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Do the right and left not at least agree we don't corporations running autonomously governed districts, anyway? Like sure the reason for dissolution in this case is bad and punitive, but the US has tens of thousands of these districts, and that seems... bad?

Twitter has 300 million active users. The only reason it gets such outsize coverage is its popularity with politicians. I really don't think Twitter affects society as much as people think. I think Facebook is far more potent in influencing people, due to its literal billion of international...

And surely the really careless, bad* student is going to turn in bad work anyway, even if they have creatively untrue or genuine excuses for why it's late. They're bad students. *n.b. students who are bad at school does not mean they're dumb/not good people, I just mean they genuinely aren't...

Whoever did set design for that show, I'm thinking particularly of the 'new' community center built with Church money, was definitely Catholic in the 90s and it's hilarious/perfect to me.

I mean, I'm conservative overall but I can't stand Shapiro, Matt Walsh, etc for many, many reasons. Most of the YouTube I watch is also Best of the Worst and super long video game retrospectives, but YouTube sets 30% of my recommended to "x DESTROYS libtard LOL" and I want to burn it down. I...

It's only been a few weeks - got a Biblical dictionary and regular one, a workbook, and texts on grammar and translation. My goal is to be fluent enough in 1 year to read through the NT.

Ancient, well... Erasmian, anyway. Long term plan is to read the New Testament in the original.

Yeah I mean spoken language is a different beast, too. Le/la can sound similar enough, or you can slip up very clearly but people are charitable and know what you mean. But writing, I mean, it's obviously good to edit when it's professional, and it can tough to read anything with lots of...

I think something important to think of it as categories and not like... human gender. In fact the word in French is 'genre' which of course makes it way over to English as a word for category. The rug isn't male or table female, they're in the categories masculine and feminine and they don't...

We had this live chat thing at my retail job, and as a manager I regularly reviewed closed tickets to make sure the right information was being relayed, etc. I read through this one conversation and it was a customer who wanted to know if we had considered carrying knives (we sold kitchen...

We'll tell you when you're older

Yeah, I mean, huge swathes of what the Mormons believe deviates from orthodox Christianity. We view all the sacraments as for the living only.

That's true, if you are a Catholic you can baptize someone in emergencies without being a Priest. However if they are 'of the age of reason' they have to consent - no showing up to accident sites and just baptizing dying folks. And I imagine a similar rule would apply to infants - have the...

This is not correct. Many Protestants don't believe that baptism literally saves, so they wouldn't believe this at all. They believe baptism is just a symbol of acceptance of Christ, so they don't practise infant baptism at all. Catholics, Lutherans, and others who practise infant baptism and...

Dr Harold News is one of the many, many, many satire-news-but-doesn't-know-how-to-write-good-satire clones out there.

I feel like we have the same opinion on the gravity of the book burning, but differing views on the gravity of whether or not it's worse if someone has a poor grasp of grammar. I suppose what I was trying to illustrate with my thought experiments is that it is equally bad, not worse, if their...

I'm sorry if I sounded like I'm lecturing people, I don't mean we can't laugh at these things or that people here are willfully ignoring the real issue. I'm just voicing a peeve that I think can have serious consequences. I agree everyone here is just chuckling at the only glimmer of humour in a...

I guess I just think this misses the point, because let's say that their grammar is perfect, in fact they are obsessively precise in their use of language. Let's say they want technological progress, defend mathematics and engineering, chemistry, etc. Is it now defensible to burn books? "We...