This is what I tell myself every time I find out the hard way what documented parts of Visual Basic didn’t make it into VBScript.

I really don’t like how migrants are being treated like the ball in a shell game, but at long as the border is as open as it is and resources are as scarce as they are, what else can be done?

Besides, these cities have called themselves “sanctuary cities” for years. They should either own up to that title and embrace their new residents, or stop calling themselves that and start cooperating with ICE.

Either way, we need to tighten up the border. Inviting people to America and then shuffling them around indefinitely like this benefits literally nobody. That goes double with the fact that we already have millions of homeless who aren’t receiving the same level of assistance that the migrants are. That’s not an indictment of the migrants, but of the government.

I am so, so looking forward to the legal quagmire that is pretty much anything involving AI.

Canada has made MAID available to people who only have mental illnesses or addictions. The mask has slipped.

If that’s the case, then why does Canada allow people only with mental illnesses and addictions to seek out MAID? And how do you know for sure that this isn’t going to expand as a cost-cutting measure throughout any healthcare system that enables it?

It is genocide.

we created the thing

we operate the thing

we make money off the thing

but pretty please don’t hold us responsible for what the thing does 🥺

One of the worst things in my life is not knowing where my brain disorders end and where my personality begins. It feels like no matter what I do, I’m never good enough for myself.

I really miss the rear fingerprint reader on my Galaxy S8. It was so effortless to pick it up and touch the sensor at the same time whenever I wanted to use my phone. Honestly, I miss the retina scanner as well. It always worked better and faster for me than the face thing that most phones have.

Born Twice. It’s the autobiography of a Green Beret fighting in the US military’s most highly-decorated unit of all time, MACV-SOG. He read the audiobook himself, so if you go that route, it has a “Grandpa telling you stories” vibe to it, except that you’re an adult now and he doesn’t have to hold anything back anymore.

A while ago the ethical question was raised about MAID in Canada on how they’re supposed to distinguish between “genuinely ill people making good use of the service” and “depressed people who have simply lost hope and are using MAID as a more formal way to kill themselves.” As far as I know, they really can’t. Not to mention the stories of people turning to MAID as an alternative to dealing with Canada’s broken healthcare system. A healthy society doesn’t encourage its members to kill themselves.

I don’t like it because, as a person with chronic mental illness, it’s legitimizing me committing suicide rather than learning to cope with my symptoms. I already think too much about how nice it’ll be to be dead and not having to worry about dealing with my symptoms. If one day I decided that my life was no longer bearable, what’s the practical difference between me making an attempt on my own life that allegedly needs to be urgently stopped, and me going through months of paperwork and evaluations to do the same thing? If suicide is wrong, if we shouldn’t use a permanent solution for a temporary problem, then why should we turn it into a medical procedure? It feels dystopian because the medical industry, in my case, would be throwing up its hands and saying “you know what, you’re right, you’re completely broken and there’s no possible way to fix you. Let’s just kill you instead.”

Maybe the real accessibility advocacy was the friends we made along the way.

I’m glad you’re honest about what you think of me.

This was my entire camping trip because it was raining. It could have improved, but I left several days early because people were baiting bears into the campground and one nearly poked its nose into my tent at 3AM.

I am now safe at home playing solo Pathfinder 2e and STALKER GAMMA.

Jesus warned people very, very frequently against going to where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth AKA Hell. It was one of his favorite subjects.

Jesus told us not to judge others for the sins that we ourselves also commit. All the time we spend trying to decide the state of others’ souls would be far better spent taking the logs out of our eyes before yelling at others about the specks in theirs. Other people’s salvation isn’t your problem, you can’t force people to accept Jesus. (Especially after they have already died.) You can, and should, instead become a shining beacon of grace that attracts people to the faith.

Someone else mentioned whether or not Hitler is in hell. I really don’t care if he is. It isn’t my problem. Jesus saved a man who was right beside him in crucifixion moments before they died, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to hang my entire faith on the salvation of a certain person.

If you’re curious, you should read what some classical Christian writers have said about Hell. The best summary I can give is that it’s a place of such unbridled, horrifying hatred that people will tear the flesh off their bodies and throw it at other people while burning alive because they hate each other so much.

I nuke Moscow. Can’t fall out a window if there are no windows!

There is hope for everyone to get to Heaven, but by no means should we on Earth be making pronouncements on which specific people are in Hell. That’s way above our paygrade and I’m happy to keep it that way. People like this just make all Christians look stupid.

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Integrity isn’t just about doing the right thing when nobody’s watching; it’s also about being mindful of the consequences of your actions. Heck, I’d say that’s the more important side. You might start dumping chemicals into the water without treatment because it’s cheaper and there’s technically no laws against it. But you’re still going to be physically responsible when everyone who lives there starts miscarrying every single pregnancy and the town is abandoned because of your misdeeds.