So many of them. So, so many.

Maybe the only one I’ve kept perfectly intact is my belief that the golden rule is prime.

I was raised a young earth creationist, picketed abortion clinics when I was elementary school aged but don’t worry I was home schooled from kindergarten through high school. Was basically a republican/libertarian until about 2015 when my spiritual leaders, including and especially my parents, began to compromise all of their values.

More recently, probably even until 2020, I viewed myself as an aspiring centrist.

Now I’m an agnostic atheist who is seeing how far left the political spectrum goes, and I still think centrism is a nice idea, in a totally different world than the one we live in, with a totally different meaning to “center”.

Here is the thing I should disclose though, because I suspect it applies to a lot of things.

I was raised steeped in a level of bigotry that was all-encompassing but cloaked in Christian love.

I have intellectually separated myself from that bigotry, but I believe I still have instinctive/subconscious/unidentified bigotries to work through.

I am trying to be very conscious of that as I make my way in the world, trying to love my neighbor as myself, and trying to continuously expand the definition of “neighbor”.

Man I am glad I tasted fruit before I read this.

Ironically it is comments like these that led to Reddit gold. But thank you kind stranger for saving me having to descend into The Depths for this.

GOOD POINT.

It wouldn’t do to be too rude in our opposition to senseless killing. Decent people might get offended.

But, XcQ!

XcQ!

Or we were at least able to share in a mutually convincing fiction that they did.

Don’t even need to click. This is a classic, so I clicked anyway.

In other words, everyone is vulnerable to this totally new form of hazard if they use these “tools”.

It has a slightly different effect with her. At least to me it does. I don’t mean that in a creepy way but her big eyes are cute and that’s now how I’d think of Rami Malek

I have been a patron for almost a year now I guess and I never expected to see a video of this sort, probably ever again.

Incontrovertibly funny.

We know they’ve got great bootstraps.

I’ve been experiencing this dilemma a lot lately and I think we need a word for it.

“ ‘I’ before ‘e’ except after ‘C’ and when sounding like “A” as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU’LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!”

-Brian Regan

Before we build I have some notes based on the failure mode the tweet exposes.

1. Why would the vault door be built in such a way that it can be reopened? Seems like over-engineering to me
2. This thing doesn’t need to be sustainable for 10 years, it just needs to look like it will be. 10 days is more than enough for our purposes I should think

Is that real? It is quite something but it is totally out of context. I can guess where it was taken; when was it published?

This would be me if I ever moved to the suburbs in an HOA, which I would never do on purpose.

I am enraged by proxy at the very existence of HOAs even though I have never been part of one or indeed interacted with an HOA or even (knowingly) a member of one. I just hate them for existing.

Love the way Adams crafted his sentences. If there is one writer whose style itself has influenced my everyday written communication, it’s him.

If you want to be punished I can connect you with some people.

Thank you. Open Source is basically table stakes for any new investment I make moving forward.