The greatest of all sins is a man's ability to decide that the truth is not important or not what they want to hear, so they turn away and look elsewhere. The second greatest sin is a man's ability to convince other men that a lie is better than the truth.

Your boos mean nothing. We've seen what makes you cheer.

Boomer mentality. The train in question is the Big Boy 4014 (I'm sure you've seen video of it) which is going east for the first time since it was restored. Obviously this is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Who thinks "people want to see that train, better put signs up" instead of "I should stop hunting today and invite people to come see the train with me" I genuinely can't think of Gen Z being this way when we get older. There's no way we'd tell people we're gonna shoot them if they want to come see a train.

Dogs love Jesus btw

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

When an engineer designs a scarecrow.

I was putting the farm stand away this evening when these 3 kids came up and said they had seen the stand earlier and came back to buy a plant. This little girl had a handful of quarters and she asked me for a green bean plant. I ran back into the house to grab one. I gave her the plant and each of them a cookie and I told them not to worry about payment just to run along and plant it and have fun. Just now I'm washing dishes and I see them again coming up the driveway. I open the door and they had brought me a bowl of eggs from their chickens. The little boy said "You spread kindness so we wanted to give it back to you" So naturally now Im sobbing in my kitchen over a bowl of eggs. This is exactly the kind of community I wanted to create with the stand. Thank you kids, you can never know just how much you made my day today ❤️ 

It's a joke meme - It's also a core premise of OSR / Classic RPG play I see a lot of people wanting to get into OSR gaming, but often they don't understand that it is also an entirely different attitude about your character and what your goals are. You play in a group of adventurers who are here to explore the world. No one wants to explore your character. You do not need a complex character background because it is irrelevant to the game session. That isn't to say one can't sometimes play in either style - Classic RPG is just different is all.

People say women are the better communicators, but I would posit that the opposite is true; consider this exchange: @SelkieSweet7: "Sean, I need you!" Me: "What do you need?" Her: "There's an infestation of weevils!" Me: "What do you need from me?" Her: "They're going to get out and get in our food!" Me: "What can I do right now in this moment that will remedy this?" Her: "Throw away their food source!" Me: "Which is?" Her: "This great big bag of birdseed!" Then I went in there, got the birdseed, and threw it out. If women were the better communicators, I expect her first statement would have been, "Sean, can you come get this bag of birdseed and throw it out?"

My sons made a closed water fuse to test electrical current and a vacuum bazooka. One of the judges played with the vacuum bazooka all day but the other judges hated “guns” and he did not place.

META IS AN ABSOLUTE MESS INSIDE RIGHT NOW Wired just dropped an exclusive, and the details are wild. This week someone interrupted a livestreamed Meta meeting, open to thousands of employees, with an expletive-filled rant about "being the company's bitch." They told the presenters to find a specific Meta AI executive and "tell him that he's a piece of shit." A presenter covered their face with their hands. Employees in the chat called the start "spicy." Here is what's behind it. Meta's AI restructuring cut 8,000 jobs last month, 10% of the company. The same restructuring feeds a unit called Applied AI, where 6,500 engineers and product managers have been drafted in waves since April. There is no application process. You get selected, and your options are join or leave the company. Members call themselves "draftees." The new job: writing puzzles and coding problems to train Meta's AI models, two tasks a week. People hired to build apps for billions of users now assemble training data for hundreds of AI scientists. "It's literally the gulag," one employee told WIRED. "You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." Another: "Most people find the work soul-crushing." At the same time, Meta started recording US employees' clicks and keystrokes to generate more AI training data. Over 1,600 employees signed a petition demanding it stop. The concession: employees can pause the tracking for up to 30 minutes. Zuckerberg's response came in an internal memo Friday: "We've made mistakes and will almost certainly make more." He repeated his promise of no more mass layoffs this year. His fixes: limits on the manager ratios Meta had deliberately pushed to 50-to-1 on some teams, bigger budgets for team events, a hackathon next month, and assigned desks by the end of the year. That same memo says Meta's north star is "to be the best place for the most talented people in the world to make an impact." The most talented people in the world are writing puzzles for a model and asking permission to pause the keystroke logger. META declined to comment.

We have solved world hunger. Famines are a thing of the past. We know how to grow enough food for everyone. The food is there. Any remaining hunger issues are downstream from different problems that are much harder to solve. Asking to solve world hunger now is like asking to solve world peace. It’s no longer an engineering / agricultural issue.

Capitalism is a great system. It's just that for some reason people waste money on all sorts of crap, work for capitalists without principles or defending their rights, and then complain that their lives suck. Rich people don't do everything alone; they have employees.

It truly breaks my heart to say this... Every day now, it feels like another irreplaceable piece of Japan’s ancient heritage — our shrines and temples — is being lost to fire. The causes remain shrouded in mystery, the culprits unidentified in case after case. There have even been devastating tragedies where innocent young children lost their lives in the flames. I’ve also heard that facilities belonging to certain religions never seem to face the same fate. I’m reaching out because I genuinely wonder: how is it in your countries? If anyone has any insights, information, or suggestions that could help shed light on this or protect what remains of our sacred places, it would mean the world to me. Please...

Vatican City has strictly enforced rules that will get you kicked out, and then Pope is running around the world telling nations leaders that they should have no rules about who gets live in their countries. Hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Why do you think men should force their family to think like them like a patriarchy

Kind of interesting that Stranger Things was built on the premise of "The Other is monsters coming to kidnap and abuse your kids" and it was a huge hit, while "The Other is our savior and it's okay if they do a little kidnapping" is not so much.

The idea that this Big Boy was rotting in a parking lot in Pomona, CA for six decades until Union Pacific rebuilt every component to get it working again is actually awe inspiring.

9yo jumped out of the tree with a bed sheet as a parachute after repeatedly being told it was a bad idea & it's never worked for anyone. Waits until Dad is under the Jeep & I'm helping 7yo choose a book. 9yo determined to prove us wrong. Gravity won. No broken bones but definitely wounded pride & some scrapes. Now wants to combine umbrella & bed sheet... Try to explain these experiments already exist. Refuses to trust those results on account of not knowing who ran them & if they're trustworthy. Gotta admire the logic & lack of trust in strangers. My 13yo looking at my 9yo: "Oh yeah... I remember when I tried that. You could've just asked." 9yo looks my 13yo dead in the face & says, "Yeah, but I'm smarter than you, so you probably did it wrong." Have to hide my face and collect my bearing, because gosh dang 🤣🤣 My 11yo howls with laughter & high fives my 9yo. 13yo reminds them of birth order superiority by grabbing squirt gun blaster and rains terror down as they sprint out the back door. 7yo has no idea what's going on but comes running from reading, grabs water balloons and starts launching grenades at everyone; no allies, pure chaos. Hubby shrugs and says, "If the only way they're gonna learn to listen & trust we have their best interests at heart is by not listening & doing something stupid; I'd rather they figure that out now & not about something serious like drinking & driving or drugs." Valid point. Pure determination mixed with zero fear of bodily harm or death makes for a very interesting life. Oh, and the 9yo got outside chores taken away as punishment.

When we had our first child,my wife took a short leave to have our daughter. She fully intended to return to work, because living in Cali on one income was nigh impossible even then. But after a few weeks, she decided she wanted to stay home. Scared shitless about financial survival, I reluctantly supported the decision. In the end she was right. We ate skinny and lived very lean for years but it was one of the best decisions we made as a couple.

Just putting this here for no reason.