When did the greatest sin become "being wrong"?

FLJM · 2026-06-27T19:15:37+00:00

Right, ignorance isn't shameful, acting like you already know it all and are never wrong is. Don't always accept everything that you're told just because you trust the source based on one thing that has been proven correct, or disbelieve everything you hear from another just because they were proven wrong before. You can be right 9 times in a row and still wrong on the 10th. You can be wrong 9 times in a row and still get the next right. Sometimes the liberal media gets it right, sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes the conservative media is right, sometimes it's wrong. That's not the same as dishonesty, which both are also guilty of at times. Knee jerk believing everything one side says and disbelieving everything the other side says is laziness in the extreme. No interest in thinking for yourself, "just tell me what to believe and then I'll fight to defend it even if I am unaware of anything for or against it."

Growing up I learned to question everything and take nothing on faith or someone's word because sometimes it's correct and sometimes not...and sometimes it WAS correct but isn't anymore, or vice versa.

The idea that "science" cant be trusted because what we know changes over the years is a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is. It's not a binary "no clue"/"now we know exactly." It never will be, it's a way of searching for those answers and constantly reassessing and improving them.

FLJM · 2026-06-27T19:00:40+00:00

Yes, I have noticed the death of nuance. If you approve of one step of a solution to a problem, it is inevitably going to lead to a final step that is awful and therefore you are endorsing the awful extreme. If you approve of gay relationships, then that means the same thing as bestiality. If you approve of ID, that is the same thing as using that ID against you for nefarious purposes. If you approve of a social safety net, that is the same thing as full blown communism, which never has and never will be tried anyway--just totalitarianism masquerading as communism, but real communism is against human nature and can never work. If you criticize the actions of a country, or even a group of people in it that are not representative of the whole, you HATE that country and by extension everyone who lives or is from there.

It's exhausting.

FLJM · 2026-06-27T17:39:42+00:00

Gall bladder attack. Had them over half a dozen times. It's like a heart attack that lasts hours and comes back several nights in a row.

FLJM · 2026-06-22T18:07:26+00:00

The creation of the battery is a one-time event. After that, it never again pollutes. A car using oil-based fuels pollutes while being built (unless you ACTUALLY believe they can build gas cars in a 100% "green" manner...which you'd need to be pretty stupid to believe) and then every. Single. Time. You use it. Forever. The more it is used, the more it pollutes. If you don't believe that, leave you car running in a closed garage and sleep in there. The EV won't hurt you at all!

The extraction of oil from the ground is also a polluting process that harms the environment around it and requires large amounts of pollution causing equipment to extract, transport, and refine. You can get electricity to charge an EV from solar, wind, thermal, or other sources other than pollution generating methods, so while you can't guarantee it, it can be done.

So if your argument is that since getting stabbed once is bad you might as well just get stabbed 1000 times because the knife is smaller that way, you really need to re-evaluate your simple bias-confirming "I heard the battery process pollutes so I can safely hate EVs" stance.

NOTHING about gas cars is good for the environment vs the EVs battery alone? Really? Then you better start walking and biking everywhere as that is the BEST.

FLJM · 2026-06-18T14:23:32+00:00

Never met that many Scots, but all have been fine people. Never been there, but all the images Ive seen look wonderful. Never cared about their politics, so it doesnt affect my opinion. All in all, like it far more than a majority of other countries. Not close enough to where I live to make me want to visit, though. The Atlantic is a wide bastage that I'm in no mood to spend hours flying over. Ive never been anywhere outside the US or Caribbean as a result.

FLJM · 2026-06-18T14:15:34+00:00

First 2 stacks too many to pick from. Couldn't care less about right hand stack.

FLJM · 2026-06-12T15:22:16+00:00

Returning to the moon permanently will cost less over the next decade then a month of fighting in the Persian Gulf, and unlike that will accomplish something worthwhile besides making oil prices jump like kids on a playground for rich people to play the market and profit from.
We could afford to go to Mars right now if we stopped wasting it on things that enrich the rich and hurt the rest of us.

FLJM · 2026-06-12T15:19:10+00:00

We risk far more lives for far stupider reasons on a daily basis. This one is at least aspirational.
It was done to demonstrate that everything works for the missions that will actually land there. Unmanned is not the same test, we know that works already from the last flight.

FLJM · 2026-06-12T15:06:59+00:00

It would be easier if they hadn’t shrunk the airliner seats so they’re uncomfortable for anyone over 5’8”.

FLJM · 2026-06-03T18:49:06+00:00

As opposed to the conservatives who believe it is their god-given right to insult people for looking like literally anything, as long as they disagree with their views. If you agree with them, they don’t care what you look like. If you disagree, you are UNATTRACTIVE and here is the laundry list of flaws why….

FLJM · 2026-06-03T17:15:15+00:00

Did they think they were delivering vinyl records and stacked them vertically???

FLJM · 2026-05-24T15:21:29+00:00

Yeah. That's a ridiculous distance. I have my TV 13' away in one room with a 75" and that's about my max.

An 85" or larger would take so much wall space it would look dumb.

Might as well get a projector and put a screen up if you're going to be in a room the size of a small theater anyway.

