charcoal23

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by charcoal23 8y ago
I'm finding it difficult to see how a Trump voter can complain about tone. Trump himself is usually toxic and abrasive, and relies heavily on petty insults with the eloquence usually found on grade school playgrounds. His followers pro
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by charcoal23 8y ago
Would agree with you that it's semi-mainstream. I grew up evangelical, and I heard that argument many times. Though it was never accepted doctrine nor preached. At least at my baptist church. But there is one potentially fun part of th
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by charcoal23 9y ago
I had the same problem. After years of Windows laptops, I bought a Macbook back in 2015 because I wanted a change. Ended up with the same problem. Tried all sorts of fixes. Reinstalled the OS several times. It would work for a day after the
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by charcoal23 9y ago
Not long after I moved to Kansas in 2012, I received a postcard supporting some tea party idiot for the legislature. Was a four color printing on thick glossy paper. Paid for by the Koch's PAC Americans for Prosperity. I kept getting t
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by charcoal23 9y ago
The FCC under Trump has been very friendly to the large enterprises at the expense of small businesses and customers. Trump himself has approved many regulatory changes which are hostile to small businesses, employees and customers across m
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by charcoal23 9y ago
It's probably both, but leaning much more towards the grifting side of things. There's something about conservative politics in the US which encourages grifters and cons. When my very Republican stepfather fell into dementia, I he
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by charcoal23 9y ago
Using any of the start menu replacements (StartIsBack, Start10, Classic Shell) will give you the old interface and somehow gives you the old search engine too. Has the nice side effects of making Cortana completely disappear and giving you
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by charcoal23 9y ago
I'd agree with your perceived trend. Ubuntu has the right idea with the LTS releases. Microsoft had the right idea with the LTSB, but ruined it by making it limited to enterprise customers. I hope Apple and Microsoft will start to real
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by charcoal23 9y ago
I would strongly disagree with you. Christianity can and should be measured by the behavior of its believers. The behavior is the one and only metric we have regarding the efficacy of the faith, since the supernatural claims are something w
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by charcoal23 9y ago
/r/anarchism and /r/socialism are two that often advocate violence. The latter is dominated by "tankies", which is a term for communists who love Stalin, gulags, and tanks. They frequently take a "kill &#x
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by charcoal23 9y ago
Kant isn't directly used in ways which oppress or abuse people. His works are generally not used as the foundation of unpleasant systems. Children are not raised to think of Kant as infallible, nor are they punished for failing to foll
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by charcoal23 9y ago
That's the view of the atonement as presented in fundamentalist / evangelical circles. Reduced to snarky absurdity, but the theology is itself absurd. Perhaps this is different than your own experience or reading, but it doesn&#x2
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by charcoal23 9y ago
Indeed it is. However, it will be the dominant experience of Christianity for many of us. Hence the previous snarky statement, and how that statement is correct for those of us who endured that experience.
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by charcoal23 9y ago
The "snarky dig" is an accurate description of what American fundamentalists / evangelicals believe. If you want to complain about that particular bit of theology, you're complaining to the wrong person.
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by charcoal23 9y ago
I was also raised in a fundamentalist / evangelical church. I'll back you up on this as your interpretation is completely correct. coldtea's interpretation would be completely alien in any of the churches of my youth. In the
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by charcoal23 9y ago
I have no idea what prompted this reaction or an accusation of trolling.
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by charcoal23 9y ago
I like the approach of Chromebooks. Safe and secure in its default state. Can switch to "dev mode" which gives you a less secure but much more open system. And then can open the case, remove the write-protect screw, and have a ful
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by charcoal23 9y ago
The Uber driver will not always be an Uber driver. And probably has something already lined up if he's paying for his new house via a mortgage. The reference to a 100k job was making a comparison between the quality of life in differen
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by charcoal23 9y ago
Topeka is the capital of Kansas. There are jobs with the state government and jobs in businesses connected with the state government. It's also a city of 125,000 people with the usual mix of jobs. Not extremely vibrant economically but
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by charcoal23 9y ago
I live in a dying, rural small town. Well, dying is too strong a word. The population isn't growing, but it's not shrinking either. Stable for the past 20 years. Has around 800 people. Anyways, this town was founded as a railroad