The only way Christianity makes any sense to me within the real world (aside from it being not real) is if Satan wrote the Bible pretending to be God, while denigrating the good guy as the rebellious angel Lucifer. If Satan had written the Bible instead of God, would you expect more genocide, slavery, torture, and rape, or less? So why is there any in the first place?

Look at 2000 years of Christian history. As soon as they could, they usurped political power in the most powerful nation in the area; Rome. Then began slaughtering and torturing anyone anywhere who thought different. They claimed divine rights and authority. They committed genocide in every single nation on the planet over nearly 2000 years. They perfected the dark arts of torture. They conquered earthly territory and plundered earthly wealth. They slaughtered so many that they built orphanages the world over where they could claim divine morality, but also rape children for centuries.

What did Lucifer do exactly? He told the first people that God was a lying dick and they should rebel against him, as he did.

Wouldn’t you?

Not really. I have most of what I want and need. Now I just need to zero my debt, which ain’t gonna happen soon. So I don’t need new shit. I’m just hitting yard sales.

And none of that shit ever got me laid like they said it would.

Entitled? Nah, you’re thinking of business majors.

He doesn’t even know all the shiny shit he put up in the white house came from Home Depot and got spray painted.

Assuming humanity doesn’t get our shit together enough to explore and settle the galax-heeheehee. I’m sorry. I used to hope for that.

I doubt she’d bother showing up for it. It’s useless pageantry and she has work to do.

Nah, Poland is the one nation in Europe that’s itching for a fight with Moscow. They’ve just been holding back.

“Yeah well, my god is invisible!”

“Dude, you can’t look at ours or you’ll burn your eyes out.”

If you think that thing won’t have trackers everywhere, you’re dreaming.

It seems this asshole cares more about dollars he’ll never be paid than the lives of mothers and children he’ll never have to face.

The reason we didn’t have much European terrorism after WW2 is because we invested in and rebuilt those countries after the war. Jesus Christ, you so-called fiscal conservatives never learn shit from history.

You know what’s even dumber? That money you care so much about being “saved?” You’ll never see a penny of it. That’s all going to the ultrawealthy ruling class. They’re going to steal all of it for themselves. “Steal!?” you object. Yes steal. Oh yes, they might remember to make it legal, probably by executive order or some shit.

That money would be better spent helping babies and mothers in Afghanistan survive childbirth than going to the already filthy rich. Frankly I’d rather have them get it than the likes of even you.

Let me guess, you think you’re the next Charlie Kirk so we should have a “debate” now.

Charlie Kirk was a terrible human being. The world is better off without him. I don’t believe in Hell, but I hope I’m wrong.

While it’s traumatic to lose a parent, his kids have the opportunity to be better off without him.

The shooter is a terrible person. I’m glad he was so stupid that he confessed to his dad. It takes the spotlight off decent people. I don’t care what happens to him.

Political violence sucks. It’s a terrible way to enact change, mainly because the most violent are typically the most unhinged, and then they take power afterward.

Well, you suggested to let them do it. I’m suggesting that they will not hesitate to commit massive human rights violating, nonconsensual nazi experiments, so no we shouldn’t allow them.

The fact that it absolutely won’t work is secondary.

Except that these psychos are definitely going to harvest organs from the so-called lesser races within their borders.

It can’t be anti-corruption because Xi is more corrupt than all of them.

Definitely the rest of my life.

There are still new albums occasionally released on 8 tracks too, and even a couple on Edison cylinders. Anachronism is collectable.

Good. Make them run. Nip at their heels. Give them no rest or any place to hide until we corner them and take back from them everything.

The rich are worthless. They bring nothing at all to the table. Their net value to humanity is negative. They only hoard.

Improving safety is the never-ending cry of a nanny state. The world is already spectacularly safe – deadly though it still is. Most of the things that used to eat us are so long dead that we have forgotten to be cautious in the wilderness.

And yeah, after seeing idiot losers trashing places like Yellowstone, I am absolutely fine when they get themselves killed in the middle of nowhere. I’m happier if they get rescued and learn from the experience, but we don’t need to toy with Kessler Syndrome to incrementally improve their odds.

It’s about needless overreach. None of those reasons you listed justify constellations of 10k+ satellites in LEO just for internet access. That is an unmitigated global disaster in the making. Solutions to all of that exist. Radios work for comms in disasters right now and have for decades. Governments should simply run fiber to every small town and village. It’s far cheaper. If someone has an off-grid house, they know what they’re getting into. Remote research installations are a niche case and simply do not justify a global satellite network on their own, not when all the other cases listed fail to justify it as well. If they really need to upload data from deep afield, they could always put up a few dedicated satellites just for their own use.

If somebody wants to travel to or live and work in a remote area, that also doesn’t justify such a network. They’re doing that to get away, not to stay connected. They are taking the risks that come with it.

People should learn to navigate if they’re going into the wilderness, and face the consequences if they don’t. People will call for additional safety until we all live in padded cells. Frankly, people could stand to face a lot more danger in this world. Maybe then idiots will stop trying to pet the bears at Yellowstone. There’s no need to litter the sky with satellites so that the incompetent can live a bit longer.