FuglyDuck

the various common names of birds have convinced me that ornithologists are mostly horny perverts that have spent too much time alone in the woods.

Oh... we were supposed to drop our evidence? Very well...

Shima Enaga (long tailed bushtit / snowfairy)

Rosefinch

Tanuki

Fire bellied newt

Their honey bee

and for the weirdos.. the murder hornet... ( i wouldn't call these fuckers cute, but I'm sure somebody does. Their moms, maybe.)

Far from exhaustive, but eh, these are my favorite Pokémon. (Okay so murder hornets are ugly, but they’re murderous!)

Sleep well, tonight. Sleep…. Lightly.

Just to for the record, if your car can’t avoid a pothole, you shouldn’t be calling it any kind of self driving.

I’ll leave the attachment to logicbomb. Humans tune out unless they’re fully engaged. We’re easily distracted, even if our heads are up and eyes open.

And chances are, they weren’t. Because “full self driving” is marketed specifically as… you know… full self driving…

Still. Both Lupo and I would pay money to see them try and put a hat on a gator.

And not even like…“but cuter!”. Japan has some insanely cute critters.

That golden droplet ain’t money trickling down.

“The in-transit snacks leave something to be desired” -LadyGull

Still demands your soul, though.

Hmm.

it’s either or a trap, or he is in fact quite bothered. (By the lack of belly rubs.)

Yeah.

So, total societal collapse is rather unlikely. But a storm or earthquake or fire knocking out power, internet, etc for a week or two is…. Extremely likely.

So while the semi full of ammunition would’ve been more helpful in the latter scenario, it’s not so helpful in the far, far more likely scenario.

Yup. So during the Abbasid caliphs, religious scholars weren’t as influential. They were definitely Muslim, but they weren’t opposed to science.

But then, the religious scholars became both more influential and more conservative. The secular scholars started asking questions that were, how shall we say, uncomfortable?

You can also see this shift in the transition from a more rationalist Mu’tazilite tradition to Ash’arite.

This is the inevitable shift. As science seeks an understanding of the universe, through observation and experimentation rather than faith it’s finding an understanding that best explains a universe without god.

It is inevitable that the religious mind either abandons their faith, or abandons science. (Unless of course we stumble onto evidence for god. But, I don’t believe that’s gonna happen.)

Ultimately, if god existed and created everything… science would be another form of worship.