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As an atheist watching my country about to commit itself to yet another war in the Middle East, I can't stop thinking about this criminally underrated track.

Almost 20 years later it remains a poignant condemnation of religious extremism of all kinds, pointing out the hypocrisy of preaching the love of God for all mankind one day and crying out for the destruction of nonbelievers the next.

And no, of course I'm not so naive as to think that religious differences are the only motivation for the current conflict, nor that people couldn't find reasons to kill each other without religion. I just wonder if it wouldn't be so easy to justify if the calls for blood weren't purportedly coming from the mouth of God himself.

Inspiration: https://lemmy.world/post/27728627

Hey they're not lying, it definitely looks sharp

The order of the person ahead of me was still on screen when I pulled up to order. I took the picture in a bit of a hurry cause I didn't know when the screen was gonna reset.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240512204543/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

(Archive link in case it's changed.)

This article is a surprisingly entertaining read for a few reasons:

• one or more people who wrote it clearly have very strong opinions about how nuclear weapons should be built
• the article contains a surprising amount of detail, including stuff that seems like it'd be classified or at least censored
• due to both of the above, there's a ton of [citation needed] that I doubt will ever be resolved

Over the past couple weeks I've gotten emails from both Senators and a House Rep from the State of Minnesota. All three emails have been concerning the Israel/Palestine conflict, and are worded as replies to a some message I sent them.

I've never set foot in the state, let alone lived there (I'm on the other side of the country). I've never sent messages to any of those members of Congress, and I've never signed any petition giving any group the right to contact Congress about this matter.

I suspect my name and email address might have been used in some sort of astroturfing campaign targeting Congress. Or these might be spam emails impersonating the members of Congress for some reason. I noticed the House rep and one of the Senators is up for re-election this year.

Has anyone else gotten emails like this?

I've tried to send messages back to these people but the forms on their websites require submitting an address in their state/district, so I'm not sure what to do. The From: addresses seem like they might have been faked, or they're no-reply addresses, so I wasn't sure about just replying to the emails.

I also thought about calling their offices but I wasn't sure if this was something important enough to bother their staff about, and they're two hours ahead of me so their offices are closed by the time I get off work anyway.

This meme has become a running joke in my friend group: https://lemmy.world/post/7405623

We were fucking around with the Meta AI in WhatsApp and I got it to say this