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We have lots of religions, some that we're expected to abandon as adults, some we're expected to carry forward as adults.

Why? Because they make things easier for you (other) people.

Santa Claus: Won't give you presents if you don't go to bed X-mas eve!
(Now get outa my hair kid so I can do a bunch of work to make you happy tomorrow morning.)

The Easter Bunny: This bunny poops colorful, cooked, eggs all over the yard and it's ok for you to eat them in sandwiches for the next week. Ok so he doesn't poop them, he only hides them after you cook them. Somehow...

Everyone gets a valentine: There's someone who loves you everywhere, and we should share our love with everyone.

Life is Fair: Things should be fair, and when you get something you should share it with your sister, or your classmates. Not enough for everyone? None for you!

Fighting is bad: Anyone who gets in a fight gets in trouble, whether you started it or not!

We tell these lies because we want to control the experience and the environment of children, we want to protect them from the lies all those things are meant to keep them from seeing.

Santa Claus Ain't Real, you're prolly gonna be broke in an apartment alone eating premade food on a Christmas eve one year... and that'll be a blessing, cause you could afford something to eat.

The easter bunny was the least adult, adult's responsibility and one year the eggs stop coming.

Everyone doesn't get a valentine, and sometimes that kid goes home and gets beat up or hurts themselves -- that's why they're "too weird" for anyone to be their friend.

Life isn't fair, people don't get the same things and some people starve.

Fighting is sometimes not bad at all, and some people make a living doing it. We just want to be able to bet on our fights and make a premium selling the broadcast rights.

As we get older, we're only supposed to keep the more "adult" religions, like being subservient to our betters, elders, priests, lawmakers etc. They tell you to "be honest (in business.)". "Don't murder others (unless I tell you to)". "Follow the laws of the place you're in." and "Don't cheat on your wife (and get caught)."

We've got a few others in there, but those are pretty much the ones you're "expected" to follow.

Your reward? You get to think about the ending of a fictional book you haven't actually read a whole lot as though it were real, and you're one of the characters. It's amazingly pacifying if you're trying to keep millions of people from stealing, killing each other, and sleeping around.

Careful. Science is not the Truth, it’s a method for producing accurate predictions. We accumulate evidence until the predictions seem overwhelmingly likely, or not. At no point have we proven that things might not be completely different from what we imagine them to be, or that they won’t change. Science isn’t Truth, it’s just a method of finding the best answer up to that point.

Listen to the mainstream, not the mediastreams, don't listen to the jackasses spewing transdimensional micro-wormholes -- yet. There's mystery in science, but that's literally how we find the next-big-thing. When there's mystery in religion, you are supposed to ignore it.

How many times did he have to intervene on the test stack to get that nonchalant about it -- 200, 300?

And everyone gave me shit for keeping my feedly account.

The Reader died, but the feeds do live on, between mastodon, lemmy and feedly I got plenty to read.

It will look like that scientific knowledge survey they did in subsaharan africa. People won't know that the earth orbits around the sun.

This isn't hyperbole, they won't teach science if they can avoid it.

I got to experience evangelical science indoctrination as a child, and they literally do not want science taught. It contradicts the pop up books.

No. Even that is incorrect.

You are 4 nodes deeper in OSS intel required, (isemployee->hasaccess?->homeaddress->break in)

I also know there are only 2 people with keys to my home, the hours of operation are limited, and there are no 3rd parties with unrestricted physical access (maintenance, physical security, janitorial services.)

The only difference in person provides is a record of access, cameras and access control systems etc.

My home also has this record of access and if requested can be provided. Most folks have egress cameras nowadays too.

There's a really simple one. All the VCs and funders have been double dipping in REIT and in business real estate holdings. They sit on the boards of companies with no interest in maintaining offices, but have financial backers who veto those decisions.

The language and excuses are all a smoke screen, it's to give them time to get out of commercial real estate without crashing the market.

Just before the pandemic the LARGEST commercial leases EVER were being signed in SFO and NYC... those same interests are just one giant ouroboros of funding and they saw their margins dwindling in their real holdings.

Blackrock is the most obvious, but there are lots of board level holdings in the same situation, they're of course going to advise and demand that the commercial real estate be maintained... They may even be able to get a discount on next lease... just gotta be nice and keep paying those bills!

Even the government has capitulated to the idea that devices themselves should be secure:

https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/207/final

If you can deal in government data on your laptop at a starbucks, we most certainly can work at home behind locked doors in our own offices with anything equivalent.

They finally ran out of frozen dough.

I’m not American, and I don’t know exactly what the legal differences are between “indicted”, “charged” and “accused”. When is he going to be put in handcuffs and detained in a jail cell like a normal person would be if they were suspected of committing a crime (like stealing a handbag for example) but not convicted yet?

He is getting slightly better than normal rich person with expensive lawyer treatment.

America, as a pure service economy has prices for bribery and extortion as well as minimum service levels for the legal system. If you pay for economy (with your life) you get a defense attorney appointed by the state who sits across from the judge and DA you're going to have to deal with, and has lunch with them, or makes deals in the bathroom... They'll fight to make sure their life doesn't get disrupted a whole lot and they can keep defending the endless stream of defendants.

The middle tier is the "hire a reptable firm, and get a junior associate" level of service, that's where you get someone who's overworked, and desperately trying to keep all their partner's cases going, and they can spend 1/10th of their time on your case, they don't have any worries about not having a job though so they can dedicate the time in court to defending you.

The top tier is the "hire a reputable firm, and you get a named partner" they care about their reputation, and make sure they only take cases that will make them look good. And they look good by doing the best damn job they can in front of the cameras, in their filings, and in front of their client. You get the white glove treatment, and 90% of the time of the junior associates helping the partner.

It's no wonder why you typically only get the "Go home and sleep it off" result from an indictment from the highest tier of service.

Because there are sadists in every field.

If google adjusts creators revenue by 1/3 I'll pay that.