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... I'm kinda' curious what you people are doing with your mouse that you can't find it again after taking your hand off to type, without looking at it. Like. It... it shouldn't be moving. And it's been seconds, probably. Even pretty terrible short-term memory should be able to manage that?

... well, see the list of reasons I just gave. Comfort, tradition, safety, belief, etc. Beyond that, if you're essentially not caring then you generally want to go with the most advantageous position for yourself... which in many (most) places is going to be calling yourself religious. Even if you're not. Especially if you're not, many times.

Beyond that, with the exception of the safety bit it's... usually not really awful, especially considering how little religion really interacts with most people's lives. You get an easy social group, comforting and group-affirming ritual, and a facade of metaphysical certainty for what is often relatively little cost. It's... not really difficult to see why people would go that route, especially if it's not something they find themselves conflicted about, for whatever reason. Sometimes if they do, too.

Which stance? Irreligion, or religious belief?

Not even sure if this is a good idea to post, but, ugh. Feel the need to say a little, I guess? So...

... most people actually have been trying to interact with T as requested, GC. No quotes and corrections when slip-ups happen, attempts to understand, generally trying to keep things above board even when disagreeing or not understanding. There hasn't exactly been malice being expressed. Lack of understanding or agreement, difficulty with communication and/or comprehension, sure, definitely, but... if there's been anything beyond the rare exception that's been explicitly bad natured, it's a tonal difference I certainly haven't been able to detect, m'self. We haven't been seeing the actions of people that want to cause harm -- people that are, almost certainly, but the intent really hasn't been there.

In this particular discussion, the worst has probably been LB being LB and 4mask taking things further than should have been (and knowing when to drop or stop pushing a conversation is something not everyone is entirely practiced at, especially when they're dealing with the sort of outside context problem most people these days encounter when dealing with T's position on internet behavior). And having communication missteps equated to a viciously evil bigot telling people to kill themselves isn't exactly the most appropriate reaction either, even when it's entirely understandable why it seems that way from the person saying such.

S'just... I'unno. These last few pages have been painful to watch. Seems to be a number of people unintentionally saying hurtful things and being responded to in kind, neither side really realizing that's not what the other person is trying to do, and no one involved seemingly either able or willing to help folks avoid that. It hurts to see, y'know? I don't like seeing these kinds of blowups over what are more fundamentally communication troubles (on either or both ends) than anything else

... it's 14/3/2015 in most places tho...

On the other hand, I guess it is a sign of american superiority that they can have pi day while europe can't. Well, the states and Belize. And a few other, less important, places that use the correct format interchangeably, apparently.

I think it's based on a Russian folk song called "Коробушка", Korobeiniki.

No need to think, you've got it right.

It's pretty great to run into that thing randomly. It's one of the bits of music bards play in nehrim :V

Aye, rider's the general term. It's even relevant to the discussion, since... kentucky, I think? Is currently trying to sabotage a bipartisan education related bill by attaching a transgender bathroom segregation law to it.

Rummaging through my notes file (well, technically Opera's notes dingus) looking for faintly important information, and I find this, from about a year ago:

Contributing to the decay of the understanding of mathematics in my culture

and

I

have

no

regrets.

... pretty sure I know what I was talking about at the moment (wolfram alpha), but...