Javascript is used everywhere, yes, but you definitely should spread your focus to other languages as a student. At minimum definitely dig into C for low level understanding and rigor, and a "real language" like C# for exposure to all the great features and paradigms in that world.

Children are not really free to ignore what is said by priests. And when the belief persists in adults it is usually because the person is unwilling or unable to reconsider the false beliefs imparted to them as a child. Which looks a lot like brainwashing. I really don't follow what you are criticizing.

It's fun. There are two angles you can come at how lightsabers work from: how they work in the Star Wars fictional universe, and how something like that might work in our universe. The former builds out the fictional universe into something more "reasonable" in the sense that you can reason within the internal rules of the fiction. Reasoning about fictional worlds, especially with other people, is very fun (see D&D, or religion). The latter is a fun scientific diversion that could even lead to real inventions.

What do you make that lasts 7 days? Or do you freeze it?

Who/what decided you won the debate (handily)?

Can you define "crash out"? Like, fuck up something in your life?

Oatly gets nice and foamy with a bit of shaking, that's the main thing for me. That foam layer makes a hot beverage way more enjoyable.

Why is Google so insistent on forcing people to read their LLM output? Even their HTML seems intentionally designed to stop people from filtering it from search results. I don't understand what they gain from doing this.

You describe birth, youth, parental love, new beginnings, etc. first, because those things could not exist without death.

I meant you can win an argument against theism by just asking why repeatedly.

It's as simple as asking why over and over. Toddlers do it.

Matter has a specific meaning in physics but for this purpose I'd define matter as anything that exists in the world and behaves according to the rules of physics.

We can do science to determine how matter behaves and we can determine it keeps behaving that way whether any conscious being is interacting with it. That's why I think matter is more of a foundation of reality than experience. Experience can come and go but matter keeps doing its thing.

Certainly we must rely on experience to learn anything about matter so from an epistemological point of view it is the foundation of knowledge but I do think we can discover a deeper foundation for reality through science.