If tomorrow was your last day, how would you want to spend it?

Sugars/carbs ingested during pregnancy, then plant-based chemical formulas after birth, followed by sugar and plant-based "baby foods", followed by cereal, lots of seed oils, ultraprocessed chemical-ridden carbohydrate rich foods...

And dumbasses that think a god let it happen, while ignoring the actual science around sugar, metabolism, mitochondria, and cancer.

If one assumes that we *cannot* know the truth, then I can see how the above might come across as hubris (which is a rather ironic choice of words).

But I woud respond, the assumption that we cannot know is itself an exclusive claim to absolute truth. How do you know with such absolute certainty that there is no God, or that if there was he *couldn't* communicate clearly with his own creatures? Have you lived long enough and traveled far enough to inspect every inch of what exists such that you can make an absolute proclamation about what is (or is not)? Of course not--you are finite.

The truth is that he is, and he has, so we can know. To receive this knowledge is actually humility: it was given and we accept it as such. We then actually "know our place" accurately, and occupy it humbly and with gratitude (and that is the opposite of hubris).

🤙

Explain where math came from. Or matter. Or personality, for that matter. Joy, flavor, song, a perfectly synchronized universal life support system, photosynthesis, fruit having their seeds within them, a meteorological water purification system, love, grace? All accidents?

Your question is a dodge. We live in a fallen world that suffers from sickness and decay and corruption because WE rebelled against HIM. Bone cancer exists because WE did that. Not Him. We chose this.

Then he came to save us anyway.

"Evil"? Not this God. Amazing GRACE.

Dark matter has mass so... Maybe?

I don't think I will ever give it up entirely.

But I do take 3 month breaks to enjoy the benefits.

Then eventually I get a whiff of some high quality brew and im back! lol

Psy-op or real problem?

Truenas is working great so far

We recently bought a car, and I'm very pleased with it, especially since it's a 7-seater, allowing me to transport lots of friends. However, there is one thing that bothers me a bit...

It has an inbuilt 'annoying co-pilot' that tells me what to do, advises me to be careful, and even controls the steering wheel sometimes!!!

Can you imagine?! 😲

When I get 'too close' to a car in front, a big red circle flashes up on the display saying BREAK!

The first few times I saw it, it distracted me quite a lot.

When I don't hold the steering wheel stable at all times, a little orange sign pops up, reminding me to drive in a straight line.

And when I was on the motorway and a second lane opened up to the right, which I wanted to take, the car blocked the steering wheel slightly to let me know I shouldn't leave my route.

From then on, I was very wary of how I was driving, whether any light or sign would appear to warn me, and I was getting nervous about making the car—Silver, we called her Silver—not like my driving.

Crazy, huh?! 😕

For a while, Silver was actually making me doubt my decisions, my way of driving perfectly fine (My dad taught me how to drive at the age of 12, and I have driven in Germany, Mexico, Spain, the UK, and Portugal). I was second-guessing myself until I became aware of the crazy situation:

The car is like an adult telling a child what to do, advising them to be careful, and interfering physically with the kid's actions when they think they might be in danger, even though the child is in tune with their instincts, being aware of the risks and dangers around, and making sound decisions.

A complete no-go at APTB! 😈

Having distracting signs popping up made me nervous and not focused on the road for seconds, which could have made it more likely for me to create an accident!

The same applies to adults telling kids 'be careful,' 'danger,' 'stop,' 'you're about to fall,' 'let me take over,' 'you don't know,' etc. Too much of this and not letting the child set their boundaries will lead to the kid second-guessing their decisions. Studies show that this leds more more accidents!

I've gotten used to all the flashes and signs warning me, and I can ignore them, but maybe I will ask Alex to deactivate these settings 😉

Yeah, I'll get rid of this authority that thinks it knows best because I know better... because I'm part of the real world 😏

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In fact, it's important to punish the blob's bad behavior. If you let them get away with it, the bad behavior will get worse.

Link? 👀

Kid you not, I’m watching Fox News to listen to watch they have to say. Gotta listen to all sides.

So far it’s “you’re all felons, he just happens to be convicted.”

Cool story bros.

Discipline. Habits. Consistency.

Under what condition would you enter into a business partnership where regardless of the behavior of either party, all capital and property under control of the partnership is divided equally, and the party that has more earning power will yield half their income indefinately after the partnership is dissolved under the pretense the stronger party acquired the earning skills during the relationship?

The less things you have the less things you need to worry about

Starting to think about my next laptop. My current one is a Rog Zephyrus. Powerful enough, but terrible battery life.

If I go with Qubes for my next daily driver, what laptop brand/model is going to give me the longest use per charge?

Workload will be Firefox, Visual Studio Code and little else. #asknostr

What the hell is caller ID?

All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again . . .