It’s foul. Cup of Tannin, more like.

Two thoughts here:

1. How do they find an impartial jury? Is it possible to find an impartial jury?

2. Will we ever learn if the McDonalds employee who turned him in received a payout?

To the latter. I was into OSINT to a lesser degree for several years. There are people who engage with it for the sole purpose of trying to find criminal people in order to collect reward money. However, the deal is, the amount posted is typically “up to” the amount posted, and, worse, can be contingent on conviction in a court of law. So, yes, I want to know if the McD Employee was paid as of yet.

I’m an American who drinks tea. I’d love to hear from our distant countrymen on how accurate this is.

A Masters in Engineering from University of Pennsylvania.

Works in reader mode.

People go wherever the people already are on social media.

It’s why it’s so difficult to get your people to switch from FB Messenger to WIRE or Signal even though they’re not recording every keystroke like FB Messenger is.

This wins the most ridiculous thing I’ve read on the internet this year. And it’s December.

Google was decent at one point. The true enshittification only started to be felt in earnest ~2015.

Before that there were books and index searches at the library. You would go pull, say, 11 books on Robespierre and the French Revolution. Then systematically index search each one for relevant info to research and write up whatever you were writing up. Same with journal papers though they had their own search devices and were typically housed in those cool rolling stacks.

Wiki is user based. Anyone can write or modify anything on a wiki. There are mostly good intentioned players, but even so. I’m sure thee are people who sidle in to tweak their own Wikis or have a publicist create it. I’m old enough it’s never been my go to unless I’m looking up media. What year did Baldurs Gate come out? Who wrote Buffy the Vampire Slayer? What was JJ Abrams involvement with Fringe? What episode of TNG was Picard taken hostage and tortured with the lights? That sort of thing. That said, if you find something is lacking in a wiki, you can fix it yourself.

And based on a religion that is old.

That is…what a way to inspire mass exodus in the remaining employees.

Here, be honest. Thank you. You’re fired. This feels very Trump-y.

Remember Elon Musks promise of “hardship” for American working class (as opposed to whatever this is now) once he engages in making efficiency cuts.

I’m not talking race, but religion. And yes, I don’t think ANY of the Abrahamic religions are a good and equitable basis for government. I firmly believe in separation of church and state.

Practice whatever you like. My rancor is for instilling any of those practices in government. I weep for the women in Iran. No one should be forced, and they are forced, to live like that.

Great analogy.

If you read it, Jesus doesn’t sound bad. I’d posit he’s probably the worlds first hippie. Acts is decent reading. The main issue is much of the book is filled with old law, several books in fact, that are there as governing rules for a society, not as a philosophy.

Religion can even work as such within small communities. 334million is not a small community, and people cherry pick what they like. Handmaids Tale cherry picked what was needed to fix a fertility crisis. Other communities cherry pick what they like for other means of making women subservient in a trad wife role. Others still go straight Jesus and are unrestricted, which, necessarily, ignores the entire Old Testament.

If the entirety was chosen, life would be very tedious and locked in contradiction.

Just the part about not being able to use furniture sat on by a woman actively experiencing her period, having to wait a week, or was it two?, for the furniture not to be unclean any more would break some people. It fascinates me that the biggest religious sticklers just ignore that one.

Oh. And no bacon. Or Christmas ham. A rule often ignored for obvious reasons.

Yes. But he now has all the money. I’m not sure he could spend it all if he tried. And now this.

He won already.

Religion is irrational, scary, and often violent. It’s a piece of why there’s never peace in the Middle East. I wish I could be as flippant as the rest of you about this.

Well. Guinan had reasons entirely separate from mixing drinks.

A piece of that is managing systems instead of people, which means an absolute separation of church and state.

Marry who you want. Age of legal consent means body autonomy. And so on.

Freedom of and from religion at the same time, no exceptions.

Sisko is still my favorite ST captain.