Well, if it's true, you were using another name, because "Facebones" doesn't show up in any of the modlogs.

Weird how "trust me, bro" suddenly became the standard of proof today.

I want to see someone replicate the results of a prayer.

What religion changes its dogma when new information arises? I can’t think of one.

Hey now, that's unfair! It only took Mormons a little under 150 years to decide that black people were allowed in Heaven!

Who told you that? Name, quote, date, and source, please.

I've got a friend who's otherwise a great guy, but his anxiety disorder is just bonkers bad. Climate change is terrifying to him, so he copes by just straight-up refusing to believe that it's a big deal. It can be solved by planting a bunch of trees, or spraying some kind of plastic particles into the atmosphere to reflect the sunlight ("It's been tested in Alaska! It works! But the government shut it down!"), or by some as-yet-unrevealed technology that's just around the corner.

Also, he's incredibly, unreasonably mad at Al Gore for making An Inconvenient Truth and will insist that he was wrong about literally everything and should never have opened his mouth.

I have to make a concerted effort not to argue with him too much, because I'm pretty sure that if I actually convinced him, he'd self-harm out of fear of the future.

I honestly think he's just a more extreme, slightly-more-self-aware version of how most conservatives feel about the climate change issue. It's scary, so it can't be true.

The man literally, openly wants me to die.

I'm not allowed to reciprocate?

Fuck that.

I was planning a long road trip that I could have done all at once, but decided to break into two days with a hotel stay somewhere near the middle. I was on a bit of a budget, so when I found a room for ~$60, I was thrilled.

When I got there, the shower handle was plumbed backwards (so the "Cold" direction was hot), the first towel on the rack had brown splatters that were very clearly old blood stains, and while I was showering a big roach wandered up onto the lip of the shower like "S'up, bro," then meandered off like he did this sort of thing every day.

The bed was about as cushy as a gym floor mat, the pillows were bricks, and when I sat down on the desk chair to put on my shoes, the whole thing just about collapsed under me.

The review I left said: "The best $10 hotel room that $60 can buy," and since then I just make all my road trips in one go if I can't afford to spend at least $100 for a hotel room.

Glass is half full!

...because the top half boiled off....

I honestly don't think more than about 30 upvotes worth of my 70,000 comment karma are anything actually useful. Most of it is acerbic takes on current events and the shitty Reddit in-jokes I post reflexively at exactly the right time.

But future Reddit visitors won't know that. I plan to edit them to sound like they were about to say something really advicey, super handy to read, then mid-sentence "...[this comment has been deleted because the user moved to kbin]."

This is why all the old people I know are constantly afraid of "criminals" and continue to bitch about "courts just letting murderers go" and shit, because the news keeps telling them that nothing has changed since 1985. Not a single one of them ever believes me when I tell them that national violent crime rates haven't been this low since the late 1960's to early 1970's.

Why do they need to know?

See a post, upvote it, comment on it. It's functionally exactly the same as where they came from. The nuances are dramatically unimportant unless or until someone decides they want to use the platform in a more advanced, detailed way, which is going to be like 5% of us.

There's literally no reason to explain the concept of federation at all unless someone specifically asks "Hey, how can I do this more advanced thing?" The cat pictures are all right here, on my screen, and I can comment on them the exact same way I did on reddit. The only difference is that the interface is a little rougher around the edges at the moment.

Awesome. Can you guys just ban me now, or do I have to start a "defederate the fashy chuds" thread first?