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Spez talks to NY Times

Well there's the problem

Reddit, which is based in San Francisco, has in recent years tried to turn from a rough-and-tumble internet message board into a full-fledged social media business by adding executives and strengthening its advertising capabilities.

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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x01 "The Broken Circle"

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Reminds me of a character in The Expanse who gets illegal hormone gland implants that can be activated for a burst of heightened awareness. The drawback is twofold. When the activation wears off the user experiences debilitating nausea for several minutes. Over the long term the illegal part comes into play because you know those things aren't rated for health and safety. This character requires regular blood transfusions/dialysis due to toxin buildup from shoddy workmanship.

Anyway, that's an entire tangent. I'm excited to see if there are interesting complications from a doctor who's strapped with combat drugs of questionable ethics.

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Let's leave [proprietary] Discord too

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The part about it being unforgivable sounds extreme. How can there be "consequences" for simply temporarily opting out of a chat app?

Losing touch with friends for a while definitely sucks but if you need a break from literally an app then real friends will accept that.

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How important is love to Christianity?

Is love simply one of the attributes of God, one of the more important attributes of God, or is it the entirety of who God is?

All attributes are equally important, you cannot remove one and have the same God.

Is love equal in importance to faith or is it subordinate to it?

For me understanding the difference is about (trying and failing) to understand the nature of God an what it means to be sanctified and become more like Him. God embodies love perfectly in everything He does. I don't actually know if Faith is technically an attribute of God but I would imagine it's a similar situation, that whatever we do that we call faith is also perfectly embodied by God.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that we have our paltry version of Love that we can pantomime without being saved then by grace through faith we begin to be sanctified and better able to Love.

Do we truly need to love our enemies or was Jesus using hyperbole?

Not hyperbole. Not sarcasm. He did not say "What are we to do? Love our enemies?! lol jk". He said to love our enemies.

Do you think some Christians put too much emphasis on love or do you think they don’t put nearly enough emphasis on it?

You can easily find both extremes, of cage stage or legalist attitudes that present Love as being of lesser priority than rote doctrine, and attitudes that lose sight of a real doctrine of Love in favor of a shallow "feel good" theology. As a fallen human I find myself swinging like a pendulum between the two from day to day.

Someone that is of eternal fascination to me is the unenumerable completeness of God's love. That all thing He does/has done was/is/will be perfectly loving to all people in all places at all times. You hear common wisdom that it's loving to always/never/sometimes do one particular thing to others but that wisdom is always from such a tiny temporal perspective. If we had eternal perspective we could truly love by making all of our actions perfectly loving but we don't so we can't. We can only pantomime bits and snippets and cave shadows.

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[LTR] Long List of the Ents rules question

Note that the rules text doesn't say "noted for ANY Long List of the Ents" it just says "Long List of the Ents". A strict interpretation of the English concludes that each instance of the cards has its own "list:.

This interpretation is supported by the Comprehensive rules as well. See here:

201.5. Text that refers to the object it's on by name means just that particular object and not any other objects with that name, regardless of any name changes caused by game effects.

This is how cards normally function in Magic. See an exception that proves the rule: Cylian Sunsinger

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What's your favorite alternate launcher?

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Seconding Smart Launcher. Automatic categorization beats pretty much every other feature I can think of in a launcher.

I try to treat my devices as commitments as far as spending but disposable as far as usage habits and not having invent my own categories helps me just USE my phone instead of playing with it.