Deacon

You’d be surprised how little some people need to cling to in order to fool themselves.

It’s always a challenge with new finds at Costco because the samples are so intriguing but the size is such a big commitment.

And I also have a bit of self-loathing about how informed the above comment is.

Hell, what about Mark 14:51. What was Jesus doing with this naked guy on the night he was betrayed?

(45 So when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” and kissed him. 46 Then they laid hands on him and arrested him. 47 But one of those who stood near drew his sword and struck the slave of the high priest, cutting off his ear. 48 Then Jesus said to them, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a rebel? 49 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not arrest me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled.” 50 All of them deserted him and fled.)

51 A certain young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth. They caught hold of him, 52 but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked.

Jesus can get off his high horse. I bet he has a sordid browser history himself.

If AI can’t even figure out how to make itself less resource intensive and destructive what are we even doing here?

I think there is a bullet that is often used with these particular butterfly wings.

I’ve been married since the olden days so I probably don’t have the best read, but this actually seems like a legitimately good opener to me. At the very least it’s a good filtering mechanism.

She’s an asshole and I don’t like her guts at all.

A. This isn’t an either/or situation and

B. Making up mental diseases is a mental disease

Well now, who’s so fancy they have a neighbor with a porch?

I’ve actually been trying to wrack my brain to remember the name of it, which is crazy because for over a year it dominated my life. I was the head of a guild with 4 branches and a hundred or so members. Like I was doing management and spreadsheets and even made more than one deck over that time. I’ve been awoken by a Line call at 3am because the Russians are attacking. But the name has left me.

Edit: Finally remembered, it was Galaxy On Fire: Alliances

I used to run into axaxax all the time on this Mobile game I used to play. It was a PvP space colonization game and there were stark parallels to real world geopolitics.

We hated the Russians in that game, not for ideological reasons but because they and the Chinese would always attack any fleets not in base while we slept.

Obviously we did the same to them, and recruited a European shift for our guild.

No one ever laughs at my Goofus and Gallant references.

As an American I feel like I should be disputing this but all of your points are quite good.

Thank you. I struggle to balance hope and appropriate skepticism.

Are you implying that the laundry room fire was set on purpose by some of the sailors?

Genuine question. It seems plausible and I’m not sure why I took the official story at face value but I haven’t seen anything to contradict it myself.

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These are not serious people

No one is seriously pushing 76 in that discussion.