With projects like these, I'm always torn between thinking that it's cool it's possible, and horror that someone somewhere will try to use this in production code.
I know I probably shouldn't engage, but I really just wanted to spark a conversation. I find the trope interesting. I agree that my Good Place example isn't that good, but still, no need to be so accusing.
I completely forgot to mention His Dark Materials! Hell doesn't appear, but Heaven is portrayed as actively bad.
I have the feeling that over the past years, we've started seeing more TV shows that are either sympathetic towards Hell and Satan, or somewhat negative towards Heaven. I just watched "Hazbin Hotel" today, which isn't too theological, but clearly is fairly negative towards Heaven.
In "The Good Place",
Spoilers for The Good Place
the people in The Bad Place end up pushing to improve the whole system, whereas The Good Place is happy to spend hundreds of year not letting people in.
"Little Demon" has Satan as a main character, and he's more or less sympathetic.
"Ugly Americans" shows demons and Satan as relatively normal, and Hell doesn't seem too bad.
I only watched the first episode of "Lucifer", but it's also more or less sympathetic towards Lucifer.
I have a few more examples (Billy Joel: "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints", or the very funny German "Ein Münchner im Himmel", where Heaven is portrayed as fantastically boring), but I won't list them all here.
My question is: how modern is this? I've heard of "Paradise Lost", and I've heard that it portrays Satan somewhat sympathetically, though I found it very difficult to read. And the idea of the snake in the Garden of Eden as having given free will and wisdom to humanity can't be that modern of a thought, even if it would have been heretical.
Is this something that's happened in the last 10 years? Are there older examples? Does anyone have a good source I could read?
Note that I don't claim Satan is always portrayed positively, or Heaven always negatively :).
I already have a Venu Sq, and I'm looking to upgrade. My wife has a Fenix 7S and loves it, and it has some features I would like.
The Fenix 8 is now obviously out, but it's a) very expensive, b) bigger than a 7S (I have very small wrists), and c) has a microphone. I try to avoid devices with microphones, since I don't completely trust that they can't be somehow used for evil. And although I do scuba dive, I already have a Mares dive computer, so the dive functionality on the Garmin isn't quite as appealing.
I get a good deal on Garmin devices through work, and people are selling lots of used Fenix 7 watches, so I'm interested in using this as a chance to get one. But I'm a bit afraid that they'll stop getting any updates or anything soon.
How long do we think the 7 will keep getting updates? Or what's my best path forward here?
I would +1 this. I'm completely bald, and almost never leave the house without a hat, even in summer. It's also important protection against sunburn :).
For something comfortable in the summer, I personally often go for brimmed hiking hats. A few that I like:
Yeah, absolutely. My watch is getting quite old, so I was waiting for the Fenix 8 before I decided what to do, but at least for me, it's definitely not worth the price. I'm most likely going to end up getting a Fenix 7 instead now, and maybe wait a bit to see if they end up discounting it to get rid of old inventory.
Last I checked, it was out of print, so I bought Unfathomable instead (reimplementation in the Lovecraft universe). Still good, but missing pilots, so not as good :).
fenix 8 is a premium multisport smartwatch with battery life for weeks, built-in speaker and mic, advanced training features & styling for larger wrists.
I'm working on some outdated memories, but IIRC:
Germany allows dual citizenship now, but used to not allow it in most cases. In those cases, if you applied for German citizenship, you had to express that you were willing to give up your old citizenship. Once you were granted citizenship, you had a certain amount of time (two years?) to show a certificate that you renounced your old citizenship. If you didn't, your German citizenship would be revoked.
The only one I really remember is Trogdor, but in order to keep it in my heart, I am a proud owner of Trogdor!!: The Boardgame
I finished Dave the Diver a few weeks ago, and I really enjoyed it. For me, it hit this sweet spot of "Remember where everything is and grind the same thing over and over" without getting boring.
TIL. Thank you!
Thanks for that link! That does seem very similar to what I read about in Machi Koro 2, and I think we will definitely try it the next time we play.
I just played a round of Machi Koro with a friend, and at a certain point, he was far behind. He didn't have many buildings that grant money on other people's turns, and the rest of us had also purchased a lot more red buildings than him.
I'm looking for ideas of house rules that make help provide some sort of catch-up mechanism if you're far behind. Do any of you have any tips?
If it matters, we usually play with the Harbor expansion, but are willing to play without it as well. We're already considering it because of how extreme the Tuna Boat can be.
I bought Deus Ex: Human Revolution for 2.99€ and I've been enjoying it. I've always heard good things about the series, but never tried it before. Definitely feeling that Cyberpunk had some inspiration from Deus Ex.
