Science is totally crazy . Time moves differently when you ' re going fast ? We ' re all made of stardust ? Particlewave duality ? There ' s some stuff in science that nobody in their right mind would believe if it weren ' t for the mountains of evidence supporting it . <| sep |> Are you still open for me to stop by ? Thank you ! <| sep |> We ' ve had rivals show up in the past . The fact Lillie is in says to me Hau is definitely in . I mean , he is Hala ' s grandson . A Kahuna ' s grandson . The real question is if the Aether Foundation will be in or not . <| sep |> This is my major problem with the popular vote too . Well said . <| sep |> Aren ' t you actually not the sole survivor because Shaun survived too ? Just saying <| sep |> Yeah , that was kind of what I meant with the ' evangelism and shotguns ' bit at the end . Here the Conservatives traditionally used to be socially conservative , hence the name , and they still pay lip service to ' family values ' and have things like tax breaks for married couples actually I can ' t remember if that one got passed in the end , but it was definitely an idea that was floated . But the majority of people don ' t really care about stuff like that it was a Conservative government that ended up legalising samesex marriage , and even among their supporters only about onethird and falling think homosexual sex is always or mostly w r o n g r e p ortbritishsocialattitudes 30 p e r s o n a l r elationshipshomosexuality . aspx . The government seems to be trying to do some stealth morality policing by making it harder to access online porn and that sort of thing , but if they came right out and said they were going to ban abortion and samesex marriage again there ' d be total outrage even from many people on the right in Britain Northern Ireland is very conservative and already has its own laws against both those things thanks to devolution , which is basically a much weaker version of states ' rights for the separate countries in the UK . People mostly vote for the rightwing parties because of their position on the economy and immigration , and also because the left is a total shitshow right now so we don ' t have much choice . I don ' t understand why religious fundamentalism is such a big deal among poor rural communities in the States , because we don ' t really have the same phenomenon here at all . I can see that people must identify so strongly with the church that they see something like samesex marriage as a threat to social cohesion , but even trying to flip the situation to one I could be more sympathetic to something like not officially recognising the legitimacy of neoNazi political parties , idk I can ' t imagine ever getting worked up enough about that to see majorly disadvantaging myself as a reasonable price to pay . But clearly many people do think like that , so it ' s a failure of imagination on my part , I guess .