I worked as a pastor and professor for a global, evangelical television ministry/college. They knowingly conceal scholarship on the Bible and punish their pastors for asking any questions that undermine their most closely held traditions (including anti-evolution, mental illness is supernatural, etc.). They tell their US viewers that they can't call themselves Christians if they don't vote Republican, while still enjoying tax-exempt status. They use pseudohistorians to inspire Christian Nationalism over their network, and are one of the largest propaganda networks for the Religious Right. A U.S. Capitol police commander told me his men were fighting people who were wearing the network's brand.

I respect it. We need more of this.

It's illegal to have your remains decomposed naturally (or one of those cool new methods like composting or alkaline hydrolysis). You're legally required to be stuffed full of embalming chemicals and buried in a box, or cremated, polluting the air and wasting bioavailable nutrients, to be turned into high pH, high sodium ashes.

I think this is because the laws were mainly created by Catholics (this is Louisiana, where we have parishes instead of counties), and people are still too superstitious to make sense.

Redesign the spine for vertical use. Don't put the eating and breathing tubes on either side of the same flap.

That must've been tough to do. You have the respect of at least one internet stranger 🫡

Especially with Project 2025 (day one after the election of the next GOP candidate). The executive branch will no longer be controllable by the other two branches. Also, Schedule F will allow all "policy-related" government workers to be rescheduled as fireable employees, allowing the Prez to install loyalists throughout the entire government. It's definitely time to freak the fuck out.

As doctors continue to flee the state

Truth Social should be next

Some birb names have recently been changed, but it was more about reversing racial stereotypes. The tits and bananaquits got to stay

My old person trait is thinking a family should be able to live in a house if one member has a stable job (maybe two people if both are at minimum wage).

Fun fact: Every Mastodon account has an RSS feed. Just add ".rss" to the end of their public profile URL.

Same could be accomplished with a second husband 🤷

This. People have been given an alternate reality to live in, so complex and all-encompassing that—unless they've grown up to have an appreciation for critical thinking—all the thinking's been done for them.

Learn to identify what you're feeling.

That's how you can tell it's good satire

Fundies have a more two-class system in mind for Heaven: God-King and unquestionably loyal fans.

I should call her

So many excellent comments against Federation, but in case my two cents contributes...

I remember when Facebook released the Messenger App. I think it was around the time they swallowed Instagram. Before that, messaging was all part of the same platform. With that transition, some (more extreme) privacy settings left the walls of the app and started crawling into everything our phones experienced. I didn't want to play that, so I held off as long as I could.

But eventually I couldn't text my friends the same way they could text each other. I wanted that feature, but I didn't want to feed my data into it. Eventually, I relented. I mean, shared payments and location sharing... Things I now take for granted.

But I could never take that data back. The data that fed Cambridge Analytica. The data that feeds politicians and special interests, with UI designed around the mind by psychological experts, and alorithms that optimize engagement regardless of the path to get there.

I don't want the Fediverse to be swallowed too. They ARE going to build walls that drive profits. They're incapable of doing anything else. It's their entire business model!

Please defederate while we watch to see. It's the safer default.

You can make profit on and profit off

I think they might mean independently 🤷‍♂️ Otherwise, the answer to your question would be "The United States."