I switched to a home-oriented 5G system from T-Mobile. The price was decent for my area ($50/month), and most importantly, Spectrum got nothing from me.
Before that, my wife and I would use our phone hotspots for internet (Visible has plans that have unlimited throttled hotspot). The speed was capped at 5Mbit/s, but it was enough for us (and was only $25/month/phone at the time).
I’ve since moved back to Canada and am using a reseller (Oxio), which has been great so far.
I’d bring back Logsday.
Don’t be sorry! These are great questions.
One thing to note about anger: anger itself isn’t a sin. We’re told to be “slow to anger,” that is, patient. But there are things that can and should make us angry, just as Jesus was at certain points. Even killing itself isn’t strictly a sin, the ten commandments specifically condemn murder (unjust killing). Though unlike anger, I don’t think Jesus ever condoned killing anyone.
In terms of the OT fire-and-brimstone and genocide, there are a few lines of thought among Christians that I know. One line of thought is that God has the ultimate authority to destroy what he has created if he sees fit–he is the only one who has the authority to decide these things (thus when humans decide on their own to kill people, it’s not justified). The other lines of thought suggest that God himself wasn’t the one summoning fire and brimstone, but cities like Sodom wouldn’t listen to him and were destroyed because of it (this is a more liberal interpretation of the biblical accounts).
Generally speaking, since Jesus came to earth, God hasn’t resorted to directly or indirectly killing people, so I don’t see any justification for that today. But anger is still very much justified, we just need to be careful to direct it properly. Instead of directing our anger at people (who are fellow creations made in God’s image and who God wants to redeem), direct it at the brokenness and unjust systems that are the root of it all.
I’m less of a former Christian and more of a thinks-outside-the-box Christian, but I think Mat Kearney is pretty solid regardless of what you believe. Sufjan Stevens is awesome too, but a bit of an aquired taste.
My first concert was Newsboys and Supertones (Newsboys was the opener, it was pretty early for them). Saw FIF a year or two later. Saw Insyderz at a smaller event a few years after that. To this day I get to say I’ve seen the three “big” Christian ska bands live.
What a wild time. Jars is still on a regular rotation for me (Flood and Liquid are both bangers, and their Christmas album is one of my favorite holiday albums).
What other band is going to write a song about Different Strokes? FIF is still part of my regular rotation.
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Not sure if it counts as it’s not really a pet name, but when one of us is looking for the other, we make dinosaur noises. The query has an upward inflection (“raahhhh?”) and the response has a downward inflection (“rahh!”).
At first it was just around the house. Now it’s in public too.
There are some benefits (depending on where you live), but if it’s not for you, keep doing what you’re doing. If your family or friends give you pressure, you might need to have a serious talk with them at some point, but otherwise you do you.
There are some situations where there’s a significant advantage, though. Adoption is one–most agencies will consider (legally married) couples before unmarried folks. Which is unfortunate, but it’s where things are at the moment. Probably some other cases too. But if you and your partner are of a similar mind, you can go to the courthouse and sign the paperwork, and even have a prenup in place if you want, and it doesn’t have to be a “thing.”
This is what happens when you survey jackpot winners about the value of lottery tickets.
To be fair, anything that follows Gold/Silver is going to feel lackluster. Because Gold and Silver are awesome (personal favorites).
My spirit animal
It’d have to be $1 million plus arrangements to move to the EU. If it weren’t for family here, I’d probably take that.
It’s okay. My wife has ADHD and anxiety, and many many tabs. She calls them her “emotional support tabs.”
I can’t speak for the developers, but I’m certainly judging you.
What? 17 is a triangle. 33 is nice and round.
Humanity has seen crashes like this before, and worse. There’s a lot of philosophical arguments around natalism, but at the end of the day, there’s an argument to be made for having kids–even in a rough time.
All we can do at this point is try to equip our kids for the worst, and give them our best while we can. Their lives will be harder than ours in some ways, but possibly better in others. For example, kids today have such better emotional intelligence at a younger age than anyone in my generation did. They’re not perfect, but overall I’m super proud of how the newer generations are turning out. I hope to inspire my own kids by working for positive change, to eventually pass them the torch to do the same. And if I can find some value in that, I hope they can as well.
I’ve used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and Manjaro. All viable options. I’m currently using Mint on my daily driver, Ubuntu on my HTPCs, and Debian on my servers.
I liked the rolling release aspect of Manjaro, but I missed having a system that works with DEB files. I’m not a fan of flatpak/snap/appimage due to the size (I’ve often had to use slower internet connections). I settled on Mint for my daily driver because it has great and easy compatibility for my hardware (specifically an Nvidia GPU). It worked okay on Manjaro as well, but I’ve found it easier to select and switch between GPU drivers on Mint. And Cinnamon is my favorite DE, and that’s sort of “native” to Mint.
I’m using vanilla Ubuntu on my HTPCs because I have Proton VPN on them, and it’s the only setup I’ve found that doesn’t have issues with the stupid keyring thing. And Proton VPN’s app only really natively supports Ubuntu. The computers only ever use a web browser, so the distro otherwise doesn’t matter that much.
I’m using Debian on my servers because it’s the distro I’m most familiar with, especially without a GUI. Plus it’ll run until the hardware fails, maybe a little longer.