blackbrook

And further thanks for taking this much care wrt backwards compatibility and helping clients avoid breaking.

Are we not supposed to stick blueberries up our butts?

I'm seeing that /s as the symbol for a skid mark.

I'm still waiting for the handstand folks to chime in.

WHAT?

What does it count as if you lift one thigh and buttcheek off the seat?

Wouldn't deep make it harder to dip your hand in?

I agree that capitalism is a big part of the decline. And I am not saying we need to embrace religion to embrace culture, or that lack of religion is the cause of a decline in culture. I am saying that all our cultural heritage, tends to have influences from religion, and that this is not a reason to reject it. You don't have to take the religious elements, just don't throw out the whole thing because a cultural aspect of a practice or an artifact has elements in its history you find unsavory.

Enjoy the music of Bach and you don't even need to care about the "proper historical context." Enjoy Christmas and ignore the Christian elements, if you like, or view then as a quaint part of its rich history (as Christians did the pagan elements). All cultural threads have always changed throughout history as people have adapted them to their current worldviews and needs. Hand-wringing about historical accuracy and taints from aspects of history we don't like is a modern disease.

As to being in a culturally poor place, the difficulty with that discussion is that the word "culture" covers a lot of ground. We are rich with certain types of culture (yes all the kinds that can be sold to us). We are poor in other kinds, particularly kinds that build community. Capitalism favors the short term, the trend of the day, and that which divides us into manipulatable markets.

Western culture is (as is every other culture) indeed infused with religion. There are lots of good things that come from it. Are we to throw them away because they are "tainted" by some religious element in their origin or development?

We've ended up in a very culturally poor place because in moving away from religion we throw so much out. Babies with bath water, as it were.

We've moved to a rationalist mentality without a good understanding of how man is an inherently cultural animal. And culture until recently was very hard to separate from religious aspects.

Note that I am an atheist myself, not brought up religious, and I don't have answers to how to resolve this awkward place we have gotten to. But I'm quite sure that avoiding cultural elements simply because there is a religious taint is not helpful. Are we to throw away all of Bach's music?

Why do you care if someone doesn't like your client of choice? They have some value that is different than yours, they have every right to express why they think people using sync is harmful. You are free to disagree but don't complain because they express an opinion you don't like.

This isn't even a can situation. Except for those rare cases of two partners during together in an accident, one of your will die before the other. This hypothetical situation isn't hypothetical, it's the norm.

And immortality doesn't change anything. One person dies and the survivor grieves. After some years, you get over it. Life goes on. It's not that you don't still miss the person, but life goes on, and the pain fades. This happens in mortal timelines, immortality doesn't make the scenario any more poignant.

I've seen 90 days offered in restaurants as an extreme version of dry aged and described as mushroomy.