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But the kids might ask questions:

• How big was the one window on the ark?
• Why put only a single door in the side?
• Why would an all knowing god specify dimensions for an ark to take all the animals that in no way could facilitate even a fraction of the animals on Earth?
• Why is the church so cool with children being raped?
• Jesus seems pretty clear that being rich makes getting into heaven a tough pull, does Ken Ham want to go to hell?
• In a universe ruled over by an all knowing, all good, and all powerful deity... Ken Ham, WTF?!?!?

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I'm going to express some solidarity with OP here. I feel like there is some unconscious bias affecting their visualisation, in no small part due to my first blush reaction being "that kinda makes sense". On Earth at sea level we are used to ice being rigid enough that we don't expect tidal forces to distort it at the same rate as it affects neighbouring water, however as OP pointed out tidal forces in the Jovian system are colossal compared to what we are familiar with.

We also expect our atmosphere to rush in to fill any available space, even though that's only true at surface level (give or take a few meters) its counter intuitive to think about different paradigms of atmosphere if you haven't trained those reflexes.

Its kinda like the hottest parts of he Earths core being hotter than a large amount of the surface of he sun. That boggles my mind, but once I understood the caveats of that statement and the science involved it made a lot more sense, even if it wasn't intuitive.

Well it was certainly visible, not as good as the night we had a couple of years ago, but I was successfully getting colour from the sky just shooting handheld on my phone.

Have they considered having a conservative American grifter write a book about it and handing it to the wife of a South Australian politician... I hear that gets solid results.

If we weren't competing with Landlords driving the cost of houses up to astronomical levels by buying up stock and living on the speculative investment value who would be buying houses... Hmm that's a toughy we might need to get back to you.

I'll touch base with him next time he is back in town from sailing on his yacht and ask if he is better off.

He is my go to example, not the only former business owner I know who has outright stated working for a living is dumb. It's almost always people working in trades who evangelise the benefits of being a landlord to me, and who can blame them?

Work 20-30 years and be physically broken for whatever time you have left, or work for long enough to get the first 2 or 3 properties bought and then use that as a platform to become a full time landlord.

One of those options is definitely the less physically impactful. This is also the route to personal wealth for a whole lot of politicians, so they are far less likely to close the loopholes they themselves are using for personal enrichment.

My previous landlord shutdown his Electrical business because it makes less sense to funnel money into keeping a business operational than to just use it to buy more property. When we have small businesses shutting down so people can join the landlord class is it at least worth considering that something is askew in our economy?

If the political will existed then we could tackle monopolistic property ownership through regulation anyway. In the event we get politicians to legislate against their own cashcow then having them legislate against lobbyists shouldn't be that hard.

I really hope we aren't dumb enough to contribute protection money to that pudding brain Mafia Don.

There is no redeeming feature of paying the money up, it's just a chance to be part of Trump's sycophant club.

Not since Craigslist.

You're kidding right? I know at least 3 people personally who would riot if that happened and one of them is a politician. Line must go up, if line doesn't go up it's time for a new government, if line doesn't go up enough time for a new government, hell if line goes up in the wrong way time for a new government.

I knew a Penthouse Pet when I was a regular/part of the furniture in a strip club got to know her pretty well and drove her to and from home and the airport a couple of times.

A few months after meeting her on a quiet night while having a bit of a banter with her she disputed the correct spelling of my name. I bet her a coffee date she was wrong, added a stipulation she had to wear jeans and a t-shirt not any of her usual wardrobe.

I won, we had coffee a couple of days later, she turned up in denim shorts so cut off she was risking being done for indecent exposure and a t-shirt that looked like it was purchased from the kids section.

I spent our "date" getting the expected looks from every other guy in the cafe wondering how the ugliest guy in the place was with the girl who looked (and dressed) like a pornstar. Was fun. Glad I don't move in those circles anymore.

Still kinda entertaining to me that I was at the strip club 2-3 nights a week for a good 7 months when I was unemployed and had no money, use to pick up odd jobs for the bar and get dancers rates on my drinks cause I was friends with the management. Once I was working and had money I pretty much stopped going entirely.