with so many downvotes.

I’ve been getting really burned out on these guys crawling up and down any “positive” post. Usually getting voted up pretty highly.

Then quit arguing about it. Jesus.

That god would be a sick fucker, if so.

Ooo, like planetary orbits.

Yes.

Clearly not.

I find this a seemingly straight-forward point I’ve never gotten a religious person to acknowledge.

99.99999% of people follow the religion they do because their parents did. Not because it’s true. That Christian, that Hindu, that Jew. It’s just because they were told it was true at birth.

If their religion was actually the Truth, why would that be the case…?

For the same sort of reasons there are (generally) 12 months in a year and there are 7 days on a calendar, and for the same reason that “John” is a name, and why London is placed where it is, and etc?

Because some dudes decided some stuff, and some other dudes decided some stuff influenced like that, and so on. And some stuff got changed, and some stuff was inconvenient to change or there was no real reason to change it.

The year is ironic in the exact context you quoted I guess. But the days of the week and many months were named for other mythologies.

Doesn’t sound like you know much about atheists.

but it seems to me that even a damn dog can make a creative guess about how the world works

…it can?

Yeah, I got super lucky that I bought my first place in 2011 when the prices in my area had been decimated and juuust really starting to recover. If I’d bought today it’d be a struggle to get anything close to what I have.

I remember someone on here telling everyone they were stupid and whiney because they weren’t just buying cheap houses and fixing them up like he did.

Turned out he did the same as me - found some really outrageous deals because he bought just after the housing market collapsed in 2008. And couldn’t understand that…this was not an option in 2023/24

With the things you tried it did.

Believe me, I was part of a team testing compatibility.

Which is weird, since Win2k definitely had lower hardware compatibility than XP, Vista, 7, etc.

It wasn’t consumer-focused and just didn’t have the driver compatibility from vendors yet.