I proposed to my wife at Christmas by putting the ring in a bigger box so she was surprised. It was a box for skincare product, and she was actually excited for it before she even opened it to see the ring. Obviously she was happy for the proposal, but she also seemed a little disappointed she didn’t get skincare stuff.

The following Christmas, I got her a tiny container of a skincare product she liked and put it in a ring box.

You leave behind a crate of these with manuals for the enemy to find when you move positions.

I didn’t wear a trenchcoat. If I told you what I did instead, I’d probably doxx myself. It was cringe.

Not OP, but also an annoying adolescent atheist. After actually giving it some thought, I realized I was contextualizing the concept all wrong. Just because most people seem to contextualize God as a Santa Claus figure (bearded man who lives above us and judges our conduct, with fitting consequences) didn’t mean I had to accept that context.

There have been many very intelligent people across history who had many interesting things to say about deity. Few of them were using the Santa Claus model.

Gosh, I wanna say I saw it at least as far back as 2010, possibly older.

I’m not opposed to ethically farmed meat. Factory farms are hellholes, but I don’t think years of free food, medicine, and security are an inherently bad trade for eventually being food yourself, assuming humane living conditions.

If these animals were ever born in the first place, they’d likely succumb to predation or disease long before they’d be slaughtered.

Bet you read that in a textbook

I didn’t realize the choice was Harris vs Biden.

Oh yeah, I didn’t know that because it isn’t true. The choice is Harris vs the guy that says Netanyahu should finish the job, criticized him purely for letting his genocidal actions make it to the media, thinks Biden is being too tough on him, and has been in constant contact as a private citizen deliberately undermining peace negotiations.

Harris losing means Bibi’s BFF wins. You’d have to be a pretty evil person with no sympathy for innocent Palestinians to want that to happen. Do you want that to happen?

I block a lot of instances because they’re specific to interests I don’t care about. I’ve blocked 2 particularly obstinate users.

I was in my university’s Society of Physics Students, and some of the members got to have dinner with NDT after a talk he gave at the school. Reports confirm he is a self-centered, arrogant douchebag

I use it for generating illustrations and NPCs for my TTRPG campaign, at which it excels. I’m not going to pay out the nose for an image that will be referenced for an hour or two.

I also use it for first drafts (resume, emails, stuff like that) as well as brainstorming and basic Google tier questions. Great jumping off point.

An iterative approach works best for me, refining results until they match what I’m looking for, then manually refining further until I’m happy with the results.

Notice the top comment compared belief in god specifically to flat earth theory, hence the structure of my response.

As to your hypothesis, I didn’t ask about brain activity, I asked about consciousness itself, the subjective experience. It’s still very much an open question.

As always

No Comfort for Musicless Films

I’d wager Grandma is symbolic of the generation to which most of those barons, mongers, and billionaires belong.

If you can find a product you actually believe in, sales can be pretty nice

Because feels > reals, obviously

Vance didnt lie about shit

Probably because he did in fact lie about many things. It probably didn’t help that he has explicitly said that just making stuff up is his strategy to win.

I suppose it’s a matter of perspective. Some would say the joy and enrichment from being alive and caring about others outweighs the sadness from loss.