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“Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby”
“Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby”
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world’s population is about 80 million people.
You’d have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.
Biggest problem with it is that it lies with the exact same confidence it tells the truth. Or, put another way, it’s confidently incorrect as often as it is confidently correct - and there’s no way to tell the difference unless you already know the answer.
I’ve always been partial to “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can really hurt me”.
Also why life on earth is dying off as well…
That’s the way. I’ve been programming for nigh on four decades, and it’s almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.