Because in order for their belief system to be passed down though generations, they had to make suicide a sin. Otherwise they would actually kill themselves to get to Heaven more quickly.

I have known Evangelicals who refused medical treatment because they were “ready to be with Jesus.”

It saw me through five years of math classes. I think I ultimately stored it improperly and something heavy broke the display.

It deserved better.

I had a similar situation. My dad signed away all rights (and obligations) when I was 2 and left the country shortly thereafter.

I found him when I was in my late 30s.

At least he had the good grace to be apologetic and remorseful about his youthful decision-making.

I’m sorry yours seems to be such a waste of space.

Champion of the dumb (aah-aah-aah)

He’s a master of surveillance and AI for everyone.

When I started reading the post, I honestly expected it to end with …“and that’s why the Mormons are right about Eden being in Missouri.”

I wonder how the percentages for marijuana have changed and whether they make up the difference.

If I can only choose one:

And when the broken-hearted people
Living in the world agree
There will be an answer
Let it be

For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer
Let it be

The Beatles, “Let It Be”

When I have to make choices like this, I really feel like Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio had it right in “Blue Carolina”:

You know all my favorite singers
Have stolen all of my best lines

I just spent the summer playing all of the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS Castlevania games. The series had its ups and downs, but the games are still fun. I think the DS titles still hold up very well.

It turns out that operating industrial production equipment while distracted is a huge safety liability.

Alkaline Quartet

L.S. Mountains

Circa Thrive

Soundfarm

Her Grace Gaga

Isn’t that exactly what Donald Trump did with his electronic trading cards or whatever they were supposed to be?

I live in Colombia, and digital menus via QR code have become pretty normal here. They save on printing costs and allow for frequent updates.

But there are still servers to take your order. Ordering through your phone while you’re actually in the restaurant is very rare.

I switched to Mint a year ago. I’m a fairly savvy user, but I’m far from having any kind of computer science credentials.

I find the general update process in Mint to be much easier, more intuitive, and less intrusive than Windows.

There’s a bit of a learning curve to using the command line, but software installation in Mint has been a breeze compared to Windows.

Not really.

We’ve checked six standard dictionaries and all of them list “extrovert” as the principal spelling for someone with an outgoing or gregarious personality, though five include “extravert” as an acceptable variant.

• per Grammarphobia

Extravert, on the other hand, is another way of saying extrovert that was originally used by Carl Jung. […] it appears the most common and proper way to use the term outside of technical journals is with the “o,” though who knows; maybe this will develop into an Oxford comma situation.

• per Writer’s Digest

extravert noun /ˈekstrəvɜːt/ /ˈekstrəvɜːrt/ (also more frequent extrovert)

Per Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries

Of the seven indoor cats I’ve had, only two weren’t interested in playing fetch.

Then again, they were very stereotypical orange tabbies, so maybe they just weren’t smart enough to figure it out.

Sex Ed varies by state and sometimes by school district. In elementary school, it’s frequently limited to “good touch, bad touch”-type lessons.

It’s not uncommon for parents to need to “opt in” for their kids to be included in the lessons at all ages. Basically, they have to approve of letting their kids learn about sexual health.

Maybe don’t ask LLMs for translation help. Apparently because many of them are programmed in English, they still follow English structures when writing in other languages, resulting in products that are grammatically incorrect.

We have gone from reasonably-okay translation programs to “intelligent” systems that are flat-out incorrect. And somehow people believe that the incorrect ones are better.

I look forward to this particular hype train running off the rails sooner rather than later.

That sounds more like the job of an editor than the job of a writer.

When I was an editor, my job was to assign stories to writers and then to work with the editorial team to revise and refine their output into an end product that the publication could stand behind.

Your process sounds a lot like that.

My husband was recently trying to find an exact quote from Richard Pryor’s character in Lost Highway, so he Googled it.

Google’s AI overview said that Richard Pryor was not in Lost Highway and instead gave some suggestions for other films we might be thinking of.

The quote he was trying to remember was, “There’s nine people down here, and you can ask seven of them. If you can get that price from one of them, I’ll let you ask the other two.”

I feel simultaneously seen and called out.