Hell yeah I did

I will have to try that—it'd be cheaper than the $10 this jar cost me.

My experience with younger people suggests that difficulty socializing post-COVID can manifest as an expression or feeling of being unsafe. But really I think we're on the same side here and I don't want to argue. Be well.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the sentiment at all—but it's clear that something changed in the past couple of years that made people believe that the signs were necessary, when no one seemed to think that before.

Throughout the campus I live near, there are signs that say things like "YOU ARE SAFE." and "[list of demographics] ARE WELCOME HERE." Just appearing in the past couple of years.

There's much more going on in it than (what some people read as) blasphemy! It's thoughtful and funny, it's got a great Peter Gabriel score, fantastic casting (Harvey Keitel as Judas, David Bowie as Pontius Pilate), etc. Works as part of an informal Scorsese religion trilogy with Kundun and Silence.

Recently I showed The Last Temptation of Christ to someone who knew nothing about it (neither the content, nor that a theater showing it was hit by a terrorist attack) and her mind was completely blown by it

An Italian friend of mine made the case for Berlusconi

lots of "by any means necessary" guys amped up by the possibility that the necessary means might be "risking horrifically violent death at the hands of militias and/or the state" but strangely unwilling to consider that they might be "doing the dishes" or "making common cause with winemoms"