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Also, the dark haired one looks like they have a boner

Where’s the crayons?

Maybe it’s Art Van

You don’t need religion to be a moral person, and you don’t have to reject religion to act amorally. But there is no perfect, universal, scientific morality. Cultures, communities, individuals will vary on what they consider a moral act, and morality can change with circumstance. When different moralities interact, there will be conflict. And the amoral (or rather those, who do not subscribe to the same morality as those around them) will always use others’ morality as a tool to manipulate, a curtain to hide behind, a weapon to wield, and a shield to defend with.

Religion helps communities to build a common morality in order to reduce tensions and foster fellowship within the group. But there will always be communities. There will always be disagreements, confusion, frustration, pride, loyalty, forgetfulness, honor, greed, hunger, struggle, disease, countervailing needs and desires, and mercy. The absence of religion would not stop people from seeking safe harbor and kinship in others, whether that is social clubs, fandoms, sports teams, political parties, activist organizations, etc. And when that kinship is endangered or perceived to be endangered, the absence of religion will not stop people from seeking to obstruct, forestall, eliminate, or revenge against whatever or whomever is perceived to be the cause.

Whoops. Good catch! so about 4-30 times the size of the Death Star. That would mean the gravity of the Death Star is at most 1/24th that of earth’s, if it were solid rock and my math is correct. That’s at the surface, though. As you go inside, gravity will decrease until you reach the center where there will be no gravity at all because all the mass of the space station is pulling you away from the center equally. (assuming a uniform mass distribution).

g ≈ M/r^2
V ≈ r^3.
uniform density: ρ for simplicity’s sake
M = ρV
—> g ≈ ρr where r is the distance from the center of the death star, but no further than the surface

How do you think nuclear power works?

The gravity is negligible. The official sizes of the Death Stars have been 120 - 900 km in diameter according to rebel scale. For comparison, Earths moon is ≈3500~~0~~ km in Idiameter, and its gravity is 1/6 of earth’s. On top of that, the Death Stars are mostly hallow, being a metal framework, instead of solid rock.

Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology. Listening to him read his own audiobooks is like curling up in a blanket with a cup of cocoa.

Did you mean IDF or IVF?

🙏 thank you for caring enough to reevaluate your understanding 🙏

It is an unfortunate effect of language that in order to distill complex social issues into pithy slogans that can be chanted, put on a poster or a T-shirt, or get millions of shares on social media, you lose a little nuance.

That sucks, I’m sorry that someone did that to you. Abuse comes in many forms.

The most important thing in responding to a an abusive situation is to separate the abuser from the victim, and it sounds like you got the short end of that separation.

It is a good thing that the cops, with what biases they carry and little information they have in stressful situations, are supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of the justice system. I truly hope that the system eventually worked in your case and that after your arrest, you were not charged, convicted, and sentenced due to a false accusation.

Just making your way through the system can be enough to feel like you are being punished.

That was certainly not my intended meaning, and I’m sorry it came off that way. We have a system of innocent until proven guilty. When someone makes a claim, it should be taken seriously and processed though that system until that system reaches a conclusion. We should not be dismissing victims out of pocket, or attacking accusers as antagonists before the system has an opportunity to fulfill any part its obligation. When people treat accusers as a bad actors, it punishes victims who have already been through hell, and further suppresses other victims from coming forward. Victims who often times still remain in dangerous situations, while their abuser is free to abuse them or others. If we wish to live in a just society we must take grievances seriously and treat the aggrieved with all due care and respect that should be granted to any fellow human being.