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You can’t disprove something like that. You can make convincing arguments, but only to people that don’t really believe in the first place; it’s just arguments if their faith is good.

Seriously, you can’t prove an invisible, undetectable phenomenon doesn’t exist. You can only prove that it doesn’t give any measurable affects. And that’s measurable so you just go right back to arguing to a wall if the faith is there.

But, no, the rest of the premise is flawed too. There are plenty of secular humanists that aren’t depressed, and plenty of people in religions, including christianity (since that’s the bias the question has) are.

Besides, who says the idea of an afterlife is comforting? Or that any given afterlife would be if you accept all of them as possible? The idea is absolutely horrifying to some because you’re stuck with whatever it is forever. Eternity, stuck in some religion’s heaven or hell, and neither is exactly as rosy an outlook as you’d think before looking into what is canonical about the various heavens.

But even reincarnation is horrifying. Doing this shit over and over and over until you get lucky and get the right life to figure out how to escape the cycle? Fuck that noise.

Joining a universal consciousness? Just as bad. Stuck in that state, watching the horrors of the universe play out? Not even if I don’t have to remember being human, tyvm.

Life was absolutely not better when christianity was even more dominant and using whatever sick ideology of the afterlife they cooked up as a threat to obey.

Hell, just the idea that people weren’t just as depressed 100 years ago is bullshit. They just didn’t talk about it. But I had the opportunity to sit with people born in the 19th century, and can tell you that faith in an afterlife did not make them less depressed. It may have, on an individual level, helped them process grief, but that’s a different thing, and I can promise you that nothing tests faith like grief.

If depression is more common now (rather than being more reported and discussed, and I don’t know which it might be, or if it’s a combination), have you looked at the world lately? You don’t have to go looking for missing faith as a reason for depression when the absolute shit storm brewing currently is there.

And the younger folks? The kids and very young adults I know, their anxiety is very much linked to the world trying to be shittier instead of improving. Maybe that won’t happen, but I don’t know anyone under 21 that isn’t dealing with some degree of anxiety post covid. Hell, I don’t know many adults that aren’t.

Keep the afterlife lol.

Holy crap, yeah! He did use it back in the day. He was so good at playing heel lol, but he was such a nice guy irl.

Ehhh, depends on how rigidly you want to limit things. Big sculpture has always been an expensive field to work in. Stone and metal just don’t lend themselves to a person just deciding to get started at them.

But smaller scale, and other materials? You can find artists doing that in pretty much any city with any kind of art scene at all

Clay is fine for practice and final works, btw. As is wood, though it’s less reusable.

Caveat: I ain’t famous.

But I’ve sold some small stuff over the years. Paintings too. And books, but that’s creeping outside of what you asked.

Sculpture on a big scale is pretty limited. But anyone can sculpt things that are reasonably sized, just for fun, if they can afford the supplies.

Depending on how you limit sculpting as compared to crafting, I’ve even made decent side money making stone and glass knives (it’s called knapping, but there is art to the craft). But I’ve done some wood carving, mostly animals, that did okay in terms of selling (mostly to wiccans that wanted their spirit animals in a pocket friendly size).

Stone is a difficult medium. Takes more expensive tools, more work, and it is less friendly to mistakes. Never worked with marble, but the stuff I did mess with wasn’t forgiving at all.

Biggest thing I ever did was knee high though. Well, except for carving the tall stump of a tree that got damaged in a storm.

But I can’t say I’m a sculptor. I’ve done some sculpting, and that is different. I never have done it for a living, nor even as a steady thing. I dabble. I dabble in a lot of things because I like trying new things, and taking them to a casual degree of proficiency.

Well, a jabroni used to mean a jobber, a wrestler that’s there just to lose, but make it look good.

In other words, it’s someone with enough wrestling skill (and pro wrestling is genuinely a skill set, it’s essentially stunt work) to make a big name wrestler look like they’re extra good be virtue of having defeated the jabroni.

However, that was more or less an industry slang term. Jobber was supposedly used in boxing as well, and got picked up by early wrestlers, then spread among them and stayed “jobber” well into the eighties at least (and I can personally confirm that some of the wrestlers of that era used jobber, as I knew some of them to a degree, but that’s a different subject).

Now, when it turned to jabroni within the wrestlers and the companies involved is more murky as best as I’ve ever found out. What is certain is that the term came to general awareness outside of wrestling when the Rock was using it as an insult. To the best of my knowledge he was the first wrestler to use jabroni on screen. He was certainly the first to use it extensively, and the one that spread it into pop culture.

So, somewhere between the late eighties/early nineties (when I met some wrestlers enough to have friendly chats with after turning down offers to be a jobber) and when the Rock started using the term jabroni publicly, it had become the predominant slang term within the wrestling community as well.

Now, my contact with wrestlers was pretty minor, it wasn’t like it was an every day thing. We weren’t friends, we just interacted. But one of the conversations in specific was basically that I could go to a training camp and work as a “jobber” for a few years, build up to maybe being in a more prominent role. And the term was used in other conversations as well. Being young at the time, I had to ask what the word meant, though context did make it pretty obvious.

