[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

That's some badass ass assessment.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

Clearly someone who's never accidentally tasted dandelion milk.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

I want another slice of rhubarb tart.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago

I realise this is probably a joke post, but I thought the whole premise of the anti-pray-the-gay-away argument (which I don't agree with btw, just to be clear) was that sexuality is fixed not chosen. If you can "make" non-LGBT the minority then that suggests sexuality can be manipulated and thus validates the PTGA position.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Stupid sexy Flanders!

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Maybe you don't need to. These are games, for leisure, not your job (ok unless you're a gaming youtuber or something). The completed game doesn't have to be submitted to your manager on Monday morning or else. Many games just get harder and harder as you progress (and even those that don't); just play until it stops being fun then move on. Save the stress for the job.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Oh I don't know. Healthy people, kept healthy by science, live longer, earn more, tithe more; some even get to reverse tithe (where they keep 10% and give the rest away).

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

It's a single example that disproves the hypothesis "science and religion must always oppose". Only one example is needed, in the same way that the Riemann hypothesis only needs a single zero off the critical line to prove it's false.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Well let's have a look at the Tory track record of implementing things effectively. How about Boris's oven ready deal? Seems he didn't have one. Was he lying? Or did he have one that he thought the EU would accept until they laughed him out of the room? How's the Rwanda plan going? How much has it cost so far? How many flights have left? Hmm.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

Because back when the only way to listen to new music was to buy it, then find out a load of it was absolute tripe, then not be able to take it back.

So fuck 'em. I download first, then if I like it I buy it. There's quite a few CDs on my shelf that I first pirated. And no CDs that are full of lame filler shite.

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

I gave my shorts to my wife so she could wash them, FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

[-] letsgo@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago

British Christian here, with an engineering degree. I think knowledge is a good thing. But it's not the only thing; faith is important too. Balancing the two can be tricky because we always want more "why?" and God isn't always going to answer that. But He is good, infinitely good, there is no evil in Him, and He has promised to be with us forever. There are times when you just have to switch your analytics off and trust, and find the peace within "I don't know."

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This relates to the BBC article [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66596790] which states "the UK should pay $24tn (£18.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries".

The UK abolished slavery in 1833. That's 190 years ago. So nobody alive today has a slave, and nobody alive today was a slave.

Dividing £18tn by the number of UK taxpayers (31.6m) gives £569 each. Why do I, who have never owned a slave, have to give £569 to someone who similarly is not a slave?

When I've paid my £569 is that the end of the matter forever or will it just open the floodgates of other similar claims?

Isn't this just a country that isn't doing too well, looking at the UK doing reasonably well (cost of living crisis excluded of course), and saying "oh there's this historical thing that affects nobody alive today but you still have to give us trillions of Sterling"?

Shouldn't payment of reparations be limited to those who still benefit from the slave trade today, and paid to those who still suffer from it?

(Please don't flame me. This is NSQ. I genuinely don't know why this is something I should have to pay. I agree slavery is terrible and condemn it in all its forms, and we were right to abolish it.)

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