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@pastelsinmysky yeah its really awful :/

gambling regulations are very hot topic in pennysylvania right now because we’ve got an ongoing court case / legislative situation about whether or not “skill game” kiosks should be regulated like slot machines. i am very much in favor of banning as much as possible, they all seem so exploitative and gross

@phette23 that circuit board quilt is such a fascinating piece! cutting the circuit boards that precisely seems super difficult

@pastelsinmysky we have *really* gotta ban betting app ads

i mean also the apps themselves are evil and should be banned. but if we can’t do that can we please at least make it like cigs where you can’t advertise

@secretasianman the natural parsing to me would be that the Nazi’s invading the Soviet Union was what killed her hope (and thus is a bad thing) and she had only felt hope before that when things were better

@brie i’m glad you’ll have some help!

@brie good luck with the move! packing is always such a trial

@SportsGoblin @Lady presumably some people do not know about the cowboys, which is a prerequisite

@alis this is true! and geographical distance means its pretty unlikely your lavender is going to be an issue so i’ll give you a pass lol

@alis i was with you until you said lavender which, unfortunately, gives me awful headaches

@lapis yeah i mean there are moon landing hoaxers and such out there so clearly people are willing to disbelieve things which we really do have quite a lot of evidence out there for!

and of course we do know that tudor england (and other such mostly a religious monolith times & places) did have a jewish community who had to address the question of how to contend with the mainstream religion as an outsider, even if its for reasons other than being a non-believer.

but in both cases i guess the question is how much are these people actually visible? is this a culture where gary getting drunk and ranting about how surely the goddess is made up because no ones actually met her results in him getting offed or a more tolerant response? there’s probably a spectrum here, but i’d say that most places which were 99% one religion achieved that through a heavy dose of oppressiveness so…

@lapis i suppose part of this depends on your definition of a non-believer? historically a lot of religions put a lot more emphasis on behaving correctly than your thoughts, so if you’re willing to count the dude who goes to church on sunday along with all of his neighbors and then daydreams the whole time — or his neighbor who goes and likes the stories but doesn’t necessarily *believe* them as non believers than sure both of those guys probably existed. but in a fantasy story it’s not necessarily going to come up that the tavern keeper is one of those guys unless he’s a pov character because he doesn’t actually act all that different from anyone else you know?

@lapis congrats on getting surgery! hope the healing process is smooth, and as painless as possible

@Cyannin yeah i’ve had this happen with glutinous quickbreads baked in too small pans as well — you can also split off some of the batter into muffin cups if you want to make the full recipe without a blueberry ooze monster taking over your oven!