GreenBeard

Mammon was an early Semitic term for wealth and material success and also the name of a Canaanite God. "Christian" denominations that preach things like the prosperity gospel, who idolize grand displays of wealth, political power, corporate or nationalistic apologism and other heretical beliefs seem to have more in common with Mammon than Jesus.

Anyone else horrified by the fact that the only two options are, "objectively monsters", "Out of touch, out of ideas, out of hope, and out of talent for doing anything but begging for money" and there seems to be no funding for anything else?

There are some justifiable reasons. Mostly responsibilities you can't just walk away from. That said, anyone doing it recreationally should definitely be considered suspect.

Listen, I'm not a Christian, but I've known what I assume you would consider "Good Christians" and I have fewer issues with them than most who abuse the term. The problem is they're a small sect, and most "Christians", at least American Christians are Mammonites taking your god's name in vain. You should be worrying about getting their attention, not ours. As long as theirs is the dominant faith of the US, the term Christian is only ever going to mean gratuitous cruelty, not the man described in the red letters in the bible.

Yes. Could be exciting in the near future. As the article points out, it's a bit less power dense than lithium, and has a slightly worse power to weight ratio, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad, it's just better suited for different market niches than lithium. I could see urban cab companies and other short range fleet uses preferring sodium-ion, as they'll have a higher rate of cycling and wear, and the cheaper cost of a battery will represent a significant net benefit. I think consumer grade vehicles are going to prefer Lithium for the foreseeable future though.

I mean, at this point we could only hope they would start eating each other without their glorious leader. Not sure making a martyr out of him would have the desired effect though. Maybe if a Qannon or a Groyper got him.

The only people abducting people and holding them for ransom in Chicago and Seattle are ICE agents.

Yes, I do think so. And I'm tired of pretending I don't.

Umm... in what country is it people get kidnapped and ransomed every day? I mean, I'm not saying it's not a thing, it does happen, but it's actually pretty rare in most of North America. I mean, it's pretty common in Mexico, but in most of the continent the most common kidnapping is a biological relative abducting a child.

Seems a bit extreme. One can find the Trudeau era immigration program generally harmful, without putting the blame on immigrants or immigration in general. The reality is, it was a bad system. We had a relatively good thing going before he loosened the rules to let many times more new immigrants in than we had the infrastructure to support, for the sake of corporate lobbyists trying desperately to keep wages stagnant. The biggest villain there isn't the people who arrived expecting a to work hard and earn their pay, it's the greedy shills that straight up fabricated a labour crisis to get out of paying people a fair wage for their work.

Why are you defending the corporate ghouls who created this problem and lied to Canada and are engineering a conflict between us to hide their own crimes.

Granted, a bad move trusting the lobbyists screaming about a labour shortage, but it seems ... counter productive... to jump from the idiots who trusted the corporate shills straight into the arms of the corporate shills themselves. That's the definition of going from the frying pan into the fire.

Where are those "But the Blue collar vote..." geniuses.