There are two types of churches out there in the US.

Tiny little congregations who meet up in an old gym or single-wide trailer and organize and connect community like humans have been doing for tens of thousands of years and have no goals beyond their faith and community.

And money-making grift operations who just want to fleece as many as possible by latching onto whatever controversial social issue can make people so inflamed and blinded with emotion that they hand over stacks of cash just to feel like they’re hurting the people that conservative media tells them they should hate. These churches come in all sizes and seem to vastly outnumber the other kind, because this tactic is so, so easy to pull off.

The backache and frustration with the number 67 for existing already did that, but thank you for reminding me that we had a good Windows OS once.

Shaka, when the walls fell!

Do not the space probe

Voyager’s mission parameters and expectations have only decreased since 1977, it will never be required to run newer software or investigate new objects. It is winding down and is just sending back enough data that we can use our more powerful Earth-based computers to detect the most subtle changes to the cosmic medium.

Meanwhile, we have a constantly accelerating global marketplace of new software and new ways of both working and playing games. If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.

All that said, we do have a pretty bad problem with bloatware and software/hardware companies colluding to leverage consumers to buy and upgrade phones and computers more than necessary.

I just don’t think it’s a fair comparison if we were to get really pedantic and serious about a joke meme.

Grok, is this true?

still think people should be driving cars.

I am talking about what’s realistically feasible with current attitudes and infrastructure and lack thereof, I get how rail is the socialist utopia dream, but we’re about as far from light rail and walkable cities in the US as we are from motherfucking FOOD REPLICATORS.

Also:

It’s interesting that you

Just fuck right off with that internet chud language.

Feeling that anything or anyone views you as “worthless” is a symptom, not a diagnosis. Just sayin, I’ve been down this road and back a few times.

You can get better, you can feel better. It takes effort and honesty with yourself that may be uncomfortable, and no, it’s not about “positive thinking” as much as it’s about learning how your own survival mechanisms work and learning how they’re working against you.

About our only actual hope is a MASSIVE switch to nuclear power across the world and most cars switching to electric. And even then, we would need to address cow farts, industry, the burning of forests along with a host of our sources of greenhouse gasses. And even then we have missed our target goals by a mile so the globe will still heat up to disastrous levels.

It’s almost guaranteed that one of the larger countries with more population at risk from climate change will perform some unilateral attempt at geo-engineering, which could be either very good or very bad.

The alien parasite that usually controls his brain faltered for a moment and the normal human inside was like “How the fuck did I get here?? SOMEONE HELP”

Search for Alex Honnald and he’s done TED talks and other interviews talking about it, but most interestingly, i found a 360-degree youtube vid of some of the climb to really get that pucker-up sensation. (You can grab and pan the camera view in all directions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGF77fBAeM

Yes you should LOL JFC go get a job, save money, build your future. You are gonna be middle-aged saying “Why the fuck did I let international politics keep me from getting my shit together??”

I promise you, whatever excuses you’re letting your mind invent to keep you from getting a job are just that, internal validations. Take the reigns, don’t listen to the stories your mind tells you.

I have spent my life hearing stories that the world is ending, that world war 3 is about to happen, that we have no future.

Well it’s now the future, and I dearly, dearly wish the people saying all that actually helped me and others prepare for living as an adult in a world that continues to go on.

My entire life on Earth, people have been saying “World War 3 is imminent!” and when I was little, it actually was. In my life, I’ve seen an actual face-off between armed super-powers directly threatening each other with total annihilation, and a few times it came very, very close.

We are in a vastly different world now, with new super-powers all for the most part intertwined with each other financially. While what remains of Russia is a real threat, they aren’t the scary monster they used to be, but are still using the same rhetoric and hostility. However, more and more we have learned that they are not the unstoppable “red tide” that will cover the world, they are a struggling, impoverished nation pouring every ounce of their might into capturing one neighboring country with valuable resources, and not showing a lot for it other than a radically reduced male population.

I firmly believe that we are further from World War 3 than we’ve been since the end of World War 2. It’s possible Putin will lose his mind and try to kill the world, but that’s not a “world war” that’s just terrorism, and he won’t have allies joining in, because mostly, everyone wants to live. He knows this too, so all he would be doing is causing a lot of destruction to some countries and total destruction to his own.

Good, but it is normal so I was speaking broadly.

Aside from the Americanized version, that sounds wonderful, I love the inclusion of mint.

That’s not even remotely the worst way we’ve bastardized italian pizza.

Also, we could dive deeper and talk about italian food before tomatoes were introduced, but I don’t think Americans are ready for that yet.

If you’re not sure about this, start small. Try a spinach salad tossed with nuts like walnuts or pecans and sliced strawberries and a sweet balsamic with a little grated romano. Seriously, give it a go, it’s healthy and tastes amazing.

Remember, tomato is a fruit, it’s just not sweet. But we then add heaps of sugar to tomato sauce to make it sweet. Fruit like strawberry is already sweetened, it makes perfect sense on paper.

What’s throwing everyone is that our first experiences with sweet fruit flavors is always candy or pastries and we have a hard time shaking that association as strictly appropriate.

Lose a little weight, get good shoes, gentle stretches before walking, see a doctor to make sure you’re not doing actual damage. Maybe try walking on dirt/sand/grass too, asphalt and concrete are rough on your body.

if it’s a traditional/old style with a spinning magnetic disc, listen for clicking sounds as it reads, if you hear clicks it’s probably about to die, don’t put anything valuable on it.

User you replied to is literally some child from a religious family or something, history is a wild ride of “what the fuck” takes and weird rambling spiels. I regret the time I spent trying to figure them out.