I’m from the Bible belt and in my experience these people absolutely believe in God and heaven, but probably very little past that. These people mostly have a “vibes based” understanding of their religion but many of them believe it to their absolute core. Most don’t read the bible past the popular verses and even less actually analyze what the text is saying, but that by no means indicates a lack of belief. It’s important to remember that their actions may indicate a lack of belief in the morals they espouse, but that’s cognitive dissonance not secret non-belief.

A friend has told me you can block Elon but his tweets still appear on your timeline as if you haven’t. He still uses Twitter and the only way he manages it is by blocking every blue check. He has 28,000 blocked accounts now…

If you have the time to watch YouTube enough that you’re considering premium you have enough time to set up these systems. The time it saves you makes back the setup time very quickly for someone watching even a moderate amount of YouTube.

I agree that having a 21 year old mayor is crazy, but I think you’re misunderstanding the context here. There are no HOAs within 20 miles of this community. It’s incredibly rural, with most houses “in town” being on plots of at least half an acre. Most of the residents live outside of that area and are on significantly larger plots of land. It seems like the community just really liked her dad and decided to stay with what they know, or at least the closest thing to that.

I have family that lives about 50 miles from this town. It’s a drive through town with ~500 residents, the biggest businesses are Dollar General and Wendy’s. I would be shocked if there were any substantial donors to her campaign

I have a road near me that says sponsored by Ubuntu and I was freaking out. Turns out it was this same organization.

The US won the Civilization cultural victory 70 years ago and the world has continually gotten worse as a result.

Okay fair enough, I haven’t been to many Midwestern states, especially rural areas of those states. I was more referring to places carrying only sweet tea and not unsweet

Marijuana maybe? I don’t know how strict the guns laws are there but that’s the closest I can think of.

As an iced tea enjoyer, who has been to almost 40 states that is absolutely untrue. I’ve never been to any restaurant that serves sweet tea but does not serve unsweetened as well. Some places especially in the north don’t consistently have either, but in my experience, if they have one they always have the other

I always mentally read that as “shitter”

Sure you can believe that as much as you want but it doesn’t change that fact that some percentage of people are still going to drive entirely too fast, not to mention the much larger number of people who will drive a little over the limit. Study after study has shown the best way to move people going different speeds is to pass in the left lane and use the other lanes to go progressively slower as you move left. If you don’t think people should speed that’s fair and I agree, but that doesn’t change the fact that people will do it anyway.

Remember that admittedly low bar I mentioned? He clears it easily it’s not even a competition. The fact that he hasn’t given the middle finger to every union puts him ahead of the rest.

Okay I’m not a big fan of the guy either but calling him basically Reagan is super disingenuous. He’s without a doubt the most pro-labor president we’ve had in my lifetime which is admittedly a low bar but he is far from Ronald Reagan.

Try going on Uncletopia servers. The skill jump is kind of high but it fits what you’re looking for. I consider it a casual+ experience.

Just out of curiosity what’s preventing you from getting a refillable setup? You can get refillable, rechargable vapes for about $10 more than a single disposable and it’ll probably save you money within the month depending on how much you use it.

Yeah but even dedicated elder scrolls fans aren’t going to go back and play through arena and daggerfall. Morrowind definitely feels old but from my perspective still feels very playable and understandable from a modern context. Daggerfall and arena are a different beast entirely and are a little more intimidating for the average gamer.

Craftopia which is basically palworld without the Pokemon aspect. I got burned by that one a few years ago which is why I’m still reluctant to pick up palworld. I think they did the same with their other game (now removed from steam), but I can’t remember the name of it.

“It comes just over a week after its president, Claudine Gay, resigned in part over her handling of antisemitism.”

Is this just blatant misinformation or am I out of the loop? I was under the impression that she resigned over plagiarism while some people online criticized her for “antisemitism”. I haven’t read anything about antisemitism being a primary cause from any publication but this one.

I had relatively similar symptoms, maybe a little more mild but the tests didn’t show up anything for me, however my boss had a lab test and he tested positive for covid. The doctors told him whatever new variant is out there doesn’t typically show up on the at home tests.