M.A.R.

Well it's a tug of war and the idiots don't realize the rope can snap too.

sigh

Yesterday I was applying for a "fuel card" where it'd allow me to buy cheaper subsidized gasoline and there was someone there who had to impound their car only because of "kashfe hejab", meaning the cameras caught a woman without hijab in his car.

IOW it's the religious freaks taking their revenge.

Unfortunately, zealotry is approved by the Supreme leader and cemented in the constitution, so they turn to passing bills like this where they're unbeatable. No one, not the people nor the opposing party can object because the narrative is shaped in a way that objection means rejection of Islamic virtues.

@Robusto the reformist (less extreme) and principalist (totally nutty hyperreligious freaks) parties don't act all that different, but the perception is when reformists win, people want less totalitarian zealotry. This is their version of filibustering and blocking what reformists want to achieve. They would want to focus the government on the economy, which would eventually entail that we need a change in foreign policy or we're screwed.

@CowperKettle what are those on the second pic?

And the theocrats at the end of Sassanid rule were notoriously corrupt

@Cerberus they executed quite a few 'prophets' so they at least didn't appreciate competition

That's why Mahsa Amini must have been another CIA spy who clumsily got herself beaten to death. The government can't be wrong in enforcing Sharia.

@Robusto replace "Catholic church" with "the government of IRI" and you have the past half a century in Iran play out. Except they're as accountable as the church was in 1600, not today

@Cerberus you were cheated out of cheating your way out of hard questions in calculus

@Mitch shit

@Cerberus it is. We're calling it "undefined" more precisely

@Cerberus in simple-ish terms, mostly because I'm not fluent with the complicated terms, you eliminate the zeros from top and bottom until you get 0/number, which is 0, number/number, which is a real number, or number/0, which means that the function is undefined at x = 0

@Cerberus it's a trick that makes 0/0 limit questions in math super easy, and some math profs hate that they can't make the students' lives miserable because of it, so they tend to ban using it in exams. For example, that response would be three pages long instead of half a page not using the method. Of course the notification that it's banned like it's a political opinion is the joke.

@Robusto I'd given up on Connections long ago. I'm not even familiar with my own culture's pop

They were really running out of names huh. Surprising given that for a time everyone and their dog were Julius Caesar

@Cerberus yeah makes no sense

@Vikas they enforce their rules however they want. There's no guarantee they would be consistent or fair. In this case though, removing the post mitigates most of the harm

@Laurel it's too early for cyberpunk dystopia and God Emperor Elon

And if they were sailors, it's pier pressure

@HippoSawrUs those are commie trees. If the trees get too tall it would be capitalism

Wood loving? What is this hippie shit? takes a big bite out of a big Mac on the 38th floor of a skyscraper

@Mitch I guess each chatroom usually has only a few people participating, yeah, but I'm saying SE is AFAIK the only place on the internet with a sizeable number of users who communicate with each other all the time and are still polite.

Which makes it doubly frustrating when the company keeps neglecting and even undermining their own main product

@Mitch there's no comparison between SE and the rest of the internet. SE is unique. Any small corner of the internet that's polite is only because it has very few people in it.

@Mitch dude. You have no idea. I mean you just admitted that, but I'm repeating it for effect.

Maybe I've seen the wrong subreddits

@CowperKettle where are these polite Redditors that use "eff off"?

@alphabet to be fair, it has this robotic customer support vibe to it. "Greetings Earthling, I identify as a humanoid body snatcher and my designation is antifa staff seargent." Cerb's point might be that pretty language would win this cultural war of identities, not wordy inventions that give it a false aura of being concise

New vs old font I think

We were right. Time for some indignant jubilation, ho ho ho!

@CowperKettle for renewable energy? Yeah probably those wind turbines and solar panels use some rare metals and stuff and that's not renewable, but as they get more efficient that's gonna become less problematic. You can't do anything about fossil fuel or emission

@Robusto but can you do it while three customers are staring at you, each asking for something specific they've heard on social media is good for something and they're all wrong and you have to lecture each one for 10 minutes because of ethics and stuff?

I'll ask around on meta

Or complain. That works too

Time to panic!

@Cerberus it looks a bit thinner, but I think that's just my tired eyes

@CowperKettle TL;DW?

@Cerberus no it's the same boring sans serif, why?

@GratefulDisciple well I constantly amaze myself for being able to do double-digit multiplication at work

@Cerberus to be fair savanah and steppe religions aren't much better, they just dress prettier for their rituals

Certainly isn't a saintly picture, not caring much about killing and probably torturing other people but your world being upended if you figure out you're teaching the wrong book

"Saint Paul"?

There should be an achievement for that, come to think of it.

It's like if in a game you don't even steal food items dropped on the tables and on market stalls but you kill anyone that pisses you off