It’s always valuable to take wisdom where you can, without fully accepting everything else with it without question. Media can help you discover something as long as you realize it’s not reality, it’s what someone wrote. For example I sometimes get shit from people for referencing Nietzsche. I don’t agree with everything he believed, but he makes some interesting points about a lot of things, and even then he is often misunderstood as objectivism.

You’re not wrong, but I get what OP is saying too. Most of the camp does like and regard each other, it’s mostly Dutch and Micah that are shitheads and lit people against each other. And yeah, it’s a game about outlaws and will have conflict, that’s how it works. It’s just that the whole approach to life is different. It’s actually living life, actually talking to people instead did “what’s new?” “Just work, someone couldn’t figure out how to update Teams again so I watched a progress bar and went back to my office and pretended to be busy the rest of the day”. Or just staring blankly when someone has the audacity to speak to you, and then going back to being mesmerized by your depression rectangle.

Yeah, this game helped me “get” Westerns. It’s a romanticization of the last period before the industrial revolution and federalization caught up to the entire country. RDR in general is about the end of that period, where you can’t just ride to the next town over and restart your life.

Nothing is the right fit for Game Pass really. Indie devs barely make shit from it being on there. Big games are too big. Turns out everyone loses money except Microsoft.

Definitely GrapheneOS.

Re-Google Maps: I use Here We Go, it is much better than the open street maps apps, has live traffic data, and reviews. Unfortunately needs to be downloaded from Play Store for use with Android Auto though (not even Aurora works).

I recommend using a separate user profile for work.

Filen I want to like but they have had questionable encryption methods in the past, and they have not yet been independently audited.

Proton is pretty great. Solid free plan too at 5 GB.

Nextcloud is also great and has a lot of options and integrations with other FOSS software. Self hosted only though of course.

I have a desktop PC with Linux on it, wired Ethernet only that I can unplug, and a gun in my night stand in case it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

If you take a look at the username, it is usually just OP 90% of the time.

Depends on the business I am running, how otherwise qualified they are, what their supposed crime actually was, their side of the story, and general demeanor. I’m going to be honest though, it’s mostly the last one. You can usually tell real fast by how someone acts if they had trouble with the law because they’re an uneducated degenerate or a con man. It’s not impossible to manipulate me, but most criminals are not geniuses. If it really seems like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they have learned from their mistakes if they admit to it, that’s a different story.

I was friends with a murderer for a long time actually. He got blackout drunk, woke up, some dude was dead. He used to have a drinking problem. Doesn’t remember it, but is positive it was him. Was in jail a long time, used the time to read a lot. He was significantly older than me and would give me and others advice on how to not be an idiot like he was. His words. I doubt the family would forgive him but shit happens. He told me once sometimes he wished he’d gotten the death penalty because it was hard af to turn his life entirely around, but it got better once he had a daughter. I’d still be friends with him if he didn’t become annoying and stubborn over the years. He wasn’t always wrong, just mildly an asshole sometimes.

Controlling your emotions simply means that you do not immediately react the way your emotions would take you, and that instead you act appropriately to the situation. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have emotions, or that those emotions cannotir should not influence your resolve towards the line of action you decide to take.

I also don’t see how it is related to the rock question (or my favorite alternate, could God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it). There is not a paradox between being powerful and having emotions.

Just for fun, as a stab at the paradox: yes, God can limit his own power or prevent himself from doing stuff because he said he would. Like for example in the Christian religion Jesus came as a human and that severely limited himself. At one point he really wanted to not die but couldn’t do anything about it because that was the path he set for himself and he can’t lie. Same principle applies even if Christianity isn’t “the one”.

I think where people tend to get tripped up with this paradox is that things cannot be simultaneously true. God could make the sky totally purple, but he didn’t, so we’re here with the sky being totally blue during the day. He could make it half purple and half blue, but didn’t do that either. That’s not proof of a lack of power. He could make the rock too heavy, and then he could make the rock not too heavy later, kr himself stronger. This doesn’t disprove anything about theoretical omnipotence. And lastly, presumably things are explained to us in a way we understand. Perhaps God does have some sort of hard limits to power, but as far as we are concerned it may as well be infinite. There’s not much of a point in semantics. The very question betrays our human way of seeing things, God probably does not usually have a body to lift things. Does levitating it “count”? Does moving the earth down count? Does asking someone or something else to do it count? It’s an interesting question that has persisted for a long time, I just don’t think it ultimately means much once you break it down.

Having power over somebody does not exclude you from having emotions. Superman is nearly invincible and a great guy who always does the right thing; but his feelings can still get hurt if people are mean to him, and he still gets angry when people are cruel to each other, such as a human murdering another human. God would be above a superhero, but the same principle applies.

If you are God, the point of creating humanity is because you’re alone, and want to love and be loved. If you spent a lot of time and effort to raise your kids and they grew up to hate you for no discernible reason and did terrible things just to act the opposite of how you raised them to be, you’d be pissed too. Do I have “power” over my kids? I guess. I’m bigger than them and even if they’re adults, you can always pull out a .22 and shoot them if they don’t obey. But that doesn’t solve anything and it’s not very loving is it? I want to raise my kids to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do, but also because it benefits us all to act that way reliably, and makes us all happier.

If everyone obeys God just because they have to fall in line or die/be directly punished every time, that defeats the point of making humanity because they won’t love you. Yet maybe it would be necessary to step in if they’re harmful enough to the rest of humanity, hence the smiting. But most religions have an idea that God is trying to move us past the point where he has to step in, or has already stepped back permanently. Maybe God punishes evil after death to facilitate us getting our act together. Or perhaps he simply rewards the good and doesn’t reward the evil. Maybe he experimented a little in the past as to what actually works. Maybe he knew he was justified to punish evil, but didn’t realize the toll it would take on him by hurting your own children until it happened, and that’s why he doesn’t do it anymore.

Don’t @ me in the comments criticizing some specific version of God you have in your head. There’s a million different religions that say a million different things. This is theoretical, answering OP’s question.

Ned Leeds from Spider-Man Brand New Day.

Weird article. “I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things.”

What? NOBODY is confused what Copilot is because it is integrated into Microsoft Paint. It’s a shitty Ai agent that they shove into their previous products. End of story.

MAGA Starter Pack™️

That’s just save scumming, which is another form of cheating!

Should have ended with Endgame. They’re not really going anywhere with this and the individual movies are less self interesting than ever.

Kind of. They certainly don’t have to align with my personal tastes, but there’s a lot of music that I don’t personally care for that I have a lot of respect for. If the girl likes very different stuff than I do, she can still have excellent taste and there is a lot to talk about musically. Maybe she can help me get into stuff that didn’t initially hit for some reason, and expand my repertoire. If the girl has a godawful taste in music to where I have no respect for every artist she enjoys, she is probably not for me. This rarely happens to me though, usually it is basic taste at worst.

Plot twist: she’s a “Dave wrote 'em all” truther.

How do mods on Linux work? I’m barely able to get installers to work with Lutris.

What a certified Debian way of handling things.