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1) Any ⛪️religious childhood molds the child mind by hijacking evolutionary🍃 survival mechanisms. This implants the belief wholesale into the mind with attendant defense mechanisms. You can observe this *in any religion¹🕌in the world*. The result is durable belief resistant to contrary facts.⛓️And it is a method that is indifferent to truth - it works as well on lies or errors. 2) Any non rational belief forming of this sort is: - not a free choice to love god - not a reasoned or free belief 3) Any god worth anything would: - reject this sort of belief or relationship as worthless - utilize a better method of becoming known - not allow imposters to flourish through this same method* - be as likely to create fully finished souls directly as this cardboard cutout believer scheme *ex: the 🌎will be ~Muslim☪️ shortly, the world has been ~✝️Christian up until now 4) Therefore, your god specifically does not exist. This is a case where bad arguments and methods do in fact reflect upon the truth of the claim via the pathway of the all powerful agency God has. Said another way, God is the dog that didn't bark. 🐶 You don't have to spend your life equivocating about this question and kowtowing to irrational minds spouting nonsense. The truth is religious people of all stripes have their minds in neutral🕹️. The result is they are, for all purposes, simpletons on the topic. Even smart people. Even people you like and respect. That is what religion *does*. There's nothing wrong with you for noticing. You can *know* that no god exists in the same everyday way you know there is milk in the refrigerator. ¹popular atheism is also subsumed by the woke religion at this point. However, this does *not* reflect on the atheist conclusion in the same negative way because the logical situation is asymmetric. No all powerful all knowing actor with designs means the atheism conclusion does not suffer the vulnerability above.

@BillboardChris @PierrePoilievre unless you want to put the party in charge of who the candidates are, and you've got a better option for leader, I think your burn it all down attitude is ill considered Chris

How many more floor-crossings can @PierrePoilievre survive until he is forced to resign as Conservative Party leader?

@Tablesalt13 in fairness he had a lot of relatives he was inviting to immigrate and he needed a bigger gas station to impress them

‼️NEW Indian gas station owner in Canada sold gasoline with water in it which can cause catastrophic engine failure but now, he is complaining to the media that people are saying mean things about him online.

@spikedonline it IS the solution sometimes. We need to get real about extending life past dignity and usefulness in an era where the state takes care of these people and borrows the money to do it.

‘If it becomes acceptable to end one’s life, it becomes acceptable for others to raise the idea. Soon it will be seen as the “solution” to disability or getting old.’ Kathleen Stock on why we must resist assisted death: buff.ly/zYabsKC

@Handre change the incentives on the loans to make schools a partner in their students success

Universities discovered the perfect racket in the 1980s: convince bright kids they need PhDs to succeed, then extract 6-8 years of $15/hour teaching labor from them. Stanford graduates 180 PhDs per year but hires maybe 12 new professors. The math doesn't work -- and that's the point. You subsidize this machine every time you pay tuition or taxes. Universities expand PhD programs not because the economy needs more doctors of Medieval Literature, but because they need warm bodies to teach Intro to Everything while tenured professors "research" (write papers nobody reads). The artificial scarcity of tenure-track positions keeps desperate graduates working for peanuts well into their 30s. Classic monopsony power -- one buyer, many sellers, wages below market rate.

@Rafa_Mangual when it becomes necessary to use force, the more instant and effective the better - for everyone this bullshit was extremely dangerous and it's no good for public order either

This is what happens when you criminalize effective grappling. The diaphragm law is the byproduct of complete ignorance about how difficult it is to physically restrain a grown man who doesn’t want to be restrained. It’s a bad joke… a dangerous one.

@DanielR00191707 @sfmcguire79 except the articles referencing students talking about this, cost was never mentioned

@ReliefBelief @sfmcguire79 As long as Stanford forces all students to pay $233/week for food, students will try to find excuses to stop paying and get cheaper food

Stanford has introduced Jain-friendly dining options, which means students can no longer pretend to be Jain to get out of the meal plan.

