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ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn't realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.

The funniest part is that the inspector was watching the whole time, and once the ball stopped he left without saying anything. Park management just shut it down then and there.

It’s too much for coffee early on, but perfect for a proper knight out

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I know I just restating the point of that post but respecting religious freedom will sometimes require you to respect someone's belief that religious beliefs are categorically untrue, and there are a lot of people who are unable to handle this, and even more people who think they agree with this but haven't really grappled with what it means.

It's also pretty damn infantilising to religious people to be like "oh they are soft uwu babies who can't step back and relate to you and this is the only way they know how to reach out!" No they aren't. Religion doesn't make someone stupid. People who do this are either dicks trying to use your grief to convert you, or they're genuinely well-meaning and caring people to whom it simply hasn't occurred what their words mean because everyone is expected to walk on eggshells around them, and would change their behaviour if it was pointed out the same way that someone using unintentionally insulting language changes their behaviour when it's pointed out. The way "respect people who have different beliefs than you" has turned into "be sure to baby those poor helpless religious people who don't mean to upset you but they just don't know any better and can't learn with their soft sensitive vulnerable religious brains!" is absurd.

I think its's very important to note the difference between a moment where it's good to respect your differences and when the onus is being unfairly put on you. My mom was hesitant to say "I'm praying for you" because she was worried it'd be disrespectful. But that's fine! That's a personal thing you're doing on your own, and your telling me this is essentially conveying "I care about you and I want you to do well in life". But going up to someone and telling them that their dead loved one is in heaven now when you don't believe in that? That's not kind. That's not comforting. That's in fact the opposite of comforting. You're reminding them that this loved one is really gone forever and pressuring them to play pretend that they're not.

Person in the grocery store had amazon rainforest sounds blasting on their phone as they shopped and I think that's a beautiful use of free will

"people who don't wear headphones in public are a nuisance" except this one. I respect their indomitable human spirit

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

happy 99th birthday to this amazing shitpost

happy 100th birthday to this amazing shitpost