A reader writes: "An ad for this ring popped into my feed along with lots of gushing comments. While many saw a sentimental symbol of caring, I saw a creepy disembodied pair of arm clinging
Sideswipe: March 8: Clinging sentiment
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Advice for interacting with other humans
Once someone acknowledges their mistake, that's your cue to shut up. For hypotheticals let's pretend you forgot to put your mask on before going on the train in level 3. (This isn't about masks, don't make it about masks, just using an example.) "Sir, you need to have a mask on." (Acceptable.) "Why, yes here it is, I'm so sorry I forgot. You're right." (Puts on mask.) We are officially done here. "Well, you see, there's a pandemic going on..." (wrong. The conversation is over.) "Yeah, you're right, I'm sorry man." (Acknowledged twice now, problem corrected! We are done now.) "When you don't have a mask on you can infect other people..." (Why the hell are you still talking?)
How big exactly is heaven?
A strange Christian controversy from the 1920s. In a newspaper article a Presbyterian minister preached on heaven, and showed an astonishing amount of information about the place. He stated that, after much research and study, he was convinced heaven was to be established hereafter the present world and heavens had been destroyed. He further stated that heaven would cover over 1,150,000 square miles, that it would be 10 times as big as Germany, 10 times as big as France and 10 times as big as England, that on the basis of the number of people to the square mile in the city of London the population would be 100,000,000,000 — 70 times the present population of the globe.