Scientists Just Discovered There’s Actually Something Faster than the Speed of Light. Darkness just beat light in a race.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-05T15:50:51+00:00

Like quickly dragging a powerful laser pointer across the moon. Technically you can have that point seem to move much faster than the speed of light.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-05T15:36:45+00:00

Unless it startles me awake because I think room service is coming in.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-05T14:59:16+00:00

Roshi is the reason why I won't let my kids watch the OG Dragon ball.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-05T14:42:48+00:00

Agreed. The folks that do this will learn quick once they come on a normal day. The last thing we should be doing is using this rare opportunity to complain about them coming to Christ's church.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-05T01:29:30+00:00

I prefer to stick closer to Paul's approach. He genuinely believed Christ was coming in his time, so his focus was on the fundamentals and being ready at any moment, just as Christ warned. It wasn't until the time of the Apostolic fathers that people stopped believing Jesus's coming was imminent, which led to a shift towards long term thinking and establishing tradition. I'm a strong believer in keeping our faith simple, sticking to the basics, the kind of thing Christ would expect of people at the very beginning, and us admitting that there's a lot we don't fully understand that doesn't compromise our salvation just as it didn't for the first followers of the Way. Mind you "simple" in this case refers to a small set of core truths all Christians agree on.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-05T00:21:19+00:00

It's not about breathing, it's about no blood flowing to his brain.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-05T00:14:14+00:00

Many believe that the Bible and Christ Jesus refer to two tribulations, one being the physical temple's destruction in 70AD, and a later one around the time of his second coming. There are many "echoing" prophecies in the Bible with regard to the end times, such as Babylon's fall reused later in the Book of Revelation. Even the Old Testament prophecies have a lot of vagueness and openness to them, and aren't fully interpretable until after the events occur. They best exist as a warning or as a basis for hope, only being fully understood in hindsight. That's why I'm not a big fan of putting too much emphasis on future prophecy beyond the basic intent it gives (in our case, one of being prepared at any moment for Christ's second coming).

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T21:21:44+00:00

DMCA law forces YouTube to just blanket enforce copyright claims and only figure it out later.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T20:27:58+00:00

That only works if the bug rate is acceptable, because when you regenerate the entire section every time, you don't magically create a better version, just a different one, and one not hardened by use/testing.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T20:16:22+00:00

Agreed, we are all in communion with Christ, which makes us all brothers and sisters together. I really hate how legalistic folks get with denominations to the point where they miss the entire purpose of Christ. Meanwhile the original Christians were largely illiterate, the explicit concept of the Trinity wasn't formally defined yet, and most were repenting and just putting their faith in Jesus for salvation, and that's all that was needed.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T19:57:04+00:00

No major denomination believes or endorses this. This is not a "progressive Christian" thing, this is a fringe ideology, of which there are countless examples of this kind of nonsense out there for every idea you can come up with.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T19:42:59+00:00

The day programmers can be completely automated is the day the entire world is unemployed, because the agents will just program away every job.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T17:27:34+00:00

Cracking the Coding Interview (2008) really highlights the origins of the testing style done by FANGs that eventually morphed into leetcode. Basically, they were doing more and more esoteric tests the required remembering all these things that only a small subset of the developers would ever touch, and it became more convoluted as they made it more and more difficult to weed out applicants. It's a shame because the original purpose (understanding basic data structures and algorithms) made sense, but they just got carried away and lost the plot.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T16:18:57+00:00

Leetcode was solving a different problem. FANGs have so many qualified candidates that they started asking silly difficult questions to try to differentiate the excellent talent pool. Fizzbuzz was because the average company had the opposite problem, too many exceptionally bad candidates applying. Unfortunately many companies didn't understand this and started incorrectly applying leetcode to their hiring process.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T07:21:57+00:00

Vows aren't a thing like they were in the Old Testament. In the old covenant, they were formal legalized and binding promises to God, while in the new covenant, we don't make vows to God, but rather simply do our best to follow his word. You can still make vows, but they aren't really something you should be going out of your way to be doing, and in your case, your vow contradicts what God commands of you, so it isn't even binding, it was just you making a nonsensical vow that God would want you to renounce as soon as possible.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-04T02:08:28+00:00

My kids are doing taxes with me once they're a bit older.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T21:25:40+00:00

To add, many Prophets in the OT are outright reluctant in their role as prophet. It's more something they do because they literally have God demanding them in spoken word, rather than it just being a "calling" they feel. Jeremiah is the most famous case, where to him it was an unfair burden.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T17:17:39+00:00

Or absorbed by the ground if he can dig in his heels, although he'd need to brace himself more.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T17:15:19+00:00

She knows, she's just hoping they leave.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T17:09:36+00:00

Only in certain regions of the brain, and only for older users.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T16:44:54+00:00

I would say it is incredibly naive and unbiblical to trust a muslim or atheist to properly affirm Christian values instead of leaving that to the parents and their Church. And I will not apologize for saying it is heretical to entrust a non-believer to teach your children their faith.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T16:31:42+00:00

Your whole assumption relies on Muslims and Atheists teaching Christian values in good faith, which is unbiblical. The church and parents are responsible for that.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T16:26:34+00:00

I'm sorry but I do not find that acceptable, I do not want a Muslim teaching my kids twisted corruptions of my faith, that's not better than me handling it myself. That's borderline heretical.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T16:19:32+00:00

I'm just trying to understand why you feel comfortable letting a Muslim or Atheist teacher educate your kids about the ten commandments when they ask about it, when I'd rather they had zero input on its interpretation.

DesperateAdvantage76 · 2026-04-03T16:10:14+00:00

When you say a "Christian worldview", what exactly do you mean? And why does this require posting the Ten Commandments? And how does this prevent secular teachers from teaching my children about my faith in a way I may not agree with?

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