Zancarius

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by Zancarius 2y ago
Funny. It used to be if you received that sort of response, you might imagine the author being pressed for time and giving a sort of prewritten/canned copy response. I guess LLMs have removed some of the tedium from the process while m
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by Zancarius 2y ago
Partially, this is because parallel works that exist often reference them pejoratively as part of a polemic. As the article mentions, she could be Lilith from the Bible (Isaiah 34:14), mentioned only once, whose identity is largely uncertai
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by Zancarius 2y ago
> and...reality in a big way This is the part that frightens me somewhat, because I don't think the public is prepared for what's coming. Although, it's of secondary concern to me versus your first point: > de-democrati
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by Zancarius 2y ago
I suspect part of this is because smokers, generally, don't always live long enough to actually get cancer, and statistically their year-over-year cancer risk drops to the same as the general population when they do quit. However, CO
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by Zancarius 2y ago
You know... this makes a LOT of sense to me. On the other hand, I really appreciate the minimalism of some modern ambient scores, but I'm not sure me from 15-20 years ago would have had any tolerance of it.
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by Zancarius 2y ago
It seems plausible. I'm not on the spectrum (so far as I know), but my receptiveness to new music generally has some association with previous genres I enjoyed. I definitely don't experience the "reinventiveness" trait
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by Zancarius 2y ago
Yup, I have that happen a lot. So, I can definitely empathize. We're in this really weird place where some of us on different parts of the political spectrum who may not have previously agreed are now in general agreement one way or th
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by Zancarius 2y ago
That's the rub, I'm afraid. The uniparty looks out for itself while enriching its kindred.
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by Zancarius 2y ago
No, I think bobdvb has a point, and mostly where I think I'm going with this is that abusers should just be shut down. In the context of FOSS, I think that means some combination of a) don't tolerate their attacks and b) shut them
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by Zancarius 2y ago
I don't think you're completely alone, but you're probably statistically insignificant (don't worry, I'm right there with you). Like you, I can't stand the music I grew up with all that much (maybe a few songs
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by Zancarius 2y ago
Exactly... This is so true, and it's sort of reflective of the human condition. If you tolerate a wide gamut of responses, and abuse, you're going to get abused. It sucks, but it's reality. The same thing happens (though, s
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by Zancarius 2y ago
It's definitely who you hang around with, but I think how the conversation is approached also dictates outcome. Talk about a political ruling class with most people, and they'll look at you as though you grew a third eyeball. Talk
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by Zancarius 2y ago
Agreed, but the cynical side of me thinks that they are representing their constituents. It's just that neither you nor me are their constituents. They pay lip service only during an election year. I'm politically very conservat
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by Zancarius 2y ago
Guess what's a central thesis that's not immediately obvious in the biblical account? Leviathan. In Isaiah 27:1, Leviathan is destroyed, and the adjectives used to describe this creature are the same cognates from the Ugaritic tha
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by Zancarius 2y ago
Have you ever read John Walton's "The Lost World of the Flood?" Admittedly he coauthored it with Tremper Longman, so different views are presented in the text, but I'm currently working through it. It's quite intere
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by Zancarius 2y ago
It goes back a little earlier, but if you pardon the pun, Young Earth Creationism is itself a fairly young theology. The predominant idea behind YEC stems from the 1920s and Seventh Day Adventism, particularly Ellen G. White who claims she
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by Zancarius 2y ago
The ages of the patriarchs are almost certainly some sort of Hebraic numerology that has been lost to history and may have been influenced by different traditions (the ages in the Septuagint differ, for example). After all, the fact the maj
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by Zancarius 2y ago
> It’s not about stack ranking students against each other. It's not, but it sort of has that effect, albeit indirectly, and definitely unfairly.
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by Zancarius 2y ago
Sad truth, honestly. I still have a fairly sizeable mp3 library primarily from CD purchases decades ago, and later from Amazon music downloads. I don't listen to it. I stream from YT Music these days. It's just easier and more con
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by Zancarius 3y ago
It's happened in the ancient Near East as well. Coins were expensive to mint, and sometimes there simply weren't enough of them in circulation. So, counterfeits tended to be accepted as legitimate currency. In fact, it was here on
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by Zancarius 3y ago
I remember thinking I received a scam call from my bank over an account, and I very nearly hung up on the lady (normally, I'll say something mean/hilarious, but I thankfully refrained from it this time). The ironic thing is what m
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by Zancarius 3y ago
Same here. I've heard a litany of excuses, but the most common one bubbled up into a documentary (?) I saw a few years ago on YT claiming that it's more cost effective to manufacture new glass than to recycle old glass. Which just
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by Zancarius 3y ago
I've had issues with throttle-by-wire but not so much latency as much as the traction control nannies telling me how to drive. First time I had this happen in a '14 Tundra it scared the crap out of me, because it works by cutting
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by Zancarius 3y ago
I think you're right. That's more plausible than blaming tech, which I did. Judging by the increasingly anti-social driving habits I'm seeing during the day time, this possibility definitely stands out (the worst being a tend
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by Zancarius 3y ago
That's a good point. If it were brighter, I'd pay more attention to the manufacturer of the vehicle to see if there were any obvious correlation. (Truthfully, I'm just guessing that the drivers are relying on auto-dimming tec
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by Zancarius 3y ago
Depends on the state. https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2011/chapter66/artic... Which is probably a good thing since drivers from out of state (ahem, Texas) tend to prefer to left lane, will go 10-
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by Zancarius 3y ago
Oh, I've been honked a few times in the past few months right after pulling up to a light just after it turned red and the cross traffic has a green light. It's like... "you really expect me to pull out INTO traffic because y
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by Zancarius 3y ago
> Great, now everyone in a sedan is being blinded by all sorts of SUVs and trucks. Utter failure. I drive a truck and live in a mountainous area. Trust me, it's not just sedans. Nearly everyone drives around with their brights on an
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by Zancarius 3y ago
Honestly, that's the only reason I'd ever go there (and even then only very rarely). Not because it was "good," but because I knew what to expect. Although... I should probably qualify that bit about expectations: Last t
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by Zancarius 3y ago
LOL! You know, I think I'm going to use this the next time someone disputes biblical cosmology.

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