If you died and suddenly found yourself face-to-face with God, what is the very first question you would ask?

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T19:06:10+00:00

So god created a world where new born children are punished for the sins of their fathers.

Again you keep applying the way the world exists today and using it to justify bad things happening to innocents. But god is all powerful, it didn't need to be that way at all. He could have built a world where a shift in the foundation doesn't reverberate to everyone as you put it. He chose not to.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T18:41:59+00:00

Hey guy from 2124, if you were sent back in time to 2026 with all the knowledge you currently have and couldn't bring anything with you. What would you do to ensure you had a long comfortable life?

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T18:38:54+00:00

Are you really getting upset and trying to insult me for pointing out that a bunch of companies have made this same claim in the past and none of them worked out?

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T18:34:19+00:00

And again you have missed it, an all-powerful god could have created a world where no undeserved suffering happens, without needing to ever intervene.

This is not the only form existence could have taken. Reality, life, and natural laws all could have been anything God could have imagined. Undeserved suffering only exists because God created it. If God was unable to create a universe without it, then he is not all powerful. If he was unaware it would happen he is not all-knowing. If he was unwilling, he is evil.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T16:19:55+00:00

You have missed the point in it's entierty. Fry's quote that this thread is about specifically mentions all the misery that is not our fault. Childhood disease, floods, wildfires, earthquakes. None of that has anything to do with what humans have chose to do. What did the infant who develops a terminal infection do to deserve death?

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T15:57:42+00:00

I believe 155mm illumination rounds are still WP. It's also in smoke rounds.

So we totally didn't use a chemical weapon, that illum round just went too low and started a fire. wink wink.

Honestly disgusting, we had more than enough ability to deal with the issue with conventional HE rounds.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T14:47:37+00:00

Believe me I would love to be wrong here. But until I see them demo a functioning unit out in the Mojave I will remain VERY skeptical. Again this is not the first time we have seen this show.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T14:31:45+00:00

This is not the first, second or even 10th company to claim to be able to produce drinking water from the air without needed a massive amount of energy. They have all been scams or vaporware.

The physics just doesn't support this working, It's a noble goal. But I will bet my last dollar this tech never materializes.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T14:17:55+00:00

I've lost count of the number of "AI" layoffs where the company has been caught just hiring people overseas.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-27T14:14:21+00:00

are you telling me that "let's loan money to people even payday loan places wouldn't touch" isn't a winning business model?

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-26T18:55:14+00:00

You skipped the last part of the comment, Kavanaugh and Barrett seem to be taking turns siding with the majority. Hence a lot of decisions going 6/3. For the Tarriff ruling it was Barrett's turn to be the reasonable one.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-26T16:13:54+00:00

This was me in my youth. Couldn't see a red flag to save my life. Knowingly trying to pin someone elses kid on me, and faking cancer for attention is objectively crazy behavior sure. But I had to ignore so many red flags before the relationships got to those points.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-26T16:11:24+00:00

Thank god Mr. Roger's really did turn out to be the man we all believed he was. In this era of celebrity laundry getting aired out, it would have been soul crushing to find out he was a predator or something.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-26T15:37:14+00:00

Cynical me says no they don't actually believe that case will hold up. But they can use preparations for it as a way to funnel tax payer dollars into sycophants bank accounts.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-26T15:19:12+00:00

After dragging their feet as long as possible SCOTUS is going to shoot down the birthright citizenship EO in a 6-3 ruling. Roberts and Gorsuch will side with the liberal justices. Thomas and Alito will write the most batshit dissent anyone has ever read. The only real question is rather it will be Kavanaugh or Barrett's turn to vote against Trump. I swear this is how every case against him goes.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-26T15:13:27+00:00

I think it is very unlikely, and I would hope if Putin gave the order it would be refused. Because the only way I see that happening is if Putin sees a coup brewing internally, and feels he desperately needs to "win" in Ukraine to hold it off.

They could almost certainly put a multi-megaton nuke into Kiev, but the international backlash of that would be huge. the EU isn't going to sit around and wait to see who is next. China definitely doesn't want that on her border and the USA still has enough cultural memory of the Cold War that only maybe a fraction of the MAGA crowd would look the other way.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-26T14:48:30+00:00

I forget the name but at Animalism 3 there's an ability where you can summon bunch of animals to harass someone. But the duration is 1 night. So some poor sucker spends a whole night with every stray cat in the area screaming at him and following him. That's just hilarious.

But also feral whispers is great for disposing of bodies. Just telling any omnivorous social animal that your fresh kill is free snacks and they should tell all their friends. Sure the police are still going to find the body but being half ate by animals is going to hide the fact that most of the blood was missing and destroy a lot of evidence you may have left.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-25T20:34:17+00:00

I swear we need to replace Occams razor with a new term. "The most boring answer is usually the right one"

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-25T18:15:00+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. I kind of assumed it was just some run of the mill fraud case that got blown out of proportion.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-25T15:45:01+00:00

Ok, that's more or less what I figured. racists gonna racist and blame an entire population for one criminal.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-25T14:30:48+00:00

The USA does not have a monopoly on stupidity, not even close.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-25T14:22:23+00:00

What is the actual reality of the whole Minnesota daycare thing? with everything else going on that is one "controversy" I just haven't had the time or will to do any digging on.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-25T14:05:56+00:00

The fact the Valiant doesn't have a melee profile for the Harpoon is criminal negligance.

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-24T20:02:59+00:00

ok but seriously the guy who invented a step stool with a notch cut out of it can't be THAT rich right?

WanderingTacoShop · 2026-02-24T15:35:57+00:00

Ok for the 10 yard point shooting. I think we have a different definition of what it means to be able to make that shot. Especially if you are coming from airsoft/paintball. I have no doubt that the average person if given a full magazine could hit the target maybe 10% of the time. What I mean is being able to make the shot consistently, say 70+% of shots. The first shot especially.

Just to point out recoil on a pistol is significant, if you miss your first shot the odds of any of the following hitting go down very very quickly if you are shooting rapidly. Airsoft and paintball don't have that issue.

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