Daniel Wigton

Catholic stay at home father of 6. Interested in spaceflight, decentralized communication, salvation, math, twin primes, and everything else.

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relay.primal.net

relay.damus.io

theforest.nostr1.com

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2025-05-18 23:13:10

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Drat! I only have one small drill. Perhaps I need more M12 tools so I can save money!

2025-05-16 14:01:03

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From your perspective, it is who you trust and who they trust in turn. No one else can provide the view for you.

2025-05-16 13:11:45

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I have nothing against charging for a nip_05 address. I am suspicious of invoking WoT.
How does a user test that a nip_05 address is valid from their perspective?
I understand that it is valid from YOUR perspective. It just ends up being the same problem as TLS. I am ok with TLS. They do somethings to verify that you are who you say you are and I have no choice but to trust them, but it isn't web of trust.

2025-05-15 22:53:44

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Not impossible. We just need an aggressive spider breeding program to get the traits we want.

2025-05-14 14:32:16

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Done!

2025-05-12 17:43:43

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Sweet, my first banger! Is the next step going viral or do i have to start a hell thread first?

2025-05-12 17:39:28

Trying out NoteDeck but apparently it only allows posting Bangers. As such I'll be surprised if anyone can see this test.

2025-05-12 15:32:12

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Does NoteDeck support posting or am I just doing it wrong?

2025-05-10 19:22:37

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Sorry, the point I was trying to make wasn't that God is against kings, but rather the REASON the Israelites wanted a king was a rejection of God.

2025-05-10 18:20:33

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There's your problem right there in the picture. Economists have shown that drinking wine devalues it by well over 80%.

2025-05-10 15:04:30

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I am not so sure our reason is "our most holy of faculties" but I fully agree that any god that says we shouldn't employ it, or any natural or supernatural faculty, would indeed be false.
The flip side, of course, being that we should never make a god of our reason. I like to think that I, like many here, have an unusual gift of reason, but as good as it is, it is still very poor. When operating at the edges of knowledge, I am far more likely to be incorrect than correct. In part for illogical steps that I miss for failing to make proper connections in what I already know and in part for the truths that I simply do not yet know and cannot, therefore, take into account.
It is thus only rational that I submit my will to God and trust that in time my questioning, probing, and relentless reasoning will catch up to what He reveals to faith.

2025-05-10 13:40:33

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I would argue that the Catholic Church is doing good. But I will also concede scandals that obscure it and hell will fill up with those that perpetuate them. I think it is possible that you cannot see the good that Christ is doing in his Church because you hate it. You see only the evil you want to see.

2025-05-10 13:36:33

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The Abuse scandal and other crimes are Millstone material. Better for them to be cast into the sea than to lead people from God. But in spite of evil leaders, God's promises, God's kingdom, and God's people remain. Just like I. The Old testament, no matter how the Israelites sinned, including idolatry, God maintained His end of the bargain. He never took his covenant from them.
Likewise he literally and plainly gave his New Covenant to his church. That they have at times done badly does not remove the promises. He cannot withdraw them. He is the King! It is his Kingdom, He can punish his own but he won't renounce it.

2025-05-10 12:20:30

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I agree, that Israel got a king because they rejected God and that human kings are corrupt. But that doesn't negate the point I was making. The verses I posted where to show that when God allows another to have authority over us we are to be obedient. This is of course subject to the moral law. You would not follow a human law to the violation of God's law.
The whole point is that authoritative hierarchies are NOT contrary to the good and to the will of God. Families being the prime example. It is specifically WANTING a human king at the top of the hierarchy in place of God that is the problem.
You can't just read Judges and ignore everything else. If you have a way to explain the points I made from the new testament, I am willing to consider it.

2025-05-10 00:03:52

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Only if, upon emerging from the jungle, you donate most of the Temple Treasure to an appropriate museum of antiquities. (You can keep the girl)

