Often not able to be chosen. My company has us review the company on a 1 question survey. CEO told us anything below 7 is bad, anything above 8 is good, and 7-8 is just ignored as “fine” when they review it.

I’m black and I like fire, though aside from a fireplace visiting family once, I haven’t had much opportunities to tend an open flame. I did enjoy keeping it going that one time though.

I literally am a black leftist in GA. I, nor the first person said to alienate nor abolish religion. Op said to stop giving religion money, and I pointed out giving money to religion is better spent giving money to organizations that directly help, and specifically help.

There are also organizations working towards making communities for black people who aren’t religious, such https://blacknonbelievers.org/

I welcome religious people and churches helping out, and I’m not going to say anyone should reject such help. I am saying, that as a religious or non religious person, directly giving to organizations that help specifically would help much more than giving to a religion. It’s similar to say the difference between getting ad revenue and Patreon or other direct donations. The latter is more effective.

Lastly, I will say there definitely is a critique of religion, in that many either way into a global fund/membership that donates to organizations that have contributed to where we are now, or directly do so themselves. Can I gaurantee every single one does? No, mainly because as I pointed out they have special rules where they can hide where their money goes. Some small unaffiliated churches may be completely clean.

However, those aren’t even the ones you are talking about, since you specified the large populations of religious people in the south. Those standard denominations definitely gave to anti LGBT, anti abortion, and donated to have exceptions in law carved out for themselves, which significantly contributed to GOP effort to stiffle freedoms. That money helped Trump

This is a common defense of religion, but it naively (or maliciously) ignores that secular groups help to protect people as well. Unlike religions, secular non profits are required to show how they spend their money, so the help is more direct and you can confirm if they are using the money you donate the way you want instead of some of it going to bigotry.

If it’s a tool it’s a bad one. You can’t even check if it’s working right. It’s like a tool you can’t check and just hopes it works the way you want it to.

I don’t see where they said to abolish religion. It was a call to people to stop giving money to religion. You can be religious without donating a single cent to religion.

They tend to turn into adult cats.

One of the coworkers quickest to get kinda yelly about his opinions at work was a genx guy (older than me) who had very strong “classical liberal” opinions as well as the typical belief that he was being logical, not emotional, as he raised his voice while talking to us about policies he didn’t agree with. He also had the typical misogynistic view that he was rational while women were emotional. One time he and I were getting a little heated in a shared discord chat and a mutual friend who was the admin muted both of us.

I told the friend something like “fair, you did try to change the subject and we ignored you, my bad.” The older guy got super pissed someone controller his speech and he left the discord forever.

I’ve also seen my uncle get butthurt that I tried to meditate a discussion between him and my sister (she requested my help because he and my aunt would just both say their side against her and not let them talk.) I mostly just stopped them from interrupting each other and asked them to let the other person speak, and I did it both to my sister and my aunt and uncle.

They later complained about being told what to do in their own house.

While young people can be impulsive and judgy, I find that age does not always fix that. The people it doesn’t fix get entitled and think their age justifies their beliefs and that they’re automatically wiser than you.

I’m curious if that’s because you think people seem immature or something? I’m in my 40s, and work with people both older and younger than me. I can see comments across Lemmy that I wouldn’t find unusual for here, except maybe a stronger leaning towards left leaning politics, privacy, etc.

I’ve seen a huge amount of immature adults.

Vegan joke. Lots of antivegan especially gym rat bros say it’s impossible to get enough protein to build proper muscle on a vegan diet.

The joke here is a much larger and more muscular herbivore is being asked about it by a carnivore.

People can remember two things, and lots of people like drama. This is a short laugh at a CEO getting a very small amount of comeuppance. It’s not going to make us forget how terrible Trump is or that the government is actively covering up for pedophiles.

We need small breaks of laughter to keep sane sometimes.

I was thinking 56 is pretty old for people who do stupid I mean, “daredevil” stunts often.

Price went up for people not grandfathered in. I couldn’t pay my sub in between job loss and lost my $7/month sub, but most of my music was on Google music now YT music, so I pay for it too.

Hmmm could be… holes seem massive for that though. I dabble in (indoor) bouldering and no hand or foothold needs ro be that big, especially for a relatively simple slope.

I don’t vape or smoke (I have used a few THC carts from time to time, but I usually just take half an edible, and the cart is used maybe once a month if that often), but I still will criticize broad generalizations from limited studies, especially not peer reviewed.

I do agree that their findings seem to be more about regulation than vaping itself, and I’m happy I don’t vape, but I’m not going to act like I can just confidently tell every person I know the science has proven their habit is worse than smoking.

The necessity of food, shelter, and medicine that requires paid transactions or your character is permanently dead goes contrary to a free to play model.

Sure, but my point was general consensus. For the purposes of this discussion, I’ll use the US. According to Pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/06/us-public-private-and-charter-schools-in-5-charts/) 83% of k-12 students went to public schools. Many of our parents couldn’t afford to send it to private if they wanted to.

This of course varies by country, googling for a few countries (Japan, UK, Germany) actually all betrayed my expectations,with higher public school percentages for primary schools than the US. They generally do have different grade structures though. Edit: for those 3, primary/grade school went to 4th or 6th grade.

Personally elementary/grade school was up to 5th grade, 6-8th was middle, 9-12 high school. Technically I started school in Saint Vincent, in what I believe was a private school, but we moved back to the US when I was in 2nd grade going to third.

Generally not understood as such though. I would say common vernacular is more accurate to the intended meaning than the technical truth

It’s a sarcastic thank, like thank you for firing them, or thank you for driving them away from AAA studios.

I work longer hours at home pretty often. At 5 I leave office to make sure my 1.25-1.5 hour drive gets me home at a decent time, and to make sure I miss the worst traffic which I feel happens between 5:30 and 6.

At home I can just keep working, load up a game on my other monitor but keep working open too,and switch between doing some minor game stuff and back to work. I have a game up now at 7 and wrapped up my notes quite comfortably.

I’m also more alert at home because I sleep in more, getting about an hour more sleep.

I’ve heard this language doctors use come up before when someone was reviewing an autopsy.“The testicles were unremarkable.”