If I look at the ceiling will you steal my lungs?

I wasn’t making any judgement on this, although if I were, I would point out that one of the benefits of open source is the ability to fork projects and move away from the elements you have a philosophical issue with, such as what the OpenOffice developers did when Oracle purchased Sun and started imposing their unplayable rules. What I was half-jokingly pointing out was some guy coming in deep into the conversation of highly opinionated people and acting like the conversation wasn’t about their various opinions.

First, religions and the existence of God are two different things, just like the existence of the earth and the earth being flat are two different things. Likewise, the existence of religions is no guarantor of God’s existence, nor is there many flaws proof of his non-existence. And unknowns are facts we haven’t discovered or proven yet, much like germ theory, or fanciful ideas which haven’t been debunked, such as the idea that an imbalance of humors was the cause of disease.

Vote early, vote often!

I get what you’re saying, but saying people who choose to believe something that can’t be proven and hasn’t been disproven need psychotherapy is like saying the same for color preferences. Sometimes there is no right answer and people should be able to choose.

I don’t tell non-straight people they can’t have their pride parade, I don’t tell people they shouldn’t kiss or hold hands in public, I don’t tell religious people they can’t have public displays, either. What I object to is if any of those groups insist I join them, or insist I don’t.

Every terrible thing done under religion has been done without religion. None of them have happened without people (except for killing the different). Maybe people are the problem and religion is just one of many tools that can be used to harm other people. Tribalism exists in many forms, religion in its many flavors being just one of them.

I limit myself to the caffeine equivalent because I don’t want to build a tolerance. As long as I stick to medically safe levels of caffeine I don’t seem to have any side effects, just more alertness/energy, so having to take more to keep withdrawal symptoms at bay as well as having to take even more to see any benefits just seems like a bad idea.

Are you sure it’s the caffeine? I ask because I have no problems at all with caffeine, but coffee in any real quantity, eg. more than in a Coffee Crisp or coffee cake, gives me stomach cramps, but I can take a 200 mg tablet on an empty stomach and have no problems at all.

Everyone’s different, and I’m curious if this is another of those.

Ramping down is probably giving you withdrawal symptoms. They shouldn’t last more than a week. Painkillers will help, but if you’re trying to get away from caffeine, make sure they aren’t in your painkillers, too. A number of extra strength painkillers have 50 mg caffeine (Excedrin has caffeine). Of course, everyone is different, even ignoring how ADHD interacts with caffeine, so no one solution is perfect.

As someone who has maintained a consistently low caffeine addiction for decades, these are important factors. I keep it low so it isn’t required to function normally and I still get a kick with reasonable results when I need it. And I like the taste of Coca-Cola.

I think “I want to shoot the whole school down” isn’t terribly subtle, but Pumped Up Kicks definitely spells it out for you.

Slight correction. The 170 refers to how many more seats they have compared to everyone else.

410 - (650 - 410) = 170

So 84 of their members could vote against a bill and it would still pass, which is significant. I think? I’m not sure how contentious votes are within party in the UK.

This sounds like something I would do with all of 40 hours or so of Python-esque programming under my belt. I feel like there has to be a better way, but it worked. I’m worried this might be the best way.

The wasaaaaabi one was my favorite.

A link for the uninitiated.

When I read this I was reminded of Chinchiladas from Archer.

I don’t disagree, and I’m pissed that he didn’t institute electoral reform, but not keeping campaign promises is about half of what politicians do. It would be nice to have something done about that, where politicians were fined, oh, 6 month’s salary, for each platform promise they didn’t keep, party and personal, but which politician would vote that in?

As someone who hasn’t bothered to read any of the detail about this whole mess until just now, the comments from three years ago were all relatively civil, even if the response by the developer was dismissive. That this was corrected within 6 weeks and people are still talking about it is pretty impressive, though. Looks like people are trying to make enemies, not converts.

Do you know what topic brought you here?

“Hey guys, let’s not use this free software, because of their views.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t use this other free software because of their views.”

“Why are you guys worried about which free software you use based on their views?”

“We can all tell you aren’t new, why are you complaining about our unofficial pastime?”

I only have about half of those, so…yay?

It’s worth stating that one of their requirements was for the recently formed government to step down and put their chosen leaders from the “stolen election” in power.