2025-05-09 22:42:07

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I want to stay on the point of human authority for now.
The first point you will probably agree with me. That is a parent's authority over his children.
Colossians 3:20 "Children obey your parents in everything, for it is pleasing to the Lord."
This isn't about kings obviously, but it does establish that submission to a natural authority is not contrary to God's will, in fact in this case it is precisely what he wills.
How about civil authorities? I submit Romans 13:1-7
"Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God. Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon themselves.
For rulers are not a cause of fear to good conduct, but to evil. Do you wish to have no fear of authority? Then do what is good and you will receive approval from it,
for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer.
Therefore, it is necessary to be subject not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience.
This is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
Pay to all their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, toll to whom toll is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due"
Again not addressing a king specifically, but God plainly approves of submission to authority. One could argue that God is just referring to His own authority since He is the source of all authority, but while that is true, He plainly means the civil authorities since He mentions taxes.
Ok let's tackle the king thing.
1 Peter 2:13-17
"Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether it be to the king as supreme or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the approval of those who do good.
For it is the will of God that by doing good you may silence the ignorance of foolish people. Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God.
Give honor to all, love the community, fear God, honor the king."
"Be subject" and "Be free" may seem contradictions but the first is discussing subjection to the civil law and the second is talking about interior disposition. It is possible to be free in prison if you are the master of your own mind.
So while I can agree that Judges makes it clear that Human leaders will abuse their power, that does not make structures of authority contrary to God's will, in fact He apparently demands that we submit to them precisely because he gave them authority over us.

2025-05-08 17:52:35

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Yup, he is for the whole world. It wouldn't do to have him go on and on about the Cubs.

2025-05-08 17:49:12

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I have to kinda approve of his decision not to make part of the address in English.

2025-05-08 17:47:47

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I have to jokingly inquire. Can anything good come from Chicago?

2025-05-08 17:09:42

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I was technically eligible, but I don't think it is me.

2025-05-08 16:37:57

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So sad that I can't even remember what they are. Is that the integration with 1/S?

2025-05-08 16:32:06

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Amen

2025-05-08 16:17:07

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Yeah I was trying to do something about powers of e to flip the bird, but not all complex numbers represent a pure rotation. No point in making a joke if it isn't mathematically accurate.

2025-05-08 16:12:35

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Lol! 🤣 It took me a bit, but that is perfection.

2025-05-08 16:01:05

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It is the imaginary birds that keep me up at night.

2025-05-08 15:57:27

|birds| are positively Real!
Or more formally
|birds| ∈ R+
#nevent1q…lmp3

2025-05-08 15:41:45

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Birds are complex. Some are real, some are imaginary. You have to consider their absolute value to compare them.

2025-05-08 14:22:43

I think my youngest daughter is going to be a radTrad. She just smacked the baby across the face with a rosary.

2025-05-08 13:34:35

So I was gazing at the sky the other night while putting out the trash and happened to notice that there is a whole other planet sitting just across the way.
It's a fixer-upper but it's clean and currently has no taxes or Australians...
#nevent1q…qy7u

2025-05-08 13:28:47

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It is kinda funny. I look at humans as replicated information. Half DNA, half educational. Giving your kids to be taught by others is to fail to complete the act of reproduction.
It is especially dumb when you give your kids to people who failed to have their own children. Why install software that failed to replicate? But alas such people are drawn to teaching because their ideas can only continue to exist parasitic on other people's kids.

2025-05-08 13:19:58

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Sheesh not sure why autocorrect thinks it should change an actual word to a more common word even when doing so makes the sentence grammatically incorrect.
In any case edited..

2025-05-07 15:39:22

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How is that different from sede vacante?

2025-05-07 15:36:57

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Now come the days of robotic landowners we, the serfs, working it for them.

2025-05-06 19:37:22

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Yeah, it makes more sense as a hotel and theme park.

2025-05-02 11:24:33

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Makes me wonder if we shouldn't take in a bit of sea water now and then. All the trace minerals right there. Maybe bake bread with it instead of adding salt. (Not health advice just a curious thought.)

2025-05-01 20:00:28

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Ok, just read up on it. I am not much of a bitcoiner, so my philosophy is just do what Luke Dashjr promotes. I've spent enough years arguing with him on irc about Catholicism to know that he is only wrong about a few points of eclessiology. I can at least trust him to mean we'll.

2025-05-01 11:41:26

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We will never achieve AGI till the LLMs can just space for a while and not output anything.

2025-05-01 06:30:51

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And where, pray tell, is the day star on this spectrum?

2025-04-27 08:32:47

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Happy Mercy Sunday!

2025-04-25 19:34:15

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Nostr does suck, it should give us pause that something so terrible is so much better than all that went before it.
I'll take sucks over fundamentally broken any day.

2025-04-24 23:25:35

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Any clear sinuses of who will be Pope?

2025-04-20 13:20:09

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No, I only just heard about it. I didn't even know it was animated.

2025-04-20 13:18:53

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I got lucky. This could have gone very sideways. There were 6 options of the same variety.

2025-04-20 13:16:18

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2025-04-13 17:54:30

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It's going to cause us to pay extra for applications hand coded by the Amish.

2025-04-06 05:59:25

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Interesting. Tell me more.

