But even if Christianity were true, our constitution says that they can’t force everyone to follow it. This country will always have Hindus, Jews, atheists, etc., and that should be the reason we ignore Christianity. It’s not so much that it’s a lie, it’s that they’re not legally allowed to force us to be one of them.

The longest-serving Republican speaker in American history was also a pedophile who raped children for his entire political career. (Dennis Hastert.) He married an adult woman and he fathered children.

Aliens invented spaceships at the exact same time that humans invented spaceships! It’s merely a weird coincidence! It’s definitely not because people are lying!

They’re convincing idiots to buy devices and to buy subscriptions that will help the police departments. This has nothing to do with aliens or any kind of biology/science thing.

(I admit I don’t understand publishing rights.) Did she pay the songwriter, singer, or studio for the permission to earn money off of a cover? This isn’t like singing privately to herself in the shower. She turned it into a money-making business, and that brings in a bunch of laws... right? Maybe some of these…

Yes, the planet is constantly changing. The composition of the atmosphere has changed many times before. And you know what? There were mass extinctions. When plants evolved photosynthesis, they expelled so much oxygen that they killed off thousands of non-plant species. Yes, it’s true that the planet has been hotter…

“under extreme pressure to fit in”

“Actors we don’t like.” Yeah, that’s a fair and accurate representation of what’s happening. It’s simply a matter of liking or disliking a person.

She’s in a union herself. That’s... a pretty big part of the story here.

Talk shows like hers aren’t literally scripted moment by moment, but they do still employ writers for tasks like: picking topics; distilling/filtering topics; researching background info (to the guest: “I heard that you once XYZ”); deciding where punchlines should fall; how to mix tonality or emotion.... It’s like the…

“Earth systems science” (a.k.a. “Science of earth systems”) is literally a topic you can major in at university. Land grant universities, Ivy League universities, research-heavy universities. Those exact words are molded into metal and posted to the entrances of buildings. It’s a thing. It’s been a thing. When you…

Completely correct. They are stuck dealing with bigots like you, which must be exhausting.

Politicians get to decide which doctors “count” as doctors. I’ll bet you my life savings that a whole bunch of SME doctors are about to be deemed pedos. Republicans are going to approve churches, though.

Each individual part sounds somewhat reasonable, but the combination is what’s going to be nearly impossible in practical terms. Republicans are capping therapy at a maximum of 2 hrs./wk., so another way to express the requirement is not “40 hours” but “5 months minimum.” That also assumes that the person is able to…

I don’t know about the FCC, but if it’s like most other federal agencies, the answer is no. The money usually gets divided into several pie slices, and the Treasury Department is the biggest winner by far.

What a weird comparison to make. Of course private corporations are not going to have their employees begin conversations with paying customers with the word “fuck.” During business transactions, there’s a totally different etiquette.

Well yeah, I don’t expect a major airline to say, “We’ll be departing 10 minutes late due to rain.” I was imagining things more like September 11th. Earthquakes, the unexpected... like an emergency broadcast system. Even in a chaotic moment, it’s easy to pop off a tweet that could then be read by millions of people. Re…

“I never order anything that might be from the day before. I order to force them to make it then and there.”

Agreed. I actually love McDonald’s, but I only eat it at a rest stop while I’m on a long drive (typically for work, sometimes on vacation). Customers just need to be honest with themselves about why we eat there. The company definitely serves a purpose, but that purpose is not to be wowed (and it’s not for nutrition…

I always assumed it. My own early jobs taught me enough to be skeptical. I worked at a deli, and all of our bacon was pre-cooked. There were so few customers asking for bacon on sandwiches that we just had a stash of cooked bacon in the fridge, and we were supposed to microwave it. Yes, that’s sad, I know. The…