I’m back! I couldn’t find the specific thing I read, but I found something probably better, an actual study published in Pubmed:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8871314/

Statistical analyses showed that the psychological disposition during the religious worship experience speeds up the physiological responses, which was indicated by increases in HR [hear rate] and RR [respiratory rate]. Hence, the activation hypothesis was accepted, and the pacification hypothesis was rejected.

I’ll try to look for it. It was a loooong time ago though.

I read an article years ago that explained why so many people get “religious” feelings at big revival-type events at Six Flags, Carowinds, etc, even if they’re not particularly devout.

There’s a thing called respiratory alkalosis (essentially hyperventilation) which makes you light-headed and confused. At it’s really easy to trigger by making people stand up quickly, sing really hard, sit back down, stand up and cheer, etc.

Right?! And then when being asked if they could maybe charge $10 million (or give people 6 months to figure things out), they just said no. I can’t remember another company that blatantly cut off all partner relationships like that.

I think the reasoning is that Reddit didn’t realize these *were *partner relationships. They thought these apps were just taking and not actually helping.

lied about almost literally every achievement in his life – university, multiple years of work experience, etc

I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise, but it’s funny how common it is for these people to also be complete liars about what they’ve accomplished in life.

Is it too much to ask to be an honest racist nowadays? Don’t make me argue with you about racism and lying. That’s just annoying.

I keep snugglin’ and cuddlin’ \ Purred the whole night long

In the article at least, De Santis hasn’t explained how that works for the “good” Americans he wants to keep. Is every infant just not a citizen anymore until they can pass the test?

Don’t even try to think about the downstream affects of that on healthcare and education.

Some of them don’t even know how amendments work. They think the 2nd amendment was passed down by God on stone tablets.

I’ve argued with a person that didn’t know amendments could change other amendments. Nor did he know how amendments were voted on. But he swore the amendments were perfect when written and couldn’t possibly be changed.

As some of the article’s comments say, the answer is probably the simplest: IBM.

IBM said they’d let Red Hat operate independently, but it was a matter of time before some of that corporate “culture” (aka stock-driven decisions) started showing through.

Hopefully the employees themselves aren’t slowly sinking into the IBM workload. I think a lot of them intentionally left IBM for Red Hat specifically because of the ideological difference.