But how does that answer OPs question about why is friends upon in Western society? That’s what ‘dawg’ was commenting about.

It only ‘matters’ to the extent that OP claimed it doesn’t run in families, and you seemed to be claiming it does ‘because’ you had 3 -5 relatives that died from it. All I’m saying it’s that anecdotal evidence doesn’t refute an assertion like that.

If you’d said ‘it does run in families and here is a statistically significant sampling across variable x, y and z’ i wouldn’t be arguing, I’d likely be reading an article about it. But it’s worth pointing out when people use unscientific reasoning in a forum where other people might be influenced by an argument if no one calls out the fault in logic.

Just funny that you are saying that you can’t relate to someone because they can’t relate to someone. Empathy isn’t just about feeling other people’s pain, it’s about being able to understand things from another perspective.

Not being able to relate to them is literally relating to them.

The question wasn’t wether there are inheritable health issues, diabetes, some cancer, etc are demonstrated to have a heredity component. I’m not even arguing that heart disease ‘isn’t’ hereditary, I’m just saying that in the context the argument, you saying that several of your family members had it doesn’t prove that specific thing is inherited. Everyone does of something and the fact that you can find 3 to 5 people in your lineage that died of that does point to it being inherited.

Is there a reason you have to interact with this person? It seems like if you’re in a situation where her response comes with an LOL, your best course might be just to not engage. If you’re in a position of responsibility with teaching her how to interact then gently repeating that respecting how someone would like to be addressed is probably warranted, even if it doesn’t seem terribly effective the first (many) times.

Shouldn’t exist. That’s different.

Their belief system is based on an a being that can’t be sense that banished people to infinite torment for following instincts that he designed them with, then sent part of himself to be tortured and killed as a sacrifice to make up for a curse he put on them, but only if you it was necessary. A ridiculous age of the earth is hardly the craziest thing schools like this teach.

That’s like saying black lung runs in families because your family all worked in the mines.

Funny? Do you think religious schools don’t exist?

Wonder how many new ones it’s creating.

Scientist: ‘Look at this science thing that is definitely true because DNA!’ Narrator: ‘It wasn’t true’

Was this description meant to be ironic, or was that accidental?

I mean the math checks out, but holy crap, you’re 43, but at 19 ‘9/11 hadn’t happened yet…’

Fair, but looking both ways would be like ‘watch out for wood that is discolored or seems sketchy in any way’, your comment was more like ‘it is absolute bullshit to encourage anyone to walk across the street for any reason and you should feel bad!’

Which is exactly why the tariffs are stupid at one more level. The only thing they’re good for in theory is to level the playing field for non-tariffed products, to make them competitive to make ‘here’, but no company in it’s right mind is going to invest in the infrastructure it’s meant to drive knowing they aren’t guaranteed in the slightest.

Why do you seem to lean into the ‘can’t comprehend’ angle? Someone could not be as worried about something as you are without being incapable of comprehending it.

Absolute bullshit seems a little harsh. Are you referring to evidence that this is actually a thing, or is this just something that someone realized could technically happen and decided it was worth spreading fear and credit for the attention?

Of course stuff could spill on a pallet, but the number/percent of pallets that actually get reused like this as a cross section of pallet loads of stuff that are damaged, with a further cross section of things that are damaged and dangerously poisonous and don’t make the wood look or smell odd has got to be in the ballpark of odds of getting hit by a bus.

Just because something is plausible doesn’t mean everyone should take the risk as a certainly, just like the possibility of getting hit by a bus should keep everyone on their side of the street.

Makes sense, but it still seems like all the recognizable ‘quotes’ mentioned are quotes the movie used, and not ones that are came from the movie itself, to the point where it would only be in very specific context where anyone saying them would be quoting Aliens.

The top two are obviously familiar, but certainly wouldn’t attribute the first one to that movie. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the next two phrases used or remember them from the movie, and never heard anyone use ‘mostly’ as a reference from that movie.

Maybe it’s an insider thing

My understanding is that it auto deletes after a short set time. I’m not saying signal is a failure of an app for personal use, I’m saying choosing it for this purpose is a fail.

So you suggest we have only one hole? If you’re getting to the topological realm then you might consider the nostrils to be a second ‘through’ hole as one leads to the other… Tear ducts, etc?

Do you think that’s what he meant by POST? Could have meant data delivery through http? Do you think they should know that one too?