Nuebot posted:

Also for every adoption success story of a kid finding a loving home, there are two more where a kid bounces from home to home of abuse, or just winds up lost in the lovely system for the aformentioned reasons until they get dumped out as legal adults. The whole "Just put your kids up for adoption!" argument is really kind of awful and doesn't solve the unwanted pregnancy thing at all because not only do you have to go through the pregnancy and give birth to the kid, but now that kid has to grow up knowing their parents didn't want them and possibly get hosed over by the lovely foster home system america has. Some kids don't get bothered by it, others have their lives ruined by it.

ratbert90 posted:

I am arguing with self proclaimed Christians about helping poor people, and that Jesus wants all Christians to help poor people.

I know that most self proclaimed "Christians" don't read the Bible, but there are like, a trillion loving passages about how poor people are to be loved and helped unconditionally.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Sure, you may have followed Sementanks dot com on Facebook in order to keep informed about the best deals and sales on semen tanks, but you'll also appreciate their cutting-edge political commentary.

Madkal posted:

Couldn't you just troll the gently caress out of these idiots by creating a meme saying "if only Trayvon Martin had a gun #goodgutwithagun". Or any other black person killed by the cops for that matter.

cash crab posted:

Even if you only have one ear, you can make money on the internet, you idiot, you utter buffoon

Takoluka posted:

"Pretend you did a thing when you didn't" vs "Pretend you're in an active position of authority"

These are not difficult concepts.

my dipshit friend posted:

goose fleet posted:

Elliotw2 posted:

There's a reason they you feel doughier when you eat them than a regular chip.

nerdz posted:

Anyone here can link me to that really happy firefighting guy following his dream that someone posted here regularly? It was even one of the older thread titles at some point.

Munchables posted:

Where was the racist comment in there?

Picnic Princess posted:

Didn't Trump say it would be super cool to murder innocent children because their dad did something bad?

bowser posted:

The unexpected joys of having a schizophrenic friend on Facebook (who has other Schizophrenic friends of their own).

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“Fearing for Mr. Kinsey’s life, [the officer] discharged his firearm,” Rivera said. “In trying to save Mr. Kinsey’s life, he missed and accidentally struck Mr. Kinsey.”

BJPaskoff posted:

I have to wonder if LoB ever has anything relevant to contribute to a discussion in this thread, but he can't because he'd break character.

bean_shadow posted:

Enough for now but believe me when I say these type of posts go for pages on her main FB page. Oh, and one more piece of irony: she's a nurse. But from what I've seen, nurses believe in the biggest homeopathy mumbo jumbo.

bean_shadow posted:

From the same person as my last post. That's me in the comments:

bean_shadow posted:

I'm at a standstill.

Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:

Anal sex does mess with your blood pressure, and that can be pretty dangerous if you have a pre-existing heart condition. Also, there's a parasympathetic nerve (called the vagus) that stops by the heart on it's way to the upper digestive tract. It can be stimulated by bearing down like you're taking a poo poo, which slows the heart. Bearing down is a trick some people do to get things in their butt.

I guess what I'm saying is it's possible to be butt hosed to death.

goose fleet posted:

Dude holy poo poo make that my avatar instead (and my name to the above)

goose fleet posted:

Yesss

But whoever did this forgot the name change part

Baron Von Pigeon posted:

Are we still accepting youtube comments as iosm?
I unsubbed from a channel but I did a quick scroll through the comment section first and found this:



Prejudice? Institutional racism? Get those loving facts out of here and stop derailing this discussion about how us whites have it just as bad as blacks!!

Arcsquad12 posted:

Lots of people are drinking survivors. I want to hear about being attacked by the garden hose.

Who What Now posted:

Correct me if I'm wrong but teachers can't actually write prescriptions for Adderall, you still have to go to a doctor for that, and many (although certainly not all) doctors aren't as quick to prescribe such medications as they were in the 90s.

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Traditionally church zoning wasn't an issue. Places of worship were allowed "as of right" under municipal zoning codes in residential districts.

Thinking about the 1930s, when many U.S. cities initiated zoning, many households walked to worship services, and it wasn't disruptive at all to have a place of worship in a residential district. A few zealous municipalities created a zoning category called institutional, and placed that designation on churches, schools, and government buildings. Increasingly, special use permits are required to obtain permission to build or expand a house of worship, for several reasons:

1. Now, most attendees arrive by automobile, so traffic is an issue. We aren't religiously homogeneous as a people, so in a typical community, churches, synagogues, and mosques are holding services at many different times during the week. So the traffic situation isn't isolated to a couple of hours per week.

2. Not only are we more diverse, but also the congregations are taking on more and more roles. Many sponsor day care centers, parents day out programs, senior citizen activities, youth recreation, social services, and many other activities at all times of the day and week. Almost everyone comes and goes by automobile. So it's no longer true that a place of worship can't disrupt a residential neighborhood. Sometimes church zoning becomes very controversial, once specifics are known. Some controversies about places of worship will be based on the particular faith that proposes to build. If it's a minority faith in the community, you could be faced with a major dispute that will have nothing to do with land use.

To deal with traffic and commotion, many municipalities have started to add stipulations to the still-prevalent practice of allowing church zoning in residential districts. Most common among these would be requiring a special use permit or a conditional use permit. Strictly speaking, a special use permit merely requires an additional level of scrutiny, namely a public hearing and recommendation from the planning commission, and then another public hearing and action by the city council or whatever your governing body is called.

A conditional use permit requires these same procedures, but also spells out "conditions" that must be met at all times during the operation of the land use in question. However, in practice, the two terms are often used interchangeably. Either allows public input and questioning as to actual scheduling and frequency of events, and also handling of traffic and parking arrangements.

Sometimes noise is a church zoning issue.