“Megachurches”: 30 Of The Oddest Things That Seem To Be Normalized In Society

I agree but the important difference is that adults have a choice to participate or not, children don't.

Once you're in the system, it's automatic, so they're not irritated with you anymore, until you die and they have to take you off the listing. No problem. At that time, you don't care if they're mad at you.

The governments don't expect people to live long after retirement. The older you get, the less money you start to get. You don't want to rely on the government for retirement funds.

It's a common story, I have seen several versions of this on news sites regularly.

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Uh, you may want to stop criticizing the president and Elon unless you are willing to point that magnifier at the ENTIRE SYSTEM and all of the Dems too!

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Ask the elevator operators, the knocker-uppers, the milkmen and the switchboard operators. Time marches on. A whole bunch of people are confusing not being able to earn enough money doing what they would PREFER at the quality of life the "feel" they "deserve" with not being able to do so at all. High paying skilled labor professions have had a worker deficit in the millions for decades. Yet people continue to complain about menial labor jobs that are actively being phased out not paying enough. That you don't like the solution, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

It's not just the politicians though, it's everyone. There's objective reality, than there are the right wing flavor of facts, and the left wing flavor of facts...and neither one of them come close to objective truth. Everything is slanted, bias is implicit and stepping outside the party line (which means anything short of blind agreement) is treated as treachery, ignorance or outright hatred.

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Right?! Carrine JP was just awful that way!! It was SO obvious Biden only had 1 brain cell left and yet she kept telling us he was sharp. UGH.

Lol, WHAT "bad things"? Be specific, and your source can't be Fox "news".

It's valuable because it's rare. If you were to take all the known gold in existence and put it into one single cube, it would only be 22 meters on a side. Copper? 430 meters on a side. Iron? 2403 meters on a side. Not really useful to make currency standard out of something that people can go randomly dig through the ground an pull out a substantial quantity of in a matter of weeks.

Government subsidies, government bailouts etc..

Designers, tech companies, car dealerships, you name it. They all want rich people photographed with their goods to raise the status of their product. Influencers would cease to exist if this stopped.

Millions of people donated to tRump, a supposed billionaire.

I get what you're saying. People buy things the rich people make. Often those things are becoming less and less worth the price. So we then replace the thing, lining their pockets all over again.

Has never, ever passed an audit.

If you are elected to Congress, you're going to get rich - in the millions of dollars rich, if you want. There are some who won't take the money from "special interests", but they are few.

The military employs around 5,000,000 people across active duty, reservists and contractors. If you were to split that $841 billion budget (as of 2024) evenly across those 5 million people, it would work out to $168,200 per person. Except it doesn't work out that way because in practice the US is treated as the global police force. Spending spending billions of dollars to arm one side of a conflict and providing aid to both. Is there waste happening there? Absolutely. There is waste everywhere, the difference is that exposing military waste means endangering the lives of people whose lives are on the line, where as exposing millions being spent on pointless research or funding artistic endeavors of people living in terrorist controlled territories is a bit lower stakes. Waste is waste, it's missing the point to complain that they're not reducing it by as much as you'd like as opposed to just pretending it's not happening in the first place.

You are correct about congressional leaders being rich. We need to stop all investing by any elected official who has access to "insider info"-how did the Clinton's come out of the WH as multi-millionaires? How did Nancy P make her millions on her salary? This happens on both sides of the aisle.

I guess you don't remember the 80's: over $400 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat& $7,000 for a coffeemaker, among others. When you allow retired generals to work for government contractors after retirement, it's hard for them to say "no." Nobody mentioned free, but thanks for playing, just fair.

Fact check the bible anyone?

Much, much truer that that!

The sole purpose of capitalism is to consume for profit. It is structurally unsustainable. It's not the only problem, but one way or another it will eventually consume itself. And the ending won't be pretty.

I'm donating my body to science fiction.

I'd like to just be fired out of a cannon into the sea. But I'm poor, so just dig a hole anywhere, shove me in it (once I'm definitely dead), and put an acorn in my mouth. Cheap as hell, and then I'll be a tree.

Me too. I would like my body to be donated to a research study, Forensics is my choice.

Cremation is even worse than the standard fare. First, the cremation of one body produces upwards of 400 kilograms of emissions. Second, unless you make very specific arrangement, they're not just hucking your body into an oven. They're still going through the embalming process, which uses a bunch of carcinogenic chemicals before you're cremated...making the process even worse. You had the right idea to start with. Biodegradable bag (or cardboard box) straight in the ground. That's the natural order....in death our bodies are meant to renew the health of the soil, so that flowers and trees may grow, so the insects can thrive, so the birds and omnivores can thrive, so the predators can thrive, so that WE can thrive.

Right? And the loved ones pay an insane amount of money for some fancy box that's supposed to keep the body from rotting away. And if you don't pay for it, then it's because you didn't love them enough.

You do realize how bad cremation is for the environment, right? Just toss my body in a hole in a forest and let me fertilize the trees!

That's an American thing. Here embalming is basically illegal. And caskets must be made of decomposable materials, buried in earth, not in a vault. Or in a mausoleum that predates 1995. And all foreign objects like glasses, rings and dentures (or other trinkets) are removed before the coffin is sealed.