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Nuance has entered the discussion
Nuance has entered the discussion
It’s ironic that you cite a country where the government and ruling family are linked inextricably to Islam, but I digress.
I wish that were true. But we’ve got a history of being extremely callous with athletes and spectators alike.
Name any other ongoing event that kills thousands of people every single year like clockwork.
Not trying to argue or anything… I just think that Islam is a foolish religion in the same way that Muslims might think that Mormonism is a foolish religion.
Mormonism is stupid, but if they had an event that killed thousands of people from Utah every year I would like to think that at least OSHA would step in or something.
If they’d died in the Saudi heat to a secular activity - at an F1 race event or inside a poorly A/C’d movie theater or trapped on an overheated bus - would that have been better?
What a ridiculous statement. No it wouldn’t be better, but when was the last time you heard of nearly a thousand people dying at an F1 race event, or inside a movie theatre due to lack of AC? If that were happening multiple times per year we would shut down F1 /movie theaters in a heartbeat.
Fact is that the Hajj claims thousands of lives every year, all in the name of religion.
Which is a shame, because the Hajj as a cultural event was originally intended as this class-agnostic unifying practice social event. You aren’t supposed to visit these holy sites encapsulated into these exclusive expensive little bubbles. You’re intended to mingle with people from the rest of the world and revel in a certain shared experience common to the faith the world over.
Yea as long as you aren’t a woman.
Don’t be surprised that people are using religion to grift the gullible and exploit the poor - that’s what religion is best at.
The Saudi government has an ethical responsibility to mitigate the risks. It’s not like this was some freak accident. This was entirely predictable and this will defiantly continue to happen until protections are put into place.
Such senseless loss of life in the name of religion. Many hundreds or thousands of people die each year doing the pilgrimage, often times from crowd crushes, literally getting squished to death because there are so many people, or just exhaustion.
There are only a few short video clips on YouTube of the massive crowds and it is sort of unnerving seeing that many people in a moving crowd. Super weird what religion makes people do.
There is also this weird video which talks about how they plan to revolutionize the hajj to make it safer and accessible to more people - using technology in a weird blend of old world meets new.
I do hope they find a way to make it safer because people will never stop doing it, but the whole concept just seems absurd to me.
Is that what it takes to get two different desktop orientations using Linux?
You could use Windows 11 from Microsoft, it can do both landscape and portrait.
It’s not autism, it’s the word ‘real’ that threw me off. But I don’t know that suspension of disbelief is any better.
Belief is irrelevant, all that matters is what can be tested and demonstrated.
Also I didn’t realize that shower thoughts required metaphors.
I suppose shower thoughts are generally just half baked ideas, and science is magic is quite half baked, so I think we are good.
Science requires that you do not simply start with a belief in something, quite the opposite in fact.
Sure, things that have been demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt may become the foundation for further research, standing in the shoulders of giants and all, but if you are starting with a conclusion you are doing science wrong.
Magic has two common definitions: a trick which is designed to create the illusion that something supernatural has occurred, or an assertion that the supernatural does indeed exist with magic being the ‘evidence’.
As I am sure someone has said at some point, real magic is fake and fake magic is real.
Magic has nothing to do with science, even though someone once famously said that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’
Is that how that one person cheated and Magnus refused to play or something like that?
Get ready to spring steam from your ears people
Mostly it’s the Christians that support Israel… they want to bring about the end times and they think that the Jews destroying the Muslims is the only way to make it happen. I really wish I was making this up. They are indeed that stupid.
For the both of them
We need some 1500sqft 2br/2ba homes near major metro areas for under 400k. In today’s economy that would be achievable for most people.
The only options near major cities are 2500+sqft homes or 650sqft condos going for $700k+.
I don’t think I have ever seen a 2br/2ba detached home… it’s either shoebox condos or 4+ bedrooms going for the same ridiculous 700k+ price tag.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
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