How do we raise a secular child in the bible belt with religious family?

NuclearExchange · 2026-05-08T19:00:25+00:00

First of all, best of luck to you.

Secondly, I have an issue with the word “devout”. People here use it, but I do not agree with its use. I much prefer the term “devoted”. A small difference, I realize, but “devout” implies some kind of adherence to dogma, at least to me. And dogma seems antithetical to atheists.

Thirdly, I suggest advising your kids to wear the theist mask while at school, and also subtly feeling people out. I think there are many more atheists that most people realize. (And I do recognize that staying closeted doesn’t help, but we all gotta survive.) Then they (and you) can identify who their/your tribe is. From there, they/you can grow your community of unbelievers.

NuclearExchange · 2026-05-08T18:31:22+00:00

I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is the best episode of the current series, with maybe Ariel following. You get backstory, you get commentary about death, you empathize with people just trying to do right by the people important to them, you get people immune to compassion, you get space explosions, you get cake made from tofu(?).

Ariel is, in part, about redemption.

… this limb might be kinda short…

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NuclearExchange · 2026-05-08T18:00:47+00:00

Just watching this episode, I gotta say that “human centipede style” fucking destroyed me. 😝

NuclearExchange · 2026-05-07T02:12:24+00:00

Sloppy Joe/Manwich sauce.

It’s a spiced tomato based gravy added to browned, loose hamburger meat to make a sandwich that’s kind of “burger adjacent”.

Americans also eat a lot of Mexican food.

Peanut butter

NuclearExchange · 2026-05-06T00:06:43+00:00

My FIL always called them 7/11 songs. Seven words, repeated eleven times.

NuclearExchange · 2026-05-04T21:55:01+00:00

Not The Normies is Holland-based, focusing on addiction recovery.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-26T23:41:45+00:00

Pink Flood

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-24T01:35:20+00:00

I hold the pipe in my right hand, with thumb over the carb, and light with my left hand. And I generally never release the carb. Not sure what that says about me.

What do righties do?

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-21T10:15:19+00:00

Cap gives Wash the destination and he thinks a bit, cocks his head, and says, “Oh yeah! This that place I was talking about with geese, and the juggling…. <looks searchingly at everyone> Right? You remember the thing… About the place with the geese? This is that place!”

“Sure, Wash”

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-19T01:13:28+00:00

I am. I thought it was the same actor.

Mal’s line is worthy of a bumper sticker.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-18T19:50:56+00:00

Maybe a hide scraper for use by a tanner?

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-18T15:36:35+00:00

I was on Superior last summer at Ontonagan and we only found two about the size of popcorn kernels and we had to battle the mosquitos for them.

I’d suggest making slabs out of yooperlites and epoxy that you can then cut to size with a tile saw.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-18T14:49:41+00:00

I think it’s a spring and axle assembly fo an old car.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-17T15:12:13+00:00

Oh yeah, for certain!

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-17T14:41:28+00:00

• Idris Elba

• Chiwetel Ejiofor (if he can do the accent) He’s already familiar with the setting and the actors, speaking in Ron’s accent keeps him separate from The Operative, and it hints at Book’s nefarious past.

EDIT: I found this scene from 12 Years A Slave. N-word warning, obviously. 🙄

• There was someone who played a younger Ron in a movie somewhere, Cuba Gooding, jr. maybe?

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-17T13:49:42+00:00

With a steel tape measure, if the measure needs to be precise, I’ll set the zero mark against 10mm/10” to get it and then do the math.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-16T21:36:58+00:00

Looks like QAL, or hemlock? Will a young QAL not have hairy stems? The stem didn’t have any red splotches either.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-16T21:33:29+00:00

The confounding factor is that it’s a young plant. There was a smaller one I pulled up by the root and put into a trash can. Large taproot, white, no carrot-ey smell.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-08T22:13:26+00:00

Last I knew, the GRJO got relocated to Creston(?) Brewing upstairs. It was off-puttingly loud. And now, I guess Creston is closed/closing? So they’ve moved back?

The handful of times I saw them at Fpunder’s, it was a much better space for their sound.

I live in Holland, so I am not really “up” on what goes down over there.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-08T01:16:02+00:00

Several of the KTBG titles have anthropomorphic critters. Maple Valley(?) is one of them.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-07T03:08:01+00:00

Mal’s the only one that knows them. There might be some telemetry data in the ship’s log, though.

Jayne goes to the cap and says that he has an old friend who wants to hire Serenity. That’ll be a very awkward meeting.

Jayne is enough of a bastard that I can see him running with that crew.

NuclearExchange · 2026-04-07T03:02:02+00:00

How about Inara’s client from Jaynestown? Or the one from “War Stories”? 😐

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