A member of the Reform party - a party whose every principle, tenet, and policy is based on pure unadulterated racism - said and/or did something racist?

It’s not pirating, it’s preserving!

And now it goes to the SCOTUS who believe so strongly in States’ Rights and the Constitution as it is worded that they will strike down this State’s decision and claim that the separation of church and state requires an act of Congress to enforce, or some bullshit.

Trying to reframe Tennant’s comments as having anything to do with the Minister’s race or gender is exactly the kind of disingenuous strawmanning bald-faced bullshit we can ever expect from the fucking Tories.

I dunno man, being born before automobiles wouldn’t exempt you from looking both ways before you cross the street when you live in a world where cars are commonplace 🤷‍♀️

The Constitution also clearly states that anyone who breaks their oath of office to commit treason against the country shall not hold political office unless cleared by 2/3rds majority in Congress. It’s time to admit that the rules are all made up and the Constitution doesn’t matter.

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Exactly as /u/Zachariah said: god’s words are all interpreted by humans, so whatever your preferred flavour, you have to admit there might be some errors in it. The alternative is claiming that some humans not only perfectly understood god (despite the agreed imperfection of humans), but that they then correctly relayed it to everyone else.

But also exactly as the others said: someone who believes this in the first place isn’t going to be swayed by logic, unless they want to be.

Masking doesn’t render the air “devoid of pathogens”, it just reduces the amount of pathogens you’re spraying into the environment while you’re contagious, and provides some filtering of the air you’re breathing through your mouth and nose.

Our immune systems will still get “exercised” by fighting off the pathogens we do encounter, but they won’t necessarily be so easily overwhelmed since we won’t be constantly inhaling more and more virus while our lymphatic system is busy fighting off the replicating viral bodies that have already gotten in.

Huh, looked it up, TIL. Blame the disinformation campaigns 🤷‍♀️

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The main point is to minimise the risk of infection of others. Masks do that by limiting the amount of virus you spray info the environment with every breath. The longer you have the mask on, the fewer virus-laden droplets get out, the lower the viral load is for everyone around you.

So to answer your question, yes, keeping the mask off the whole time would have been measurably worse than keeping it on before and after eating. No, getting a meal at an airport is not ethically wrong even if you have to take off the mask to eat and drink. Wearing the mask for as long as possible is the right thing to do because it offers the best chance of not getting other people sick; taking it off to eat balances your needs with the safety of others.

If everyone masked like this (even if it was just when they know they’re sick, instead of always), many fewer people would get sick when they go flying.

I don’t disagree. I didn’t say the Imperium was the best option, I said it’s the best option humans could come up with. I may be a little cynical nowadays about how readily people will accept authoritarianism in the face of a crisis.

I think The Imperium of Man is the best solution humans could come up with to the threats of a horrific and unforgiving universe, and it does preserve the species, so in that sense it’s “good” even if it’s a nightmare of human rights violations every second of every sol on nearly every planet in the empire. Plus, who the fuck is gonna argue with a psyker so strong he can fight off literal chaos gods?

Because we don’t ban things based on country very often, we ban things based on whether they are a threat.

Interesting how you framed this as xenophobia so confidently, and now want to shift the goalposts.

That’s not a hot take, that’s empirical fact: https://lifehacker.com/this-chart-shows-how-computer-literate-most-people-are-1789761598

There are 195 countries in the world and the US has sanctions banning product imports of some kind from six of them:

• Iran
• Russia
• Cuba
• North Korea
• Syria
• Ukraine

Kaspersky is Russian software, and Russia is at war with one of our allies. To pretend this is xenophobic “banning anything not American”, instead of a strike against a specific enemy, is more than a little disingenuous.

Fixed, but I added a little personal flair to show I really mean business. More fucks == more business, that’s just maths.