Rhaedas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Praise Be⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it's consent. The master/deity or their aide comes to the servant and tells them of master's will, the great plan. The servant says, yeah, okay.

  Yet another fail in writing. Why not make it so God and Gabriel give her the choice, and she adamantly agrees? Remove all doubt from the story's plot. Or better yet, add some drama, have Mary unsure, and Gabriel explains the importance (not that it's already planned, but why her choice is key to the direction of salvation and all that). And she with some thought decides to do it.

  Oh, right... that would give a woman some agency. Never mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Praise Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just debating which set of rules we're playing by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Praise Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. it can absolutely be spun that way, as I said. As most anything in the Bible can be. Let me ask this then. Could she have said no? And when would that have happened?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Praise Be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There wasn't consent though. It can be spun that way, but biblically Mary was destined to carry, and screw any free will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a weak loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Animal was always my spirit animal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An emotional rollercoaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That's the "I might be okay" moment, followed by the body's too early, "oh, we're there?" at the last few feet. Sometimes you can distract the mind a bit more by focusing on something else while you make the last steps. A lot like how flying works in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you have to notice something totally off-topic and forget you're about to hit the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More CUDA please⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The "they have played us for absolute fools" line always gets me laughing, even when I don't fully get the setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The engineering is incredible. Imagine if it had been applied to a better purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly, it was much like playing Dark Side of the Moon alongside The Wizard of Oz. Everything was in sync and made sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still haven't figured out how to do this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some might say thumbs up works for that, but there's also an up or down arrow, which suggests a vote either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A matter of patience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter's radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We're good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Learned this from a work injury. Even waiting a few hours before you get stitches to pull the gap closer together will leave a scar, albeit a small one. The body doesn't have time to wait on your slow ass; it's repairing right away (once the bleeding stops).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A matter of patience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is history about to repeat itself?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Forecasts were all over the place, and I actually saw this afternoon radar saying there was heavy snow, a forecast for the time saying it should be raining, and I saw nothing. North Raleigh area got the earlier bit of sleet/ice layer and then maybe an inch of snow, but that's about it.

  The shield held. I haven't been out to see the road conditions, but they'll probably be worse the next two nights as we get some melt and then refreeze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real and True⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, I'm not on here. Wait, that's probably a bad thing.

  How is #6 only GIS and not also normal for many gaming rigs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolutionary Planetary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how the meme should be used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey there 4 eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They saw things. Terrible, horrible things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New He-Man Movie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought he was perfect in Bladerunner 2049. He's got creepy narcissist down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where the peak is depends on how you measure it. Wavelength or frequency gives different curves. If measures as a perfect blackbody the peak is green (which is connected to why chlorophyll took off, even though it's less efficient for energy capture). But we get all visible light to some degree, so its color is white. Classification has a different meaning than what it looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Microsoft, How's it going?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Using Linux and everything else not Microsoft:

  "I'm doing my part!"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to dualboot Linux Mint + Windows on a second external hard drive but Windows Setup doesn't let me install on the disk...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've found the only long-term, totally happy dual boot system is where you autoboot into Linux. And never boot into Windows. Every now and then I have to go back into my Win10 to do something (much rarer now, almost ready to reclaim some space). Boy, Windows hates having any signs you've been somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake moo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other number should be the one that's mind boggling. We see the number "million" so much and don't grasp its scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two-shay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never apologize for giving your opinion. If you do it badly, then do what you did and expand on it. I don't like olives either. Nasty things. :D But I get other people do, and probably don't like things I do. I can appreciate why people may like them, even prefer them over lots of things, I just don't myself. Can't change that. And the olives are always there if I ever get a craving for them, just not my thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two-shay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't. Everyone has their preferences, which was the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two-shay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking as a straight guy, I can't blame her for not finding men attractive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is good parenting. You can't always be there to guide them or restrict them, nor should you want to be. You instead help them understand how to navigate the world themselves smartly. This is true for anything, not just what they see on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your name better be Caleb⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caleb is probably a wish that isn't even going to happen with those numbers; better be more concerned about Ryan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge is getting a Copilot-inspired redesign⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Copying an old Waterfox logo. They really are going downhill.