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Hello pastor. I’m a Catholic atheist, and as I read Jesus’ teachings, he encouraged a very decentralized moral authority based on individual reasoning (i.e. the golden rule) than edicts from on-high. (Indeed his whole life’s story revolves around resisting such institutions.)

Do you have any thoughts of balancing Jesus’ individualism with the natural human inclination to form hierarchies and designate leaders?

If only he'd taken pictures of his foot during all cooking stages.

Hey guys,

As an opener, just wanted to say thank you so much for X-Wing. God I loved that game.

I have a historical question about the Mac port. I was one of the kids who had a Mac back in the day, and I remember checking MacZone and similar magazines each month to see if X-Wing was on-sale for the Mac. When it finally showed up, I snatched it up. That Mac port had seriously enhanced 2D graphics over the PC version. The concourse, medals, even cockpits all looked completely re-done and much higher-res. Is there any interesting history as to why the extra effort was put into the Mac port?

Is imposter syndrome formally recognized as any sort of disorder or condition? I thought it was still one of those things that "everyone" knows about, but there's no clinical diagnostic protocol, treatment, theory, etc.

But the Supreme Court’s job isn’t to consider public safety. It’s to opine on what the law is - good or bad. If the law needs to be changed to better balance public safety, then that’s Congress’ role.

Nonsense. Courts resolve ambiguity based on unstated factors all the time because laws cannot possibly enumerate behavior for every situation. That is their function.

And as part of resolving ambiguities, they weigh equities, specifically individual rights versus the public interest. This has happened for basically every amendment including the second one. And historically, courts have held that there is a legitimate public interest in limiting gun rights to some degree, because fucking of course there is. This court just went and said "Nope, the second amendment is absolute, fuck the last century or so of decisions about this, they were all wrong because uh... something about tyranny I guess."

If what you are saying is true, you'd be able to about "Fire!" in a crowded theatre because the first amendment says that freedom of speech shall not be infringed upon, and requiring licenses for parades would be unconstitutional because of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of assembly.

These are two rights are are routinely and very justly balanced against the public interest and safety every day, and the court almost certainly wouldn't entertain challenges to either of those limitations. That's what makes this such a load of bullshit. It's ideological, pure and simple.

This argument is the kind of thing Elon Musk says to make people think he's smart.