I will say, Chick-fil-A is incredibly well run as a business. Compared to other fast food, they have steadfastly maintained quality while keeping prices reasonable, service fast, and their restaurants are always clean and well staffed. This should be a bare minimum, but unfortunately this is not true of pretty much any other fast food place, where quality is dropping rapidly, service is extremely slow, and restaurants are routinely staffed by like two teenagers with no adult supervision and social skills that suggest they have never been outside before. That said, I really don’t understand why there is always a giant line at them and why some people are just completely obsessed with them unless the whole point is the homophobia and the fact that they’re the one fast food place that isn’t “woke.”

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I can’t believe the but for the first time in my life I am now just straight up telling normal people to just buy Apple shit instead of Windows or Android devices. For the average person, it will be a better experience and Apple is at least a bit more trustworthy. These morons have destroyed everything that made themselves better than Apple and now there’s no point in buying their shit. I think Linux and FOSS are much better paths but the average person will simply just not be able to handle running Linux as soon as something goes wrong. As for a phone I’m legit considering just downgrading to a dumb phone because I’m sick of all of it and everything sucks on the Internet these days anyway.

People were a lot less weird about stuff like this in the past, even in the 90s and early 00s. My dad gave me a pocket knife when I was like 8.

They’ve been saying this shit for the past 5 years. Idk how investors keep falling for this scam

Hero shooters? Yeah. TF2, Overwatch, and APEX legends are all very popular. The problem is that there isn’t a lot of room for new games to come on the scene because of how hard these games are to make and balance, and how deeply invested people are in their games of choice. People still play TF2 despite the fact that it’s nearly 20 years old and hasn’t had major content updates in a long time. Overwatch is 10 years old and is still getting updates, and APEX legends is nearly as old.

In the latest Epstein files, it was revealed that Epstein met up with Christopher Poole (Online name- Moot), creator of 4chan, on like the day before /pol/ was created.

This reminds me of a hilarious side quest in The Witcher 3 where a wizard gets locked out of his tower because he didn’t know it was equipped with a Defensive Regulatory Magicon (DRM) when he bought it and the only way to fix it is with Gottfried’s Omni-opening Grimoire (GOG). GOG is the game store started by CD Projekt to sell DRM free copies of old games.

Medieval nobles weren’t out there fucking their sisters- real life isn’t Game of Thrones. The closest relation allowed under medieval law in Western Europe was uncle/niece, and even that wasn’t universally accepted and varied by region. Historically there are very few instances of cultures that accept marriage or sexual relationships between nuclear family members, and the exceptions are almost entirely for a small group within that society. The most prominent example in history would be the Egyptian pharaohs, who practiced brother-sister marriage at various times in history because they were believed to be gods on Earth and were expected to keep the divine blood concentrated. A normal person or even a noble in ancient Egypt would not done this- this was exclusive to the pharaohs.

So when we talk about inbreeding of medieval royal families, the main source of this is repeated first cousin marriage and marriage between uncle and niece. Both are taboo in most western societies today but are still not actually illegal in a lot of places. The biggest example of inbreeding among European noble families is Charles II of Spain, who only had 14 great great great great grandparents out of the normal 32, and he still wasn’t the product of any brother-sister relationships, only cousins and uncles.

Yeah literally the second episode is all about this

This is something that actually brings up a lot of interesting questions in Christian theology. A lot of Christian thinking specifically centers around humanity and the special place that humans have within the world, having “rational souls” and being “made in the image of God.” Therefore, it is not impossible for other beings to have been made with this formula, but it does raise a lot of questions. I think the multiple Incarnations is the most interesting possibility. Christians believe that God took on a human form as Jesus and shared his message with mankind, and I think the stance of the Catholic Church would be that this is a singular event - after all, it is considered so significant that we still use it as the basis of our dating system to this day. Aliens talking about crab Jesus probably wouldn’t be the end of the world for Catholicism though. After all, God is supposed to be all powerful and so if He decided to become a man to save mankind there’s nothing that would prevent Him from becoming a crab to save crabkind. I would still lean towards the Catholic church deeming that crabs must accept human Jesus and that their crab Jesus teachings are false, akin to Krishna beliefs encountered by missionaries in India. That said, Catholics also believe that Catholic teaching is so fundamentally true that it is possible to arrive at a lot of Catholic principles without Jesus having taught them, and so they would probably focus on how close the Crab Jesus religion is to Catholicism to try to convert Creezus followers to following Jesus.

Nope. This was mostly a psychological fad in the 1980s that led to many ruined lives from false accusations. Even the Wikipedia page starts off by saying the phenomenon has been largely discredited. Many people still believe in it but the vast majority of cases of “repressed memory” cannot be independently proven outside of the patient and therapist and in many cases are actually contradicted by externally verifiable facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory

Nah keep one in the chamber so you don’t have to worry about it and get another shell in the tube.

Yeah this. We’ve had like 50 years of home video games st this point. Even if big budget blockbuster games come out that I can’t play without a subscription, I can just keep playing great old games that don’t have any bullshit micro transactions or anything.

$2m is nothing to someone like Epstein. The private jet they’re flying in cost $61m, for example

I don’t think so. She’s brought some desserts in for potlucks before and they’ve been awesome.

Lmao speaking of immigrants complaining of how their kids like to eat, I have a Russian coworker who complains about how her kids only want to eat unhealthy American food and not the food she cooks.

I wouldn’t call pre-capitalist society “thriving on mutual cooperation” and neither would Marx. It was different, yeah, but ultimately still exploitative for most people. Consider that Tsarist Russia was still largely pre-capitalist (in the transition to being a capitalist economy) and that this fact led to a lot of debate among socialist and communist thinkers during the leadup to the Russian Revolution because Marx himself believed that Capitalism was a necessary stepping stone to Communism. But yet, people still felt conditions were bad enough that they revolted, killed everyone in charge, and instituted socialism. Even going back to the bronze age shit was pretty brutal. Read about how kings dealt with disobedience back then and it would make anyone today seem like a saint.

Is it just Americans? My understanding that most mainstream platforms were full of this bullshit.

The joke only makes sense if you don’t have the actual facts or any desire to actually learn the