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  1. Comment on The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach in ~health.mental

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    Plausible, though the descriptions of distant relationships with a variety of different coworkers from different jobs makes me think a comment about the distance from the spouse would have also...

    Plausible, though the descriptions of distant relationships with a variety of different coworkers from different jobs makes me think a comment about the distance from the spouse would have also been mentioned. I say jarring because it took me out every time, almost like tacked on information that wound up making me feel like I needed to go back and reread something I missed.

    2 votes
  2. Comment on The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach in ~health.mental

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    The three or four times something related to a spouse came up (said something about getting married halfway-ish through, then mentioned in-laws a couple times) were jarring to me in that the...

    The three or four times something related to a spouse came up (said something about getting married halfway-ish through, then mentioned in-laws a couple times) were jarring to me in that the narrator never speaks to, makes decisions with, or lives in any way that makes me think they actually have a spouse. It was almost like the spouse was only there to provide health insurance after quitting.

    9 votes
  3. Comment on Have you altered the way you write to avoid being perceived as AI? in ~tech

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    That makes sense. I don't frequent Reddit enough anymore to bother with it, but I'll keep that in my pocket for next time I'm over there.

    That makes sense. I don't frequent Reddit enough anymore to bother with it, but I'll keep that in my pocket for next time I'm over there.

    3 votes
  4. Comment on Have you altered the way you write to avoid being perceived as AI? in ~tech

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    I work on staff at a university, and some of my co-workers that teach adjunct, as well as my wife who is on faculty, frequently show me things they think are AI generated from students. Some...

    I work on staff at a university, and some of my co-workers that teach adjunct, as well as my wife who is on faculty, frequently show me things they think are AI generated from students. Some things do seem sort of obvious, but we have plenty of international students and I also don't trust the general state of US education, so it's always hard for me to be like - yeah, absolutely. That's also how I feel about a set of comments the other day about Reddit bots - how are you actually sure.

    One of the ways they are trying to "combat" AI in writing assignments is with Google Docs you share with the professor so they can check the edit history. If it all appeared at once, AI. If it appears line by line over time, you wrote it or, at least, you typed what AI was saying and maybe at least gained some insight.

    Personally, I haven't changed how I write, but I also don't find AI all that useful for the (rare) things I am writing.

    12 votes
  5. Comment on US voters were right about the economy. The data was wrong. in ~finance

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    Was coming to post this if someone hadn’t! I appreciate you highlighting some of the points because I’m way too lazy to do it!

    Was coming to post this if someone hadn’t! I appreciate you highlighting some of the points because I’m way too lazy to do it!

    4 votes
  6. Comment on Recent Star Trek literature reading order flow chart in ~books

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    I’ve been really enjoying some of IDW’s canon-ish comics on Hoopla. They are doing a few ongoing series set after Voyager and before Picard with some fun teams mixing up crews from TOS, TNG, DS9,...

    I’ve been really enjoying some of IDW’s canon-ish comics on Hoopla. They are doing a few ongoing series set after Voyager and before Picard with some fun teams mixing up crews from TOS, TNG, DS9, and VOY. Only a couple years in, so it’s really not that much to catch up on.

    I’ve never tried any of the novels, though. The chart does seem super overwhelming!

    1 vote
  7. Comment on US Supreme Court unanimously backs law banning TikTok if it’s not sold by its Chinese parent company in ~tech

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    I just assumed the bipartisan support came from the money that I assume US Social Media companies are throwing at politicians.

    I just assumed the bipartisan support came from the money that I assume US Social Media companies are throwing at politicians.

    11 votes
  8. Comment on An update from Nintendo (Nintendo Switch 2 announcement) in ~games

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    For me, it's always come down to the first party games. I'm a sucker for Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, and really just about anything Nintendo puts out. If those don't appeal as much...

