Nazis
Young earth creationism and flat earth
Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the “evidence” just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how “the last two people” could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that’s probably happened a bunch. Hell, we’ve had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don’t know shit about 250k of those years.
From what I understand (and as a Christian), it’s those Christians that take a literal reading of the Bible, not understanding that those parts of the Bible aren’t meant to be read literally but are about the WHY of creation rather than the HOW. It’s about WHO God is rather than how He did things.
Either that or Genesis is just an explanation made up by a people group that had little to no idea how anything in the natural world works lol
If you squint real hard, Genesis is a tale of stellar and planetary formation. Then comes evolution. Give the first bits a read! Yeah, evolution is mixed up a little, still surprisingly on point for a bunch of Bronze Age sheep herders.
Then there’s a second tale, in the same short book. What a clusterfuck. But I can still see some real history in it. If I squint real hard.
Yeah seeing as the writers of the Pentateuch didn’t even know what the stars were, I’m pretty sure that’s all a coincidence lol.
Squint so hard your eyes are closed, maybe. Any overlap between biblical verse (translated through at least two languages) and modern scientific understanding is coincidental.
Like a prophecy referencing cities burning being reimagined as a nuclear exchange instead of, you know, a fire.
I always thought 2 Peter 3:8 basically addressed this issue.
Wow! Nailed it! I had thought that as a young Christian, didn’t know there was a verse for it. Lost my religion long ago BTW.
What’s weird is the young Earth thing is relatively new. Before the 1850s or so, you would be laughed out of the room. As ignorant as we were, naturalists were having a hard time trying to figure a world that was millions, or 10s of millions, of years old. Churches, of any stripe, sure as hell wasn’t preaching it.
And here we are, with the flat Earth idea being even newer.
Child labor.
Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>
Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, “they caught a case of child labor.”
I get you, but how would you phrase it? I expect, BTW, that it might be intended to cover both the extreme of children forced to work in a sweatshop 12/7 and children who have to help their parents with some subsistence tasks.
Those two should not be counted in the same category.
Maybe not, but the boundaries can be fuzzy, and statistics tend to get built on technical language that may not treat the fuzziness the way you or I would agree with. So I get the urge to use vague language like ‘affects’ or the difficulty in finding language that is general enough without sounding mealy mouthed.
Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?
A better understanding will flow from knowing that federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.
So there is specific legislation in place to abuse restaurant workers, restaurant owners take full advantage of this.
Here, the minimum wage for servers is $17.20, same as any other worker.
It is the same in Canada. However, there are still special provisions that 2nd class the labor rights of restaurant employees.
In Ontario, minimum wage is the same for all.
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In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It’s a rent-seeking scam.
Thank the fucking tax software lobbies for that. Assholes
The complication is mostly determining what actually counts as income and the insane amount of deductions and credits you might be eligible for.
For most people a simple standard deduction is very easy to file, and can be done on paper in 15-30 minutes. But I agree that this is still too complicated.
Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.
Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we’ve backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.
That’s not true. Sure, we have tribalism, but there’s no reason it has to be about race. It could be about religion, politics, country of origin, and countless other things
Sports. Watch the crowds in some European soccer or basketball matches and you’ll see how we managed to keep tribalism alive and well, but (mostly) harmless.
(You need stadiums that can handle tens of thousands of people bouncing on the stands for ninety minutes without collapsing, though.)
In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.
Lol
Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear
Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.
Mhmm, the nuance of racism and “it just being biology/tribalism/instinct,” haven’t heard that before.
The was no ‘just’, just as there was no equating.
equating skin colour with culture
Not equating. They said that people of an ethnicity are often also of a culture common among those of that ethnicity.
I’m in Costa Rica, and people are likely to (correctly) assume that I’m a foreigner here because I’m white.
It’s not equating. It is, however, a way to tell what is likely.
Dog whistles? It’s open now.
Private health insurance.
Religion.
It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc…
It’s why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.
We don’t need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.
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Love the H
Heroin is a hell of a drug.
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Charlie Kirk
On that note, Ben Shapiro as well.
Andrew Tate, though that may be dangerous as he’ll probably turn into a martyr.
There’s a good list forming here.
You know, I actually don’t think it’ll be a good idea to kill people who are only powerful because they can talk. The more I think about it, the more I think they’ll be turned into martyrs by their followers. It’ll only embolden them.
So, something that really upsets the world in a tangible way would be…
Shooting more CEOs. And bankers.
😬🫥
I would be inclined to believe you, looking at these protests and manifestations that happened in London after the Kirk shooting. Scary works right now.
I still want to believe we live in a world where there are more welcoming people than there are hostile people. Otherwise the world is truly lost.
Billionaires, government officials owning stock, private campaign finance, the two party system, racism, sexism, health insurance, private equity, for profit prisons, for life Supreme Court appointments, Nazis, Zionism, Wall Street, unregulated banking,jobs that don’t pay a living wage, unaffordable housing, student debt, the police state and lobbyists
Measles
I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.
Fossil fuel subsidies. No longer needed since we have more viable alternatives, and they just contribute to global warming, and litter.
I’m not sure that’s true.
The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.
Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.
The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 There are dozens of companies making electric tractors, AND in a rural area it is much more viable to have solar panels than to rely on the next diesel delivery, or make long trips to the nearest filling station.
Areas with solar panels are even posting higher crop yields.
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A diesel engine can literally run on vegetable oil. We don’t need fossil fuel subsidies to keep farm tractors working.
If we must distort the market directly, we should do so on the demand side. Give farmers a per-Joule fuel subsidy, and let them use petro-disel, bio-disel, or electric as the market may provide.
Either we believe that markets work or we don’t
Obviously, there isn’t enough vegetable oil to run every tractor and every truck.
In Australia, bio diesel is subsidised in the same way regular diesel is.
