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by trav4225 5y ago
Yeah, the lack of a consistent interpretive hermeneutic for biblical texts is a big cause of this kind of confusion. Incidentally, there is a lot of scholarly support for the hypothesis that, in context, the forward-looking statements in th
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by trav4225 5y ago
I've found that the louder someone is in general, the less likely it is that they use logic in general. :-)
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by trav4225 6y ago
It depends on the complexity.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Yes, but can I play Doom on it?
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by trav4225 6y ago
"experts", obviously. ;-)
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by trav4225 6y ago
Ah, yeah, I suspect you're right that, for a variety of reasons, tomorrow's 80-year-old is more likely to use a smartphone than today's 80-year-old.
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by trav4225 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that most opposition to UBI has little to do with lack of empathy, but rather with practical economic reasoning and general beliefs about the role of government in society.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Landlines may be declining but, in most of the world, I'm pretty sure that "old people" is a growing, largely untapped market.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Yeah, I run into validation issues all the time with hyphens in domain names... :-P
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by trav4225 6y ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of implicit/dynamic typing. ;-)
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by trav4225 6y ago
Hah, that's actually a very insightful description of TikTok (to me at least). Thanks!
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by trav4225 6y ago
three words: corporate virtue signalling
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by trav4225 6y ago
Both.
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by trav4225 6y ago
This is why so many people just can't take this stuff anymore. It never ends. Someone is always going to be offended. That's the world we live in. I know of people who are offended by my mere existence. Shall I submit to their pre
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by trav4225 6y ago
That's probably a good thing. ;-) I've found, even when I research the meaning/origin of popular memes, that I still do not understand them. AMOGUS is one of these. Incidentally, TikTok is also really disturbing to me because
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by trav4225 6y ago
I'll be there! P.S. Please don't bring Cooty.
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by trav4225 6y ago
> Silicon Valley felt like a magical place back then. I ditto that! I was fortunate to spend a fair bit of time in SV (including Fry's) back then. That time+place was inspirational. SV (and Fry's) are nothing like they were bac
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by trav4225 6y ago
Sac used to have an HSC! Anyone remember that? [edited phrasing]
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by trav4225 6y ago
This is the classic choice of liberty vs. security. Each has its pros and cons. Free speech may be abused, but that's the risk of freedom. And, in my mind at least, true freedom of speech is a necessary ingredient of authentic democrac
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by trav4225 6y ago
Silicon Valley has been taken over by Methodists!!! ;-)
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by trav4225 6y ago
It's difficult to imagine anything more democratic than free speech.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Software did less in 1996. That's why it was so much better! :-)
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by trav4225 6y ago
Hmm... might be!
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by trav4225 6y ago
> There are some services so fundamental to participation in society that only the state ought to be able to take them away. Social media is on the list. Ah, reading that opened my eyes because, personally, I really couldn't disagre
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by trav4225 6y ago
I definitely recall Bush being referred to as "43", especially to distinguish him from 41.
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by trav4225 6y ago
I've always wondered, aren't these types of bug investigations illegal? Aren't the investigators concerned about criminal prosecution? Not being snarky; I'm asking sincerely.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Recently, I opened the packaging of a new product I had purchased (I actually don't even remember what it was), and a small paper tag fell out that said, simply "WARNING: CANCER". Oh, okay... thanks. :)
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by trav4225 6y ago
s/California politics/politics/g
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by trav4225 6y ago
Every apartment building I've lived at in recent memory has one of these signs at the entrance.
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by trav4225 6y ago
Yeah, what is the deal with that, anyway? Twitter is constantly giving me the "something went wrong" message or telling me that I'm being rate-limited even though I only hit the site about 10 times a week.

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