Except your own children are "other people." They may not "be just fine." Some religions are abusive and traumatizing. Why should adults have to deprogram themselves and recover from trauma later because their parents decided it was fine to indoctrinate their own kids? "Mind your own business" applies to parents too.

Fuck no. Studies have found a positive correlation between swearing and being more honest.

Cyberpunk dystopias are a warning, not a strategic plan!

Malice and arrogant ignorance can have the same functional result and at least malice would involve them being honest with themselves. Arrogant ignorance is worse because they're judging and harassing you with their ignorance but think they're saving your soul.

Except these restrictions prevent speech, not harm.

The thing trolls never seem to understand is that it doesn't matter if you're being facetious or serious. Nobody cares whether you're actually serious about whatever absurdity you spew. The function of a troll is not to communicate or convey anything worthwhile. It's just humor below the level of a fart joke where you try to piss people off and laugh at them for being pissed off. And it's not even clever. It's just stupid. An effective troll would be nearly undetectable and ride the Poe's Law line so well that others retain at least some amount of doubt.

The idea that random people pick a select few musicians to be inducted is just more artificial scarcity bullshit. It's not a legitimate institution if it can't recognize more people to give a wider breadth of exposure to the legacy of rock n roll. By inducted some, they pretend they have the authority to determine the legacy of rock n roll, but their snubs say more about their deficiencies than about those they snub.

This is less of an issue if you judge everything that isn't first hand from a known friend or family member as suspect or at least just a waste of time. Facebook used to be a place to talk to people you knew in the real world. You could ignore anything they reposted and still engage with the actual examples of their own experiences that they posted. But now it's so flooded with ads and listicles and clickbait and video clips that it's not even worth trying to keep up with the people you actually know.

The law’s section that bans books depicting sex acts from school libraries includes an exception for religious texts, like the Christian Bible.

What a coincidence! My deeply held religious beliefs in a new religion I just made up holds all LGBTQ+ books as sacred religious texts...

I sincerely appreciate that WSJ thinks their propaganda is so important that I'd want to pay to read it.

Never try to do anything good because bad might inadvertently result from the action.

The mom already caught a charge for it.