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I love grumpy British humor, but I think he forgot to put in the humor.

I'm beginning to suspect that limited liability is a bad idea.

I'm not sure if an anecdote about the average Joe (billions still use Microsoft) really applies to educated techies (developers writing code). Since we are all trying to predict the future here, I guess we'll find out.

Yes, and the whole world economy is based on the climate we've had the last couple hundred years. A lot of people are going to die, because we refuse to wean ourselves off fossil fuels.

Of course that's mostly going to be poor people, and it's really hard to get rich people to care about that.

It's a media literacy issue. Headlines aren't science, and people should learn that in school.

Same issue with believing that crime is terrible now, when it's objectively not. And politicians rely on the ignorance of voters to gain power, so they have no interest in making media literacy any better.

It's not any worse than SPCX, so who knows?

Yeah. They are going to have to do something about it eventually. The Republican party used to care, or at least claim to, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. Clinton was the last president with anything even close to a balanced budget.

You may not need to say so, but people still like to gloat.

Everybody can find some government programs they like, and some they hate. I would rather my tax dollars were spent differently than they are. This is normal.

It's unclear to me that Republican unity in Congress will continue to hold if there really is a giant blue wave. It certainly isn't holding out in the infosphere, pundits are peeling off from MAGA left and right. And obviously it isn't holding among the voters.

It's very grey. Especially when it comes to newer religions. The LDS Church, for instance, was forced to give up polygamy before Utah could enter the union. The Scientologists have been very forceful at defending their faith. The Satanic Temple have done a good job of pushing back against localities which have tried to privilege the Abrahamic religions.

On the other hand, you have cases like the Native American Church which are allowed to use peyote as a sacrament, whereas other religions are not.

> You're free to exercise religion, not make things up and pretend like your private opinions are religiously imposed on you.

Isn't that how all religions start though? Someone claims to have received a message from the gods, and then converts others.

I suspect that before the invention of agriculture and ownership of land, serial monogamy with occasional fooling around was the most prevalent relationship style. Once people could develop wealth they started worrying about passing it down to their children and that led to more settling down.

I think the implication was older than 18.

It can be used both ways, I suppose. I use it for my partner because legal marital status isn't important to me, but for those that had to fight to obtain the basic right to get married I can see why it would be hurtful.

I wonder how much of it is generational? I see something similar in the way second wave feminists rightly hated being called girls, whereas it's not as much of an issue for the younger generations because they didn't have those experiences.

There is no party of the working class. Hasn't been since Clinton in the 90s moved to the right.