Thoughts On Realistic Hope

"Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of great superiority from this very cowardice itself." - Simone de Beauvoir

YouTube video by What Now? with Trevor Noah The Anxious Generation with Jonathan Haidt | What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast

Something to consider; how have we primed future generations for exactly the authoritarianism they're now being offered.

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Sunlight is the best disinfectant!

‘The West will lead’: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming team up on nuclear energy development • Stateline Utah state leaders are taking the next steps in their efforts to make Utah a major nuclear energy development hub and a “national leader” in developing next-generation energy technology.

I fought hard against nuclear energy in the 90s when what we had to show for its development were badly designed facilities & horrible waste management. With all improvements made (see France, in particular) it's become a truly viable, environmentally friendly, option.

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Time for a good ol' sit in!

YouTube video by Miami Herald Jim Morin: Bomb Iran

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What they said.

Or will they be getting a piece of it somewhere, too?

Making Sense of Interoception How we perceive what’s happening inside our bodies and what that means for our health

Because neuroscience is amazing and we all need more than politics in our feeds:

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Marks calendar for May 9:

Exactly.

Bye Bye Paywall - Paywalls umgehen! Paywalls von Magazinen einfach umgehen.

Just a handy tool I thought I'd share for folks frustrated by paywalls. It's in German, but you can translate the page if you need to. I think it's pretty self-explanatory even without translation.

Just paste the url and pick the provider that works/you like.

byebyepaywall.com

Make it make sense.

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I would also be interested in that answer, as I think many of us would be.

You can thank Ronnie Raygun and his asshole buddies for killing that exact principle.

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AND, if you're a God botherer who wants to shout that not all of you are the problem? Prove it! In obvious ways, along with the rest of us.
Do something in and for your communities that has no "but you have to come to church" clause.

This. Applied to anything this strategy is used on.