Brevity 💀

Mmm a nice cold can of Dritc

Because I just discovered it on wikipedia I think is worth adding ‘Ignostic’ - the belief that frankly it’s pointless even discussing any of this unless you can first define a deity. Seems bloody sensible to me.

Seems like it’s gathered quite a wide definition but this is certainly how I’ve always understood it. If I was to ever start a cult I think it’d be based on militant agnostic fundamentalism.

So you’re saying that agnosticism is a spectrum of atheism? That belief must be active - if you don’t specifically believe in a god(s) then you’re atheist, and agnosticism describes the level to which you hold that conviction? Seems like a very narrow way of looking at it. What about those who explicitly believe we can’t know if there’s a god (s)?

I’m interested in the source of your latter assertion as well, I’m taking it to be anecdotal?

That’s atheism?

Captain Planet, he’s a hero

With the cancel link obfuscated by reams of propaganda

I know I shouldn’t kink shame but the fold capturing that D ring is objectively disgusting

(had gherkins)

You mean an upside down cake upside down?

This makes perfect sense in Leeds

Ah a fellow electronics I might salvage someday collector! They call us hoarders but one day we’ll replace those faulty caps / learn to micro solder / source a very specific and difficult to find component and then oh boy will we have saved the cost of replacing that thing that we’ve done without for the last several years!

The result in the end is heat, generated by lots of people waving madly and shouting “where are the backups”

Oh I love this distinction. I’ve always taught my kid that grown ups should never ask them to keep a secret, (specifically grown ups because part of growing up is having harmless secrets between friends and I didn’t want them to have a complex about that, but at the same time I think it’s important to teach what’s appropriate at a young age for their protection) but I always struggled with how to distinguish a good secret (like a surprise) from a ‘bad’ secret without making things confusing. This sums it up perfectly!

They don’t think we’re incompetent cats. They know we’re incompetent humans.

…this could literally be a shot from a holodeck scene

Totally agree. I like this thread, I think I’ve found my people.

OMG thank you, I hate them and get so vilified for it. I might have deemed them mediocre had each one been at least half an hour shorter but as it is they’re just a Peter Jackson wankathon.

Full disclosure fwiw:

• I’m generally not into fantasy
• I (almost but not quite) equally hate action films / sequences
• More of a hard sci-fi fan, though I’ll generally enjoy anything harder than Star Wars (also hate)

Came to comment exactly this! Although I was tempted by:

“This review has only one line, it says ‘Shit Sandwich.’”