The Christian god tells his followers to push the religion onto as many as possible and punish those who don’t believe.

Source: history and current events.

If god wanted his followers to believe quietly, he’d have written his book differently. I have to assume, since he’s perfect and all knowing, that the outcome was the goal. Otherwise he’s a HUGE screw up.

Yes yes, free will. But god knows about free will, and still chose to write the book the way he did. So he intended the outcome that exists.

The Christian god eats souls. The more chaste you are during life, the more energy he obtains. That’s why he started the religion.

The light you see after death is like an angler fish, guiding you to your consumption.

Soylent dogs

The LAPD did. Biggest scam ever.

So much for protecting and SERVING the public.

It was literally never about that.

The problem is not with the buyers.

parents often force these on them to make them compliant and as punishment.

That sentence is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. Why do you believe this?

The Dems already let them have their guns. The Dems already want to lower taxes on the working class. This isn’t new or news. So I can’t say I agree with your assessment of the important topics.

What might other important topics be?

stop chasing conservative voters. chased the working class,

Most of the working class is conservative. So…?

They wouldn’t.

My original point is that there’s no additional financial benefit to the company by doing this. They don’t win or lose financially.

People make these donations out to be some kind of financial scam. They’re not. They’re a perception scam, because the company can say “we donated X, aren’t we great”.

Oh. So they just noun-ified the adjective. Neat. I like it.

They can claim it’s not income and they’re simply passing the money through. They don’t pay taxes on it.

A fine use of my taxes.

It didn’t say crowded.

If I had a party of five people, and had zero chairs, that’d be a seating problem.

It’s whole point in life is to spin

For me it was about time. Once I had kids, I no longer had time to dick around with an OS. It has to just work.

But that’s why I switched back to Linux earlier this year. Now my games and hardware and apps all just work.

The current political climate is different than before. It not falls along the lines of empathy. I don’t see how marriages survive that in a healthy way.

That isn’t to say they’ll all divorce. Divorce rates are very tightly coupled to economic well-being and children. But I do think a lot more people are staying in horrible marriages if their partner has no empathy.

Natively, you can’t. Hackishly, you could put a small VPN capable router in front of it that would manage the connection.

That’s according to Dr Internet, so I haven’t tried it, but it seems very likely to be accurate.

Ok, someone please help me. The definition of meta changed, and I no longer understand it.

It used to be an adjective, now it’s a noun?

This isn’t correct.

If they get an extra million in these donations, they can deduct that extra million. It’s a net zero improvement. It does not help them at all financially.

But it’s free good will and they can advertise that THEY donated a bunch. It’s just to make them look good.