The fact that we as a species are still here and currently living in a society with things like the internet indicates two things:
The drive to procreate is powerful
That drive often overrides a lot of rational thought - I mean have you met our society?
Too few people grapple with this level of self-awareness. Fewer still make the hard choice when confronted with the ugly truth.
Salute, fellow investigator.
Shout out Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue LED. Kinda broke the whole thing wide open.
The way they seem to approach enforcing this legislation seems to be very thoughtful, but this is uncomfortably close to prosecuting thought crime.
Singapore, as ever, is an interesting and novel place.
I generally sort by everything:12 hour and feel that I get a pretty good and relatively ‘clean’ cross section of the content.
I beg your pardon. I thought your comment was a dark observation on the softening effect of Global Warming on Russian winters.
They are technically still on the way, on day 117 of an epic, unplanned, and wholly uncontrolled kite-surfing misadventure.
Oof, pyrrhic as fuck
Well we’re all benefitting from it by sharing in your mild infuriation. Thank you for your service.
Did you have one epically infuriating shopping trip spread out across multiple posts or are parking lots part of your beat?
Muldoon added that Google “encourages employees to use their time and skills to volunteer for causes they care about.”
This is a great brush off but as a general statement is so broad it could come back to bite them in a big way.
I am happy with their actions but highly skeptical of their motivations.
Bet you turned your MBE in years ago.
Well, that was a valiant attempt to establish a cohesive through-line to your various points. Let’s just chalk it up to my poor reading comprehension and let it go there. Have a good one.
Not too surprising really. Those things were not the problem and not what drove most of us away so…it would be natural to try to rebuild the aspects of it that you liked.
This is borderline KenM. I almost want to upvote you.
This is what I was responding to, and I could swear you wrote it (emphasis mine):
Still shouldn’t be pretending that crusty old useless institutions have anything of value to add.
So are you even sure what point you are trying to make? You say they can’t add value, I suggest they can, and your response is that just because they can doesn’t mean they do, and…yeah? But what does that have to do with your original point? Do we need to start over?
Or I can engage on your new point. It is valuable for the Catholic Church to change their stance, and that value is not diminished by the fact that they had to, as you say, be dragged kicking and screaming. If their old view was harmful and their new view is less harmful, then that has value, and based on their reach, substantial value that could translate into a better overall quality of life for many, many people.
Whats not valuable is shitting all over anyone who wasn’t as quick to be as awesome as you are. You’re just spreading poison. No one is asking you to admire the Catholic Church, least of all me, but there is nothing at all wrong with speaking supportively about a good thing, even if it is too late and not enough.
You hate the catholic church - got it, so do I. You wish they didn’t exist, well ditto but guess what they fucking do. Complaining about their existence on a thread about them making a tiny bit of progress is just high school edgelord shit.
If you were proposing to create a crusty old institution where there previously were none, I would agree they have no value to add.
But as an imbedded institution that has centuries of built up influence - right or wrong, those institutions can add a lot of value, particularly in cases like this where they are being led someone who is progressive relative to the mainstream of said institution.
If we scoff at any progress that isn’t ‘enough’ progress, we will find it tough to find a broad base of support to eventually get to ‘enough’.
This is the perfect description.