Like she could have you bend over and she’d put a paper on your back and write on it?

Eh. As much as I want that to be true, there are some people who will never admit they don’t know something.

Superman is literally a Christ figure. He’s basically a god, he loves humanity, and he constantly sacrifices himself to save us. Naturally, the religious right hates him.

The core of Christianity is internalizing the contradiction of three gods that are actually one. With the axiom that 3 = 1, you can prove anything. This is how you can believe that Jesus taught radical acceptance, but it’s okay to hate anyone who’s different than you.

Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We’d never know.

There’s a lot going on here, so I won’t try to respond to all of it.

My point is merely that there are population clusters with genetic differences. It’s incorrect to say that we are all human, therefore scientifically we are all the same. In aggregate, the people of Japan are not the same as the people of Ireland. (This paragraph makes zero claims about individuals; it is scoped to large groups of people.)

I just want to clarify that I’m not claiming that “race” per se is a thing, nor am I claiming that there are any mutually-incompatible human species. I’m not attempting to say anything about nationality, country borders, or deportations. The political madness happening in the USA is truly disgusting. I am deeply saddened by the cruelty and hatred that’s on display.

Dutch, Japanese, Mexican etc, those are nationalities and are all meaningless scientifically and biologically.

I hear this point raised somewhat frequently, and I understand the sentiment, but it’s just incorrect. There are physical and genetic differences between different groups of people from different parts of the world. We are all human and all deserve respect, but I think papering over our differences and declaring we’re all the same introduces an unnecessary level of doublethink to the discussion.

My annoyance with the chip cards was that some of the POS machines would say

DO NOT REMOVE CARD

for a long time before silently switching to

REMOVE CARD

without any other visual cues than two words in 10pt font disappearing. Like c’mon, change the background color from red to blue or something.

Chart showing average height, but incorrectly scales the entire person instead of just the height, …

The sin committed here was that the y axis began at something other than zero. If you scaled just their height without fixing the y axis, everyone except the Dutch would look like little clay men getting squished by a hydraulic press.