There’s one guy I went to school with who fits into none of this but is still in a cult today. Pretty liberal parents, both scientists and only mildly religious. The chap was brilliant in school, was good at playing ping pong and a couple of other sports, majored in electrical engineering, and then suddenly “found” a…

I don’t think that most people worry about it but probably they should at least think about it. There have been several examples in my life of perfectly rational, normal people who joined cults and did weird stuff that I wouldn’t normally expect them to do. It has often made me wonder if rationality and brilliance in…

Reading all these stories makes me value my Toyota dealership. They have done excellent work on my car and the maintenance guys are knowledgeable and pleasant to deal with. My FR-S had a slight issue when downshifting from 6th to 5th and the advisor suggested changing the transmission oil. While I was waiting for the…

It doesn’t sound much different from all the other pop music that is getting air time today. So, by that rate, it is average.

Words shot the sheriff but they did not shoot the deputy.

That screenshot was edited. I’d really like to know the names of these assholes. If they think it is okay that they should support a racist murderer then I believe their names should not be edited out.

Kiss my ass. I’m part American Indian and know more than you ever will about having my culture and religion forcibly changed. You are slandering people for no reason do not ever communicate with me again.

No, I am shitting on them for wanting to change the religion of the natives. That part seems lost on you or you want to intentionally ignore that. Please make it clear which one of these is the case.

But this person wasn’t making that distinction. I think it’s perverse to shame someone without knowing anything about them other than they hate religion and those organizations shouldn’t be allowed to helpand are inherently evil.

‘I’ll make a deal with you: Don’t let another Nazi in, and I won’t accost that Nazi’

There are secular groups doing good work in India. There are also Catholic groups doing good work in India without explicitly asking the recipients to convert to their religion (my mother attended a missionary school and they left her alone when it came to religion). That is not usually the case with the “Praise the…

Here’s what I can tell you: I woke up on Thursday morning to a message from my flatmate. Chris Cornell, who we saw perform with Soundgarden on Sunday was dead. I sat in the bed feeling quite lost and sad and then I saw that Roger Ailes died too and it cheered me up a wee bit. What does that tell you?

Fuck, I have been a Soundgarden/Audioslave fan since 2003 but I had never made this connection. Probably because I always skipped this opening video of Road Rash. Now I feel dumb on top of feeling depressed.

I just watched him perform live last Sunday. I can’t describe how shocked and sad I feel right now. I have been ignoring it for the last 3 days but fuck it brought tears to my eyes to listen to the songs he performed.

one man who was lucky enough buy a new GT is here to say just drive the car first

The point is that the “unknown” is a lot more probable with the pet adopted from the shelter so acting like adopting from the shelter should be the only option one should choose is faulty. That might be the better option, sure, but I was specifically replying to someone who made that point. The probability of the…

That analogy deserves a lot more stars than it currently has.

Carlos Danger would like to know who this fan is. Carlos Danger wants to send a thank you text to them.

Freedom at last, but a tad bit too late.

Pretty handy tool if you are the kind of person who likes camping :shrug:

Pretty handy tool if you are the kind of person who likes camping :shrug: