DougHolland 11mo ago • 100%
You're now banned.
DougHolland 12mo ago • 100%
Breaking away is sometimes the right thing to do, and from what you're saying, OP, maybe you should break away before Turkey Day, not after.
I broke away for 13 years, enjoyed things better without them than with them. By the time I came back, some of the family had mellowed, others had died, and we actually have decent holidays now. It gets better.
DougHolland 12mo ago • 100%
And all of this has been public knowledge for a long, long time, long enough that anyone paying tithes to the Catholic Church is scum.
DougHolland 12mo ago • 100%
Perhaps I live in a bubble of pessimism, but — isn't the looming collapse of civilization well-known, and essentially a certainty?
DougHolland 12mo ago • 87%
Well, nobody certainly didn't see that coming.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
It was probably never true, but for many years I foolishly thought that 'bankruptcy' meant 'going out of business.' That's what it means if a mom-and-pop restaurant or shop declares bankruptcy. When companies get ginormous, though, they never go away. Rite Aid will 'reorganize' itself with fresh investors, and it'll still be a shitty drug store long after everyone reading this is dead.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
This is a worry and problem I've never had and don't really understand. One of the joys of social media (including the fediverse) is that you're judged by what you say and who you are, not what you look like. As a lifelong fat slob and general ugly person, I appreciate that.
I welcome anyone bright enough to chat intelligently, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, gender, religion, disability, age, etc.
DougHolland 1y ago • 88%
Hockey has been dead to me since the NHL made this announcement.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
It is folly to cover Scalise — or most republicans — in this way, as if what they're doing is normal.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
There are things going on that are less important than which monstrous Republican is Speaker of the House and which office Nancy Pelosi's desk is in, but Republicans are fucking the world over in many, many far more important ways.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
Jamie Dimon is a wealthy old fart who never worked a day in his plush lazy life. What he says interests me less than analyzing my neighbor's dog's poop as its eaten by bugs.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
Then it has to be better.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5764032 > For those unfamiliar, The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization. Here are its tenets. I often ask people what they disagree with and get very little in the way of meaningful response. > > >THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS > > > >I > > > >One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. > > > >II > > > >The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. > > > >III > > > >One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. > > > >IV > > > >The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. > > > >V > > > >Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. > > > >VI > > > >People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. > > > >VII > > > >Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word. > > https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets > > >DO YOU WORSHIP SATAN? > > > >No, nor do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse. > > https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq > > She's 13. Does anyone know if she's allowed to become a member? The website isn't clear on that.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
And maybe some time before he dies, let Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn out of this American dungeon.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
Seconded. I've thought the Pope's knowledge and support for Nazi Germany and the Holocaust was common knowledge. Feels like something I've known for thirty years, at least.
Maybe I just have a knack for the extremely obvious.
DougHolland 1y ago • 75%
Whoa. That totally Keanues me. I had thought of the lack of infinite scrolling as a bug, a feature I'd hoped was in development, but this srsly rejiggers my ears and everything in between.
I already spend too much time online, so ... I'm with @dessalines@lemmy.ml — no infinite scrolling, please.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
Seems clever and feasible to me. I suppose you'd need background checks on the passenger-couriers, but after that small hurdle, unless it's an urgent package like a pizza, transit riders could get anything across any city in an hour or so.
Where do I sign up?
DougHolland 1y ago • 95%
Everywhere I go I'm usually the oldest person in the room, and I've been hearing that line since long before I'd ever heard of Donald Trump.
Always, the left has to support whatever bland middle-of-the-road candidate the Democrats put forward, candidates who seem idea-free and utterly without passion, because the Republicans have a terrifying candidate. Gotta take boring over terrifying.
And Bernie's right. I ain't arguing.
Sure is a bucket of swill we're always forced to drink from, though.
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
"You are viewing this from Firefox on Windows."
I should worry that this info is exposed?
DougHolland 1y ago • 100%
There's a lot of smarts in what you're saying, thanks.
I don't have any science to cite, but I've certainly known LOTS of people who attend church more for the socializing than any spiritual reason.
Hell, I'm basically anti-social, but give me a 'club' to attend once weekly and listen to a mini TED-talk and then chat with like-minded people afterwards, and I might be there.
DougHolland 1y ago • 88%
What utter bullshit. The Catholic Church is one of the richest entities on this planet, but we'll let them pretend their San Francisco branch is a separate entity, so the church can get away with centuries of kiddie-diddling and continue kiddie-diddling until the Rapture.