Rhaedas
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- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
I guess it's consent. The master/deity or their aide comes to the servant and tells them of master's will, the great plan. The servant says, yeah, okay.
Yet another fail in writing. Why not make it so God and Gabriel give her the choice, and she adamantly agrees? Remove all doubt from the story's plot. Or better yet, add some drama, have Mary unsure, and Gabriel explains the importance (not that it's already planned, but why her choice is key to the direction of salvation and all that). And she with some thought decides to do it.
Oh, right... that would give a woman some agency. Never mind.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
No, just debating which set of rules we're playing by.
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
Yes. it can absolutely be spun that way, as I said. As most anything in the Bible can be. Let me ask this then. Could she have said no? And when would that have happened?
- Comment on Praise Be 1 week ago:
There wasn't consent though. It can be spun that way, but biblically Mary was destined to carry, and screw any free will.
- Comment on Suffer 1 week ago:
It's a weak loss.
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- Comment on Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be? 2 weeks ago:
Animal was always my spirit animal.
- Comment on An emotional rollercoaster 2 weeks ago:
That's the "I might be okay" moment, followed by the body's too early, "oh, we're there?" at the last few feet. Sometimes you can distract the mind a bit more by focusing on something else while you make the last steps. A lot like how flying works in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you have to notice something totally off-topic and forget you're about to hit the ground.
- Comment on People don't really know their own motivation for their actions 2 weeks ago:
Sam Harris had a video on free will, and in it, he asked the audience to think of something (a color, or something simple but spontaneous). Then he asked them to try and think when in their thought process did that choice make itself known and get picked? I don't think it's as simple as there being free will or not, but I think what we experience is a bit of both coming together to give a sense of choice and self, when actually some things are deterministic by who we are or have become through life and experience. The wiring in the brain and its software. We're not so hard wired that we can be perfectly predicted every time, but we do have preferred pathways created over time that influence any actual choice that's made at the core.
So in answer to the title, it's yes and no. There are some things that are far more fixed in our personalities that we understand at least partially why we do what we do. Then there are others that we don't or can't, or take years of therapy to figure out. But it's a mix.
- Comment on Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness 2 weeks ago:
The engineering is incredible. Imagine if it had been applied to a better purpose.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 2 weeks ago:
Oddly, it was much like playing Dark Side of the Moon alongside The Wizard of Oz. Everything was in sync and made sense.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 3 weeks ago:
One of my random Linux boot-up sounds is the WinXP boot theme.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 3 weeks ago:
When GIMP's version 3 came out, it got a lot of great reviews. I can't tell you what's different or better, but in using it myself since then, it doesn't "feel" as daunting. Very subjective, but definitely try it out again; it might work for you this time around.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 3 weeks ago:
Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.
- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 3 weeks ago:
Some might say thumbs up works for that, but there's also an up or down arrow, which suggests a vote either way.
- Comment on A matter of patience 3 weeks ago:
The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter's radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We're good.
- Comment on Scars 3 weeks ago:
Learned this from a work injury. Even waiting a few hours before you get stitches to pull the gap closer together will leave a scar, albeit a small one. The body doesn't have time to wait on your slow ass; it's repairing right away (once the bleeding stops).
- Comment on A matter of patience 3 weeks ago:
It's still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.
- Comment on Is history about to repeat itself? 3 weeks ago:
Forecasts were all over the place, and I actually saw this afternoon radar saying there was heavy snow, a forecast for the time saying it should be raining, and I saw nothing. North Raleigh area got the earlier bit of sleet/ice layer and then maybe an inch of snow, but that's about it.
The shield held. I haven't been out to see the road conditions, but they'll probably be worse the next two nights as we get some melt and then refreeze.
- Comment on Real and True 4 weeks ago:
Ha, I'm not on here. Wait, that's probably a bad thing.
How is #6 only GIS and not also normal for many gaming rigs?
- Comment on Evolutionary Planetary 4 weeks ago:
This is how the meme should be used.
- Comment on Hey there 4 eyes 4 weeks ago:
They saw things. Terrible, horrible things.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 4 weeks ago:
Where the peak is depends on how you measure it. Wavelength or frequency gives different curves. If measures as a perfect blackbody the peak is green (which is connected to why chlorophyll took off, even though it's less efficient for energy capture). But we get all visible light to some degree, so its color is white. Classification has a different meaning than what it looks like.
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 4 weeks ago:
It's not necessarily garbage, but it sure isn't curated either. Throwing everything into the blender and hoping the mechanism will usually spit out good info is a scientific spinning of the roulette wheel. Sometimes the odds are pretty good. Sometimes they're horrible, and you should know better than to expect anything but.
But AI has become the shiniest hammer, and every damn thing is a nail now.
- Comment on Hey Microsoft, How's it going? 4 weeks ago:
Using Linux and everything else not Microsoft:
"I'm doing my part!"
- Comment on See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is 4 weeks ago:
It's either saying it out loud, some inside joke that shouldn't have been made public, or they don't get the point of themes and morals of stories.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Never had the chance to finish the countdown.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
"Lockdown" in quotes, because it wasn't a full lockdown. They started, but then realized that the economy would really tank, so they loosened it up a bit and made some nice PR ("6 feet" and "15 days") to convince us that things were fine and under control.
- Comment on Fake moo 4 weeks ago:
The other number should be the one that's mind boggling. We see the number "million" so much and don't grasp its scale.
- Comment on Two-shay 4 weeks ago:
Never apologize for giving your opinion. If you do it badly, then do what you did and expand on it. I don't like olives either. Nasty things. :D But I get other people do, and probably don't like things I do. I can appreciate why people may like them, even prefer them over lots of things, I just don't myself. Can't change that. And the olives are always there if I ever get a craving for them, just not my thing.