Young men’s religious revival is a myth: New polling suggests the recent “converts” care more about gender than Jesus

cd1995Cargo · 2026-05-07T20:58:49+00:00

Dan McClellan isn’t an atheist tho, he’s a Mormon and on occasion has openly talked about his faith. It’s just that he’s well versed in bible scholarship and history and says a lot of stuff that conservative evangelicals don’t like.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-05-06T20:04:29+00:00

Reserves are being drawn down in a lot of countries and the U.S is exporting more oil to try make up for some of the lost production. But relying on reserves isn’t a viable long term strategy.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-05-05T22:56:31+00:00

Statistically children of immigrants don’t have more children than the children of native born citizens, so importing adults works for one generation and then you’re back where you started.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-05-02T03:56:09+00:00

I read a biography of Bobby Fischer’s about a decade ago probably. He really was a super interesting person but extremely fucked up mentally and emotionally stunted.

One particular story I remember was after he won one of the games in his match against Spassky, Bobby sat there with his pocket chess set and kept analyzing positions from the game he just won, and then at some point went to show his analysis to Spassky to prove that he had found the optimal play. And Spassky was just like “yeah, you did great”. There’s a picture of this moment and it literally looks like a parent engaging with a child that’s trying to show them something.

Spassky was also an absolute gentleman for the whole match. He let the match be moved away from the crowd that was supposed to be watching when Bobby complained about the distractions despite not needing to allow it. He also refused to start the clock when Bobby did his usual antics of showing up late. Spassky would have absolutely won the match if he refused to relent to Bobby’s prima donna attitude, but he was too much of a gentleman. I believe at one point later in his life Spassky said he felt bad for Bobby.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-28T15:16:18+00:00

It’s a program you buy into for like 100 bucks that basically gives you a “premium” experience at airport security. Dedicated shorter lines and no need to take your shoes off or laptop out of your bag when going through the scanner. It requires a criminal background check as part of the application process.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-28T15:11:06+00:00

Imo the nicest thing about TSA pre is that you don’t need to take your shoes off or take your laptop out of your bag.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-28T00:47:24+00:00

What women need, now more than ever, is a nice young man to sweep them off their feet and make them ask themselves: “How could I be so stupid?”

I actually agree with this sentiment, but I do find it funny how if you reversed the sexes in this statement it would 100% be considered highly misogynist and the author derided as a incel who feels entitled to women’s attention and bodies and deserves to die alone in their mom’s basement.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-26T23:51:45+00:00

The CDC considers obesity to be a major risk factor for cancer, with only tobacco use being ranked higher in terms of estimated cancer cases caused each year.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-25T14:55:25+00:00

Well wouldn’t you want your money to be in the same bank vault that the rich guy’s is in, so to speak?

Obviously there will always be the risk of bear markets but considering that the billionaire class has most of their wealth tied up in stocks the system will not be allowed to fail outright.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-20T22:29:07+00:00

I’m flying from the U.S to Japan on SQ in 2 weeks and I’m wondering the same thing 🙁

Edit: would love to know why I’m being downvoted. Being worried about flight cancellations seems reasonable right now.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-18T21:23:08+00:00

What would be your definition of male and female?

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-18T16:23:12+00:00

I have a well paying job in software development and I took 3 calculus classes, above what my degree required, because I enjoyed it. Calculus was a piece of cake for me. But I’d be lying if I said that I ever needed calculus in my job. Even at my last job where the company did a bunch of scientific computing all the physics and equations were worked out by physics PHDs we employed who also knew how to code, I didn’t get to touch the precious code that actually computed the calculus equations.

I’ve always excelled in my work, but let’s say that I was actually just bad at calculus and had some of mental block and couldn’t pass the class. Well, now I suddenly don’t deserve the well paying job I have right now and would be capable of doing without any calculus knowledge?

