I pay for Kagi search.

What ads? My browser blocks ads. My vpn blocks ads. I pay for email so don’t see ads there. I pay for search so I don’t see ads there, either. I self host media. My TV doesn’t connect to the internet.

I seriously never see ads.

It’s the same hand holding the same phone, but it is in there twice. Not even the perspective has changed. That’s one easy giveaway.

I use CoMaps. It uses open street maps. Can run completely offline. Zero tracking.

It is extremely clear that there are no all-powerful, all-knowing, benificent gods. They’re all lacking at least one of those things, if they exist at all. And then what is a “god”? It just becomes a semantics game and becomes pretty pointless to discuss.

I’m planning on leaving my estate to the local indigenous nation when I die.

If we’re boiling things down to biology, if two people are finding it impossible to conceive/carry to term, that’s biology telling them they shouldn’t be combining their genes.

Always has been.

I agree.

When we were a young married couple decades ago, we’d check out movies from the library on VHS tape. One we loved was Topper. In the VHS transfer, there was a line from the protagonist giving “good advice” to another main character: “You haven’t lived until you’ve beat your wife.” In all earnestness.

That line was mysteriously missing from the DVD and all subsequent versions I’ve seen.

I think it is detrimental to society to whitewash shameful past behavior. We need to acknowledge it, remember how bad things have been, and respect the progress that has been made. It also helps us reflect on ways we might be acting now that could be viewed as horrific or backwards in the future. It helps drive continuing progress.