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The key line in the WHO article is “There is no form of alcohol consumption that is risk-free” and that even low levels carry some risk and can cause harm. I would contend that there is no safe amount of alcohol. There are only lower-risk amounts. For health, the optimal amount is none. That does not mean one drink will ruin…[Read more]

“You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or…[Read more]

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

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I have yet to hear a Christian Nationalist who is not a just a paltry liar for Jesus while I think Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia is an honorable man.

Do you count?

The phrase “or belief” is not pedantry. It is the legal firewall against turning human rights into rel…[Read more]

American Atheists denounces final approval of bible-infused Texas reading list.

‘Trump wears thin after a while’: Evangelicals bail on lame-duck president.

Thousands of proud men gather in central Washington for heterosexual activities.

Trump will present the…[Read more]

Basically, AI’s will move off the Internet.

WTH is he talking about? Listen:

This Fourth of July, one beach town will learn the hard way that the real danger wasn’t in the water…

…it was SPF 50 with a pointed metal pole.

“You’re gonna need a bigger insurance policy.”

The Christian Church has had the audacity, in modern times, to proclaim

that it had abolished slavery and the slave trade. It is difficult to

understand how any “righteous” man could make that contention

remembering that it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century

that…[Read more]

How SCOTUS is dismantling the Separation of Church and State.

When JD Vance became a Catholic, he wondered what his dead grandmother would think. Awwwh!

The…[Read more]

Non-Deal, n.
A defeat announced at sufficient volume to be mistaken for diplomacy.

If I tip over a box of sweets and no sweets remain inside, I can quite reasonably say there is “nothing” in the box. Nobody is confused by this. I do not mean that the box contains metaphysical non-being. I do not mean that it contains the absolute absence of matter,…[Read more]

From ChatGPT:

Peace Deal, n.
A ceasefire promoted by its authors before its clauses have survived first contact with…[Read more]

I once told some auditing Scientologists that if reincarnation were true, that I would like to return as “a football pitch in the West of Ireland for the ladies field hockey final on a warm but rain-soaked Sunday “. They were ‘shocked and disgusted’, much to my amusement.

“I don’t ask for enlightenment. I ask only to be use…[Read more]

This photo and article captures the sheer excitement…[Read more]

Yes, I have seen Yarvin’s name crop up in a few articles recently. He thinks Trump is not killing democracy quickly enough and if MAGA loses the Senate  it will herald the end of the Trump administration which will “wither and ev…[Read more]

I got called into work last weekend to solve an emergency in a hospital IT system. Luckily it was a holiday weekend so I managed to get systems up and running again, 2 hours before the first scheduled operation.

As Looksmaxxing…[Read more]

God — n. A hypothesis invented to explain the unknown, then promoted to a tenant who refuses to pay rent or leave.

Faith — n. The art of holding a belief so tightly that facts bruise their knuckles trying to get in.

Prayer — n. A one-way telephone call to an invis…[Read more]

Here is my question….

Hello, this is my first question here. Can you explain why the human concept of “time flow” is just an evolved survival trait as time is “only” a spacetime coordinate. Everything is…[Read more]