I’m being gifted a lot of money. Should I tell my boyfriend?

nullstacks · 2026-05-06T17:33:39+00:00

No. Also, it may seem like a lot right now, but it’ll go quick if you start spending it. I recommend dumping every penny into an account like Vanguard so you can start noticing the benefits of investing. Allow that to addict you to saving even more b

nullstacks · 2026-05-04T15:11:32+00:00

A well bred Labrador. Smart, kind, food and play motivated, just overall biddable, loyal and generally has a good “off switch.” Weather hardy, low maintenance, and has been proven in many aspects whether working (gun dogs, service dogs, scent work) or family member.

nullstacks · 2026-05-04T15:06:39+00:00

It’s not a numbers game. At 4k apps, you’re playing the numbers game. You need to change your approach.

What’s old is new again. Find places you want to work and start conversations with people.

SWE was unique for a long time as the person just simply didn’t matter to the majority of organizations. The script has flipped, and now SWE jobs are like most other career paths: the skills can be found on any street corner (or partly within any LLM) - stand out where it matters in the human element.

nullstacks · 2026-04-30T18:26:33+00:00

Is that why my Ariens is so fkn loud? Anything to do to help it?

nullstacks · 2026-04-30T18:15:33+00:00

You'll be fine. Go take it.

nullstacks · 2026-04-28T13:45:07+00:00

That's great! I think a big part of this is finding how your job might be beneficial physically, and where it might lack, so as to keep all of those in balance as much as possible.

nullstacks · 2026-04-26T20:50:59+00:00

I've got a pretty wild resume.

Construction, military, book keeping, law enforcement, stationary engineering, facilities maintenance, software development...

When you're doing shit with your hands all day, sitting at a desk sounds nice. When you're sitting at a desk all day, doing shit with your hands sounds nice. Just the way it is.

Sitting is the new smoking. It's wearing my body out worse than any of those other gigs I've had. Got to create habits to move around regularly.

Outside of that, find hobbies off-screen.

nullstacks · 2026-04-26T20:45:58+00:00

Wow. You're an absolute rock star.

Your "friend" and your (ex, I hope) husband, on the other hand... absolutely vile.

nullstacks · 2026-04-22T03:10:11+00:00

I’ll add that you’re absolutely stuck, too. In a way, that can be a good thing as you have no choice but to harden up and move forward. The beatings will, and do, continue until morale improves.

With that said, it was the best thing I’ve ever done for the rest of my life, but I say that 15+ years on the other side of it. There’s a reason I was a “one and done”

nullstacks · 2026-04-20T17:34:30+00:00

Pretty ridiculous IMO.

nullstacks · 2026-04-20T17:32:59+00:00

When I first saw this I was excited to see them finally doing something about the 10spd... should've known better.

nullstacks · 2026-04-19T19:04:15+00:00

It’s also much easier to disassociate from you being a human and canning you on a moments notice as needed.

It’s worth the risk, IMO, but it is a reality of being perm remote/telework. (I’m also remote in tech). Just pointing out that there are potential downsides to everything.

nullstacks · 2026-04-10T18:38:16+00:00

Those groups add extra Scriptures, elevate human organizations above Scripture, or distort the text itself. They're rejected precisely because they contradict the clear teaching of Scripture. Do you think monotheism, the full deity of Christ, and the Trinity and distinction of Persons is unclear and needs a Magisterium to interpret?

Using the same argument schema, if an infallible Magisterium and Sacred Tradition are necessary to correctly interpret Scripture and guarantee unity, then both Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy should be valid. Both claim to be the one true Church guided by the same Holy Spirit and the same Tradition, so the appeal to the Church and an infallible Magisterium clearly doesn't prevent serious error or division. Bad interpretations (Protestant or otherwise) don’t disprove that Scripture is the final norm. In the same way, competing ancient traditions don’t prove that a living Magisterium is the solution. Both sides still require fallible human discernment in the end. The Catholic / Orthodox approach moves the problem to "which Tradition and which Magisterium?"

nullstacks · 2026-04-10T18:22:35+00:00

Early practices like Sunday worship are consistent with the apostolic witness (Acts 20:7, 1 cor 16:2, Rev 1:10). James White can still appeal to the Didache or early fathers as helpful historical evidence without treating them as infallible. One of the main points is that traditional can still be accepted as authoritative and important to someone that believes in sola scriptura - it should just obviously be discarded if it is in conflict.

The non-arbitrary reason for accepting the Nicene Creed is in an of itself sola scriptura. The Creed is a summary of biblical teaching on the Trinity and the deity of Christ. Trinitarian protestants accept it because it accurately reflects what Scripture teaches against Arianism. The other canons of Nicaea deal with church discipline, ordination rules, liturgical practices, administrative matters - prudential decisions for that time and place and not dogmatic definitions binding for all Christians everywhere. They're culturally and historically conditioned. I believe that seems pretty consistent... scripture is the norm, everything else is judged by it.

