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Pope Francis is the obvious example of a good thing, but I'd rather point at the rehabilitation of people in prison occurring through religion (by helping them 'find jesus'). Maybe it's a shortcut with repercussions (magical thinking), but it can't be denied that it works.

He kinda' ain't, heh. Better at jawing than the last few popes, and largely much better at downplaying or lowballing the shitty parts of the catholic messages, but still very, very catholic, with the negatives that entails. Positives too, for what it's worth, but I'd call 'im good only in relation to, well, previous popes. He could probably manage better if he didn't have the yoke of his organization around 'is neck, ha.

The rehabilitative effect is also... somewhat overplayed. Often. It can't be denied it works, perhaps, but it very much can be denied it works well, or consistently. There's similar problems involved with alcoholism "treatment" -- there's a very heavy religious aspect to AA, in the states, as a representative example, and it... doesn't work too well. Just about any good that can manage on that front, can be managed significantly better with, y'know, a proper psych-founded treatment regime.

Looks like MS has the XP version here -- download, stick it in system32, do your own shortcut. S'fairly likely they've got the other versions on their site somewhere, too, but checking the first link google spat out regarding the subject is as much as I can be arsed. No clue if it'll actually work in a win 7 environment, but it might be worth a try.

We were talking about very different things, then. Fair enough.

... plenty of MLK's stuff was just as shitty as the walk-in being talked about, even more so in some cases. Shut down parts of cities, disrupted hella' traffic, all sorts of things along those lines -- getting a test rescheduled is bloody penny-ante shit in comparison. There's a hell of a distance between interrupting a class or daily schedules and violence and murder.

And here if anyone wants a direct, zero-frills, link :V

you actually have to cook the food koss

Well, cook the grits and not burn the biscuits. There should be no crunch to grits, and biscuits done well are not hard, at all.

Cheese is for grits, grits are for cheese.* Probably a lil'bit of meat, too, if available. Bacon is a standard, sausage very normal, too. Pretty regular thing that's done in my area is to take grits and eggs (usually over light, or whatever they call it elsewhere) and smoosh 'em together, meat/season to taste. Stuff's more or less like particulate rice or summat, usable about in the same way. Butter very normal but not really needed. Bullion is fine for salt substitute, pepper is wonderful, just kinda' do whatever to it.

Occasionally throw grits in with mac & cheese, m'self. It's tasty. Not entirely sure what they usually make them out of in this area, and I also don't want to know. They're tasty, and sometimes knowing isn't worth it.

*Though if you're going for cheese grits, make sure it's actually grits and not roe. The color and appearance can get... very similar. The taste is very not.

Yeah, those big protests for stupid reasons aren't *really* happening, I'm sure.

If there's actually been numerous big ones happening, no, I haven't exactly noticed, especially not ones for "stupid reasons". Even the yale shit that was linked involved a damn small portion of the campus numbers (and the apparently un-cited "hundreds" mentioned is exactly what I was talking about), and you can pretty much lay a clean bet most of that was just bored kids stirring shit, just like most campus protests are.

We've had large student protests populated by a lot of people with sincere (misguided or otherwise) investment in the past. Most of the stuff happening nowadays... isn't that.