WoodScientist [she/her]

This is insane, even for him. “Veterans Day” was originally called “Armistice Day” before war-mongering politicians got a hold of it. The people who actually fought World War One knew the truth. There were no victors in that war. And there weren’t even veterans worth holding up as national idols. The bravest never made it home. That war was a grinding attritional Hell on Earth. The veterans coming home were not victorious heroes, fresh from the triumphal capture of an enemy nation’s capital. They were shell-shocked survivors, the ones who just happened to be lucky enough to still be alive when the buzzer rang and the war ended. And it ended not from triumphal victory, but from politicians suing for peace. An action they only took when they felt that if they didn’t, their people would end up eating them alive. They pushed their populaces to the absolute brink of collapse, all for nothing. No grand victories. Nothing to make the immense loss of life possibly seem worth it. No, in immediate aftermath of that war? There was only one thing really worth celebrating - the fact that it was over. That is why it was originally called Armistice Day.

But “Victory Day.” That is a disgrace to everyone who fought and died in that war. There were no victors in that war. One side nominally won when the other’s resources ran out first. But the immense cost in suffering, lives, national wealth? None of the combatants left that war in a better state than they entered it. Everyone lost in WW1.

I wouldn’t mind volunteering to pick crops…if the food I pick will be given away for free.

Maybe they shouldn’t have killed or driven out all the people that maintained that land and kept it from becoming overgrown with brush and dead plant matter…

This is a very literal case of “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.”

If this were KSP, I would drop the station with the kerbonauts inside, just to see if any kerbals manage to cheat the physics engine enough to survive reentry and landing sans parachutes.

Seriously. God could have resolved the whole situation with an easy flex. Honestly he has really poor emotional control issues. Let’s imagine how he could have handled the situation better.

So he’s there. He’s sitting there on the mountain, watching them spend years building their tower up. Finally, after decades of effort, the tower is nearly complete. As the last exhausted mason finishes the last stone, he looks out, near eye-level with God. He’s about to ask God, “not so great now are you?”

But before he can, God looks on amused. Then he just laughs, taps his foot, and the mountain he’s on instantly grows a hundred times taller. The mason, and all the humans, suddenly know just how comically beneath they are to God in ability.

That’s how you put a mortal in their place without being a dick about it.

Now let’s cook the inflation data by adding goods substitution!

Thanks!

We accept that you as a trans woman are indeed, a woman. Here’s your hijab. And you damn well better be straight!

If you’re gay and you sleep with a woman, then you will burn in the PIT! Repent sinner! For such a vile act, only Christ can save you! You have gone against God’s plan for you! It is a mortal sin for a gay man to sleep with a woman!

Blahaj: Goes out of its way to defend chasers and transphobes at the cost of a significant portion of lemmy’s trans users

What did they do?

I want to see the woke religious bigot.

God wants trans people to transition! In fact, he DEMANDS it! If you’re trans and you don’t transition, you will burn in HELL for all Eternity!

It’s just positive racism. No different from thinking Asians are all good at math. Positive racism is still racism.

Don’t forget the Roman human sacrifices that they insisted totally weren’t human sacrifices!

The Romans made a big deal about not performing any form of human sacrifice. They saw it as barbaric. And yet, a culminating part of any Roman triumph involved something that was human sacrifice by another name. You ever seen recreations of a Triumph in a movie, where they’re escorting captured war prisoners bound in chains? Sure, some of those ended up as slaves. But a fair number of those marching were marched in front of the Temple of Jupiter and executed in front of it in an elaborate ritual ceremony. But no…it totally wasn’t a human sacrifice to Jupiter!

Give me a break. The Romans were no different than the Aztecs. The Aztecs were just a little more flamboyant about their human sacrifices.

It’s ultimately going to take multiple lines of evidence. Yes, there are compounds that we think are strong indicators of life; we don’t know how to explain them except for life. However, we can never rule out some other abiotic origin for that compound exists that we simply haven’t discovered yet. We don’t know what we don’t know. Abundant life however is likely to cause all sorts of these biosignature compounds to be present in an atmosphere. If we find a planet with many of these compounds, we’ll have many independent lines of evidence pointing at life being present there. That is how we are likely to finally accept that life has indeed been detected.

Another pathway that may result in the acceptance of a detection of life is us learning more about the origins of life. It’s possible as we learn more about how life started on Earth, we will discover that mechanisms to get it going make it a near inevitability where the necessary conditions exist. That would make its detection much easier to accept.

Pina colada, not to be confused with a pollo colada, which substitutes the pineapple for raw chicken.

Oh just have a heart attack already, you old coot.

Do they still give out membership cards? The only reason I might want to join the ACP is so I can literally be a card-carrying Communist.

Yup. “Autism” is simply the new “Untermensch.”

Please. At least use his full and proper name, Secretary of Transportation Booty Judge.