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@nap_ano @sfmcguire79 I understand perfectly. these kids wanted to buy their own junk food.

@ReliefBelief @sfmcguire79 You're misunderstanding what happened here. This was students (not Jain) trying to figure out a way to not be forced to buy a University meal plan that forced them to spend 3x the money on food they wanted to. Why are we defending universities that bilk taxpayer money?

@SteveStuWill it might not be good to dwell on this too much or one might find they start disbelieving in themselves

Can only meat machines be conscious? "Current theories of consciousness are 'meat-neutral', but if specific physical substrates are necessary, AI may never achieve consciousness." doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

@brianlilley Could you at least try, try, not to be so much of an idiot?

On a trip to Florida with friends when she was an adult, Marylin Gladu, the new Liberal MP had odd comments about the body of a friend’s 17 year-old daughter.

I don’t think most of the chattering class understands quite how damaging floor crossers are to democracy. These floor crossings will change the outcome of the 2025 election and invalidate the democratic decision Canadians made to elect a minority government. This sends the message to voters that their vote doesn’t matter. And when we get to a place where voters feel democracy is illegitimate, we enter a very dark place.

Woke California lawmaker who backs transgender treatments for children squirms as brave young gay man shares how being railroaded into puberty blockers destroyed his life trib.al/QQTWs3O

@TLNewmanMTL Was sociology in specific and academia in general not ridiculously woke? How come you never talk about that

So, a lot of people don't know that I'm trained in Sociology. After graduating, I taught engineering students research methods. I am well-versed in epistemology, methodology and research design. I understand what questions actually measure. I also know that studies should release their data and reveal whether they've been commissioned and by whom.

@RobynUrback is she unapologetic conservative? I rather think she's agreed to sell out her values on that.

Reflects poorly on both. Gladu for obvious reasons. But if ever one needed proof that Liberal principles are first and foremost about the acquisition of power and not a coherent set of values and perspectives, it's accepting an unapologetic conservative like Gladu into caucus

@BenRabidoux I am tired of this shit, send these people home, and send the people that are enshittifying our society out of sympathy for them with them - the judges, politicians, prosecutors, elites.

-no valid license -had never driven before -fled from police who thought he was impaired -caused a fatal accident -does not speak a word of English Deport? No….absolute discharge Canada is not a place of justice for victims of crime

Almost anything is better than this future of racial spoils and almost anything should be tolerated to stop it

The board of @UniversitiesWI has fired its president as revenge for him making concessions to Republican lawmakers by pausing DEI hiring. The board members are appointed by @GovEvers, a Democrat. People who said “woke is dead” seriously need to rethink their position.

@LottoLabs I'm going on record, this week

Deepseek v4 may very well never drop

I received this heartbreaking message from a Jewish professor at @UAntwerpen, who is leaving both the city and the university after four decades. I can hardly express how deeply this saddens and enrages me—especially in light of last week’s craven and disgraceful charade surrounding the honorary doctorate of @FranceskAlbs. "After fifty years living in Antwerp and forty years at the University of Antwerp as student, assistant and professor, I’m leaving. I no longer feel at home in the city and feel completely estranged from my university that has become a hotbed of radicalism and has completely lost its sense of academic values of critical thinking, discussion and genuine diversity of viewpoints. I fear that the student generation that – with the support of the university authorities - has now become indoctrinated and brainwashed to a point of no return. My son who was born and raised in Antwerp and who wears a kippa,  has been called a child murderer on the street by a Flemish person and was told to “get out of here”. At the university the students are shouting that Jews should get out of Palestine. He and his family are leaving too. It just became a bad place for Jews." This is on you, rectors. You have made universities into hostile places for Jews (unless they ritually denounce zionism and Israel). They will abandon you and take all their learning, knowledge and wisdom with them. And don't worry, @UGent, you have scarcely any Jewish professors left to begin with. The great Jewish linguist and classicist Julien Klener has long since retired. When I met him recently, he told me how relieved he is not to have to endure this ideological madness anymore.