Same.

I should probably have been more specific, the prosperity gospel evangelical protestants, since there are more than one type of evangelical.

Very much so. They're pretty much the same as the evangelicals in a lot of ways, just far more secretive with far more esoteric masochistic rituals, and they have a lot of experience with fascism since they were aligned and worked with Franco (essentially how they became powerful).

In the U.S., where nearly half of the global revenue for weapons makers was generated, another notable development in 2024 was SpaceX landing in the Top 100 for the first time. Elon Musk's firm's arms revenue more than doubled compared with figures from 2023, reaching $1.8 billion.

That's also my take, he's essentially a cryptobro and the fossil fuel/nuclear/mining industries are deeply intertwined with techbros.

Good luck. Montreal is also now more expensive than Toronto.

Sublimation fuels religious ecstasy and desire. The "no sex" part is crucial to many religions to try to create that (obviously it often just twists sexual desire in other directions too).

tech companies that chase hype cycles survive because the government derisks them, throwing ungodly amounts of money at them with no strings attached, and the moment there is a condition on this capital they go crying to the media about it.

literally meanwhile www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yeah, like at this point this was a student very clearly recruited to bait this kind of situation. And because academic discipline is never a neutral situation it’ll work: bsky.app/profile/cait...

Quite possible and there's a biological mechanism at play. The hunger hormone grehlin promotes neurogenesis so feeling hungry and some calorie restriction is good for our brains.