don

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[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

True, but it’s good to have options.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Good point, kid, and here’s another one: those toys you want me to buy you are a social construct. Playtime? Yep. Social construct. Shall I keep going? Video games are next.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

I mean, she is highly venerated by the scientific community, such that her research is still kept around despite being highly radioactive. Also, she was a living human being, as opposed to, y’know, a comic book character.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Skill issue. You’re just not sinning hard enough.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I would specify that the views and practices of modern religious have probably diverged to a very likely large extent from that of their founding predecessors, but I’d also imagine those same predecessors also used religion to justify their victim complexes and bigotries. The two groups, separated by many thousands of years, seem to have much the same underlying mentalities.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

There are very likely an alarming number of religious people who’d agree.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Well, at least two Corinthians.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Many are born in the US, some walk or fly there.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, that’s the joke.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Christians: wait no not like that~🥵~

[–] don@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can bet hard cash that there are an uncomfortable number of ignorant people who thoroughly believe that one isn’t born black, but becomes black through any one (or more) of a myriad of perplexing and completely irrational reasons.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AA = Alcoholics Anonymous

NA = Narcotics Anonymous

Both are treatment programs for their respective addictions.

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