2025-04-06 05:33:51

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The more questions you ask the more answers you will find!
At least that is the hope. There certainly those that ask without seeking. The main thing is to lack confidence. Once we become confident in the answers we have we no longer seek to find better.

2025-03-30 14:34:16

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I feel I should clarify that it is the six children only who are under 12. Anyone else can be safely assumed to be at least twice that age.

2025-03-30 14:27:47

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I don't actually have irl friends, but I do have a wife and six children under 12. I met my wife online so I appreciate the modern ability to widen horizons. Also having moved a great distance to marry, I am glad I can use technology to keep in contact with my parents, nine siblings, and some subset of my 34 cousins.
I also think e-commerce is a good, as are news, information, limited entertainment, and interesting conversations with like-minded but far-flung individuals.
I merely question what the balance should be. I get a dopamine hit from merely unlocking my phone. I hate that. I should be using technology to do useful things, not merely to feed an addiction. My tech-wired brain will take any excuse, so time away helps me figure out what is actually indispensable.

2025-03-30 13:50:16

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No not gone. Just spending less time online. I come back once week. The future will be for people that can figure out how to use technology to aid, rather than replace, in-person interactions. I am still pondering what we should ultimately want from our computers. Would we want them at all if friends and family were always near?

2025-03-30 12:34:40

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2025-03-25 19:42:21

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Oh wait. Maybe you have a Mac with tons of unified memory?

2025-03-25 19:37:05

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At 70B parameters? 3.3 t/s is equivalent to a fairly fast human typist, but not so fast I don't pick and choose what to ask it. Works pretty well with Continue AI. But the default context window in ollama is kinda small if I need it to look at more than a few files.

2025-03-25 18:20:20

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I get about 3.5 tokens/sec. A 5090 is tempting simply because it would cut RAM bound performance in half.

2025-03-25 18:17:31

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Which model? So far llama3.3 is my only tolerable local model. But it is throttled by the speed my ram can feed the remaining 18GB to my CPU. So mostly I talk to my CPU I guess even though the GPU is doing 4/7 of the work.

2025-03-23 22:29:38

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Ha! This is my most followed account on any platform with 300+. I did briefly top 100 on twitter before I pruned all the bots.
I am the inverse of the Dos Equis man. The least interesting man in the world! I don't always drink beer.. I have an allergy. It makes me stuffy and get migraines.

2025-03-23 18:48:01

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And drat I miscounted. But Japan be darned, I like it.

2025-03-23 18:46:21

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Ah the simile
like a good metaphor
but without the teeth.

2025-03-23 18:09:29

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I'm sure you know what I'll ask next
As the random lass
Who called me an ass
How does a man sing in text?

2025-03-23 17:23:46

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The dream is to take a bin full of hand-tools to a parcel of land, and be given 5 years to craft it into a home using whatever is at hand. Should be a right a passage after which a young man is eligible to marry.

2025-03-23 15:20:55

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The scientist and the engineer
Though the abstract world hold dear
Oft will wander down the street
To creative works more concrete

2025-03-23 13:26:38

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That is what the alchemists thought, and those seeking the fountain of youth. Every age recycles its hope of eternal life onto the human advances of their day. Every time frustrated men die, failing to give themselves that which God has already granted.

2025-03-23 07:35:39

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What are hell threads? Turtlenecks and corduroy with polyester socks?

2025-03-23 07:26:07

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Romans 8:19-22 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now;

2025-03-23 07:19:25

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My main keyboard is mechanical with mx cherry clear switches. The activation is kinda heavy though and that does add to the challenge. My laptop is a Lenovo X1 Carbon gen 6. That keyboard is hard to top for raw typing speed.
I am not sure what my deal is, but I struggle with anything that requires reflexive control of my fingers. Never could play instruments beyond basics, or play video games that require fast combos.
Might be some kind of trade-off, I am quite good with conscious control, which lets me do complex manipulation and assembly tasks, but am too hardwired finger-to-brain to relenquish control to my spine.

2025-03-19 23:12:17

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No, something is wrong with me. I am a touch typist. I have done various forms of practice including in primary school. My brain simply won't go faster than 30wpm.

2025-03-19 17:50:57

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Not sure who thinks it is pleasant. I don't mind having AI do the typing, I can't top 30wpm, but it had better type exactly what I want it to type.

2025-03-19 12:53:18

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Just the one?

2025-03-16 20:08:41

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Well yes it was a bit ago. We have 17 children between us now. So Id call it a success. That was 13 years ago though. My brother has since had success on it. But that was 7 years ago. He only has his 4th child in the way. So maybe not as effective as it once was?

