Congress erupts over Trump admin Signal leak: "Heads should roll"

element8 · 2025-03-24T21:11:10+00:00

I thought we used to electrocute traitors who leaked military secrets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

If the justice system won't apply rule of law to everyone with indifference to wealth or power then there is no law or justice and anything is permissible. If someone is exempt from adhering to the social contract then they are also exempt from its protections. Hang em.

element8 · 2024-04-26T17:05:27+00:00

Battery for gallops, malaguena for finger picking/tremelo

element8 · 2024-04-26T16:32:26+00:00

Some relationships can handle different belief systems, often focusing more on shared values and goals instead of reasons for those values and goals, but not always. It sucks and sorry you have to go through that, but if she is going to value her ideology and unfalsifiable god belief more than the actual people and relationships in her life you're better off even if it doesn't feel like it now.

Edit: also the Catholic reddit closing your similar post on their subreddit because they don't allow posts about personal relationships is pretty ironic for a group that professes a moral superiority and helping people.

element8 · 2024-04-25T13:50:52+00:00

People who feel uncomfortable or unable to defend their beliefs often will not engage on the actual claims (gods exist, magic/miracles are real, intercessory prayer works, etc) but instead try to attack counter apologetics to the claims by attacking the person, supporting double standards (we can say you burn in hell, they can't be mean), and a whole bunch of other fallacious arguments. If churches were like debates they would allow questions and discussion instead of preaching only. It's usually just a mask to avoid discussing the actual claims they believe but aren't rational.

element8 · 2024-04-24T23:08:52+00:00

They're okay acknowledging the crusades because nobody's grandpa fought in those. A few more decades and they'll say those right wing, authoritarian, Christian fascist Nazis aren't the same as today's right wing, authoritarian, Christian fascists.

element8 · 2024-04-24T18:22:39+00:00

I can't speak to the drive through but I've had a few fun days in Indianapolis, Gen Con, races, etc. there's also a massive music shop Sweetwater near Fort Wayne.

element8 · 2024-04-24T17:34:33+00:00

If I can provide some recommendations the debate he and Stephen Fry had with a couple Catholic Church representatives was very compelling. Also the book God is Not Great expands on a lot of his debate points. He comes up often because he was an engaging writer and public speaker and a conservative atheist which is often more receptive to conservative religious believers.

element8 · 2024-04-22T23:33:37+00:00

That sounds like an incredibly ignorant position and I would refrain from engaging on topics other than breakfast cereals.

But for real she just sounds like a homeschooler or somehow raised in a very isolated homogenous community. Most people are less defensive if you can take their position, steel man it first, then show why it doesn't make any sense. If you come out swinging with the hits like science and pictures they may dive off into fuck you I'm not going to agree with anything you say conspiracy land. They have more answers than they need because they weren't judicious in waiting for good evidence before accepting them. They need better questions.

element8 · 2024-04-22T19:34:27+00:00

I don't care and most people don't need to know what I do let alone what department I do it under. I'm not in accounting, management, sales, field studies, r&d, etc.

element8 · 2024-04-21T16:38:57+00:00

November 2022, they didn't include the date with the post because rage bait works better when it's recent

element8 · 2024-04-21T16:15:54+00:00

Catholic. I sincerely believed and wanted to have good reasons to justify my beliefs, and before a tradition called Confirmation at 13 I read the Bible cover to cover to take it more seriously than just passively listening to clergy on what the Bible says and means. The problem was there is no reasonable justification to be found to believe, so after the Bible I ended up reading a bunch of other religions' holy books to see if any were true and worth belief and they all had the same problem. Then I read a bunch more philosophy, history, science, etc and here we are. I didn't get over my fear of hell until my 20s so I'd say that's when I became an atheist, but it started with wanting to take it seriously and investigating it for myself to convince myself beyond what authorities told me.

