TheEncogitationer

Fullermingjr:

You wrote:

You asked where I work. I have worked in higher education for over 35 years as staff and recently as faculty, and I have watched the broader culture change. The changes in culture and law involve gender, pronouns, marriage, and related, and thus these changes impact corporate environments including policy.

I see.

Are…[Read more]

FullermingJr:

Even so, customers should not be giving out their tracks unless they strike up a friendly conversation with another customer or even an employee and it’s a personal interaction.

If religionists wish to give out literature on a street corner while picking up any litter and allowing free movement of pedestrians or if they want to r…[Read more]

Reg:

Remember Kim Davis in Kentucky? She was an elected county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Courts ordered her to comply. She refused and was briefly jailed for contempt of court.

Can a public official refuse to carry out a legal duty because of personal beliefs? There are two fundamentally different ways to…

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Fullermingjr:

Even so, one could tolerate her beliefs and maybe an opportunity may arise where a real dialog could happen.

As I recall from my reading, the gods mentioned in both The Tower of Babel myth and the Icarrus myth were jealous gods who didn’t want Man getting literally uppity. Believers in gods like these can’t possibly have a high…[Read more]

Fullermingjr:

To address your workplace concerns, first, understand, I’m not lumping you in with other religionists, but I’m just recounting what I’ve encountered:

I myself take my breaks and eat my lunch alone and only try to talk shop, not philosophy or religion. Politics sometimes unavoidably comes up at work with talk about health care…[Read more]

Reg:

But when the “me” and “you” are are skeptics or blasphemers, or mothers and children not living and toiling in laundries as “us” dictate as “proper,” or a builder wanting to build new housing that might run against the aesthetics of “us”, the “us” can be a real buzz-kill on life.

And while having necessities and amenities within 15 minutes…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

Uh-Oh! The Tartaria Conspiracy-ologists are going to glom onto the mud volcanoes and claim that this was what destroyed the “Empire” of giants and all of their advanced technology of spired buildings providing “healing frequencies” and “free” energy!
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Reg:

Why more Americans are now moving to Ireland.

The Americans who can move anywhere else have not just First World Problems but Starfleet Federation Problems. They obviously aren’t impacted by tarrifs or rising fuel prices. The rest of us are stuck here.

🎶One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not…[Read more]

Reg:

Have a great week and have a good 420 day tomorrow….:-)

Sadly, sizable chunks of Podcast-istan will be either be celebrating 4/20 for a reason other than herbal commestibles or worse they will be lounging in indifference.

Without breaking Godwin’s Law: “You know who else…?”

Reg:

Environment: Opioids and other drugs accumulating in freshwater fish.

Another unintended consequence of the Global “War On (Some) Drugs.”

When substances are made illegal, dealers and users have strong incentive to dispose of the substances if they are about to get caught. And not much incentive to care about how and where the substances…[Read more]

Jake:

Bonjour mon Pelican. I should have taken French and German and Russian. Language came pretty easily to me.

The rate things are going with Multipolarism, those languages, plus Arabic, Parsi, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese may be de rigeur languages.

Enco dropped an anchor. Never hit bottom is my guess.

Made me think…

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PopeBeanie:

Another thought I just had after something that happened at work recently:

If those protesters really want to help immigrants, they would learn the immigrants language and culture, then offer them a friendly chair and teach them ours.

What the U.S. is doing regarding immigration helps no one from here or from abroad.

Example from…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

That particular hazard of ICE is checked as long as they keep them in their pants, though this is the Trump Administration, so that may be too much to ask.

PopeBeanie:

That would be nice, for sure. Hopefully he won’t set her up for a fall when he needs another diversion.

It might not have been Trump who actually made the decision to nominate her but perhaps a handler, according to this article:

‘We just need someone who’s not crazy’: Inside the White House decision to nominate Erica Schwart…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

All of this really isn’t funny. Protesters should leave a place better than when they found it. Portland, Oregon had enough garbage in it’s streets as it was before this.

And since no one knows where these dildos have been, protesters could be spreading a biohazard, and could be prosecuted for such.

Of course, to the other side,…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Trump may have accidentally done something right!

He has named Erica Schwartz as nominee for Director of The Center for Disease Control and Prevention!

Her record speaks for itself. Don’t get lockjaw beholding it. Your face might freeze that way:

Erica Schwartz–Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Schwartz

If…[Read more]