One dose of realism here: time doesn’t heal anything. The experiences you have during that time contextualize your current experience.

So if you spend years waiting for the feeling to subside to do something else, nothing will change. You have to get out there and have new experiences that help you make sense of the existing ones.

Hobbies that involve scheduled events where you interact with others help a lot.

Good point; I already live here. Some places are more expensive than others, but you can expect San Fransisco-style prices for things, not Cleveland-style prices.

Funny thing is, I often find it’s people born after 1990 who are desperate for small talk, but just often don’t know how to do it.

It’s like talking to them lifts this huge weight off their shoulders, and yet at the same time leaves them feeling weird and confused.

Just a reminder that Canada just expanded citizenship; many Americans may already be dual citizens and not even realize it.

. . . while also fighting the colonials on the other side of the war to control regional resource extraction.

My experience is that you have to do both. They reinforce each other.

Does it say why the bull came out of retirement?

I highly recommend reading Connie Willis’ The Domesday Book

Just like many people keep their cars parked outside, but the outside is protected better if it is usually stored under cover. The trick is to get a cover that doesn’t trap moisture inside.

Well, the obvious answer is: if God is so much greater than humans, how would we know? If you’re talking about the Hebrew god from the Christian Bible / Jewish Scriptures, you’re seeing the depiction of God as told through the lens of humans, who often try to be telling other humans about god using the limited vocabulary and imagery available.

God is depicted as being powerful enough that a human not being fully aligned with God but being in God’s presence would lead to annihilation, just like a human approaching the sun would be destroyed — not because the sun was angry, just because of its nature compared to ours.

On the flip side of that, for the biblical God, humans are made in God’s image, which means the species as a whole would reflect God’s character (including the bit about wanting to be the ones fully in control).

It’s the same with flats being ♭ and not b. Mostly an engraving choice.

A question can be both not stupid and not appropriate.

To be fair, the FSF is partially incorrect; a government can indeed craft their copyright laws such that OnlyOffice’s license restrictions are valid. However, to my knowledge, no government has done so to date, so the FSF is correct in practice; the extra restrictions in the repository violate international copyright laws.

In music, # denotes a sharp key or note and b denotes a flat key or note — this is Italian notation.

Traditionally in English, the # symbol was called the hash, because it looked like the end of a cooking implement used to hash vegetables (nowadays everyone would say mash instead).

In US typewriters, there was no £ symbol, so # was used to denote british pounds instead.

When the telephone button pad was created, there was room for two more symbols and tones, so the creators took the asterisk and hash from the typewriter and added them as extra signals.

When Twitter needed a way to denote a tagged word in a tweet, they decided to use the hash symbol.

Really? There’s something appealing to me about decoupling my cellular modem from my phone; I used an iPod Touch instead of a smartphone for years (with Wifi and VoIP).

At this point I have zero interest in a dedicated audio player.

And if I wanted one… my watch holds more MP3s than the original iPod did. I can just play music from my watch.

Or my graphing calculator.

Or, for that matter, my over the ear headphones which have a microSD slot.

I find that with black beans, I need to add a bit more acid/spice to gat a good balance

I knew someone who was like this; eventually they discovered lawyers, and all their relationships fell apart, including their marriage. They seemed to think that punishing someone by suing them (even if they lost — it was always their lawyers fault then) was a way of resolving their relational difficulties.

Personally, I did both — service jobs are generally part time, so you can use connections with teachers, family and friends to start up some tutoring, while also picking up shifts where you can.

I got to know the special education staff in my school district, and they connected me with kids on the spectrum who needed assistance that required someone who understood how they thought. Between the two, I made enough to get by while going to school.

I found Indeed and LinkedIn worked for keeping an eye on what was available and what people said they were looking for, but every job I’ve ever got was due to a personal connection.

Let’s play a word game. You can say “kill” and “all Christians” on TV, but put the two together and you’re likely going to be censored for inciting violence.

Words have meanings and so do sentences.

“Oh, God” when taken literally just means that you’re appealing to some more powerful being to sort out what you’ve witnessed.

“Damn it” means that you want ”it” to go to hell and stay there, with no chance for salvation.

“God damn it” means you’re calling on a specific interpretation of a deity that is associated with damning things to do so on your request.

And that’s all stuff that’s OK to say if you mean it. The blasphemy comes in when you say it without actually believing or wanting such a thing to happen, but just use the phrase as an outburst of frustration.

Kind of like shouting “bomb” in an airport. If you really believe there is one, you’re going to want to do it; otherwise, you’re going to get in a heap of trouble precisely because those in charge don’t want the word to lose its meaning in that context, because then people won’t respond properly when it’s said in earnest.

Higher learning teaches students how to think critically (or develop a very good short term memory).

But it doesn’t necessarily teach students TO think critically.

They’re taught the tools they can use, but using those tools takes effort and causes discomfort. So most people choose to use them as little as possible.

So, the main difference is: people (speaking generally) who have some post-high school education have developed the tools to approach a topic in an intelligent manner. This means that, given enough effort, you can help them understand a topic. Without that toolkit, trying to show them how something is more likely true based on evidence is often pointless. But having that toolkit isn’t going to make them automatically come to evidence-based conclusions.