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Young earth creationism

What I hate so much about that, is all the "evidence" just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.

And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.

Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how "the last two people" could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.

They were just outside of walking distance.

Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that's probably happened a bunch. Hell, we've had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.

We don't know shit about 250k of those years.

Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."

Easy to say, but I'd argue it's baked in.

“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

I kinda get it. Everyone needs something to look forwards too. Sadly, for some, there's only the idea of afterlife for that.

Thank the fucking tax software lobbies for that. Assholes

Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we've backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.

Every single fucking isp (at least in the states): nah

On that note, Ben Shapiro as well.

Did you say “meow?”

The animals or the python thing?

I disagree that we should have a card reader on our computers for payments.

That is just a way too big of a security concern.

I prefer something like the Swedish system Swish, you have a separate app on your phone where you can send money to friends and family as well as pay for stuff online.

Sadly, while Klarna supports Swish, they require the use of a Klarna account to use it, and since most internet shops in Sweden uses Klarna it limits the ability to use it as I want to.