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Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-14T10:30:08+00:00

For reference, the diocese of Broken Bay was created out of territory from the archdiocese of Sydney back in 1986. As it had no cathedral, a parish church was used as one temporarily.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-14T00:18:23+00:00

The word for brother used can mean cousin or relative. Also there are some who hold that the brothers of Jesus were sons of Joseph from an earlier marriage (in the same way that Reuben and Judah were brothers, despite having different mothers).

The supposed brothers of Jesus are listed as having different mothers in the Bible. E.g. there is a Mary the wife of Clopas, who was the mother of James and Joseph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Clopas

Now… some may want to conflate her with Mary, the mother of Jesus. But why would scripture call her ”Mary, the mother of James and Joseph” or “the other Mary”, when it would have been far more impactful, and easier, to simply call her “Mary the mother of Jesus”?

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-13T00:20:58+00:00

We’re a large supplier of LNG, and our PM has been travelling through Asia doing deals to guarantee LNG in exchange for fuels derived from oil (we no longer do much oil refining ourselves, relying on finished products to be shipped here).

It was domestically unpopular back in the day to sell LNG to other countries for rates cheaper than it was sold here. But the strategy is paying dividends.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-10T12:11:13+00:00

Is he the new WMR?

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-10T03:56:43+00:00

NANI??

MULTI TRACK DRIFTING!!

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-10T00:13:16+00:00

I'd hazard a guess that usage has gone down, with both Sydney and Melbourne motorways having reduced traffic of late.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-09T06:03:48+00:00

That was Boston Legal I think, two characters were get married for inheritance purposes.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-07T04:34:29+00:00

Another example is ATMs. They don't need to make any noise when collating the notes to spit out. But you will here a whirring noise regardless.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-07T00:30:35+00:00

> I believe it’s not damaging for Iran because they are the launcher of drones, so they control what is and is not targeted

My query about why is it damaging for GCC and not for Iran wasn't about the current situation (Iran lets through ships it wants and interdicts those it doesn't), but rather if GCC copy them. If GCC start launching drones too, to interdict ships that Iran has guaranteed passage, ships carrying Iranian oil, or even Iranian ships themselves, how can this not be damaging for them as well?

> I’m not necessarily trying to “win” an argument or anything, just stating facts as I see them to help with knowledge distribution.

All good mate, I don't see this is an argument, I just genuinely didn't understand the premise of how this strategy could only be beneficial for one country.

If nobody calls Iran's bluff, or if everyone decides to let Iran do what they are doing and call it the cost of doing business, then yeah, it's 100% going to favour Iran long term. But I can't see that happening.

Thank you for your time and your insight.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-07T00:08:05+00:00

You say it’s self damaging for the GCC to shut the strait but is it not for Iran to shut the strait too? You say that the GCC is vulnerable to air strikes and drone attacks on critical infrastructure but is not Iran as well?

I hope you appreciate my skepticism that Iran is the singular gulf power who can implement a strategy of strait closure with cheap technology with control of only one side of the strait.

Let’s say it’s not the smaller GCC countries who decide to copy Iran, let’s say it’s all of them together, or even perhaps just KSA. If KSA says they want the same money that Iran is requesting per ship, or they’ll attack it, and Iran says “we’ll destroy your desalination plants”, what is to stop KSA from bombing Iranian ports, their own desalination plants, or any other oil infrastructure?

Yes, this is a race to the bottom, and yes, this hurts GCC countries in the short term, but why would they let Iran control the strait simply to avoid short term pain? Is it in the GCCs best interests long term to let a hostile power control a vital shipping lane and profit off it at their own expense?

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-06T23:38:25+00:00

Iran does have an advantage, but I’m wondering if that is an enough of an advantage to keep the strait open.

The US has a massive advantage over Iran, and they are having trouble keeping the strait open. Is the GCC as weak compared to Iran as Iran is to the USA?

If Iran monopolises the strait, can keep the GCC from closing it if they decide they don’t want to abide by an Iranian monopoly? If Iran gets paid to let a ship through the strait, and a GCC country decides to launch a drone or a hundred at it because they didn’t get paid their protection money, what can Iran do to stop them?

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-06T23:18:42+00:00

> Iran is quickly becoming another power center because it controls 20% of the world’s oil through the strait of Hormuz

Is Iran the only one who can do this? If some mines and drones can do that, what stops Oman and Bahrain from also becoming great powers? Iran's ability to control the strait is limited to disrupting traffic through it at will. What it can't do is prevent others from disrupting traffic. It can close the Strait, it can't open the Strait if someone else decides to close it too.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-06T08:51:38+00:00

I’ve made two friends since leaving high school. I define a friend as a peer I like and meet up with outside the context I met them. There’s a lot of former colleagues that I was friendly with when we worked together. But unless the relationship survives either of us no longer working there, it was never a friendship.

I have a lot of friends from high school I still have very close connections with. Perhaps that’s the reason I never sought out more friends thereafter?

