I am as atheist as it’s possible to be. I’ve never been even slightly religious and there’s no part of me that even vaguely believes in anything religious, supernatural, or superstitious.

I read The God Delusion and I found it extremely weak and unconvincing

I remember when s guy tried to sue a news outlet for using his picture without permission for an article about how hipsters all look the same…and then it turned out that it wasn’t a picture of him

No, but when the AI bubble bursts it will wipe out between roughly 40% and 60% of the value of the US’s stock market, depending on which estimate you go by. For comparison, the initial crash of 1929 saw the stock market losing around a third of its value.

So either the government does bail them out, or it’ll be worse than that crash was.

Neither option is good for the little people

I don’t control what Rowling said or what she wrote in the books.

Okay, if you think it’s wrong for me to bring up this particular thing that Rowling said, tell me which other public statement that Rowling has made where she contradicts what the books say about Hermione should i have referenced instead?

I didn’t focus on skin tone. I referenced where a public statement about the character by Rowling contradicted what’s in the books.

This news comes immediately after they floated the idea of embedding AI, you say?

What an odd response

Does the fact that a character isn’t real mean that we can’t point out when an author contradicts themselves? Even if she claimed that the contradiction doesn’t exist?

Does referring to someone in a thread about that person mean that you’re a fan of them?

Does mentioning where someone has contradicted themselves mean that you’re complaining about the thing that they contradicted themselves over?

Did you put any thought whatsoever into your post or was it just a knee-jerk response?

And as having pink cheeks

She also said that she was Black, so I’m not sure how trustworthy she is on the subject

What they mean is That they’ll give you “insights” and “recommendations” which they absolutely know people are going to treat as gospel and medical advice at least as good as that from a doctor, but that their legal team has advised them that having disclaimers and caning it something like “wellness” will be enough to avoid legal responsibility when people inevitably die

Here’s the thing that doesn’t often get noted with this story - the Serpent tells the truth. God lies. And, again, the Serpent is the bad guy?

Without commenting on any specific meme (if for no other reason than that imgur is booked the UK and i can’t see the image) and without meaning to disparage OP in any way, because i believe they are asking an honest question, i think that sometimes it’s a question of framing. I think of it like this:

Say you’ve broken your leg and it’s painful for you to hobble around on crutches. You get to work and find that the lift (elevator for the yanks) is out of order. You work on the 20th floor and have no choice but to take the stairs. You talk about how unpleasant this is going to be for you, and a colleague says “yes, everybody hates taking the stairs”. Maybe they do, but it’s not the same thing.

Which again isn’t to suggest that everybody posting memes about neurodivergence is talking about real traits, just that the idea that “everybody runs out of social battery sometimes and therefore everybody is on the spectrum somewhere” isn’t really accurate. It can be the difference between deciding to skip a party because you’d rather curl up with a book and spending 4 months not exchanging a single word with another human being. Or the difference between having a favourite film which you say you’re “obsessed” with and spending 9 days straight watching it on repeat while only sleeping 4 hours a night because the other 20 are you watching the film.

A decade or two ago people used to say “everybody’s a little bit OCD”. That seems to have fallen out of fashion now. I’m reminded of the meme which goes something like one person saying “I’m a bit OCD, i arrange my books by colour”, and the second person saying “cool. I think that if I don’t flip the light switch 40 times all my family will die”.

I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call it copaganda, but it’s definitely true that it downplayed the anti-fascist satire of the original source material

The sun is blowing up

Why does something need to be done with Mexico?i thought there was a big beautiful wall keeping all the drugs and crime out?

Yeah, the whole “achievement unlocked” thing is from when Flash games were king

it’s pretty much because of that. Mostly through happenstance we had the most advanced navy when there was the cutting edge of warfare and therefore we managed to have one of the largest empires ever. So there’s a deeply ingrained myth of exceptionalism in the British psyche, where a lot of people still believe that we’ve got our position in the world because we deserve it as birthright

See also: Brexit

I wouldn’t call anything a clanker because I’m not a Boomer

Never argue with an idiot. The best possible outcome is that you’ll win an argument against an idiot

I understand what you’re saying and the political point you’re making but welfare, in political terms, is defined as state intervention via public institutions to ensure the economic and social wellbeing of its citizens.