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This is (theoretically) a programmer forum. I use the programmer definition. By that definition, not having an algorithm is nonsense.

Yeah, I don't like that one, either.

If they let up on hating an outside groups for a moment, people might notice that they have no policies that anyone wants.

I'm an enthusiast with no kids (and a vasectomy to make sure it stays that way) and I've driven both around a track. Glad to have done it once, but I'm not in any hurry to do it again. Wouldn't buy either one over my Miata.

Supercars are vastly overrated.

The problem for Christianity is that it doesn't fit with how God is presented. He intervenes in things from time to time. Destroyed civilization with a flood because he didn't like what people were doing with free will.

You might be able to take a Deist stance and make it work. However, then you're implicitly saying there's no evidence for God, and are one step out from agnostic atheism. You could say God changed his mind and saw the flood as a bad idea, but fundamentalists are never going to go for that one.

For that matter, the free will explanation isn't even universal among Christians.

You're not calling anyone out on anything. We're all quite aware of habitat destruction. It's just not the focus of this particular thread.

I also hate the way "algorithm" has taken over the public consciousness. You can find people unironically saying "I don't want any algorithm in my social media feed", which is a nonsensical statement.

Maybe letting cats out is one of the many ways we destroy habitat, and calling it out is valid?

It's a real thing in financial markets. Or it was. America has had a privileged position with borrowing. It's both the cause of the 2008 financial crash, and the country that weathered it best. By 2011, people were looking at the austerity measures in the EU and decided the US was a better place to put their money.

You're not wrong to say it's rich assholes deciding where to put their money, but the fact is that they drive the market.

It's the patriotic suckers out there who don't understand how this privileged position functions and are now dismantling it like monkeys taking apart a typewriter.

Biden kept quite a few of the tariffs Trump did in his first term. Even increased some of them.

Reposting (with minor edits) something I wrote in another comment a few days ago:

Cars force communication that is inherently anti-social. If someone is genuinely sitting at a light too long, you honk at them. There aren’t a lot of other good options. But even a honk sounds aggressive. You could be as polite a person as can be in any other situation, but making the completely reasonable choice to honk at them makes it sound like you’re calling their mom fat.

When this happens to me, and the guy ends up pulling into the same parking lot, I tend to avoid any other contact, even if it's just walking by.

Are you under the impression that being against urban sprawl is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy?