It feels like all the breaking bad characters were designed to be the heel. I couldn’t stand any of them, and if I can’t stand any of the characters, why would i bother continuing watching the show?

Repeat offenders. It’s always repeat offenders.

About six weeks. I was attached to someone else’s unit at NTC in California for a training excersize with them. There were no showers in the field, and the showers pre and post excersize were colder than a witches tit, and open as a gay mans asshole after all night orgy.

And that wasn’t the worst part of the whole experience either.

Honestly that last one looks pretty dope. I gotta try that.

The built-in GPS limits are for speed and height, not accuracy.

You’d just print the photo on the paper instead of that. Use the benefits of the medium to your advantage. Physical copies of photos has a history of working which is waaaaay longer than any current digital medium could ever match.

This is likely more for things which require digital data storage, programs, longer form text that space constraints mean you can’t just print as a book, security codes, etc.

A bad driver never misses their turn.

or, it could be that this is all a silly oversimplification

Yup. Very little on the internet isn’t these days. You take what you can get. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean, the celebration was not unwarranted. It’s just that he left quickly enough that all the emotional breakdown happened to her while she was all alone, instead of with him there to support her.

She’s crying because she’s now free of religion and is able to go off and be herself, while also being sad about all the missed chances she lost when she was religious.

Just to be clear, this is the takeaway you got from this comic? It’s absolutely not the one I got from reading it.

You seem to be saying changing worldviews is a nagative thing, even when the example is positive.

No, just very stressful. Growing as a person is a good thing.

I mean, I guess that’s one interpretation. If you go with those assumptions, the takeaway is that, what, changing changing your views can be devastating? Where’s the value in that? ‘Big worldview changes can be stressful’ is not at all a valuable takeaway from this.

My point really has nothing to do with his atheism. Obviously he cares too; he wouldn’t bother talking with her if he didn’t care. My point is that there are better ways to care, and it’s worth keeping them in mind whenever this sort of situation comes up.

People are far more receptive to listening to someone they trust over someone they don’t. It therefore follows that the mom was far more likely to have trusted/respected her son enough to hear what he had to say than the opposite. It’s all the same assumption.

But sure, let’s go with the alternative; she’s a complete asshole who used religion as her crutch to do horrible things to her son all her life, and her son finally talked her into realising that she is the monster who has been causing issues this whole time. This is its own assumption too; we don’t know what their relationship was like.

Her son, after showing her how horrible she has been her whole life, runs off to celebrate this victory with his friends, and leaves her to cry on the floor, alone.

He cared more about being right than anything else, including helping her through this discovery or damn, even just calling someone she trusts to talk her through it.

So the point of the comic stands regardless of this assumption. The son abandoned his mother after turning her worldview over completely. The consequence of that was his mother lying on the floor, devastated. (Whether she deserved it or not)

Does anyone really deserve that? Did you enjoy having to figure out what to do with yourself when you realised that it’s entirely likely that nothing outside of this single life exists, all on your own? Would you have appreciated a friend or family member walking you through the way to handle that?

A little bit of empathy goes a long way.

Not shown is the mother hatefully oppressing others due to her religion.

Yes. Exactly. “Not shown”. That’s not part of this comic. You’ve brought it in all on your own. You’ve missed the point of the comic if that’s what you’re focused on. Everybody here knows that religion can harm people. That’s not the point of this comic. The point is that the way the son character went about his goals was exactly as destructive as the way that religion does. It was a warning to ensure that your discussion include love for the people behind the discussion, and not just hate for them for being wrong.

Name three.

Now, freed from the expectations, worldview, and belief systems of a religion, she is able to choose her own way of living?

In the same way that throwing a child into the ocean is “free to learn how to swim”, sure. You can’t go to all this work to convince someone you are right, and then as soon as they start listening and agreeing with you, abandon them to despair. If you want to help someone see the world more clearly, you also have to show them how to handle this new world, especially if it’s your own family you’re trying to help.

And her son completely failed to demonstrate any of that. She presumably spent her life trying to take care of her kid, (the quality of which can only be guessed at, but she cared enough to listwn to his points about atheism) and as soon as her child shows her a new way of thinking he completely abandons her without giving her any ways of handling it.

Soo what is the message here?

That proselytizing about atheism without considering the needs and character of your audience can be just as bad as religion doing the same.

Love is more important than being right, and the son in the comic very clearly didn’t show any. As soon as he proved his point, he left to go celebrate with his friends rather than spend time with his mother. He failed to show her that just because there is no big sky god doesn’t mean that is no love.

Nothing so complicated. They just split the timeline into two. The first, they leave untouched. The second, they make their pitch about multiversal simulation results. If someone bites, they then use that untouched branch to simulate the bad decisions. Then they bring those results over to the first timeline and get their pay.

If theyre shitty at their jobs they just leave those bad decision timelines laying around until they eventually collapse, but a good timeline simulator will usually clean up after themselves.

“Collapsing the timelines” in this case is just pruning the results to show only what the client is after. It’s a major part of journeyman timeline simulators job to learn how to do effectively.

*dissent

Decent is good and nice, etc. Dissent is disagreement and contrary opinions.

There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. My parents and older siblings had juno email addresses through our ISP way back in the day. If you check their website they’re still not on https yet.