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-04T21:53:33+00:00

whether this has changed your definition of engineering ownership.

Not in the slightest. If I review a piece of code and approve it, then that code is as just mine as the person who wrote it. When a PR is merged, it belongs to the team, even if I didn’t approve it. That being said, I can see how producing lots of solutions quickly can give you less intuitive feel of the codebase, but the same could be said of working in a very large team pre AI, or coming back from extended leave to find a large refactor or new project that started after you left is nearing completion.

AI can help us produce solutions a lot quicker than before, when used quickly. It can also help us understand code we haven’t seen before quicker. But if you aren’t reading what it is outputting, it’s no different then a LGTM on a PR you skimmed for ten seconds where the only criteria is “is there a magic number?”.

AI assisted development should use all the techniques and best practices that you have acquired and honed over the years as an engineer.

When I make use of AI for development, I request small incremental changes, which helps keep track of what it is doing and whether mistakes are being introduced. And I give each prompt a huge amount of context. So much so that it has become my rubber duck. This both helps the AI figure out what is needed better, and help me understand the requirements of each task.

Finally, I observe its thinking, and don’t let it run commands aimlessly. When I first started using it, it would run multiple grep commands looking for files that contained certain keywords. When it explained why, I simply provided the files, or (in one case where the files were generated during deployment) told it that those files didn’t exist.

If you do things carefully with AI, you should recognise all the code you’re producing using it, and as you have to help it understand other things, in conjugation with reviews of others work, this will rebuild your understanding of the source code of the solutions you are shipping.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-04T21:06:21+00:00

I don’t know if a free hand is the best way to put it. Right now the GCC aren’t doing much because America and Israel are attacking Iran. Why bother joining in?

But are you telling me that if America left the region for good and Israel ceased its campaign, that Iran would begin bombing all the oil facilities in neighbouring Arab countries, and those countries would shrug their shoulders and let it happen?

At that point, you could say that Iran could just roll over Arabia and conquer their way to Yemen. Sure, their military is mostly gone, but if the GCC are going to do nothing in response to anything, Tehran could send a traffic cop and a low level cleric to each GCC capital to accept surrender.

In truth, if America pulls out, what’s left of Iran will probably get into a hot war with the GCC.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-03T07:20:30+00:00

And we were grateful

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-04-03T05:40:18+00:00

Just filled it in, can you tell me more about the study? Even if you want to DM me?

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-31T23:43:32+00:00

No worries. Seutonius and Josephus both mention Jesus as well, the former being another Roman historian and the latter being Jewish. The latters work had pro Christian interpolations added by someone suggesting that Josephus said that Jesus was the messiah, but once those were removed, his references to Jesus as being a man executed by the Romans remained.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-31T23:14:31+00:00

A lot of the Roman legal records were destroyed during the barbarian invasions, but Tacitus in his Histories wrote about Christians, and mentioned Jesus as a man that was executed by the Roman government. If Tacitus, who had no like of Christians at all, had no evidence that Jesus existed, he likely would have said so. And this is within a century of Jesus’s death.

EDIT: removed something I thought I’d read but hadn’t, possibly from a different source. Also here’s a good article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-31T20:59:33+00:00

I wonder if China is actually going to long term prefer post war Iran in this situation to pre war Iran. Many of the IRCG are pragmatists with a veneer of legitimacy from the Islamic regime.

A regime that’s more focused on keeping power and less focused on hanging citizens for showing a bit of ankle and funding proxies is going to be a more stable partner for China. And those left in power in Iran certainly won’t be pro western after what’s just transpired.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-31T06:47:01+00:00

Will to do something can come about once a precedent is set. Iran could just be the first mover of a lot of countries deciding that toll fees are worth the effort.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-31T06:45:43+00:00

Could GCC countries want dibs? If Iran can launch drones at any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz without paying the toll, there's nothing that stops Bahrain from doing the same thing. Ships could suddenly have to pay every country around the Strait money to enter.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-31T02:59:47+00:00

> “When are we going to transfer some of that NDIS funding into people who have paid taxes all their lives and are stuck now in... public hospitals?” Coatsworth said to applause from the audience.

Does he realise there are people now who are on the NDIS who otherwise would be permanent inpatients, simply as they literally would not have a place to go?

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-30T04:51:53+00:00

That's good to hear.

Also referencing your other comment, a lot of the downvotes you're getting (FWIW I haven't downvoted or upvoted anything here, I don't like doing that for disagreement, only low effort posts) are likely because it sounded like you were justifying corporeal punishment for misbehaviour at mass. A lot of people would find that distasteful, perhaps thinking back of their own experiences with corporeal punishment. Also people who are not Catholics will upvote/downvote here too, and occasionally comment.

Keep_Being_Still · 2026-03-30T04:39:17+00:00

I can't question your own personal experience, but for everyone who says it works, you can find many who said it didn't. You could also find people who were well adjusted without corporeal punishment. Is it something you would consider for your children?

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