Links: Two fine rants

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Culture isn't modular by jessicalprice. I've mostly given up ranting about "secular" Christmas (!) trees, but this post gets at the underlying problem.

A big part of why Christian atheists have trouble seeing how culturally Christian they still are is that Christianity advertises itself as being modular, which is not how belief systems have worked for most of human history.

There’s no going back, let’s adapt to our pandemic present and future by Josh Simmons. This sounds like it was written in 2021, but it's still all true.

All of this is why the WHO has updated their guidance to encourage masking in all crowded, enclosed, or poorly ventilated spaces regardless of local epidemiological conditions.