He seemed to be taken by surprise at the blowback from Riyadh. His reasoning was “the governments can suck, but the people are great. I perform for the people.” It’s a viewpoint convenient to his wallet, but now he doesn’t really bring it up.
He still sees his job is to speak truth to power and always punch up, not down, but I believe he is also ignorant of the totality of the Saudi’s evil. I’d rather try to bring him over to us than cast his voice aside.
I was a Scout in the 90s. The pedophilia allegations were rampant back then, too. And the beginnings of the christo-fascist movement. And (in my troop) the paramilitary indoctrination. I lobbied all of my frustrations to my parents who made me stay in until Life, just before Eagle. I think they figured I’d just go ahead and finish it out. Nope.
I got SO many valuable life lessons from Scouts, but the organization itself is so disgusting it is hard to fathom. The dads that were there to help were great! The merit badges are simple paths to learning new skills. Friends your age sharing an experience, commiserating with boys at a fucking brutal time in your life, all good! But even with all that value, I still saw the organization for what it was. I got what I could out of it, but how can you reconcile the comradery you feel with the pain the Scouts are causing others?
Boys need a safe space.
I think of this every time I feed my dog the last of the tuna can: a wolf chasing down a fish at 60 mph.
From the article: “There are recent signs that the gradual decline in church attendance has leveled off. For the first time in 25 years, the number of people attending in-person worship in the US has increased.”
The article also says that about 100 million people (30%) attend a weekly service in the US nowadays. They talk about the heyday of the mid 20th century where 50% of Americans attended a weekly service. The population of the US in 1950 was 150 million. So that’s 25 million more people attending church today.
So why are all the smaller churches closing? The article (and possibly the PBS doc) fails to place some of the blame on the congregation capture of mega churches and how politics has driven people into these behemoths. I know that is what’s happening where I live in the South. They have a large sanctuary and expand that with an enormous online presence. How else can we have more Church goers and less churches?
“On Monday, Queensland will become one of the first jurisdictions in the world to require a driver’s licence to ride an ebike in public.”
“prospective”
You sly dog.
Here’s a link to the novel if you’re interested: https://a.co/d/01DIl9oB
Fortnite? My kids don’t play it anymore, I don’t know.
That can’t be true, it’s just for satire, right? Right?
I agree, which is why I don’t see why people are saying the answer is 16. You add in the parentheses, you multiply, then you divide. The answer is 1.
This left-to-right business linked below is complete nonsense when it comes to equations. That’s how westerners read books, but not how math is communicated. Am I that old? Like Mr. Incredible said, did they change math!?!
Luckovich is a badass.
“I didn’t say she was crazy, I said she was fucking Goofy!”
I hope they licensed this footage appropriately and paid the voice actors scale, but I’d bet good money they didn’t.
I like this.
At that low of a resolution, everyone looks alike. Did OP hit his pixel cap for the month and had to be throttled down?
I’m missing context on this one. I walk away from Lemmy for ONE day and…
“The car is cheap because money is free” is what the article is basically saying: China provides no-interest loans to EV manufacturers.
“I do not see coincidence, I see providence!”
"14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its operational workforce”
This should bode well going into the package shipping season. But hey, at least the stock price went up after the announcement.
…okay.