    For me, it's always come down to the first party games. I'm a sucker for Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, and really just about anything Nintendo puts out. If those don't appeal as much to you, sticking with a more powerful system could be better. Alternatively, a lot of the indie stuff (and a lot of the AAA stuff) on Switch is also on Steamdeck, so you could consider that if a handheld is appealing. For my money, though, I never grew out of bright and colorful cartoon characters.

    5 votes
  9. Comment on An update from Nintendo (Nintendo Switch 2 announcement) in ~games

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    In my heart of hearts, I was hoping for Swiitch

    In my heart of hearts, I was hoping for Swiitch

    14 votes
  10. Comment on An update from Nintendo (Nintendo Switch 2 announcement) in ~games

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    I didn't notice at first, but Nintendo Life pointed out 24 starting spots and what looks like a wider track. Should be fun!

    I didn't notice at first, but Nintendo Life pointed out 24 starting spots and what looks like a wider track. Should be fun!

    2 votes
  11. Comment on An update from Nintendo (Nintendo Switch 2 announcement) in ~games

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    That's definitely my biggest "gripe." I think the giant 2 next to the Joy-Cons looks lame. Was hoping for the Nintendo Super Switch, but I suppose 2 communicates things most clearly. Oh well.

    That's definitely my biggest "gripe." I think the giant 2 next to the Joy-Cons looks lame. Was hoping for the Nintendo Super Switch, but I suppose 2 communicates things most clearly. Oh well.

    4 votes
  12. Comment on What are your favourite TV shows of all time? in ~tv

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    Length of commitment to rewatch. Attention commitment, too. Not enough humor. I tend to only rewatch stuff 1) with my kids or 2) that can be in the background. Otherwise I’m mostly a one and done...

    Length of commitment to rewatch. Attention commitment, too. Not enough humor. I tend to only rewatch stuff 1) with my kids or 2) that can be in the background. Otherwise I’m mostly a one and done kinda guy.

    1 vote
  13. Comment on What are your favourite TV shows of all time? in ~tv

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    Favorites I Rewatch Community (the GOAT) New Girl Psych Futurama (less than I used to) Favorites I Will Eventually Rewatch Avatar: The Last Airbender DuckTales (2017) Gravity Falls Pushing Daisies...

    Favorites I Rewatch

    • Community (the GOAT)
    • New Girl
    • Psych
    • Futurama (less than I used to)

    Favorites I Will Eventually Rewatch

    • Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • DuckTales (2017)
    • Gravity Falls
    • Pushing Daisies
    • Star Trek: Lower Decks (I know it just ended, but man did I enjoy it)

    Favorites I Enjoyed but Will Likely Never Rewatch for a Variety of Reasons

    • Fringe
    • Chuck

    Probably forgetting stuff, but I should get out of bed now.

    10 votes
  14. Comment on All main Disney animated canon films are going to be destroyed and you can save five, which five do you pick? in ~movies

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    Wow - that’s a tough one! I’ll stick with the theme of in no particular order. Aladdin - Such a fun movie! It’s also smuggling in a copy of Aladdin and the Forty Thieves… can’t leave any Robin...

    Wow - that’s a tough one! I’ll stick with the theme of in no particular order.

    • Aladdin - Such a fun movie! It’s also smuggling in a copy of Aladdin and the Forty Thieves… can’t leave any Robin Williams magic on the floor.
    • Atlantis - I think this one really ignited my imagination in ways very few Disney movies ever have before or since.
    • Tangled - easily my favorite Disney Princess movie; partly because of how it subverts some tropes, partly because it reminds me of dating my wife, partly because it’s just a great movie
    • Beauty & the Beast - then again, this is also a phenomenal Disney Princess movie; I’ve come to appreciate the story more and more as I’ve gotten older. Also, the opening music during the Enchantress part may be my favorite of all Disney instrumental music
    • Encanto - I know I should be picking something older, but man did Encanto hit all the right notes. I nearly forgot about it and had to edit this post to add it in. The sequence around Dos Oruguitas is phenomenal.

