On the other hand, discord is a great way to help organize a community wiki.

When you are trying to build a community

…Don’t use community software, got it.

Been waiting to get my rocks off for 24 years

All my Mumen Rider merch.

Because it appeals to furries.

If consciousness was supernatural (above or outside the natural world) then brain damage would not affect consciousness.

You’re doing a great job of consciously rationalizing this.

Consciousness fits most definitions of supernatural and it’s a profoundly human mistake to try to externalize it.

Same.

Don’t go to college.

Ah yeah, just withdraw all the liquidity that is most certainly there…

You have just demonstrated more faith in neolib pretendy dollaridos than I have or will never have.

I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I do not trust things in my phone to stay private.

How does pizza feel about me?

This is some hobbit-level shit.

It’s like having different email providers.

They will all send and receive email, although some might try to cut down on spam by blocking email from other specific providers.

Also, certain providers will host different email newsgroups (ie communities, ie “subreddits”)

Tom represents the incomplete knowledge of mankind and our pre-modern inability to firmly grasp the natural world we live in (and to some extent our continued struggle).

The fantasy world of Middle-Earth is in most ways supernatural to our own. So how much more incomplete would our understanding and knowledge of it been?

Tolkien was a professor of language and mythology and steeped in the ancient epics of the Anglo-saxons and Norse cultures. His career was putting together what these people knew and how they saw the world, but also what they couldn’t understand and how they explained their ignorance.

Others here are hinting at what Tom is, but not why he is. He’s a manifestation of ignorance. That’s why pinning him down is so tricky. It’s like pointing at a shadow with a flashlight.

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Depending on the type of work you are doing, you could be losing fat while gaining both muscle and bone density.

If you were mostly untrained/inactive before starting this job, you’ve most certainly grown/densified a lot of bone.

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I managed pizza places for way too long. Pre-pandemic my gold standard was:

$5 or 10%–whichever is more. Always cash.

But, I don’t work in that industry anymore and I don’t order delivery anymore.

Either way, it’s not table service (where I tip 20%), so a straight percentage doesn’t make sense, but also that percentage can be lower IMO. Also, the delivery aps and some chains really fuck with drivers tips, so I always tip cash.