alexc

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[–] alexc@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago

I know it’s not, but it looks like the Gardner “expressway” in Downtown Toronto, pretty much any time of day.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Autodefenestration is one of my faves. The act of throwing yourself out of a window.

If you’re throwing someone or something out, then it’s just plain defenestration

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Only if you agree to stop calling them Hashtags and use their more-correct name of Octothorpes

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait until she realizes what colored skin Mrs Vance has…

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Words cannot begin to convey the level of stupidity required for this to be true

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The web. It was good while it lasted.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The answer (to me) is a resounding yes. I firmly believe that belief in the Supernatural is in-built into all of us. It’s an off-shoot of us being incredibly good at pattern matching combined with our need for parental guidance for so long and a fear of death -

To get past this, we need two things: A personal willingness to ask questions and follow the answers (which is a basic description of science) and we need a society that is willing to embrace these individuals.

That we aren’t quite there yet means we end up with leaders embracing religion, which is reinforced by the masses accepting their dogma. The whole thing about “religion creating morality” is BS and just another form of dogma.

It may be entirely simplistic, and it probably puts too much faith in human capacity, but I think we could move in that direction if we just prioritized learning and inquisitiveness. Note, this is not the same as making people go to college. Learning is a life skill…

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, that’s exactly how this post started…

What next? A flight for whites-only as you don’t want to sit next to someone who doesn’t look like you?

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

The headline suggests the Police are looking for comped accounts…