It's like Sting said, only Russians love their children.
In Arkansas, they're taking the sinks out of public school restrooms because they don't want to be seen to force health measures on children.
Do they even want you to keep sick kids home or is that no longer allowed either and the state requires them to cough in each others' faces to own the libs?
I had looked up that specific point. Parents are still supposed to keep their kid home if their kid has tested positive. (It was not obvious to me that they'd at least keep that much intact!)
It's going to be like the head lice thing, with parents gambling on which kid started the outbreak and school officials not saying even after you offer them 25% of the pool.
Donald Trump's genius is his contempt for the American people. Only he understands how truly stupid they are, and now he's unleashed it on all of us.
Trump understands and mirrors the contempt of American people for other American people.
Republicans are seeing this as a way to spread covid and undermine public schools at the same time. They are positively giddy.
Florida and Vegas are only counting residents in their case counts now.
Even in MA cases and deaths in long-term care facilities are now not included in the daily case count.
Technically, because so many people are involved, it's a "death religion" and not a "death cult. "
I sometimes gain comfort from remembering that, as screwed up as the world is, in many ways we are lucky and it could easily be worse. Lately that belief has been the oppositie of comforting.
12 Just read the IPCC report if you need comforting.
"Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult."
I think the question of whether or not something is a snake cult or is a snake religion is a question of longevity, not popularity. If the original snake handlers have died and yet the snake cult survives, then we can upgrade it to snake religion.
Isn't that the literal meaning of cult? All or most of the members join as adults rather than being raised in it?
16: Yeah, I don't know. The Boston Church of Christ is kind of a cult. They target people who are lonely and try to get them to give them a,l of their money and then make their members worth contingent on getting more recruits. I had someone in college try to get me to join over lunch. The Master of my House was a biblical studies professor, and I mentioned the name in the din8g hall once, and he flipped out. He was a Lutheran, and their practice of rebaptizing people made him flip out
T. The BCC took over a church building in my town and spruced it up. Some random person on the street tried to get Tim to go to a cookout there, and I
He felt really creeped out.
Several private colleges in the Boston area have banned them from their campuses.
https://probe.org/the-boston-church/
Https://simmonsvoice.com/11668/features/in-plain-sight-a-controversial-faith-group-finds-a-home-at-simmons/
But there are some fringe sects within more mainstream denominations, like whatever that group Coney-Barrett belongs to does. So, where's the line?
BCC was big at MIT, picking up lonely freshmen. There were a few members in my living group: I was somewhere between proud and disturbed to realize that the other five freshmen had all been the subject of a weeks-long recruiting effort. I, on the other hand, got a half-hour conversation that I didn't even notice as being particularly weighty until looking back on it, but it was enough to make the woman trying to recruit me give up completely.
19: I think I mentioned that somebody had recently died in the spring of my sophomore year, and suddenly she started talking about me going to her church. I ran into the person in a class and had lunch, because I recognized her from my Freshman dorm.
Reanimation is pretty persuasive.
21: Paramount bringing back Rugrats made me a believer.
The episode where all the Rugrats die isn't aired anymore.
24: I think you're confusing Rugrats and Six Feet Under (again!).
There was a Rugrats TV series in which the babies are "All Growed Up". This is somewhat deceptive as they were tweens not adults in this series.
From the trailer for the new Paramount series, it appears that Tommy, Chucky and the rest of the gang, have regressed to infancy.
It's the only way to go unvaccinated without social stigma.