The “simple oppressed people” kinda loses its touch when they daily fire dozens of rockets indiscriminately at Israel. They don’t even have targets, just trying to cause as much destruction as possible.

What a fucking awful headline. There’s no way to read that without thinking that the woman selling her apartment somehow triggered the cruise being canceled. Why even include that bit in the headline?

I think that’s why I could never fully latch on to atheism. To believe there is no power behind the universe is madness. Of course there’s a higher power! One whose power not only created the universe, but has determined it’s every action and outcome since creation. It is an absolute power, there is not a single atom in this universe that can go against it. It is omnipotent, it has already determined the future and it’s path can not be changed. It controls the thoughts, actions, dreams, and beliefs of every living being.

The funny thing is, for all the arguments and wars about religion, humanity has known about this God for over a millennia; and over the years our understanding of it has only grown. We even gave it an agreed upon name.

We call it Physics.

we have no idea what makes it do that

Isn’t it the alignment of molecules in a material so that their electrical charges are all oriented in the same direction, thus attracting the opposite charged ions of other molecules in other objects towards the corresponding side of the magnet material? That’s why magnetism only affects materials like iron where the molecules naturally form in a uniform orientation during it’s transition from solid to liquid, and not other material that has a more random orientation.

I mean, I guess when you really boil it down, there may still be some question as to why positively charged ions are attracted to negatively charged ions in the first place. But then we’re getting into quantum mechanics which is way deeper of an answer than a grade schooler would be looking for and so far down the rabbit hole that making a claim like “we dont know how magnets work” is only true in the technical sense. And by that, I mean it holds as much truth as “we don’t know how anything works”.

“Should I accept responsibility? No, I’ll just double down.”

WHY DO ARTICLES ABOUT VIDEOS NEVER POST THE FUCKING VIDEO?!?!

I hate the term earth-like when all they really mean is rocky surface with signs of maybe water.

Nevermind if it’s a frozen wasteland. Nevermind if it’s atmosphere is made of sulphuric acid like Venus. Nevermind if it’s so close to it’s star that it’s tidally locked and half of it is a constant inferno. It’s “earth-like”!

Ah, human rights abuses. Got it. That’s been common knowledge for quite a while now. If you had to have John Oliver point it out to you, you were living with your head in the sand.

I thought it was some new information about it containing lead or something.

Look, damn near EVERYTHING these days is tied to human rights abuses. Food, rubber, electronics, clothing, meat, chemicals. As humans, we just aren’t evolved to handle the sort of horrible complexity that our society presents. Trying to be an ethical consumer takes a crazy amount of research and sacrifice and, to be blunt, doesn’t change a god damn thing. It’s all too interconnected and people don’t have large enough attention spans.

Here’s what I mean by that: Let’s say everyone suddenly decides that yea, cocoa harvesting practices are a big problem and we should all stop buying chocolate. Well, large corporations don’t really care about the day-to-day opinions of consumers. They have contracts that are often up to a year long specifically to hamper things like boycotts. So it doesn’t matter if demand drops, they still get to sell X tons of product at Y price. Now, you can say that when it comes time to renegotiate the contract, they might get less. But when have you ever seen the public rally behind an issue and have it be relevant for more than 3 months? After a year, most people will have forgotten or stopped caring about the boycott and demand will be right back where it was before.

How many times have people tried to boycott companies like Nestle or General Mills? Just last year there was a boycott on Starbucks for their anti-union practices; people that were ADAMANT that they’d never have starbucks again flocked to the stores for their latest holiday special drink.

I guess my point is, we no longer live in a society, we’re held captive by it. I’m going to keep eating chocolate.

Takes a special breed of racist to discriminate against Native Americans.

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Long story short, don’t shop on Black Friday for deals in electronics.

Note, this does not apply if you use responsible stores like Micro Center.

Copyleft violences.

Retrieved, not reused.

That and companies like EA where a big chunk of their income comes from various sports games that they half ass a remake of every year. PC gamers don’t touch those, but there’s a large number of people with consoles who only use it for things like FIFA and will continue to dutifully buy the new ones and spend dumb amounts of money to unlock their favorite players.

LGBT Pride is not for those who celebrate it.

It’s for all those who couldn’t or can’t.

I feel like there’s a lot of variables here. I am making some assumptions here, but as an example, I don’t think the hospitals in Gaza would have things like multiple MRI’s or CT Scanners that you would find in more developed areas. Those things require a pretty large amount of power. I know a lot of hospitals in undeveloped regions often only have one, sometimes none at all.

I think the only thing that can give some perspective is how big the diesel tanks are at the hospital. How much does 300L fill them? If that’s like a quarter or less of their total capacity, then yea, that’s not enough. But if that fills them by over half, then I kind of get it. You can only deliver so much at a time if you don’t want trucks of fuel parked outside the hospital, which just seems like a bad idea for many reasons.

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Out of curiosity, what did you feel the need was?

“This data shows that military service members and our veterans want Americans to go beyond small talk to connect with them on a deeper level, including learning more about their service, honoring each veteran’s service in ways in which they feel comfortable talking about it,” Robert F. Whittle Jr., retired Army major general and United Services Automobile Association (USAA) chief of staff, said in a statement.

Or maybe, just maybe, the data shows that most people just want to be left the fuck alone and don’t want to have to interact with strangers at all.

Those bastards lied to me

Yes, that is the plot to Jurassic Park.