In my opinion, it’s not just commercial that’s vulnerable. How may office workers are going to live in San Fransisco or New York if they don’t have to?

It depends on how you’re using the word “nutrient”. It isn’t great by any means but it has carbs and carbs are a macronutrient.

Do you think it shows weakness to be polite to those you disagree with? I think it works better to approach people with respect if I want them to consider what I’m saying. It already feels like an attack when someone says you’re wrong, and I don’t want to harden minds against what I think is right.

I’m not always good at it, and I have spoken to people harshly often. It never produced anything but hard feelings on their part. I think it can be satisfying to be mean, and I was looking for an excuse to act in a way that’s less moral without feeling bad about myself. I think even if I was right, I usually didn’t need to be mean about it.

I think that it’s likely nothing I’m doing on this website is important enough to justify me being unkind about it.

There are enough of us that if we cared to we could solve it. We don’t.

If you ban all other public speech trying to sell me on anything, I might get behind it. Targeting religion specifically is a bit sus.

“Just give up your home, job, and family and likely become a refugee if you don’t agree with the prevailing religion. What’s the big deal?”

Atheism is a religious stance, and is practiced like one. When it’s used to harm non-believers especially it’s really easy to see this.

I wouldn’t give Christians or any other religion a pass on this, so I’m not giving Atheists one either.

I mean, they had stopped them. For a long time, there was a deal whereby they had agreed not to make them in exchange for concessions. Then someone flipped the table.

It remains to be seen if they can keep them stopped.

Dead bodies are not people and don’t have rights. If there’s a harm done, it has to be to someone else. Like surviving relatives or something.

How well did that work out for Ukraine?

The realpolitik answer is always to get nukes before they can stop you. Look at how well it worked for Israel and North Korea.

A mentally handicapped person can still receive instructions from others.

Most people are concerned he’s a Russian asset because Russia has something on him. Not because he’s ideologically or philosophically aligned with them.

With something that old, a woodgas conversion might not be too hard. You would lose some bed space for the system, but you can run a truck like that on old pallets, junk mail, and the overabundant packaging plastered all over every kind of consumer goods.