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Millennials are abandoning organized religion. A new study provides insight into why
  • Right. I was replying to someone who reframed a tradition of Christianity in a way which highlighted how it could be seen as disturbing or bizarre to someone who was unfamiliar with Christianity; I simply did the same with another tradition.

  • Millennials are abandoning organized religion. A new study provides insight into why
  • Fwiw, the belief that it becomes the actual flesh of Jesus is a Catholic thing, by my understanding. In my Protestant upbringing, it was regarded as entirely symbolic.

    Oh, and we did it with grape juice instead of wine, because apparently Jesus hated alcohol or something. Just don't ask why then his first miracle was turning water into wine.

  • RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
  • Nurse here: I have a hard time imagining vaccines won't be covered by insurance unless federal law starts to prohibit it for some bonkers reason. Vaccines are the simplest and most effective prevention for a number of illnesses which can require expensive care. And they're cheap. Vaccines are good for the bottom line. Like, they're practically gold. If they didn't make financial sense, insurance companies wouldn't be covering them. It would be unfathomable for insurance companies to elect not to cover them unless they can also elect not to cover treatment for the resultant illness.

    That said, I think the much more likely thing is RdumbFucK Jr. trying to make them unavailable, because clearly someone who has zero training in medicine or infectious disease or any science of any kind knows better than the collective consensus of the entire world's medical community... So, get your vaccinations while you can.

  • The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real
  • I also work inpatient psych, doing admission evaluations. Anecdotally, it seems like my patients who report using synthetics and distillates get the worst psychotic symptoms while under the influence. I'm guessing the delta-8 edibles and vaporizers they're buying legally from local shops probably contain no CBD at all.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary
  • That was one of the things that boggled me the most. I understood why they e.g. wouldn't call out Israel, dumb and evil as it was, but to keep hammering on how "great" the economy was, over and over, despite all evidence that indicated people were struggling? It blows my mind. I can't imagine a better way to get people to vote against you.

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  • It's worth noting that the words 'male' and 'female' are adjectives, not nouns, so if you want to be technical then it's erroneous to use them thusly. That is, it is correct to say "I am male", but to say "I am a male" is grammatically erroneous.

    In common speech, people don't tend to describe other human beings with these two adjectives, i.e. most people would say "she is a woman" rather than "she is female" (note, not "she is a female" because 'female' is not a noun). However, we do commonly describe animals using these adjectives, and colloquially the noun is commonly dropped. E.g., "it's a female" is seen as a perfectly normal way to describe a horse when it's understood that the other party knows that you mean "it's a female horse". This is why it is considered offensive to refer to a woman as "a female": it implies that she is an object, less than human and more suitably treated as livestock.

  • Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach
  • Tbh, I'm not convinced either of them are compromised by Russia in that sense (though wouldn't be surprised, to be clear. We pretty much know Trump has assaulted and raped underage girls; I wouldn't be surprised if Musk has also). I think they're both just scared little boys who are trying to impress who they see as a big, strong man, in order to get the kind of fatherly approval that they never received from their actual fathers. They're both childishly impulsive and both try comedically hard to be seen as strong and capable, and then get emotional when they see that image being challenged.

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