But, after the Rock started using it as an insult, it has taken on other meanings in common use. So I had to read through the comments to see what you meant lol.

In truth, any social media platform does need jabronis in both the sense of regular users just doing their thing on the platform, and in the sense of some assholes making it a less comfortable thing.

It is my opinion that most people prefer to have someone to point to as bad. Having some trolls, assholes, and “class” clowns around keep a given platform from being boring, and allow the jabronis that do the day-to-day posts/comments to feel better about it.

Whoever made that never visited 4chan. It’s 99% fuckery there

I mean, anything that reduces incoming heat is going to keep the interior cooler; the question is by how much? You’d still have to have a door of some kind, so it would never be perfect.

But there’s houses that are built all or partially underground, or have roofs that either reflect sunlight or otherwise reduce/eliminate its ability to heat the interior of the house. So the idea is not that far off from the same principle.

Hell, just using a roof that does something with the heat reduces interior temps a good bit. I’ve seen a house with solar water heating on the roof stay a few degrees cooler, and that’s only the roof that’s insulating anything. I suppose you could do that on every surface and get a bit better results.

But direct sun is only part of what makes an interior hotter. You can have a house surrounded by trees that gets a bare minimum of sun and it’ll still be within maybe five degrees of the outside air. Our house is mostly shaded, and we do stay a little cooler than neighbors that don’t have big ol’ trees playing bouncer for sunlight. If it weren’t for humidity, we’d use the AC a lot less. A few days ago it was 90 outside, and “only” 85 inside, after a nice rain where we had shut the AC off and opened the windows to enjoy it. It wasn’t truly comfortable, but it wasn’t so bad as to be unlivable for short spans either.

Wouldn’t try that on most days though.

I see that sometimes.

It seems to be a glitch, not any kind of fuckery, because it isn’t necessarily on any specific community or instance.

I’m going to pretend this isn’t a badly thought out question that’s possibly bait and give a possibleanswer for why it might seem like that.

Time.

Disability of any form is difficult, but some forms of it usage a single benefit. You can’t work, you can’t do many things you want to do. But you have time because your aren’t forced to do much.

Thus, there is a chance that any given demographic might have a larger percentage of disabled members than you might detect offline. When you can’t work, and can’t do a long list of fun things, the internet is awesome for not letting your mind rot or dwell on the bad things.

So, it is possible that there would be a disproportionate amount of disabled members of any given grouping active on lemmy as a whole. More disabled trans people will have more time for lemmy than a trans person that can work.

Mind you, I very seriously doubt that the higher amount of people would be noticeable without doing a lot of seeking for signs of such, and I think that 99.whatever percentage would be hyperbole at best, and bullshit at worst. Unless you’ve kept some serious records and have heavy research done among our trans lemmizens.

I mean, nuking? That ain’t exactly going to fix anything.

Like, the whole idea is bad, but dropping nukes is it’s own environmental disaster as bad or worse than global warming.

Even using conventional munitions is going to cause fires and literal megatons of debris to be released into the atmosphere and water. This ain’t going to fix anything.

It also assumes that population control is the fix in the first place, and it isn’t. The population levels would only shift the speed of change, not the fact of it. To stop or reverse the changes, you have to change the underlying cause of the change, which is pretty much down to industrial processes across multiple areas, including agriculture.

Yeah, you kill off enough people, industrial efforts might cease, but it’s more likely that the remaining people are going to have to rely on the most effective methods to stay alive and functional, rather than the methods that are environmentally best.

Gods, I feel that so hard lol.

That dude must have had the good weed while watching mythbusters

It’s the prices being a joke even after the discount that’s absurd.

Go screw

Well, yeah. That’s the idea. Why would they go this far and not go all the way? They know damn good and well that as long as they keep things just barely on the end where genocide isn’t stated as a goal, and they maintain a position of alliance with most of the west, nobody is going to actually stop them.

Hell, without starting a world war, I’m not even sure they can be stopped.

On the world stage? There aren’t enough nations with power that actually care about Palestine. Yeah, leaders will make noise and pretend to care, but Palestine offers nothing to the major powers worth intervening for.

Sounds sociopathic, right? That’s the leaders of most of the world. People drawn to power rarely have the ethical rigor to wield said power. Those that do, still have to deal with oligopoly, hidden fascists, and the reality that no nation can really take action without upsetting the whole damn thing.

What’s the ingredient list say? Some stabilizers and such can do that, if they aren’t mixed properly.

I don’t do it for a living, but I have family that run dairy. One of the things used for consistency and texture is carageenen (spelling?). It kinda looks like that when it’s saturated. It’s a moss or algae extract iirc (too lazy to look it up, but it’s something like that, carageen is the original plant).

So, that would be my best guess, and if that’s in the ingredients, that’s almost certainly what it is.