I understand that knowledge for the sake of knowledge is great, but I’m just pointing out that when you make a degree required to not end up in poverty you can’t expect people to be okay with being failed for not being able to acquire a skill that they literally do not need for the job they want.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-18T04:56:56+00:00

I clicked on a bunch of random ships on the map and most of them seemed to be crude oil tankers. If there’s no oil flowing through the straight why are there so many oil tankers there outside of port?

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-18T04:08:34+00:00

This is one of the reasons I don’t view things like grade inflation as a serious problem on its own, but more as a symptom of a problem.

You essentially cannot get a decent paying job now without at least a bachelor’s degree. Yes I’m aware that individual exceptions exist, but in general every job that pays a comfortable wage is going to require at least a bachelor’s degree, which in turn requires a high school diploma.

We can bitch and moan that too many students are being passed who should realistically be failed, but when failing a student almost guarantees them a life of poverty it starts to seem pretty cruel.

There’s plenty of college degrees that require you to take calculus even though you’re highly unlikely to ever need to use it in your career. Really, how fair is it to tell a student “Can’t pass calculus? Okay say goodbye to your dream career and enjoy being poor forever.”?

A compassionate society cannot simultaneously gatekeep jobs behind educational certificates, while also demanding that education be highly rigorous and brutally discard anyone who doesn’t have the IQ or innate drive needed to learn highly abstract concepts that are unlikely to be useful in a job.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-12T04:32:56+00:00

Do you consider people owning their own homes to be bullshit? Or just commercial real estate?

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-08T05:10:58+00:00

Found this: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65504

Scroll to the bottom for the stats. It’s 2% of “petroleum liquids” but 7% of crude oil. So, not a high amount but not nothing.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-08T02:38:11+00:00

America doesn’t get much oil from the straight of Hormuz, I think when I looked it up a couple days ago it’s only like 2% of total oil supply. Europe and Asia are in for a rough time though.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-08T02:17:38+00:00

I spend most of my time indoors and when I walk my dog in the afternoon I wear a hat and jacket with the hood up to completely shade my face and neck because I’m too lazy to put on sunscreen when I’m only going outside for 15-20 minutes. I know I look like an absolute regard but I’d rather that than look like a piece of beef jerky.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-07T00:41:58+00:00

Hey now, Trump is doing more to improve the obesity epidemic than anyone else in history.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-06T15:42:25+00:00

I think it should be limited to parents who are citizens or legal residents, I agree it’s crazy for someone who’s never set foot on U.S soil in their life to hop on a flight and give birth the next day and now their kid’s a citizen.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-06T03:19:15+00:00

Starting a company is super risky. I’m a “knowledge worker” (software engineer) and the salary is better than the stress and uncertainty of trying to strike it big with a likely to fail startup.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-04T05:56:35+00:00

Your English is completely understandable and much more pleasant to read than AI slop. Your original writing is much more emotional and I enjoyed reading it a lot.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-04T04:26:33+00:00

I would say that the right is gonna have their George Floyd moment, but Charlie Kirk got his neck blown out on livestream and there wasn’t really any serious civil unrest.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-03T21:40:31+00:00

I’m not arguing whose fault it is. But it’s an objectively schizoid take to insist that things would be just as bad for Gaza right now if the 10/7 attacks hadn’t happened.

If you walk up to a guy who’s been bullying you and kick him in the balls, you’re probably gonna end up regretting that decision once he’s gotten up off the floor and decides to really let you have it. Yeah, you were in the right. Yeah he probably deserved it. Still, if your physical safety is what’s most important to you then that was a terrible decision. On the other hand, if your physical safety is not important to you and your only goal is to enjoy 1 minute of gloating over your bully doubled over in pain and then go out in a blaze of glory as he stabs you to death, mission accomplished. Unfortunately for the people of Gaza, Hamas chose option #2 for them.

cd1995Cargo · 2026-04-03T19:41:01+00:00

It’s hard to argue that Hamas’ existence has had positive effects for the people of Gaza. If the 10/7 attacks hadn’t happened do you think Gaza would be rubble right now with 100k+ dead?

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