The US dominates as a financial center providing bank financing for fossil fuels

sigh Of fucking course we are.

You’re absolutely right. It’s just the hypocrisy itself that always bugs me about these things. Probably a result of growing up in the Baptist church.

Tap water and plain corn chips!

a nation of dissimilar fronteirs

I wonder how many new countries we’d get if Russia were broken up into smaller regions based on ethnic groups that Russia has been subjugating until now.

“If we’re forced to strike, those $100,000 FIFA suites will have nothing but bottled water and Doritos.”

Should be all they get, regardless. Fuck them assholes.

Ah! So God changed his mind, then? But then…

• Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”
• Malachi 3:6 “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”
• James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.”
• Psalm 102:27 “But You are the same, and Your years shall have no end.”

Guess that’s just all bullshit, then.

I picked verses from the Bible as supporting examples, yes. What other text would you expect me to cite? The Bhagavad Gita?

If you’re referring to the fact that there are other verses in the Bible that would contradict these, that’s an entirely separate discussion of its own that I’m not interested in having in this thread. Yeah, the Bible is hugely self-contradictory. But it’s supposed to be the “divinely inspired word of God,” so I’d advise you take that issue up with their schizophrenic sky-daddy.

Where does the cannibalism come in? I missed that headline.

Il Papa’s gonna be real embarrassed when someone reminds him that his god was originally a desert war god.

ETA for the woefully ignorant ones who know nothing about their own god:

• Exodus 15:3 - “The Lord is a warrior; The Lord is His name.”
• Isaiah 42:13 - "The Lord will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies.
• Joel 2:11 - The Lord utters His voice before His army; Surely His camp is very great, For strong is he who carries out His word. The day of the Lord is indeed great and very awesome, And who can endure it?
• Jeremiah 51:1-4 - This is what the Lord says: "See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai. I will send foreigners to Babylon to winnow her and to devastate her land; they will oppose her on every side in the day of her disaster. Let not the archer string his bow, nor let him put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; completely destroy her army. They will fall down slain in Babylon, fatally wounded in her streets.
• Jeremiah 51:20-23 - "You are my war club, my weapon for battle - with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms, with you I shatter horse and rider, with you I shatter chariot and driver, with you I shatter man and woman, with you I shatter old man and youth, with you I shatter young man and young woman, with you I shatter shepherd and flock, with you I shatter farmer and oxen, with you I shatter governors and officials.
• Isaiah 19:2 - "I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian - brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
• Zechariah 10:5 - Together they will be like warriors in battle tramping their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.
• Zechariah 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.

This is not an exhaustive list of examples of the war god that Yahweh is. The whole kum ba yah peace-loving fluffy bunny of a god is the result of Victorian sensibilities. More people would know this if they ever bothered to crack a history book on religion instead of only getting their religious info from some dude yapping at them from behind a pulpit.

Where does one get one of these PP Fountains?

Mordor Macula

So that’s where Sauron’s been.

Who knew merely acknowledging the existence of a human being could be so controversial? Fucking boot lickers.

Just fucking die already!

It’s almost as if all people have the capacity to be shitty regardless of the arbitrary location of their birth. Weird.

No, because there’s no “understanding” of language going on here. The dogs are responding to a trained stimulus. I could train a dog to sit when told to stand and they wouldn’t be confused at all because it isn’t the word itself they’re interpreting and responding to.

ETA: Downvoters need to stop anthropomorphizing their animals. It’s not healthy for you or them.

Your dog understands the sound you make and your associated intention when you say “sit” in English because that’s what they’ve been exposed to the most. Do it enough times in Spanish and Japanese and they’ll eventually figure those out, too. That doesn’t mean the dog understands how to say “sit” in three different languages, it means they understand you’ve got three different “sounds” that mean you want them to sit.

Were these researchers under the impression that dogs actually understood English before the experiment?

Nice! Is there an invite process for private servers?

I honestly miss playing WoW. It was a fun game, especially if you had a group to raid with. If only I didn’t have to give Blizzard money to play it.

“We continue to tell them that the disease is out there. Some accept, and others don’t,” Birungi [said]…

I get that these communities have little to no formal education on diseases, but are they really under the impression that hundreds of people in their communities just start spontaneously bleeding out of orifices and shitting themselves to death every few years when a new outbreak occurs?