It is mostly a macro review of religion and the way it integrates with society, not a detailed breakdown of every religion that has ever existed (but it is ~350 pages). As an FYI, Robin Dunbar is the same guy known for Dunbar’s Number that states people can only maintain ~150 personal connections at a time.

The various translations and cultural differences certainly have an impact, such as how many religiously forbade animals were literally considered to be unclean/dangerous to eat due to diseases of the time. Unclean in 200 BC & spiritually unclean in 2024 are very different. However, this all leads down the giant rabbit…

Depends on how you define a bubble of isolation because these people exist everywhere across America and make up a solid 30% of the population. There is a higher density in some places than others, but nonetheless, very widespread. I call it part of America’s culture.

There are also a bunch of versus about slavery that Christians used for a very long time to support their pro-slavery stances the same way they do now to support being anti-LGBTQ bigots, so that should honestly be expected at this point. Just like how they ignore the dietary restrictions in the Old Testament but love…

That looks like a very small screen with a lot of physical buttons, by 2024 standards. I hope the tide continues to turn this way instead of the 95" screen on the Escalade. Are those real buttons or the haptic feedback style buttons?

Tough to tell in the pictures, but I don’t think it’s a traditional PRND slide shifter. I think it is still one of them where you have to flick it or push it to get through the gears, so still sucks. 

I’ve hated the string of buttons that GM has used for Chevy/GMC for a while now. They should all be knobs or shifters. Clicking through gears or having a mix of flicking a switch for one gear but pushing a button for another is stupid. 

That’s actually what I did on a college road trip through that area. We were getting really low on gas when going from LA to the Grand Canyon and were travelling along this exact highway. Not sure if it’s the same station, that was almost 15 years ago, but actually might have been. The price back then was also over…

If the price is consistently much higher than average market cost, then it is just their cost of business. Price gouging generally applies to rapid increases instead of someone always being expensive. 

The number of people I’ve heard complaining about the cost of gas for them to get their country property on the weekends...

You’re making a false assumption that people flock towards the cheapest option for all things. That’s always been a myth of a free market system. In a store, when a variety of comparable items are sitting in front of us, people often will look to save 10 cents between items. For purchases that require reading a…

The first one I drove with, from Honda, kept trying to pull me into the middle of a narrow 2 lane road. It recognized the edge of pavement but didn’t recognize the yellow line it kept trying to make the car drive on.

Reading through this, my first thought was that they basically just described what it was like to fly pre-smart phones, but without a book and needing to pee more. 

I’m 100% going to wake them up or climb over them before I hold it for 15 hours. Not sure I’d make it more than 5 hours before I’m getting out of that seat.

Your body/brain function very differently when you’re laying down & sleeping verses sitting upright and staring at a flight path. It is part of why regular sleep is so essential. The idea of it killing someone is a bit silly, but so is equating it to sleeping.

Despite having fond memories of riding in truck beds with friends, when people bring that up, I always remind them that there are only good memories left from that era for a reason. Anyone who had a bad time most likely died on site and then the adult driving never mentally recovered from it, so we never got a chance t…

Cooling seats. Big fan of those. 

Interest, principal, deductible, premium, & taxes. Impacts everyone on a daily basis we maybe spent a week talking about them in high school. 

They make sure their kid attends private school & gets as much financial education as possible, likely to teach them how to do the same thing to future rubes. Then we all hope the kid develops a conscience and doesn’t keep that cycle going (or laws stop them before they have a choice).

People drowning in debt are a huge risk to security focused businesses.