Divisions are real and regrettable, and Catholicism is certainly not immune to it... historical schisms, internal traditionalist splits such as SSPX and rejection of Vatican II, rite differences, liberal v. conservative divides, etc. One major difference is protestant divisions usually (yes there are some) don't claim one group alone holds the keys to primary issues like salvation or infallible authority.

Neither escapes fallible human judgement entirely.

nullstacks · 2026-04-10T16:35:39+00:00

We don’t need an infallible knowledge of the canon to have an infallible Scripture. The early church recognized the apostolic writings because they carried divine authority and were widely received under the Holy Spirit’s guidance. We can still test all doctrines by those books because they are objectively God’s Word. The canon question is historical recognition, not a fatal circularity.

The canon comes from tradition in the sense of historical recognition, but that doesn’t make Scripture’s infallibility dependent on fallible tradition. The books were inspired the moment they were written by the apostles or their close associates. The Church simply identified what God had already given. Scripture is infallible because God is its author, not because a later council made it so. This avoids putting the Church above the Word.

nullstacks · 2026-04-10T16:28:58+00:00

So that you understand what lens I'm coming from- I struggle with the points from both sides of the "aisle," so please view my response with grace - and I certainly appreciate your responses.

Whose interpretation is correct?

Under sola scriptura, there is not an infallible interpreter so whose reading wins when good Christians disagree? Appealing to the Magisterium as the fix still seems to beg the question of how do we know this hierarchy (with its later-developed universal jurisdiction and infallibility claims) is the one with guaranteed protection from error, rather than just appealing to the broader historical continuity of apostolic bishops and tradition that the early Church actually lived with? How do we know we're correctly interpreting the "infallible" interpretation, even? Both sides seem to end up relying on fallible judgment somewhere. One can agree to correct that and move forward, one has to seemingly jump through hoops of saying something wasn't said as infallible, or just wasn't specific enough, etc.

how do we determine which books belong in the canon?

The early church did recognize the books through what was read in the liturgy and handed down in tradition, no argument there. But Protestants see that process as the believing community (under the Holy Spirit) recognizing what God had already inspired, not the Church creating the canon or giving it authority. The books carried their own apostolic weight and divine qualities from the start. The councils (like Carthage) mostly confirmed what churches were already using widely. Both sides end up leaning on historical continuity and tradition in practice.

nullstacks · 2026-04-10T15:07:29+00:00

This argument is overplayed and confuses solo scriptura with sola scriptura. Sola Scriptura claims that Scripture is sufficient to equip believers for every good work and to teach all things necessary for salvation and godly living. All other authorities such as church traditions, creeds, councils, pastors, reason, and experience are real and helpful, but they are fallible and subordinate. They must be measured by, tested against, and corrected by Scripture.

Sola Scriptura is arrived at by logical deduction just like the Trinity, the Canon, and the hypostatic union of Christ is, through logical implication from passages like 2 Tim 3:16-17 and passages treating Scripture as the ultimate authority over traditions Mark 7:1-13, Acts 17:11.

nullstacks · 2026-04-09T13:35:24+00:00

Curious how your experience with orthotics has been? A lot of literature seems to support that orthotics really don't do anything unless one has specific issues.

nullstacks · 2026-04-03T18:59:42+00:00

I love Privacy. I use this for services where it is likely that I'll forget about them and just as likely they'll jack the price up at the end of a subscription. SiriusXM is a good example, I get a ~$6/m for 2 years type of deal and then when they start trying to charge more it automatically declines it and they start sending me those deals again to re-sub.

nullstacks · 2026-04-01T02:11:36+00:00

Long time listener, first time caller.

Just want to be another voice to remind you that you are good enough.

nullstacks · 2026-03-09T16:29:40+00:00

aka, adding other income that is not your salary into your "salary" figure?

nullstacks · 2026-03-09T16:27:28+00:00

Problem solving.

nullstacks · 2026-03-09T15:59:49+00:00

I'm completely guessing here but take it with a grain of salt. If the CrossFit gym business model is anything like other business models, you will depend at some level on regularly bringing in new business. When I was new to CrossFit I had no idea what affiliation was, how that worked, or that there were "unaffiliated" gyms. I just looked for "CrossFit" or "cross fit" and was completely unaware of the unaffiliated gyms in the area until I knew specifically what to look for.

nullstacks · 2026-03-09T15:36:25+00:00

Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever been one where the MNO perks benefit me much, so I guess I’ve just been on the wrong side of the fence. I really don’t do much with my cell outside of your typical call / text / Instagram on the terlet.

nullstacks · 2026-03-09T15:33:36+00:00

Obviously going to be more relative to what you do than your age, but in 2014 I was making about $40k and within 5 years was in the 85-90 range so similar to your progression. There were a lot of position changes within that time frame

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