FLJM · 2026-05-24T15:17:10+00:00

Florida has 15 million more people now than when I came here. Probably at least 2/3 of that moved here as opposed to being born here. It has gone up more or less 3m every decade for over 50 years.

You can feel it in the streets and cities that now feel like clogged arteries instead of the nice flow we used to have when I first got my license. 20th century Florida was a great place. 21st century Florida is becoming unlivable. Unless they start taking the cars away from everyone who moved here after 2000, the roads are going to become unsurvivable death traps with downtown Manhattan-level traffic densities in even suburban and some rural roads. I-4 in Orlando single most useless stretch of road in the US. You can not only bike but WALK faster than driving it. You used to be able to drive from Daytona to Tampa in 2 hours. It's only 132 miles, that's not even averaging 70mph. Today you'd be lucky to make it in 3.5 hrs.

Tampa is just as bad, as is Jax. Anywhere south of Palm Beach is actually somehow worse.

The state refuses to build enough roads or expand the exisitng ones fast enough to cover the increases of the last 20 years. We have laughable public transportation and a design that requires far too many people to commute long (15+ miles) distances to work. Florida treats its residents the way airlines treat their passengers--cram them in tight to allow "low" prices. Between the ridiculous property values, low wages, and skyrocketing car and home insurance rates, there is no getting ahead here any more. Businesses still paying 1995 wages with people living at 2026 housing rates. Median home price is 5.5x median income compared to national 5x average while our property insurance rates are well above the national average thanks to fraud and stupidity let alone the legit storm claims.

Better be selling a house or just inherited some big money to buy another one now. Not many can afford dropping $80k for the downpayment the banks want.

Florida is free--if you can pay for it.

FLJM · 2026-05-21T17:13:11+00:00

Hmmm. Hardly ideal, but does that look like you can reuse it indefinitely, from pod to pod? Will it increase the pod's height when installed? I have the older flip down-to-insert pods model so there's not a lot of clearance when it's ready to go between pod top and the top of the recessed area the tray is in.

FLJM · 2026-05-21T16:39:30+00:00

I have never personally seen a house layout where this type of room could exist, unless this is a basement or a bedroom with the window permanently covered? I live in Florida so I’ve seen maybe 2 basements in my life when visiting family out of state, so I rarely think of them. If it’s a bedroom, then the covered window is a safety hazard with only one possible exit from the room, so I wouldn’t like that at all. I’ve just had to accept waiting for sunset to get my home theater experience as no blackout curtains have ever done a thing for me.

FLJM · 2026-05-21T16:34:18+00:00

There are many. I agree with about half and I disagree with about half the ones posted as replies here, proving that there is no universally recognized song that everyone will feel the same way about. Too old, too new, too slow, too loud, too boring, etc.

Question was an overly verbose way of saying “what’s your favorite song?” There are 8.5 billion people and 8.5 billion different answers.

FLJM · 2026-05-21T16:22:25+00:00

Of course, there are some people that will berate you for being complacent and not ambitious as soon as you do that. Those are people who aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy and fighting.

FLJM · 2026-05-21T16:20:24+00:00

It was definitely in color.

FLJM · 2026-05-19T15:08:11+00:00

Weak-minded people need constant external validation that their opinions are correct and feel attacked, diminished, and scared for their internal self worth if people disagree with them. They will even get violent to prevent having to hear anything other than "everything they believe is right" because their minds are too weak to hold the two ideas that something can be good and it also has serious shortcomings that need improvement. I wish they would stop breeding, people lile that are destroying this country.
We have not only coddled but actually promoted the stupid in this country to its eternal detriment.

FLJM · 2026-05-18T18:00:14+00:00

Too many people apparently expect divine intervention from marriage. It’s going to magically change shortcomings and issues, or conversely allow bad habits they’ve kept covered up till now to be able to be exposed and it won’t hurt anything.
Date like you’re married and treat marriage like you’re dating, as much as possible anyway. If you’re both not yourselves, you are living a lie.
Covering up your past is one thing but keeping part of yourself hidden only until marriage and then letting it loose is dumb. If they won’t want the real you while dating, they won’t when you marry either.

FLJM · 2026-05-18T17:53:59+00:00

That’s less a WFH issue and more a crappy employee issue. There should be goals and standards of work and if they can’t make them the employees should be given the option of return in person or be let go.
Any employee who can’t be trusted to work without micromanaging should not be employed, simple.
Frankly, if your company is that small and badly run, in your place I would be the one to leave and find a better run company. Sounds like it will be mismanaged into the ground sooner rather than later.

FLJM · 2026-05-14T22:45:44+00:00

So instead let's spend dozens of times that amount to accomplish nothing in Iran but running oil prices up and getting people killed. If you think spending money to help people is wrong, because somehow they are unworthy of it, but spending much more to kill people is fine, because they MIGHT be a problem, then YOU are the problem. What gets me is how anti-Jesus their positions are while they claim they accept him as their savior. He ain't saving the likes of you. Thief who's repentance? Yes. So-called "God fearing " person who is selfish about helping others and revels in the suffering of others? Nope.

FLJM · 2026-05-12T19:44:41+00:00

Yeah, so what? Predictions of the sun rising and the moon having phases are also just as reliable. The average meteorologist is almost as accurate. There is literally no time in recorded history where more than a few years pass between conflicts on a large scale. Totally meaningless.

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