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View this post on Instagram AI-produced 360° of Venera panorama I had asked AI why all of the old Venera landing photos all seemed to point downward, with only tine glimpses of the sky in the upper corners; yet now we’re seeing all these Venera photos as…

The first season, as the first new show in the 70’s, reflecting the total ban on violence (and shows were preachy about peace, harmony and environmentalism), is often scoffed at as the ultimate “campiness”.

We’ve been hearing a lot obout Iran lately, and it has often figured prominently in world news.

https://share.google/aimode/Q0cUPjS8YxcIDo8kh Growing up in North America, nearly all non-school buses and some trucks (especially oil tankers, and some garbage trucks, especially in the 80’s and 90’s) had these distinct sounded engines, with two main “vo…

One curiosity growing up was why there was no “Channel 1” on TV.

I always identified with Virginia, because it was the first state other than Massachusetts (which carried negative connotations for me because of my difficult grandmother) that I would visit (about every five years), and represented “hope” and “change”.

Why many conservative Christians believe it’s right to be ‘offensive’, and why pleading ‘peace and love’ will not move them Short version: “Behind Christian Intolerance” Responses to “fundamentalism” and other “tough” “old-time” conservative churches have…

Tim Alberta The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BTYWH2YP Perhaps the greatest treatment of conservative Christianity since Horton’s Beyond Culture Wars “Kingdom”, “Power” and…

Here’s my conundrum: Being autistic, (but “high functioning”, and as such, not recognized), which placed me in situations with people, where I clearly felt the power imbalance in the world: The world demands a lot from you, with often severe ‘consequences…

There needs to be a “biblical conservative” response to religio-political conservativism (especially “fundamentalism”) They have long claimed to be “biblical”, and that any opposition to them is “anti-Bible” Even in the Civil Rights era, the segregation-h…

1994, the middle of the 90’s, and the height of anti-government and economic rhetoric on the Right, with Newt Gingrich shutting the government down, and conservatives placing a steady focus on “big government spending” (of our too high “taxes”), with the…