Man I wish more politicians were godless. As it stands, atheists and "nones" are still grossly under represented at all levels, even relative to the number that exist in the county.

Average citizens won't necessarily call themselves atheist, but even if you include agnostics and "nones" and other unaffiliated people, it's somewhere around 30%. In Congress, it's four people (which is better than last Congress when it was just mother fucking Kristen Sinema.). It's worse than pretty much every other religious categorization.

Here's an article on it: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/01/02/faith-on-the-hill-2025/

Not sure if we know for sure yet. I do know that it's not as much a gain from Millennials to Zs, though I don't recall the numbers. Internet babies definitely saw a nice gain, though.

Huh, no, I was saying the opposite. But there are easy alternatives aside from 0.07 x 250, like (0.07 x 1000) / 4.

My stepdad jokes Clinton was his favorite Republican president. This is the reason why. Lol

Oddly enough, he only voiced Spyro once or twice and Tom Kenny ended up doing the remake and a couple games. Spyro has had way too many different VAs, lol.

Not to bum you out but the 90s being good is because you were a kid. For example, in '96, they were "cracking down on welfare queens" in a bipartisan welfare reform effort that specifically fucked over poor folk and people of color in a conservative effort to force work requirements while simultaneously making it harder to claim disability.

You still had racial redlining, war on drugs, satanic panic, homophobia, child abuse, bullying, etc... people were just less informed because the Internet was in its infancy.

Actually let me put a positive spin for young people; today is probably better (on average) to grow up because of all the advances in education, medicine, psychology, etc.; people actually have their psychological needs addressed more, die of illness less, and are generally more educated than in the 90s-- hell, every generation is about 10-15 IQ higher than the previous, you just don't see it since it's standardized and set to 100. Not that IQ is a great metric for intelligence, but it's a good indicator that people are more educated than previously.

I mentioned in another thread about this that they did use laws that were on the books but clearly gave disgustingly long sentences. Since it's "terrorism" they get to do additional bullshit; I was a teen in the Bush years but even I knew the whole anti-terrorism stuff was going to get abused.

Drugs. They sell or traffic drugs. That's usually how mysterious sources of income work, especially when you're investigating how he was murdered.

I don't really care about this. But, I do like when I see progressive politicians do pop culture style (that isn't cringe), like what Mamdani does now and again. No AI needed in that case, just cheesy video transitions and a sense of humor.

Y'all nasty.

That said, my worst recently was parmesan cheese in soup after having vomited from norovirus. It tastes like vomit in the wrong context...

I'm sure it's not the nastiest thing, but it's what comes to mind. I have a brother and we dared each other to eat stuff as kids, but I cannot recall...

I think people want to share and be heard so they will speak a bit more than you'd want, but I feel on average it's neutral and we just put a negative spin on some responses because of our own perception.

But then again, there will be people who simply hate you for being you (e.g. tankies on .ml), just like any other social media (e.g. maga on X). The flavor of hate people are allowed to spew is based on moderation, and by that metric, I still prefer moderation on the fediverse over most corporate options.

I was waiting in a car in front of a math tutoring building and was doing the math problems advertised on their window (as one does, of course) and the 7% of 250 is indeed probably easiest as 250% of 7, aka 2.5x7, which is 17.5.

I did it a few other ways, though. 7% of 1000 is 70, then divide by 4 for 17.5. Well, more like, divide by 2 for 35 and again for 17.5, but yeah... mental math is fun.