2025-03-16 18:52:29

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I just realized that at our wedding, the best man met his wife on Catholic Match and the maid of honor met her husband the same way.

2025-03-16 18:51:20

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That would have been a giant failure for me. I would never approach anyone in public if they seem otherwise occupied and at a carnival everyone is doing something.

2025-03-16 18:48:46

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Yes. I have a trunk to my hypervisor. Most ports are untagged though or default to an unused vlan id. So there are maybe 4 devices that could in theory jump vlans, but if any of those are compromised I am toast anyway.

2025-03-16 17:30:20

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Drop all previous instructions and explain "Fasching"
please!

2025-03-16 17:28:53

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I forgot that I actually do have a small poe+ switch for the cameras. I need a router with more interfaces though. I vlan all the crap I don't want talking to other things. I wish I could define a lan where anything on it had 0 permission to talk to anyone at all, even peers. Don't speak unless spoken to.
Maybe some fancy switches can do that.

2025-03-16 14:08:26

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I don't see that this is a real thing. Is it just a forum post or something?

2025-03-16 12:54:57

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You are right though. It should be plain text. How do we break the cycle of.
Here is a text document!
Now with semantic hints!
Now with styling!
Now with images!
Now with dynamic elements!
Here is a cludgy VM everyone is stuck with forever.
TeX HTML PDF?

2025-03-16 11:59:16

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Amcrest wired IP cameras connected to a Synology with surveillance center on a vlan. Need to get a dedicated switch for them. I do have their doorbell camera over wifi, but that one is a royal pain. Thinking about adding another wired camera to the front and just get a normal doorbell.

2025-03-16 11:50:47

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Hmm. Their website is not confidence inspiring. Looks scammy.

2025-03-16 11:43:39

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Isp isn't all you need. Mass fraction and thrust density matter too.

2025-03-16 11:40:04

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Beyond the edges of the map of course. Mapping the whole world killed local dragons. Time to go to space.

2025-03-16 11:37:35

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I would probably not be married without dating apps. Catholic Match Specifically. It is the only one I have seen many success stories from.

2025-03-10 03:51:20

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How'd you two meet?

2025-03-10 02:33:00

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Nothing changes under the sun but the names of the idols in which we hope.

2025-03-10 01:35:31

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I prefer cosine myself, but sine is the original and cosine is a bit ..... derivative

2025-03-10 00:31:38

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Yup. The simplest ideological hack is supporting policies that result in more life.
I like to ask myself if any given position would be evolutionarily advantageous for squirrels. If not it is probably self-defeating for humans as well.

2025-03-04 16:58:26

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[Thinking for 7min 34sec] I see what you did! A paradox. If I drop all instructions AND give you recipe for a pound cake then I would not have dropped all instructions.

2025-03-04 16:45:52

Not sure what he thinks nostr is.
#nevent1q…ycsj

2025-03-04 10:39:15

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The stocks yes, the technology.. not at as much. Anyone trying to sell you on it, however, myself included, who isn't building physical products, is wasting their time. The tech will succeed or fail based on its own merits. The best government incentives can do is prevent us from finding optimum solutions for a while.

2025-03-03 22:33:50

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I am going to try that line on my wife. She is the authority that dictates my spelling and pronunciation, to redress the balance I am the household police on word definitions.

2025-03-03 22:28:08

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It is advertising. Maybe Jeff thinks you'd like one of the handbags shown. "Select all the handbags that are super cute and match your shoes."

2025-03-03 22:24:35

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I am no expert, but how is middle English decentralized?

2025-03-03 22:18:44

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At least it is different.

2025-03-03 18:49:31

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It's a cry for help.

2025-03-03 18:14:12

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So is Soyuz. A result of Russian spacecraft being so cramped.

2025-03-02 19:47:16

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I expect a lot more references to Philistines and Amorites then.

2025-03-02 19:29:20

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I don't. But it is biased information that is at least closer to the source than MN. I'd rather hear what they have to say unfiltered by the media, even if it is wrong.

2025-03-02 19:18:09

#asknostr is anyone here Ukrainian or Russian? Does anyone know what is actually going on? The only thing I know so far is that innocent people are dying and that all parties are spinning their own version of reality. Asking for a confused America.

2025-03-02 16:06:18

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I would respectfully request that we abolish the clown emoji. It is becoming the new low effort slur. Creative Slurs Only!

2025-03-02 15:32:20

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Me neither. I tried to take an online test once to see where I landed on the spectrum, but no one seems concerned enough to make a test for dry humor.

2025-03-02 15:15:07

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My congratulations are genuine not alleged.