    Movies that almost made it:

    • Big Hero 6
    • Wreck It Ralph
    • Sleeping Beauty
    • Robin Hood
    • Alice in Wonderland
    • Moana
    • Pinocchio
    5 votes
  15. Comment on ‘Hedgehog’ still has upper claw over ‘Mufasa’ with $62m+ in pre-Christmas frame as ‘Lion King’ prequel loses crown in ~movies

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    The show was great, and the best part was after it ended, it was capped off with Aladdin and the Forty Thieves with Robin Williams back as the Genie.

    The show was great, and the best part was after it ended, it was capped off with Aladdin and the Forty Thieves with Robin Williams back as the Genie.

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  16. Comment on Why I am pursuing a life, professionally and personally, of Christian Virtue in ~humanities

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    I think based on the ellipse and the parent post (if I lined them up right), that statement is tongue in cheek. We also make jokes like that frequently in my circles due to the, I guess, silliness...

    I think based on the ellipse and the parent post (if I lined them up right), that statement is tongue in cheek. We also make jokes like that frequently in my circles due to the, I guess, silliness of people (and whole congregations) literally believing that the KJV is the only true version of the Bible. Which is obviously ridiculous to us who know translation history and the simple fact that, you know, the Bible wasn’t originally written in English.

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  17. Comment on Why I am pursuing a life, professionally and personally, of Christian Virtue in ~humanities

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    As a now-former Christian minister (still absolutely a believer - we moved for my wife’s career, and I’m more in an admin role now… I was also ready to be done, but that’s a longer thing), I agree...

    As a now-former Christian minister (still absolutely a believer - we moved for my wife’s career, and I’m more in an admin role now… I was also ready to be done, but that’s a longer thing), I agree that I would not want that.

    If something like that is really desired, I’d almost want to frame it more like a book club, maybe in like a monthly thread where the sermons (or other types of writing) are top level comments that get discussed and picked apart.

    But yeah, it’s either got to be one voice of many, no voices at all, or somehow not framed in a proselytizing way.

    14 votes
  18. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I finally finished Tears of the Kingdom two hours ago! Rewind to launch day. I’d had a Switch lite during covid, but got rid of it for some reason I forget after I finished Breath of the Wild. I...

    I finally finished Tears of the Kingdom two hours ago!

    Rewind to launch day. I’d had a Switch lite during covid, but got rid of it for some reason I forget after I finished Breath of the Wild. I was excited about TotK, and watched a compilation of the cutscenes someone had recorded on that PC leak starting the night before the game came out.

    I was in the last cutscene after the final boss the next morning. My awesome wife walks in with a new OLED Switch for my birthday! We hadn’t been talking about it or anything - she didn’t even know it was TotK day.

    Anyway, since I’d watched the cutscenes, I took a couple months to even buy TotK, then took my sweet time playing. Dropped out a couple times because I wasn’t feeling it, but finally picked up momentum last month. Lost to the final boss on Monday night, stocked up on more sundelion and extra heart meals on Tuesday night, and cut it close, but good enough, to finally finish tonight!

  19. Comment on What’s your “I didn’t know I needed that” item? in ~life

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    You took apart the big Millennium Falcon AND rebagged it? Holy cow - I barely had the patience to take apart my little 3-in-1 Creator sets to rebuild them.

    You took apart the big Millennium Falcon AND rebagged it? Holy cow - I barely had the patience to take apart my little 3-in-1 Creator sets to rebuild them.

    11 votes
  20. Comment on Are we all capable of being slaveowners or nazis? in ~humanities

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    After very recently listening to a Bible Project podcast episode that nuances “do not judge,” I feel I’d be remiss to point out that there is a call to point out sin within the church. In the...

    After very recently listening to a Bible Project podcast episode that nuances “do not judge,” I feel I’d be remiss to point out that there is a call to point out sin within the church. In the context of this larger discussion, I do feel a call and command to make certain types of communal judgements exclusively among the church, but not extending outside.

    Matthew 18:15-20 (NIV)

    15 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

    18 “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

    19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

    7 votes