You’re anecdote is nice and all, but it’s an anecdote.

I couldn’t find much data specifically on rates of students of religious schools leaving that religion, but what little data I found says more people stay in the religion when enrolled in religious schools than not.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4621974

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073805932500238X

Most students in religious schools have very religious parents who indoctrinate them from early childhood, and my anecdotes are different from yours. Few students decide that losing their friends and support system are worth leaving the religion, and remain in it even if they have doubts. The more you force religion to be a part of a person’s social support system, the tighter you hold them in.

I agree that if they start reading and studying it honestly the more disillusioned they’ll become, that’s my personal experience also. But most people in my experience do not have the critical thinking skills or the ability to study independently to come to those conclusions, they rely on the religious text being interpreted for them, and they accept a figure head (priest or pastor or Imam or Rabi) to answer difficult questions and reject anything that makes them “question” their faith, because they’ve been warned about the evil world that will try to get them to question their faith their whole life. They don’t begin engaging critically with counterarguments because religious apologetics give them comfort.

Cult members might be fooled, but cult leaders aren’t stupid, they know what they’re doing. They’re targeting people who aren’t in religious schools, and don’t have religious indoctrination already, so there’s no effect on “leaving” the faith to consider here, any hooked student is a success.

There’s a reason they choose specific passages, and they’ll come with specific interpretations as learning goals.

They’re just refusing to be wrong, they’re doubling down on a technicality, not on who actually authors the legislation text.

Oh boy. Have you heard of this concept calling lobbying?

Your politicians don’t represent you, they represent the highest bidder, which are the wealthy corporations trying to enslave you.

So does Plex… It transcodes AV1 just fine.

Clearly their hardware isn’t powerful enough to transcode it smoothly. So they resort to codecs that play natively on their hardware

I just scrub it with rubbing alcohol, works great. Is that not good?

Jellyfin somehow makes his hardware support AV1?

The Hyundai engineers, technicians, and equipment installers were not teaching anyone how to make chips.

How would they prevent it? If they allow your app to read a value client side, it can do whatever it wants with it, including sending it.

If your app needs to present different behavior based on user settings, it needs to read it.

If you can do it client side, you can send it to a server…

The difference is intent.

100MB limit

Under the requirement to prove beyond reasonable doubt, “they can’t say if it is or is not from the gun” is huge, having a gun becomes circumstantial, and requires additional evidence, and depending on the strength of additional evidence, a good lawyer maybe able to get him off the hook.

Saudi Arabia and UAE pushed Trump to attack Iran and continue to do so. FUCK them, they should help pay Iran’s reparations.

That’s not what Trump is asking for, mind you, he’s asking all gulf countries to pay the US for the cost of the war because of the “achievements.” He’s still in denial and thinks he achieved anything… Dubai is about to irrecoverably collapse, so maybe he did achieve something, but they ain’t gonna pay him for it.

Meanwhile Trump is insulting the Saudi king and crown prince and saying they were kissing his ass, and MBS doesn’t have enough spine to even say “how dare you?”, let alone take any meaningful actions.

FUCK UAE. FUCK Saudi Arabia, and to a lesser extent fuck Bahrain. They wanted this war and contributed to it, let them suffer.

The point of the video isn’t that “China is obviously the enemy”, but to highlight how difficult it is to manufacture anything domestically today. China isn’t the problem, companies shifting all production to cheaper countries oversees to maximize profit in the problem.

The failure to find the chain highlights how bad the problem is. But they’re still selling a high quality not mass produced ready to fail product that should last a lifetime, and it’s mostly made domestically.

The video should make you feel uncomfortable because of the state of manufacturing domestically, not because they still made a product with one international part.

I don’t have it, and don’t plan to buy it for what it’s worth, but feels like you’re missing the big point.

You are trying to sound normal in this post

Okay?

acting like you are having a perfectly normal experience

I’m describing my average experience with TSA, which involves unhelpful rude agents that bark directions at you, constant random security checks, and unnecessary burden when traveling with children.

in your first post, describing TSA agents who were “screaming,” shoving, etc.

I’m still describing them as screaming… I don’t think I ever claimed they were shoving people, and I’ll take etc as the same category of imaginary anger you built up.

I don’t like the TSA and I don’t think they serve a good purpose, their competence has not made me feel safer. They’re very good at catching water bottles but I’ve personally and accidentally flown with a 3" folding pocket knife in my backpack.

That is in direct conflict with your supposed personal experience, so which is it? If you’ve had normal experiences with TSA

“non TSA”. My positive experience was with non TSA. I travel internationally a lot, and while I’ve been asked (way less often) by non TSA to have my bag checked, they ALWAYS handle it very gentle and repack it for me. I’ve had ONE experience I can recall where a TSA agent actually put things back in my bag neatly. Once.

I travel with lots of tech, so my bags are often pulled for secondary screening, but it’s not specialized tech, it’s always a waste of everyone’s time. I’ve had my package rummaged for AA batteries.

And you accuse me of being combative

You literally attempted to describe me personally in very strong negative words, and dismissed my claims based on your certainty that I’m the problem. You don’t think you’re being combative?

when you go on some incomprehensible rant

You just can’t read, probably because you’re reading with eagerness to strike back. I’ve been very consistent.

So they’re nice to you sometimes, and not nice to you sometimes. Who cares?

I’ve already explained this. I’m comparing it directly with other countries’ security screeners and how they’re always polite and helpful. I don’t think I’m special and need to be treated well because I’m special, I just don’t think TSA agents are special and should get a free pass to be assholes when the rest of the world doesn’t allow their agents to go that.

