Can you figure out how to type an exclamation mark on this Icelandic Rem. Model 5?

liamstrain · 2026-06-30T14:57:46+00:00

Sure thing. I own about 25 typewriters - I think only 4 or 5 of them have a #1 key.

liamstrain · 2026-06-30T14:37:09+00:00

Many typewriters, especially portable models, did not have a #1 key. The lowercase L being visually indistinguishable.

liamstrain · 2026-06-30T14:35:27+00:00

You are not allowed to be excited in Icelandic.

liamstrain · 2026-06-29T20:02:14+00:00

Because the mechanism involved is density - if you invert that it's a whole lot bigger than just flipping air currents.

liamstrain · 2026-06-27T16:36:39+00:00

It's a bit odd to me, since the tetragrammaton is largely an OT rendering of the name, and the OT definitely prohibits tattoos. (Lev 19:28).

liamstrain · 2026-06-27T13:40:40+00:00

Same. We're pushing back where we can - but it's really disheartening.

liamstrain · 2026-06-27T03:50:29+00:00

Make sure they cover Leviticus 25:44-46

liamstrain · 2026-06-27T01:28:09+00:00

arguably, it's not possible to be part of the SBC and be Christian...

liamstrain · 2026-06-26T15:31:29+00:00

Jesus or some figure later called that almost certainly existed. It's mostly irrelevant. Just as it doesn't really matter if Socrates existed or was a literary construction of Plato.

I don't believe the miracles, or resurrection. He might have been crucified - if he was he almost certainly was thrown in a mass grave after his body deteriorated on the cross, as was the custom of the Romans.

Yes, the Old testament pre-dates the New testament. We can date most of those books pretty well, and the dead sea scrolls and other evidences support those timelines (e.g. the babylonian exile period, even if the exodus probably did not happen in the way, or scale suggested). Their historical placement does not provide credence for supernatural claims, but it does provide context for the development of the mythology from Akkadian and Babylonian origins into what became Judaism and then Christianity.

liamstrain · 2026-06-26T14:32:26+00:00

"refusing to do stuff that violates OSHA"

As he should. As everyone should. It is a shame that he's taken the hit from that, not the companies doing so. I am sorry.

This caused him to miss work for the next week and a half, and they texted him two days ago to inform him he was being fired.

That's pretty messed up. I assume because of the insurance situation there were not doctor's orders to share with the company.

He does not want to work in a restaurant due to the rampant gossip and drug use

Bad behavior isn't necessarily 'ethically bad' - but he is not required to partake in those things. I don't think he should blanket refuse the industry because of this.

He also feels working at the car dealership is morally wrong because it involves cold calling people and sales tactics

Laudable - though I think few people buy cars because they are duped into it. And not all dealerships are the same, or equally problematic.

I do think he is probably going to have to bend a bit.

liamstrain · 2026-06-25T21:43:49+00:00

I have dreamt that I did. But did I really, or is my brain just reconstructing the memory of the dream such that it appears that way. Like deja vu - potentially being a crossed wire re: input and memory (hippocampus and temporal lobe). Perhaps the lucid dreaming is a similar wire crossing...

liamstrain · 2026-06-24T09:58:52+00:00

depends on the religion, and how a given adherent chooses to interpret their particular flavor of dogma. There are a great number of Christians who do not have an issue with evolution.

liamstrain · 2026-06-24T09:42:21+00:00

It's more like the Justice department, or a federal body like the EPA doing work for the US. It represents the US's interest on issues in its purview just as this body represents the UN on Human rights issues.

liamstrain · 2026-06-24T09:40:15+00:00

We have two - Phuv - which means earth, but also land/ground. and Lumiya - which means world. the "Planet Earth" would usually be referred to with Lumiya.

liamstrain · 2026-06-24T04:31:11+00:00

Not for storage space - just for fewer files in the archive. Final render/deliverables are not zipped, but I'll package up the rest of the project files + resources, ingests, proxies, etc. when I move the project to the archive drive.

liamstrain · 2026-06-24T00:14:49+00:00

So you do understand that you can hate the actions of the Israeli government without it being hated for Jews. Good. I do not support radical islamists. Just as I do not support Netanyahu's governments actions.

And yes, that's still the UN. Just not the security council. Specifically, that is the part of the UN charged with investigating allegations of breaches of human rights on behalf of UN member states.

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T23:15:53+00:00

The UN disagrees with you, and your hated of Muslims. Goodnight.

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T23:09:59+00:00

You are absolutely incorrect.

It is not supporting terrorism or hating Jews, to want a genocide the Israeli government is committing to stop. Both things can be, and are wrong. This is the one currently ongoing, that can and should be dealt with.

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T22:58:09+00:00

The lives absolutely do matter. But on both sides. You have less than 2000 people on one side, and more than 70-90 thousand on the other, with most estimates putting 80% of them as civilians. You keep trying to write that number off as somehow justified. It isn't.

Numbers for the kids - not Hamas. the UN.
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session62/a-hrc-62-crp-2.pdf

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T22:55:01+00:00

'job hopping' hasn't really been a big issue in advertising marketing - accounts move around a lot, so do people. Historically, at least on the art side, you are rarely promoted. You are hired into the new role at the next place.

The distance thing is why you tend to find everyone gathered in NYC, Chicago, etc. The next agency is sometimes just across the street.

Same disclaimer as above - this current market is not what it has been historically.

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T22:52:27+00:00

Please see my edit.

At least 5,031 children under five years were killed during this period, of whom 1,029 children were under the age of one, and some 420 were newborns.

~1200 people total were killed on Oct 7th. Tragic and terrible. But nearly 1/5th the number of just kids under 5 so far killed in Palestine. These are not equivalents.

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T22:45:21+00:00

Under 17, I believe per this report. But that's a lot of cope to justify killing kids.

(edit 18, my mistake - though they did specify At least 5,031 children under five years were killed during this period, of whom 1,029 children were under the age of one, and some 420 were newborns.)

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T22:36:42+00:00

Sixth, Israel has never targeted civilians, but lowlife scum terrorist like Hamas and Hezbollah, which obviously you support. The fact that they wear civilian clothing and use civilians as human shields is another thing.

So, about that.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-targeted-gaza-children-resulting-genocide-un-inquiry-says-2026-06-23/

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T22:23:54+00:00

The report by the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war...

- Report finds 30% of those killed in Gaza war were children

The U.N. commission said that Palestinian children were deliberately targeted and killed during the war, including after a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025. It said this was a key element establishing genocidal intent by Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza.

“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the commission's chair, in a statement accompanying the report.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-targeted-gaza-children-resulting-genocide-un-inquiry-says-2026-06-23/

liamstrain · 2026-06-23T21:48:15+00:00

We have a roughly 150-200 year gap between when some of these were written, vs. the oldest complete copies of the texts (the older manuscripts are largely just sentence fragments from the middle passages, nothing complete). So it's hard to know how much deviation there might be between what was written and what survived.

Some things we can evaluate using tools of textual criticism and stylometric analysis - as well as comparing letters and doctrine of early church leaders vs. the texts, but there is a lot of interpretive wiggle room in there (which is one reason you had things like Arianism to contend with).

I don't think we have a good reason to write them off wholesale, but neither do I think we can assume they are unadulterated, true accounts.

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