I think what you need is Britt Hartley and her book No Nonsense Spirituality. She understands the common elements of different religions that are important to us psychologically, and explains how to bring them into your life without the need for faith in a particular deity.

That’s the drawback when “everything’s computer” in a Tesler

The irony of the Reddit ad banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy

When the pot hits just right

I know nothing about pizzacake but this particular comic strip is good

4-hour planning? I wish. Try 16-hour planning.

And also, a meeting to plan for the planning meeting.

Human eyes are way better at this than any camera based self driving system. No self driving system is anywhere close to driving in Swedish winter with bad weather and no sun, yet us Swedes do it routinely by the millions every day.

Also riptides will pull you out, small venomous fish will crawl up your urinary tract, volcanic gases will take away buoyancy from the water so you will sink (plus the poisonous gas will kill you). Oh, and the sun will give you cancer. That is, if you don’t get bitten by a spider or snake in your hotel room before you even get to the waterline.

Btw did I mention that basically the entire population is descended from criminals who were sent there as punishment?

Slack successfully made Microsoft stop bundling Teams in Microsoft Office through an anti-competition complaint. I’m surprised Google lets them get away with abusing the Windows product as a platform for promoting a search engine. My best guess for why they don’t is that the promotion isn’t working.

Doesn’t it still mean virgin? If not what does it mean? Non-native speaker here.

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- SWEAR TO ME. SWEAR TO ME THAT EVERYTHING YOU SAID TO ME ABOUT THE FIREFLIES WAS TRUE.

- I SWEAR.

I realize you are concerned about safety, but nearly everybody in the world does fine on their own without the help of a partner to rescue them from cutting their fingers off. If you don’t trust your partner to navigate some risk you are infantilizing him and undermining his feeling that you trust him. It can cause long-term damage to your relationship.

If you need to guide him, try to give praise when he does things right. It will likely be more effective and less damaging.

As someone who has been on the other end of this: He’s not three years old. He has lived a long time without slicing his fingers off. Give him space for his own trial and error. It’s quite possible that you don’t know the best way to do every thing, and you might even learn something new. We learn by experimenting.

I ended up feeling that my SO had no trust in me and that there was no freedom to do anything my way, which took all the fun out of it. I’m divorced and hate cooking now.

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They will definitely still have the problem.

Rymdväktaren (“The Space Guardian”) and Nyaga, a duology by late Swedish author Peter Nilson. He was a prominent doctor of astronomy at the University of Uppsala, and a board member of the International Astronomical Union. But he also released many works of poetry.

The books are pretty fantastical and have a lot of speculative ideas but you can tell they are grounded in a solid understanding of physics and cosmology, with a big chunk of interesting philosophy thrown in. A lot of mind boggling stuff happens. For example the protagonists try to build a quantum computer that simulates the universe and end up creating an actual universe, which causes some weird effects on physical constants of our universe.

The main theme is how information is encoded in physical events and whether it can be preserved past the end of our universe. It’s been a long time since I read them but at the time I enjoyed them immensely. Unfortunately no English translation seems to be available.

Alan Watts’s backwards law:

The more you try to grab a hold of something, the more it slips through your fingers. Trying to become happy makes you miserable because pursuing it only reinforces the fact that you’re not there yet. The more you try to be wealthy, the poorer you will feel regardless of how much money you actually have. The more you try to control your feelings and the things around you, the more anxiety you will accumulate. Love flows to those who stop running after it and feel OK with where they are right now. Trying to make others love you will only distance them.

Suffering is the gap between where you are now and and what you desire. Let go, accept and enjoy where you are right now. Change is constant, but if you’re always chasing some other state than you’re already in you will never be fulfilled.

No, I played the original Riven on Windows 2000. This looks much worse. For example the embedded videos aren’t aligned properly and they clearly have different color correction so they pop out from the rest of the static images. And, I could be wrong but it just seems much more pixelated or lower color fidelity. I realize having a better quality monitor and higher resolution might explain some of that, but regardless of the technical explanation the user experience becomes worse than playing on contemporary equipment. They should have used a better upscaling algorithm. There were other issues too that I can’t recall at this moment. Just the fact that you get the geek-oriented ScummVM interface in your face when you buy a game is kind of jarring.

Not everybody is up to date with what happens to every employee at LTT. I had no idea she now went by Emily.