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“What if I jump from here?” is my favorite.

Umm I think he told everyone who would listen.

Android folks generally know because we have to close them sometimes. Don’t know about iPhoners

Simple answer for us simple folk. I like it. Thank you!

And an unsuspecting seasoner! 😋

Funnily enough, my country’s bills do look like Monopoly money. So much so that I tried to get smart with my friend by offering him some bills for his Boardwalk, but he slapped down my shit and told me to get some get real Monopoly money. :(

I wouldn’t worry so much for the cashier as the people behind me, if looks could kill!

Spoiler alert: it was a nuclear winter

Magnets?

Damn, and I just scored some gummies! It’s my lucky day.

I agree she should go for the PS5, but also, grandma’s dad dead and doubt she cares.

No, but they should. On me.

There a few many reasons why plastic bottles aren’t the best option for some medications and it comes down to the technical specifications of the drug as well as drug safety regulations.

Iirc, bottles aren’t optimal for formulations that result in friable (brittle) tablets, or those that need to be packaged in a reduced oxygen environment so that you can take out a tablet individually without exposing all the others to regular air, and so that they’re easy to handle and transport individually without exposure to contaminants in the environment up to the moment that they need to be ingested.

I encourage people to look deeper into pharmaceutical technology. It’s a fascinating field full of surprises.

Wataru Futanari. You sly bastards! 😂

What anecdotes? The woman who called dozens of churches and only got 3 willing to provide emergency food for a hungry child? You can listen to these calls yourself in the video I shared. Notice that I’m not arguing about food pantries, but rather congregations not willing to help adequately.

And still, your emphasis on food pantries is exaggerated. They were invented in the 1960s and are a distinctly American religious invention, so naturally, they would be primarily religious. Your article even mentions the negative effects these food banks have and questions their efficacy:

Despite the rise in charitable food, there is a lack of evidence supporting their effectiveness in addressing the main issue of food insecurity. At the individual-level, the charitable food system has been shown to contribute to stigma and shame among patrons [13–15], offer poor nutritional value [11, 16], provide insufficient and inconsistent food supply [11–17], consist of limited food choice and variety [16], and exacerbate pre-existing chronic health conditions [11, 18, 19]. Furthermore, “pantries spring up wherever someone is moved to create them” [20] (p221). In this way, the geographical distribution of food pantries may not follow any systematic pattern or necessarily reflect need. Many food pantries operate out of churches and volunteers are often motivated to volunteer because of their religious commitments. Given these circumstances and undercurrents, faith is an important and dynamic element of the charitable food system. However, faith-based affiliations within the current charitable food system is unknown and likely context-specific.

I also found this:

a study involving case studies in Indonesia, Fiji and Samoa (Thornton, Sakai, and Hassall, 2012) showed that the contribution of religious groups in providing disaster relief and welfare services to their members and advocacy for the poor is often present but not always comprehensive or positive. The influence of religious groups in the public sphere and as institutions can also exacerbate unresolved tensions between different ethnic and secular groups.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0272-3

Regardless, food pantries and poverty in general are symptoms of great social inequality and of a society that doesn’t prioritize welfare, despite its religiosity. So why limit ourselves to questionable religious initiatives? I’d much rather focus on the overall investment in social programs and their impacts between religious and secular countries.

I agree that religion is useful for bringing communities together and alleviating the hardships of poverty by providing people with a coping mechanism, but it’s by no means towering over secular initiatives because charity is innately human. Religion arguably only serves as a reminder of that with regular church attendance.

Science did not lead to eugenics. People used a young science as an excuse to advance their ideals by willingly misinterpreting genetics. Also, atom bombs are arguably more technology than science, and technology is rather neutral with its purpose.

Religion also builds food pantries, wells, and hospitals.

Do they, though? A woman called churches for baby formula and the majority of churches weren’t very cooperative. Also, even if the religious build hospitals, who’s to say they won’t follow some insane creed like Mother Teresa did, who willingly let people suffer because she believed that suffering led people to God? Not to mention that a lot of religious ideas tend to make people worse off, like denying blood transfusions with Jehovah’s Witnesses, or so many other topics that leave people out of proper care like objecting to abortions and IVF, prioritizing faith healing over evidence-based medicine, historical opposition to preventative medicine like vaccines, etc. More often than not, religion seems to get in the way of major health interests.

What religion does do is build community, and communities come together to provide for necessities like community wells, but even an absolutely secular community would build a well. I think it’s a little undeserving to give so much credit to religion.

How is it stupid if religious people really do argue that their god as an entity is real? I don’t think the comic tries to dispute that the concept of gods aren’t.

Right: a gentleman in the streets

Left: a freak in the sheets

The streamers I watch are usually incredibly talented and can pull off things I wouldn’t even imagine. They also explain the game at a very high level and can show me the boundaries that I didn’t even know existed. They also experiment with different setups and beat the game in hard mode without breaking a sweat.

Not everyone can pull it off while being entertaining and pleasant, but I think those are the ones worth watching the most.