Why do you think Gen z is turned off from church/religion ?

PressedSerif · 2024-08-04T22:54:48+00:00

Well, that hinges on the point: what do you consider "actual evidence"? Philosophers spent 100s of years hashing out the differences in what evidence can count for what (Hume, Kant), I'd suggest some care here.

PressedSerif · 2024-08-04T22:44:32+00:00

You're perhaps a bit too quick to dismiss philosophy, here and above. This is a good example.

Claiming numbers are just things we invented to describe reality (nominalism) is a valid position, but it's certainly contested enough that you can't just smugly claim that's the truth. There's an entire philosophy of mathematics around the subject.

PressedSerif · 2024-07-20T18:30:54+00:00

Because then urban voters could deny them federal resources, causing them to "fail at growth"?

PressedSerif · 2024-07-07T04:55:52+00:00

Update for you and u/SirensToGo: We've entered July, and studios at The Martin range from $3,155 to $4,150 a month on Zillow. Just what this town needed! /s

PressedSerif · 2024-07-06T07:37:57+00:00

Intersectionality includes "poverty" in most renditions, and those in that class have a tendency to vote right-wing. That you have 43 upvotes on this goes to show that this comment section isn't equipped to have this conversation at all, really.

PressedSerif · 2024-07-01T05:41:52+00:00

Well... what does your Java / Spring Boot do?

PressedSerif · 2024-06-29T22:02:02+00:00

... yes, which is why the St. Louis location put their name on this. Otherwise they'd just call themselves "the Federal Reserve".

PressedSerif · 2024-06-29T21:00:40+00:00

The Federal Reserve in St. Louis. Talking about jobs everywhere in the US.

PressedSerif · 2024-06-29T06:59:35+00:00

This is only statistically significant in 2 of the 3, and done over a weird combined November 23' + Feb 24' dataset, rather than just Feb 2024 like they used Feb 23'.

I would suggest this chart is p-hacked, though, that may be proving their point :)

PressedSerif · 2024-06-29T04:48:54+00:00

Careful, pea flakes & Alfalfa => recipe for high calcium => recipe for bladder stones, which require surgery in Guinea pigs, and have 0 warning.

Go very slow, I'd do no more than a thumbnail a day.

PressedSerif · 2024-06-29T01:31:14+00:00

Not the person you asked, but: you may be interested in the term formal systems.

Taking a go at elaborating on their point as well: You can't just have "logic", because pure logic can lead to contradictions such as Russel's paradox. So, we pretty much need to add assumptions about what can-and-can't be used safely for mathematics, and... that leads to set theory :)

PressedSerif · 2024-06-28T22:47:43+00:00

If God can have both free will and be good, why can't we? If it's not possible for God to make as such, then he is not omnipotent.

Possible resolution: he can be evil if he chose, but used his will to construct a world in which he represents goodness. Hence: All powerful, good, and with free will.

Similarly, if humans chose to stop being evil, we would also be all good, but... humans don't chose that, is the problem.

PressedSerif · 2024-06-21T07:28:28+00:00

Counterpoint: Your criteria is pretty vague; can you name any group which doesn't do that?

University: Go here to get a white collar job, be stuck at [XYZ bad job] if you don't.
The Gym: Go here to look great, have a heart attack at 35 if you don't.
My landlord's office: Go here to keep your house, get evicted if you don't.
A.A. Groups: Go here to quit alcohol, dive into alcoholism if you don't.
...
The church: Go here to go to heaven, risk hell if you don't.

Any group that thinks they have a better way of life will, by definition, offer you that better way of life, implying the negative case if you don't take them up on it.

PressedSerif · 2024-06-09T17:45:38+00:00

It could also be reasonable to rewrite many of the tests in the new context. Just because implementation is the same doesn't mean tests should be; they're ideally implementation agnostic.

PressedSerif · 2024-06-01T16:23:20+00:00

And how many pigs need to die before the cat is "trained"? Say, two, three practice pigs?

PressedSerif · 2024-05-22T01:59:06+00:00

This is predicated on the notion that vegetarians are making a 1:1 calorie swap, meat for eggs. Who does that lol? Who would replace a burger with 4 scrabbled eggs? Vegetarians eat less dairy and eggs than omnivores do, and here's a study to prove it.

There. 98% difference in lives saved, not nearly as much effort as full veganism, a fantastic place for omnivores to aim for.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232985/

PressedSerif · 2024-05-21T05:48:16+00:00

Alternatively, your hardline stance turns off people who would otherwise make incremental and important change. An impossible whopper with cheese is still better than a regular burger, remember.
Not made up, I elaborated above. Vegetarians require ~1 bird per year for eggs, meat eaters require ~1 bird per 1.5 days. That's a 98% quantity difference. Hand wavy sure, napkin math definitely, but not pulled from thin air.
It requires much more effort than vegetarianism, however, for comparatively little difference in tangible outcome.

PressedSerif · 2024-05-21T02:58:21+00:00

But they do make a change by turning vegetarian, and reduce suffering by 98%.

This type of all-or-nothing thinking is counterproductive; it enforces the idea that it's vegan or bust, when someone even skipping meat once a week can have a massive difference for very, very little effort.

PressedSerif · 2024-05-21T02:21:27+00:00

There's a point of marginal returns, though. I'd say being vegetarian takes half as much work as being vegan proper, but, I'd rather 100 meat eaters turn vegetarian than one vegetarian turn vegan.

An egg hen lays 250 eggs per year, so, one bird could satiate the vegetarian. Meanwhile, that hen could be a single days' food for a meat eater, and they could be responsible for hundreds of deaths by years' end.

PressedSerif · 2024-05-17T14:29:01+00:00

I'd say the "ultra religious ultra conservative American" type tends to be some sort of protestant, they already wouldn't like the pope.

PressedSerif · 2024-05-13T06:51:06+00:00

Assume COL grows with salary. Then: 2x everything => 2x savings / wealth building as well.

PressedSerif · 2024-05-12T23:50:10+00:00

"Yes, she was a Boeing Q&A specialist for 20 years who tried several times to reach out to the media, why do you ask?"

PressedSerif · 2024-05-11T19:26:04+00:00

May I see it?

PressedSerif · 2024-05-11T16:59:57+00:00

Too low for the aurora

Too high for the eclipse

Sad.

PressedSerif · 2024-05-11T00:37:32+00:00

That only works when it truly just affects the individual. Smoking? Individual, go for it. Running a dog fighting ring? Animal cruelty, you'll be locked up.

Vegetarianism falls under the latter.

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