Paul

Yep, I'm a former Catholic/high church Episcopalian and I stopped going after getting confirmed. My parents were fine with this! Once my younger sister was confirmed, they stopped going every Sunday too. I had a very different experience with Christianity than former Evangelicals I've known.

"Belief in a personal God is illogical; educated people are logical; ergo educated people who claim to believe in a personal God must be faking it."

I think you need to examine the premises of this argument a little more carefully.

I'm probably gonna annoy legal professionals, but this thread makes me wonder if they would benefit from using LaTeX.

It would automate a lot of the formatting with the right packages, especially TOC/footnotes. There's probably already stuff up on CTAN.

On the other hand, everyone knows Word.

What the fuck weird-ass tech death band is coming up with these song titles?

I'd like to introduce you to my twins, Serenity Painted Death and Ghost of Perdition.

Press Releases | U.S. Representative Paul Tonko

Trump’s rambling speech was less a State of the Union and more of a state of delusion.

The American people deserve better than that. They deserve real action to address the challenges facing our nation, not more blatant lies.

This could be a Cannibal Corpse song.

Why on Earth would this make me frown? I'm stealing it for the next time I teach a gen ed course on the Solar System.

Pears are amazing if you eat them when they're perfectly ripe. The problem is, "perfectly ripe" is a window of, like, 45 minutes before they turn to mush.

New York, ya mook.

"We've noticed on days you do a couple lines, your heart rate increases and you socialize more!"

It is the year 2026, I am approaching 40, and I am now helping Zoomers with basic computer tasks such as entering numbers into Excel.

I've dedicated an entire 3-hour lab session for each class each semester to a lesson on "How to do basic data analysis using Excel."

And yet I *still* have students who refuse to use Excel to do calculations on their data; they do them all by hand and then type them in and I want to scream "WHY?!"

So yeah, times are fucked, but also the DARE bullshit has mostly fallen away to the point where a 70-year-old woman spent an hour laughing at milk instead of freaking out.

My mother---who was convinced of the whole gateway drug thing when I was a teenager---told me that she and my stepfather accidentally consumed THC edibles instead of CBD edibles, later went to the grocery store and spent awhile giggling at dairy products.

This is not true, being undocumented is literally not a crime in and of itself.

i guess i would like to hear the theory on which setting fire to a random dumpster advances the cause of stopping ice

What would the Bluesky equivalent of "it's in the syllabus" be?

"Whoops sorry guys, we've upped your training requirements to 30 months. You'll have to pay your recruits full salary during that time too. We're not going to budget any money for that but you can draw from the already allocated money in the BBB."

Oh, just thinking about the Fox News Extended universe and how it creates political fervor by detaching its viewers from consensus reality for no reason in particular

to be clear this happening is immediate, conclusive proof that the Senate GOP is fracturing hard over this and willing to join the Democrats on *very real, important demands* the Dems are making w/r/t restricting ICE's activity

please look forward to your regularly scheduled cavalcade of bullshit about how this is Proof that the Democrats are Unserious Spineless Quislings instead of the closest thing to an unambiguous and conclusive victory as was in reach, I did not expect them to agree to split the bills

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

there's a whole lot of people in the replies here willfully refusing to understand that a) not a single Democrat voted for the bill which is funding ICE right now and b) it didn't matter because Republicans control the government and thus enacted their reconciliation bill on a pure party-line vote.

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

It genuinely sucks that I feel like I can’t trust left wing critiques of Dems to reflect reality. I’m sure I sound to many here like a huge Dem booster, but I actually have big issues with most Dem politicians, both individually and as a group. But the amount of BS makes those topics not worth it.

Counterpoint: my Maine Coon is indistinguishable from my toddler when it comes to amount of noise made when walking normally.

Eh, took me a second to figure out "Thomas"