Because they’re convinced it’s true. Given that billions of people in the world ( I strongly expect it’s the majority) would claim to be religious - perhaps the better question is: “why does anyone not believe in religion?”

There is a significant difference, but, in my limited experience, many people are religious, but don’t actually believe, but they think they do believe. When the rubber hits the road you find it what a person actually thinks is true.

Also from the UK and I am, apparently, a normie, basic guy - ketchup all the way.

I find the easiest approach is to connect to the pc via sftp and use a file explorer that supports it - such as ghost commander.

Pretty sure the story isn’t that he let them kill him just to respect their freedom and significance…

I’m a Brit and I strongly agree with OP. Summer gets too hot and sticky - often even on grey days. It’s not been too bad this year so far, but there’s still plenty to come…

How is this better than the alternatives?

Seeing a Wombat in the wild is a dream of mine.

How many people still use an email client? Genuine question.

I use either my phone or a web interface.

Just a gentle reminder that there are very many more Christians in the world that aren’t American and certainly don’t support Trump. Or even care that much about American politics.

It hasn’t answered it because it simply isn’t within the scope of science to be able to answer it. As has been pointed out elsewhere, you can’t point to any peer reviewed papers listing the evidence against a soul.

At best you can play the “no evidence” card, which underlines my point that science cannot prove/disprove it because it’s out of scope.

You’re right that we need a definition, but that doesn’t mean it has to be based in the natural world. Science could never conclusively prove/disprove the existence of a soul because it’s inadequate in this context.

The only scientific way to do it would be to compare a large group of people who definitely didn’t have a soul with another large group too see if there’s any consistent differences. Given that the experiment itself implies the existence of a soul it all becomes a little circular.

I think so, but, to be fair, it simply isn’t a question that science could ever actually answer.

The thing that makes this seem unlikely to me is simply that a normal toothbrush is so much cheaper and doesn’t do that much worse of a job.

I’ve been a Java dev for roughly 20 years and still find it a very comfortable way to write code. Most of the complaints I hear about it (e.g. verbose) are wildly overstated or just plain wrong (e.g. slow).

Of course, a lot of it comes down to the developer - anyone can write bad code in any language.

I disagree - Java seems like the ideal choice for this. I might be in the minority in that view, though. Java seems to get a lot of hate.

I’ve had similar problems. I think party of the issue is that, IMHO, the first two are amongst the weakest in the whole series and are less inspiring. I keep trying to tell my daughter to start with #3, but she hasn’t done it yet.

My system runs an immutable/stateless Linux and I also use virtualisation.

I’m running cleanroom: https://github.com/cleanroom-team/cleanroom

Unless you’re actually disabled…

This does look like a lot of fun. Would a hovercraft like this be able to go over water? I’m not sure if that would require more power or not…