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Most/many evangelicals are anti-Semitic. They support action like this because they think it is completing prophecy and will help bring about Armageddon and Jesus’s return (that’s to really bad, cherry-picked readings of their own scriptures)

I still love the interpretation of this event from the short “Troops” (parody of the old “Cops” TV show) https://youtu.be/5HO70-Rk3jE

Oh, I’m not saying voting is the only thing we can do. Not by a long shot. It’s just the most impactful.

I feel that.

But just to say it: Because it’s still the right thing to do, and if we didn’t, it would just be that much worse.

There’s no denying the best thing people can do for the planet isn’t recycling, etc - it’s voting.

All the stuff in the USA named after Von Braun doesn’t surprise me.

Really interesting to see all the stuff named after Philippe Pétain in the USA. Looks like it was banned after him in the 1920s-1930s due to his role for France/allies in WWI. Then he became a Nazi collaborator later.

Good reminder of why you shouldn’t name things after people who are still alive.

Yup. I have The Clash song stuck in my head now.

https://www.theclash.com/discography/know-your-rights/

If you’re referring to Microsoft, they haven’t had anything to do with MSNBC since 2005, or the website site since 2012.

Yeah. It’s been a fairly common thing for decades. Counter programming during the halftime, encouraging people to flip channels. Puppy bowl on the animal channel is probably the most famous (and innocuous)

To the layman: sleet=tiny ice. Hail=big ice.

There are multiple restaurants in Japan that are hundreds of years older than this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owariya

Business love libertarians. Not fascists.

Fascists and dictators might decide to take over your business, double the cost of your raw materials through tariffs, or suddenly change all your regulations without discussion.

Ask any economists what business likes most and it is certainty. They hate the unknown and risk. Even if the policies aren’t their favorite, if they’re fixed and stable, they’ll find a way to work them.

Literally a quote from the article:

“Not an anti-porn crusade, that’s absolutely not it, but actually understanding that for some people, a significant number of people, porn does lead to harms. And how do we actually begin to do something and address that?”

This isn’t some pearl-clutching religious group putting out the report. It’s a professional group of therapists.

Ethiopian Coptics are some of the oldest Christian groups in the world. You could (and I think they do) argue they predate Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

The downside of not having any major corporation defend his IP for infringing on their profits is that you see tons of counterfeit Calvin stuff that is very out of character. Used to see more of it. Thankfully as the strip hasn’t been over-promoted, he’s not mega popular, so I don’t feel like you see it as much as you used to

Not an expert, but I’ve always understood that what you’re describing is pansexual. I’ve understood the bisexual is general attraction to both men and women. Pansexual is attraction to any person.

Again, give or take any given person’s own chosen labels and attractions that might vary.

Ray Charles beat them all (kinda, sometimes)

MadTV did a good skit about this years ago

https://youtu.be/FhEpv14L-b0

Right move. Wrong reason.

They’re creating their own events, separate from the official Olympics

I don’t, really. But my field is also kinda niche (it’s not like some popular field like genetics or infectious diseases. There aren’t many journalists covering us at all, yet. I work in marketing for an industrial exosuit company (think practical, assistive, biomechanical wearables). Most of the journalists that are covering us at this point are used to covering news about forklifts or warehouse automation, so they aren’t used to reading peer reviewed scientific publications at all. Their exposure to papers on biomechanics and injury risk factors is more rare, and they might as well be Latin (well, sometimes they do have a lot of Latin).

But it’s also something of a joke. When I was back taking journalism classes for my communications and marketing degree, the professors would joke about how journalists covering either legal summaries or scientific summaries would say that 1 + 2 = 5 all the time, leaving out important details that were critical to the conclusions because they weren’t interesting. I think the scientists put up with it because as long as the conclusion is correct, they’re just happy to have anyone paying attention.

As someone who works in communications in a very science-heavy field: in fairness, journalists are also typically terrible at summarizing scientific papers.