he doesn’t cheat on his wife
he doesn't cheat on his wife so far.
huginn
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What I’m saying is there’s a chance a churchgoer or a pastor is doing it for selfless reasons, where that is never the case for sports.
I never said otherwise.
But the whole point here is we're talking not about selfishness we're talking about manipulation.
Manipulation of others to do ones bidding is not the purpose of sports. Panem et circenses sure but not "do my bidding proles"
And I'm extremely aware of how people act and grow up in religions: I grew up in a very hierarchical religious structure and have seen the well intentioned abuses that people earnestly trying to help inflict on others. Manipulation is manipulation, ill intentioned or otherwise. And when you get higher up in a hierarchical structure that professes faith you will reach a point where everyone knows it's fake and chooses to act otherwise.
Because none of the crew can step foot on American soil. It's a Singaporean vessel with an Indian and Sri Lankan crew. They don't have visas and so they're denied entry.
The bureaucracy of DHS knows no limits and has no compassion.
At some point in an ecclesiastical hierarchy someone is manipulating people for their own benefit, knowing they're doing so. They profess miracles while knowing there are none.
Above a certain level all you'll find are charlatans.
The only religions that do not operate like this are unaffiliated churches, mystical, or nontheistic religions like Buddhism, Jainism etc.
If you profess a god and have a hierarchical structure your leaders manipulate you for their own gain or prestige. They do not believe.
You can play sports and not be manipulating people.
You cannot lead a church and not be manipulating people, even if unwittingly.
On the One hand I live in a major metro. On the other hand I have family out in bumblefuck middle of nowhere. So I've gotta have the US only bands.
It's tragic the 1 VI Is a Europe only release. I was looking forward to picking it up in the US.
Which he's still working on.
People can do 2 things.
Grids*
Ducking autocorrect
No need for power generation dedicated to the base load.
Nuclear power generation is base load only: it does not full the role of a peaker.
Battery + renewable technology is already the primary source of power on many grids and the trend continues accelerating in that direction.
There are plenty of good arguments against SMRs: none of them include terrorism.
The theory was always that you could get economies of scale if you were building the same reactor every time in a factory and transporting it to install somewhere else. In practice those economies never materialized (did they even exist?)
Meanwhile solar, wind, and batteries have plummeted in cost. There is no need for base load power generation if we have sufficient battery storage and an oversupply of generators - which is entirely feasible for wind and solar.
It's not cheating if it's consensual.