Maybe true, I don't pay much attention. All I know is most studies and censuses I have seen show religious affiliation falling fairly rapidly.

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What would you think of someone who goes door to door trying to convince you a blubbery clown rules the universe from planet zebulon?

Is that a normal person just doing normal person things?

For the non-religious, there is no difference between the person above and a relgious believer.

I think it's reasonable to ask why people still hold unfounded beliefs with the greater interconnectedness of the world making it pretty plain that not all these religions can be divinely inspired truth, so many of them are necessarily imaginary.

Nah, I like my community without the side of eternal suffering that so many religions like to threaten you with for varioua reasons.

I'd put my money on huge adoption of D&D in the utopian future before I put it on religion.

Thanks for this, one of the more interesting suggestions I have seen.

Your ISP selling your browsing data is the hacker.

Too cynical a take to be real.

The above happens sometimes, and is maybe more common among older entrenched politicians (that we have in spades right now with the aging out of one of the largest generations ever). But most of the time it's real people with real beliefs who want to change things. Governments are usually set up to change slowly, if at all, so often little seems to happen, but those gears do grind slowly based on how they're pushed.

So, your take is definitely a way to make it so the political class can continue to exploit people - you need more people upset and willing to change if you want to make a difference, not lots of powerless apathy.

So close, if only you had said Mary McDonnell.

Name a main character. Not the actor, the character.

If you can, you'll be the first person who has been able to that I have asked. (Though I have never asked online.)

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This right here? ☝️

This is how "business" people save money.

STOP HIRING BUSINESSPEOPLE

What about it? It has to happen sometime. Sentencing, as far as I know, often comes a while after a trial is decided, especially if it's a big trial with a lot of arguments.

You can't have it both ways: if they sentenced right now there would be complaints that there wasn't enough time and diligence given. If they wait, it gets close conventions, if they wait too long, that's not speedy due process.

Can we stop with the idea that it's all red vs. all blue conspiracy and realize that it's the real world where there is always some bullshit involved?

Could I, an American citizen, not trust you to be impartial on a jury? Your red/blue dichotomy is bullshit. If I can't trust you to do your duty as a citizen, are you behaving like an American? Stop making it about sides. Make it about facts and specifics and individuals and holding everyone responsible for their own decisionmaking.