Some of the smartest dummies can read the language of Egyptian mummies, put a flag on the moon but can’t find food for the starving tummies".
That’s a stupid quote. The people doing those things aren’t the same as those who run the logistics who would be in charge of food supplies
American states agreeing with you is not the strong point of logic you think it is.
I only bought it because it’s necessary for belt drive, and I wanted a maintenance free commuter. My coworker also has one as a daily commuter, though on a traditional chain drive, and hasn’t had any issues with it.
Mine is new so I can’t speak to maintenance
It’s the same numerically, like you said.
Did you not read my comment?
Have you seen belt drive bikes? Not the electric ones. Pretty cool stuff, much lower maintenance. Also internal gear hubs. There’s still innovation happening in bicycles to make them stronger against abuse
The difference in age between 22 and 25 is a lot less than between 19 and 16.
People should have an option to get official government notices, and other important notices from companies through a service that is not owned by capitalism. Sounds like it isn’t for free if everyone is paying for it lol
“things that are human right” are not the only services the government should provide
Religions are anti science. Any small advancements they may make on the side do not make up for the rest. But frankly, they aren’t making advancements on a religious basis.
Buddhists are still improving their meditation techniques. The Pacific islanders are still training to be better wayfarers.
They are not.
The Australian Aboriginals are learning to care for a land ravaged by climate change.
That’s science, not religion.
And these religions have access to the scientific method just as you do.
Which they are using in a scientific manner, and their use is not religious, and will not be changed by reducing religion.
If they are adding religion to it, it isn’t the scientific method.
Religions as dead things written in an old book is a western idea
I don’t think they’re dead, I think they have nothing to contribute to science that cannot be contributed to better by scientifically motivated people, who will remain as such religion or no. Again with you pushing your own narrative of what you want my opinions and statements to be.
And to nonwestern religions where truth comes from exploration of the mind, and surely you can see the mind is a highly dynamic environment in the modern day, ripe for fresh discoveries
Religions do not define where truth comes from. It comes from the same places in every place. It can come from the mind, or observation, and study. It’s ripe for discoveries and that has NOTHING to do with religion, of any sort.
I’m appreciative that you’re entirely misunderstanding what I think should be happening in favor of writing your own narrative. I do not think that religious texts and oral histories should be erased. They should be studied. I think that religion deserves suppression. There will be no magical discoveries religious people make anymore. Most of that was likely not religious until they made it as such to get people to believe them in the first place.
The scientific information can and should be taken in. But, I explicitly said “less value” not no value in regards to religious knowledge, which you so kindly ignored, again to write your own narrative, one where you condescendingly assume I did not already know what you just stated
A great example on why religious knowledge is less valuable than scientific knowledge. The belief that the issues are that simple and blocks understanding of why it happens and how to prevent similar situations from recurring.
More however, the god parts have no value. If you insert science into religion, it’s still science. The science information should be extracted from the religious knowledge, and the less valuable religious parts discarded.
Religious knowledge is explicitly less valuable than academic knowledge.
I’m not talking about christian, white people’s idea of manners and civilization. That is still awful. Instead of kidnapping, that’s what public schools should be for, teaching reading, writing, and science.
Those kidnappings were genocide. I advocate for religion to be suppressed, especially the sexist and racist ones(but not only), not for all forms of culture and tradition to be suppressed.
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…you want to ignore sexism? Something something white moderates something
No, I did. I’ll elaborate. Some (many) tools are awful and exist with no useful purpose, or even purposes that are only wanton destruction.
Being of a certain race does make you a certain religion.
. And that hatred of religion as a concept can easily lead to dismissing foreign cultures’ spiritual practices
Yes, I’m going to dismiss foreign culture religion, just like I dismiss my culture’s religions. They’re not special just because they’re not from here, it’s still the same humans
Worshipping people 2 thousand years dead is stupid.
The “just a tool” response is such a cop out. A lot of things are just tools and still have horrifying implications just by existing **
I’m fairly sure that schadenfreude is used enough in the English language that it qualifies as a loan word at this point, deserving of being (and probably is) in the English dictionary