that is not part of evolution though. this is like saying gravity is bullshit because it doesn’t explain how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.

i am not sure what’s the difference there. why is one an endpoint, and the others aren’t?

isn’t a ‘higher power’ just kicking the can down the road?

personally, i don’t get, like, at all. i don’t care what nonsense folk put their faith in, so long as they don’t use it to justify being a dick, or try to justify others being a dick. maybe they get some pity/sympathy from me, to a point, cause they probably got brainwashed when they were a child, or otherwise in a vulnerable state, and maybe some amusement depending on how ‘out there’ their counterfactual beliefs are.

i generally get on well enough with my religious friends, but it’s not a topic that comes up much in real life.

i don’t usually care for organized religion, but that has more to do with my anarchism than my atheism.

this all goes equally whether we’re talking about conventional religions, modern conspiracy theories, new-age mumbo jumbo, or what-have-you.

judging from the weird void on july 4th, i am guessing it is based on data from the US. probably based on census records.

that’s a good point! nobody wants to do labor of either kind on xmas.

here’s a chart!

what’s fascinating to me about this is how people are clearly using medical science to avoid giving birth on certain holidays.

imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it’s better to have a backup ready to go.

remember, ATGATT folks.

here ya go!

but by that point, whoever the inheritors of the account were have probably been paying money and adding new games to it for decades. why would valve destroy their relationship with that customer just because they might still technically have access to some hundred year old games that either don’t even run on modern systems, or might even be public domain by that point?

all ya’ll admitting to ironing your clothes in the comments are a bunch of dweebs, just saying.

trying to start any kind of art as an adult sucks because inevitably by that point, you’ve got a fair head start on your art appreciation skill, which makes you perceive your initial attempts at art creation as particularly heinous. if you start as a kid, you’re less capable of recognizing how bad you are, and you aren’t having to compare yourself against peers who’ve got twenty years of experience on you.

why dost thou speakest in riddles, fair traveler?

i may or may not have a tanksona, but that doesn’t make me a tankie.

that was really good. heavy stuff, but really good.

i only found out they had a smell a couple years ago, and i’m in my 30s. not because i can’t smell them though, but just because i hadn’t noticed it before.

even if they were breaking tos (and i don’t think it sounds quite so cut and dry), shouldn’t the response be to notify them and allow them to fix it, or just terminate the account? demanding a ton of money to make the problem seems a skeevy way of handling it on cloudflare’s part.

the earth is round, that’s obvious if you just go to the beach, but the moon is a flat disk. the back side of the disk is home to a dinosaur utopia that nasa doesn’t want us to know about.

anyone want to explain what the joke is here?