I mean some counties do, TSA experience is sometimes as bad as flying through Egypt, where overt corruption and incompetence is on full display, why are you okay with that?

Why are you defending it so much? Why are you bending backwards to praise someone as doing their job when their job explicitly is NOT being rude to you. Do you accept rude waiters or mechanics or hotel staff because they’re dealing with frustrated customers? I doubt it. Why do you think TSA is special?

They’re doing their job as security, and you’re doing your job as a traveler. Why do they have to live up to some personal standard?

I reject that they’re doing a job of “security”, I feel like I’m being very clear with my questions “do you feel safer with the security theater”? But you’re somehow choosing to interpret that as personal “interrogation”… I don’t think they do security, I think they make travel inconvenient, and they’re mostly unpleasant on top, and I don’t think that’s a price anyone (not special me and my standards) should pay to not be more secure.

The glass displays they have of confiscated items at some airports tell you so much. Do you feel safer with that many nail clippers confiscated?

Do I feel safer? I don’t know, I don’t really think about it, and that answers your question.

I’m literally inviting you to think about it with my “interrogative” questions.

Look, it’s real simple: Before the 90s, hijacking were out of control world wide. American security improved until it was pretty good by the 90s. Then 9/11 happened, and they realized that the threat was getting worse, with the rise of Al Qaeda, and they enhanc d their security. The result has been a 25 year hiatus since the last hijacking.

If you’ve flown enough before 9/11, you’d have recognized what really reduced hijackings. Before, the cockpit was open and children were often invited to come to it, it was like a bus. Now, they have reinforced doors that are locked the entire flight, and on planes where it has to be opened the cabin crew block the path with a cart and physically stand in the way. It’s the flight crew that keeps you safe and prevents hijacking, not the TSA taking your water bottle and nail clippers.

That’s success right there. It’s obviously working, so whatever they have to do, I’m willing to be cooperative about it.

The data backs this up, reinforced cockpit doors stop highjacking. TSA security theater does not.

You’re very combative. I think you’re missing the entire point.

I don’t think I’m special… But when I finish with the TSA experience and reach the airport of a country that doesn’t have that security theater, the difference is stark.

I’ve never had a random security check by non TSA, and when they do inspect my luggage they neatly repack it and close it.

They see that I have a child in a stroller and they direct me to a wider path so I can roll it through, sure I still have to take my child out and walk through the metal scanner, but having someone grab the stroller and pass give it back to me on the other side is an acceptable inconvenience compared to having to also fold and lift the stroller unassisted into the belt.

I don’t think I’m special, do you think TSA agents are special? Do you think security agents at other countries don’t work as hard or don’t deal with exhausted travelers? Do you think there’s a good reason why so many agents across the world are helpful and friendly but the TSA literally has a reputation for screaming at people?

My question is, do you feel safer in American airports because of the added inconvenience relative to other countries?

I can just picture you going through the line, huffing and puffing, and complaining about how long it is taking, and you don’t have time to wait, yadda-yadda. I’ve seen your type in airports many many times.

Wow. I’ve seen that type also, and putting aside that it doesn’t match me at all, are you suggesting only people who huff and puff go through what I described?

Are you suggesting friendly travelers don’t have to take their shoes off (they don’t anymore, after 20 years of theater that hasn’t caught a single person with a bomb in their shoe)? Are you suggesting TSA agents will pack your bag neatly?

And to be clear, I’ve had experiences where they went above and beyond, maybe they’re new and haven’t stopped giving a shit yet, or maybe they’re just rays of sunshine. But it’s not standard practice to be polite and helpful in the most standardized security theater in the world, and that’s a problem.

I’m not special, I don’t think I should receive special treatment or be less inconvenienced than other travelers, I’m asking why you think we should all be extra inconvenienced? Once again, do you feel safer due to the inconvenience?

Do you feel safer having to take your belt off? I wear sweatpants when flying so it doesn’t affect me, but do you feel the very minor inconvenience of taking your belt off is a necessary price to pay?

Why defend an expensive theater because “they’re doing their job”? That money could serve you better.

Your response to describing how I get random security screening the majority of my trips and how I have up take my child out of the stroller and lift it into the x-ray machine belt unassisted is to say the problem is me…

Are you old enough to have flown before the security theater of TSA? Do you fly frequently enough to have witnessed the number of knives that get missed and taken on board flights and the number of nail clippers confiscated because they have a pointy file? Are you brown enough to have experienced a “random security screening” on the majority of your trips?

Have you had to deal with agents asking you what’s in your bag and screaming at you not to touch it as if it contained a bomb that you’re doing to activate? Oh no your toothpaste and USB charger overlapped in the x-ray and looked like an IED! Then they shove everything back in your bag so it doesn’t close and tell you to move it so they can deal with the next suspect, and the only place to repack your bag is on a bench 15 feet away?

Have you traveled with children and had to have their water and formula manually checked for explosives? Have you had to disassemble you’re stroller to put it through the x-ray, carrying your tired child while no one assists you, as you take your shoes off just in case you have a bomb in it?

Have you flown internationally and seen just how more convenient and friendly the security procedure is without TSA? Only to be reminded of it w on your return flight when TSA security screening happens at the gate after you go through the airport security? Random checks and luggage ruffling all over again.

Do you feel safer with the TSA “just doing their job”

“because Israel wants it” is also America wants it.

Iran serves as a last remaining resistance to Israel’s expansionist goals, take them down and they’ll take over Lebanon, Jordan, parts of Syria and Egypt.

That’s decades of insurgency and civil wars where American weapons manufacturers can make huge profits both arming extremists and bombing them. Brown people die in the process, but who cares about that.