Came to the comments just to see if anyone else saw Oliver. It’s literally him I just know it.

I’m curious if anyone else is able to provide an example here. Personally, I grew up in an extremely right-wing, very isolated, very culty version of the southern baptist church. I was around young-earthers, anti-vaxxers, anti-evolution folks, dinosaur/man co-existence, believing black people are black because they’re cursed—all sorts of crazy whackadoodle shit. I never once met someone who didn’t believe in space. I think you’re right that this was a YouTube Fact™ that she picked up somewhere.

Ugh what is wrong with people

I related to this article a lot. It’s the same sentiment of this classic Family Guy clip: The game is Euchre (YouTube Link)

I like the idea of everyone sitting around a table, effortlessly playing a game and having a great time—but adult friendships are tough. When you get to hang out for an hour here, two hours there, every few-to-several weeks or months, investing an hour or more into learning the rules of a game that may or may not be fun is a tall order.

America is such a strange place—I know a lot of conservatives will probably cheer in response to this doctor leaving the state. The resulting huge void in the ladder of pediatric care and the poor health outcomes for children are just collateral damages in the struggle for republicans to be able to openly hate and discriminate against the queer community again. It’s ironic (or maybe just hypocritical?) that the republicans have pivoted all their messaging to “we have to protect the children,” while directly creating situations like this that hurt children.

I remember being a kid and finding out churches don’t pay taxes. I told my uber baptist parents that didn’t seem fair, and their response was “if churches had to pay taxes, they wouldn’t be able to do any charity”

Our church barely did anything that could be considered charity anyway, and society would be a lot better off if religious orgs had to pay their fair share just like everyone else.

I had the same opinion about Lemmy until I took the time to find the same wide assortment of communities that I subbed to on Reddit. Now that there’s a wider variety of content to read, I don’t have that “please stop talking about the fediverse” thought anymore. I will say that tech and tech-adjacent communities on here are still really heavy on the meta discussions (i.e. as in posting on Lemmy about Lemmy—not about Zuck’s website).

This is a beautiful quote—thank you for sharing.

Father, I want to see the face of VBA god

Love it! I’ve never done it unless I’m feeling really sick or really sad, but it’s so nice—why not every day?

You’re a lemmy legend.

Honestly, I know it may not feel like it, but any linux usage, or even an understanding of what linux is, pretty much knocks you out of tech normie territory. One of us! One of us!