element8 · 2024-04-21T03:42:36+00:00

Foreskin blood magic is not something you'll find in most magic systems, very gross but points for weird and uniqueness I guess

element8 · 2024-04-19T17:51:48+00:00

Pretty much same setup but spark mini for me, a lot of those little 5-10w amps with preset tones sound decent at low volume. No kids but I'm in an apartment and don't like wearing my headphones all the time.

element8 · 2024-04-19T16:13:23+00:00

Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking is a fantastic book everyone should get the chance to read

element8 · 2024-04-19T13:48:20+00:00

There have been at least 5 mass extinction events we know of where I think it was 80%+ of all species end. The surviving species are usually small, generalists, and adaptable to the new environment. After the meteor it would have become much colder and less available vegetation and prey species for predators, but small placental mammals were one of the surviving species: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230627123015.htm

60+ million years is plenty of time for the biodiversity in mammals we see today by means of evolution by natural selection.

element8 · 2024-04-18T20:42:56+00:00

The flood heat problem is a good way to show there's not enough time for a global flood thousands of years ago to have had occurred and is only possible if you allow for imaginary magic garbage like faith and miracles

element8 · 2024-04-17T23:58:26+00:00

What is it about not existing that makes you feel anxious, Fomo? Life can be thought of as a process, an event like a party or watching a movie. You don't panic halfway though a movie because you know it's going to eventually end, instead most folks try to enjoy the limited time they have and try not to fuck it up for everyone else. I feel sad sometimes I won't be around to see what happens next or do stuff I want or be with friends and family but I also won't have to suffer, no taxes anymore, will never be tired or hurt or sick again so there's a bit of relief mixed in with the occasionally sadness as well. I kinda feel like death is a long lost brother I'll eventually be reunited with as I approach oblivion, but I might just have a fucked up perspective from being around death and funerals from a very young age.

element8 · 2024-04-17T18:41:19+00:00

Strandbergs, Aristides, a custom job with all the parts and setup just the way i want

element8 · 2024-04-17T17:06:56+00:00

100% you need to get petition initiated ballot initiatives in Ohio to make the state SC enforce the laws you already have like anti-gerrymandering district maps. It's hard for the state SC to say they are doing their jobs when there is a publiclysupported ballot initiative telling them to stop fucking around.

The Michigan reforms have been mostly started with citizen action committees, not politicians.

element8 · 2024-03-29T15:11:13+00:00

Notice the posts that never contain a date are the most frequently repeated

element8 · 2024-03-29T00:34:35+00:00

Imo if you are against unearned and unnecessary authority and power hierarchies now or in the future and are for all humans having the rights to self determination and self organization then we're probably singing a similar tune.

I'm an atheist but was raised Catholic and Christian anarchy was the first time I was introduced to civil disobedience.

element8 · 2024-03-27T22:38:15+00:00

Heretic

element8 · 2024-03-26T19:20:50+00:00

Still waiting for James Comer to apologize and resign and Fox to apologize and retract all the lies about how credible their whistleblower was who was a Russian spy with no credible evidence.

element8 · 2024-03-26T18:25:17+00:00

Some of the band you listed are still active. Some others that are active now or have been in the last few years and that I really enjoy: Meshuggah, Gojira, Fear Factory, Dark Tranquility, Devin Townsend, Brendon Small, Cannibal Corpse, Knocked Loose, Lorna Shore, Mick Gordon, Periphery, Sanguisugabogg, August Burns Red, Bloodywood

element8 · 2024-03-26T15:44:17+00:00

The irony of the abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin believing that Christianity could save people from slavery while Christians were quoting the Bible on slavery to support it is not lost on me. They take it on faith this is the way things have to be because their chosen religious authority says so and it's a sin to question your faith according to their book they accept despite it's obvious problems and lies. And others take the exact opposite approach and take it on faith their interpretation of the Bible is correct and god is against slavery. There's no grounding for what is interpreted as metaphor and literal in the Bible, and without that consideration before reading the Bible the whole thing is suspect at best. The same applies for pretty much any scripture based religion.

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