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Well he also told people to give Caesar what Caesar was owed. You can justify virtually any belief by picking different parts out of those books. Dunking on self-described Christia…

> It is a religion, with many denominations. The whole of it defies neat categorization. People who self-describe as Christians can't even universally agree which texts are authent…

The whole of Revelations is certainly odd, but that doesn't stop a whole lot of people from finding some interpretation of it they can believe in. That some people might interpret …

To test it as you suggest, you'd have to build the full containment building, which are built as domes. That dome structure should lend itself to exploiting concrete's compressive …

https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ > Subsets of IMDb data are available for access to customers for personal and non-commercial use. You can hold local copies of this data, and it is…

Or the elderly would wander off on their own to die, after they perceived themselves to be a burden.

This video shows an F-4 Phantom being slammed into a concrete wall using a rocket sled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4wDqSnBJ-k At about 2 minutes in they show the aftermath. T…

> Lots of people were sending white powder to official addresses. It turned out that anthrax came from a government lab, and was supposedly sent by a single rogue employee... thoug…

I would hope so. On the other hand, if 9 of 10 people on your team opt to leave the state and you're the one who conspicuously doesn't, maybe your choice will be perceived differen…

If a salesforce employee opts to stay in Texas, I wonder if that will be taken as an expression of support for the law and negatively impact their career. Edit: I didn't expect thi…

Possession is 9/10th of the law? They already have them, making it easy for them to keep them.

It's a dry climate and aluminum doesn't just rot. It would obviously take some money and work to bring planes out of mothballs, and probably in some cases unrepairable damage would…

I'm pointing out a false dichotomy, why do we have to "pick our poison"? Can you explain why I should pick one? I don't want to take any poison. I want free speech and I want unive…

Lots of industries/companies are required law to maintain records of what they do. If such requirements were imposed on media companies, it could be done by archiving source materi…

Why do you think either necessarily requires the other, in either circumstance?

I suggest you read the article you linked carefully. Follow the links to the articles of each of the constituent programs, and read those articles carefully with a critical eye. Pa…

Calling the whole computer "the CPU" was very common in the 90s. I believe the author of the article deliberately misused the term to invoke 90s vibes and moods. Edit: Also common …

> If a cop asks you to stop and the only thing that makes you stop is the threat of violence I would seriously rethink who I am and my values. People who deliberately speed don't a…

> Even moderately successful YouTubers rely on sponsorship and because there's competition for creators between platforms The fact that you call them "Youtubers" , identifying them…

> Spam is something nobody wants. Spam is something the recipient doesn't want. What is or isn't spam is subjectively determined by each individual recipient. If spam were strictly…

Even if I were to assume that all police officers are perfectly honest and reasonable, virtually anybody who is choosing to break the law would also choose to not voluntarily subje…

> Not that you might wake up tomorrow to a towed car, a summons nailed to your door and a jail term? Both enforced through the implicit threat of violence... What happens if I igno…

If people thought the reward for talking to a firefighter was a hundred dollar fine, they wouldn't be so willing to casually chat with firefighters either.

If I choose to drive 80mph in a 60mph zone, I am also going to choose not to voluntarily stop to receive a fine for it. I don't believe the average European is any different. The i…

Dorner himself doesn't get much sympathy (he murdered people who weren't police, despite having grievance with the police.) But the exact circumstances of his death are probably wo…