Talk about an institution that's outlived itself. Jeopardy may have been on the air longer, but even that still has juice in its veins. Look at SNL when it started and it's a who's who of people that would go on to bigger and better things. Now it's where acting careers go to die prematurely.
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I was thinking the hidden final boss of a Kirby game
Apparently it was one of the big Freedoms™ people would point to in the 19th century.
"What makes America so free? Why, you can manufacture what you like, print and sell anything! Copyright? Patent? Sheer humbugery!"
and it's never from any sort of principled stance or understanding of Islam, it's just because for the last twenty years Muslims have been a socially accepted punching-bag in the english-speaking world.
There's a lot of answers here, but I think this is the most useful.
There's lots of different ways to be atheist, but Reddit Atheism is a specifically Christian phenomenon; (typically) people who were raised in Protestant Christian culture, and stopped believing in God without really examining any of the other beliefs and underlying assumptions that came with it.
Perhaps I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure he describes everything about life as just a means for DNA to propagate itself. As if DNA isn't merely a component in a larger, more complex and complicated system, but as the reason for the whole thing.
Really highlights just how ass-backwards Richard Dawkins is when he suggests DNA is the begging and the end, the only thing that actually matters
yer dad, and yer dad alone, knows the mystery behind gravity
There's not a ding dang ol' pumpkin in the White House 
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it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
(hexbear.net)
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion, and it might help. (KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
It was nice to see this put so clearly. This election cycle has left me exhausted and demotivated, and this hits it square on the head.
stolen from https://grungekitty-77.tumblr.com/post/754482938951892992/fun-fact-that-was-literally-what-inspired-me-to
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International Court of Justice says Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful
(www.aljazeera.com)
written in the fucking 1970s
I thought i would try to learn to read Chinese characters. I saw a thing somewhere once that said characters are organized by the number of brush-strokes in them, so in the past you kinda had to already know what you were looking up to find anything on it. I got the internet though!
世 - this is the first character I learned, and according to Google translate, it means 'world'. Wiktionary says it means other things to, like 'society', 'generation', even 'woman' and 'marriage'?? those last two feel like they're more contextual.
[stolen from wiktionary]
seeing it written out, it makes me think first of the horizon, with pillars or towers rising above it. shadows extend from them. it makes me think if how people discovered/verified the curve of the Earth by measuring shadows, so it seems fitting.
The next one I've learned is "大", which appears to be a suffix meaning 'big/much/very'. it's supposed to look like a little guy with arms stretched out to emphasis how BIG something is! ...again, going on Wiktionary for this...
Which gives me
世大 - BIG WORLD (google thinks this says university...)
or, alternatively
Very Society :marx-joker:
...am i doing this right? Or, at least, not terribly wrong? I kinda wanna hit the point where I can read Mao or Three Body Problem in the original text.
I know it's spelled "minute". That was a typo and I am not going to fix it.
A serious party would hold the vote anyway, and withhold campaign funding from party members that act against it.
Clearly they don't hold bodily autonomy very highly, or they wouldn't be compromising on it.