I feel like this is screaming for proper PID controller logic. I like this one, installable from HACS.

I mean you’re technically not wrong, but BS this sermon was not.

…unless, of course, you’re saying showing mercy to your fellow human beings is BS?

Is it tho?

…wat?

If you read it backwards its American… so no improvement.

I’m surprised to see several midwestern and northeastern states considered to be somewhat of a climate haven show up repeatedly, and it makes me wonder what other non-climate effects (e.g. financial, legislative) may be at play as well.

Looks like JPEG compression can be added to the list of the void’s natural enemies. Not that a void would care, they’re too fantabulous. 😅🤩

This doesn’t deserve to be so clever. Ugh. compunctious grin

Without free will, true worship cannot exist. (If God is God, he certainly has the right to create us for the sole purpose of worshipping him.)

To your latter points, I agree that we know clearly what evil (a.k.a sin) is—sin is anything apart from God’s character (e.g. the fruit of the spirit to start).

However, it’s not up to us to “get rid” of evil, that’s on God, and that’s exactly what he did when he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross as a substitute for the punishment we deserve, and when he rose from the grave he signified that substitution was complete. If we truly accept that fact, then God considers us saved (“redeemed”). And, one day Jesus will come back and eliminate evil once and for all.

As to why God allowed evil to enter the world in the first place, well, that’s one of the cornerstone discussions of Christian theology, I can’t easily summarize that here. In short, a redeemed world can know God’s love and worship him more deeply than a world which was never fallen to begin with. (And again, if God is God, he absolutely has the right to create us—and all of creation—for the sole purpose of bringing him glory.) Here’s an excellent article that explains this more fully.

I’m gonna choose to believe you forgot the /s on the end of that… and that your sense of what is situationally appropriate humor was a little off to begin with. 😬

^…it’s ^okay, ^I ^believe ^you ^can ^get ^better ^at ^it!

Honestly, as much as I’m grieved and angered by what the world is right now, I find it really hard to fault the average person for choosing ignorance in the face of the monstrous realities of everyday modernity. I know that things could be so much better, and I want them to see it too, and fight for it. (Thus why I made my account on slrpnk.net.)

But, it feels unfair for me to expect something of them that they may be unequipped to handle mentally and/or emotionally. Perhaps I’m just too nice—and perhaps that’s the burden of having a big heart. Or perhaps I’m just too weak, and tough love would be more caring. I’m still figuring it out myself. 💔

Having known golden retrievers, their point still stands. The difference is that goldens have achieved mastery in what I call toxic amicability. It’s one of my favorite toxins, in fact.

For desktop, I’ve liked Lato, Source Sans Pro, and Inter to name three.

For terminal, I used Iosevka’s customizer to create a gorgeous Fira Mono-like variant that I call Iosevka Firesque:

[buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque]
family = "Iosevka Firesque"
spacing = "term"
serifs = "sans"
noCvSs = true
exportGlyphNames = false

  [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants]
  inherits = "ss05"

    [buildPlans.IosevkaFiresque.variants.design]
    capital-g = "toothless-corner-serifless-hooked"
    capital-q = "crossing-baseline"
    g = "single-storey-serifed"
    long-s = "bent-hook-tailed"
    cyrl-a = "single-storey-earless-corner-serifed"
    cyrl-ve = "standard-interrupted-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-ze = "unilateral-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-en = "top-left-bottom-right-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-er = "open-serifless"
    cyrl-er = "earless-corner-serifless"
    cyrl-capital-u = "cursive-flat-hook-serifless"
    cyrl-u = "curly-motion-serifed"
    cyrl-capital-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    cyrl-e = "unilateral-bottom-serifed"
    brace = "straight"
    ampersand = "upper-open"
    at = "threefold"
    cent = "open"

He did not say to give all of your money to them though. He said to give the Romans just the portion that is owed them (and by extension, to anyone you owe money to).

If it helps, I don’t think any worse of you because you got the definition of a word confused, even if it hasn’t changed since it was inherited from Germanic prior to the 12th century. We could probs still be friends barring any major personality conflicts. 🙃

Cambridge Dictionary:

the surface of the earth that is not covered by water

Collins Dictionary:

Land is the part of the world that consists of ground, rather than sea or air.

Oxford Learner’s Dictionary:

the surface of the earth that is not sea

Oxford English Dictionary:

The solid portion of the earth’s surface, as opposed to sea, water

And finally, the one you quoted:

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

a. the solid part of the surface of the earth

b. ground or soil of a specified situation, nature, or quality (dry land)

Yes. It is part of the surface, but it is not “land” by the common definition.

There’s a difference between the earth’s land and the earth’s surface.

The way caffeine works is that it blocks the receptors in the brain for adenosine, which is responsible for slowing down the neurons in your brain, making you feel sleepy. It also causes the release of adrenaline, which is a stimulant and thus can help ADHD brains focus. Additionally, it makes your blood vessels (especially in your brain) constrict, which can make other stimulants take effect faster. As if that weren’t enough, it also slows dopamine reabsorption, which feels rewarding (the major contributor to caffeine addiction).

These are the upsides, but caffeine comes with serious downsides if you use it regularly (i.e. more than twice a week). In particular, it seriously inhibits your ability to get truly deep, restorative sleep, even if you only have it in the morning.

Tl;dr: It can make you feel more awake, but it can’t replenish your energy stores. It basically puts a pin below the needle of your mental fuel gauge so it can’t drop below half a tank, but doesn’t actually fill the tank.

Read more in this fantastic piece: https://science.howstuffworks.com/caffeine.htm

Takes one to know one.

- fellow nerd

Even more unfortunately that just makes me want to squoosh him more. 😅