I’m coming to you if there’s an EMP attack.

It’s s all Star Trek-y.

Ironically, more than one Trek episode would only be five minutes long if they had all encompassing surveillance on Starfleet ships.

22 years ago I went to Madagascar as part of an organised group. We were scuba diving off the reefs in the south, cataloguing and counting fish and coral species.

I racked up over a 100 hours underwater in 2 months. I loved it. I was going to get my PADI training, then spend the rest of my live living in the tropics taking tourists our on boats.

I got back to Scotland and I haven’t even snorkelled since, let alone scuba’d.

Make it really mini.

Israel knows it can do whatever the fuck it wants as long as it’s actions don’t personally offend Trump.

The kiddy fiddler is being played like a fiddle.

I’m confused. Calling neolibs centre-right is leftist gatekeeping?

Is it still shit?

I was hoping it was going to do a No Man’s Sky.

Just a wedding band. Can’t remember their name. But they were pretty decent!

Oh, that’s definitely happening, regardless of anything else. I bet you Washington has started including necessary corruption in cost analysis the same way Banana Republics do.

People seem to think belief (or lack thereof) is a one dimensional line.

Theism - Agnosticism - Atheism

But it’s more like the political compass with Theism - Atheism on one axis and Gnostism - Agnosticism on the other.

Theism/Atheism is a comment on whether you believe in god(s).

Gnostism/Agnosticism is a comment on how strongly you hold that belief (or lack of belief).

Are you absolutely certain there’s no god? Then you’re a gnostic atheist. Believe in god in sort of a wishy-washy way? Then you’re an agnostic theist.

I’m a die hard atheist, but I also consider myself an agnostic. Because although there’s no evidence of a god it’s also impossible to prove a negative.

To be a gnostic atheist would actually take a leap of faith I’m not willing to risk.

I’ve decided to worship the reconstructed proto-indo-european pantheon.

OG gods for the win!

Reminds me of a two partner joke I made up when I was eight or nine.

What do you call a fly without wings?

A walk.

What do you call a frying pan with legs?

A wok.

I’m not American… but I am Scottish/British and I’ve never quite understood the whole being proud of your country thing.

Unless one is a hypocrite it’s always been clear to me that if you’re going to be proud of all the good shit your country has done you’ve also got to be ashamed of all the bad shit.

And with a few centuries of colonialism under the UK’s belt (and before anyone says different, no, Scotland very much partook and benefited from it) I seriously don’t have the emotional fortitude to feel that much shame.

Feeling pride in your culture? In your community? Fine. But in your nation state? A bunch of administrators with delusions of grandeur wrapped in a flag? I’d argue that’s unnatural because nation states in no way played a role in our evolutionary psychology.

Maybe I’d feel different if I was born in a wee inoffensive country somewhere… but I hope not. Nation states are pragmatically necessary but I don’t think we should be getting too invested in them.

The animations I put on Newgrounds. The Angry Atheist series.

1. AA gets in a rocket and goes up to heaven to fight God in a katana battle. In the end they both get killed by Buddha.

2. AA shoots up a church service and get taken out by an old lady sucking his face off with a plunger.

3. Jesus’s Revenge. The Son of God comes for AA. I think he kills him but then gets run over by a drunk driver.

4. AA drops a nuke on the Vatican.

I’m Scottish and once or twice a year will drive through the original Dallas. These days it’s just a single row of about two dozen houses (it has the remnants of a medieval castle though).

Must have been pretty trippy living there in the 80s when one of the biggest shows on American and British TV was Dallas.

What the fuck is Fahrenheit.