I also bought Firewatch for 4.99€ and beat it in a day. I wasn't spoiled about the story, but I had read a bit about it. At the end of the day, I'm glad I played it, but I'm not sure that I would necessarily recommend it.
Hi all! I have a Venue Sq, and I've been thinking of purchasing a new watch for quite some time. I've been mostly leaning towards a Fenix 7, since it has some more sport features, and has no microphone (the Venue 3 has a microphone, which I wouldn't use and don't really trust).
However, the Fenix 7 was announced in January 2022, and I'm wondering if there will be either Fenix 8 or at least a discount on the Fenix 7 sometime soon, so I'm hesitant to buy one now.
When are new watches usually announced? Any thoughts on whether it makes sense to wait?
That is a crazy process. But I'm happy that you were somehow able to get a new passport :).
I do not know if it's true for all countries, but at least the USA and the UK require your passport to be signed to be valid. And I know that when I fly, I sometimes get checked if it is signed.
Is there a practical reason for this? Does the signature get checked against anything? Or is it simply that the law says a passport must be signed to be valid, so there you go?
I googled around a bit, but only found resources on how to sign, but not why it needs to be signed.
Thank you Internet hive mind!
Have you watched the show? The game is not for me, horrorness being a part of the reason, but the show was very well done.
My basic approach is: Esc works like in normal evil-mode, and takes me into vterm-copy-mode as well. Without doing that, I have C-w C-w remapped to move to another window, so I can switch to another window for all the rest of my keybindings. And I have C-Esc mapped to send Esc into the terminal itself.
I'm using evil-collection for the basic bindings, and I have my own custom stuff here: https://github.com/bricka/emacs.d/blob/main/init.el#L1054-L1073
Edit: Forgot C-Esc
This immediately made me think of Scythe, and sure enough, he did the art. Fantastic.
As far as I am aware, grazing animals like cows or sheep poop in the same meadows where they eat grass, but presumably don't have any problems eating the grass and pooping in the same space. But if humans would eat vegetables that they had pooped on, my understanding is that we would get sick.
Why? Am I incorrect that grazing animals poop where they eat? Are their stomachs more resistant to whatever makes it dangerous?
Thank you!
Depending on the complexity, there's also abbrev-mode: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Abbrevs.html
I do like a lot of meat alternatives, but I was at a restaurant a while back where they had a non-Beyond Meat veggie burger. And it was super good! I feel like it's becoming a lost art, though :(.
My dad is the opposite: he wants every restaurant to only offer Beyond Meat burgers. He loves them.
When I was starting to learn German, I found it quite intimidating, but once I started having a grasp of the language, I found it actually pretty easy. The trick is just being able to recognize the subwords. Take a word like Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung: once you know Arbeit and Schein, it already starts being easier to see the meaning.
Das neue Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht soll Einbürgerungen erleichtern – aber nicht für alle. Wer krank ist oder pflegt, hat Pech gehabt.
I was reading this article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and saw this quote:
> Diesen Freitag verabschiedet der Bundestag ein neues Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht, es soll die Einbürgerung erleichtern. Statt nach acht Jahren können Einwanderer künftig nach fünf Jahren einbürgern, bei besonderen Leistungen schon nach drei. Auch der Doppelpass wird erlaubt, nach jahrzehntelangem Kampf. Wer dauerhaft bleibt und sich anstrengt, soll das volle Wahlrecht bekommen und dazugehören. Das ist der Plan.
I've already passed my Citizenship Exam and am ready to go!
#Emacs and #orgmode meeting at #37c3 at 16:00 level 4, Chill Lounge
If any of you are at the Chaos Communication Congress, we're having an impromptu Emacs and Org mode meetup today at 16:00 (in 40 minutes).
Maybe see some of you there :)
Hello folks! I'm using straight.el for my package management, but one thing that I'm missing is some sort of easy way to see what's changed, when I do a straight-pull-all. Ideally, I could see which packages that I explicitly have a dependency on have changed, and see either a changelog or a list of commits.
Does anyone know if something like this already exists?
Thanks!
Please forgive me...I'm over 30 and was never a clubber.
In a number of songs, women "get low". In "Low": > Shawty got low low low low low low low low
In "Belly Dancer", they drop down and touch the ground; > Hey, ladies drop it down, just want to see you touch the ground > > ... > > You ain't even gotta drop down if you want to
What activity is being described here? What are these women doing?
Hi all! I'm looking for a service where I can port my phone number, and then make and receive phone calls and SMS, all over data, not cell service. My particular use case is that I live in Germany, but I still have a US phone number, and occasionally need to receive SMSes or phone calls on that number.
I am aware that Google Voice offers this service, but as you can probably guess given that I'm here, I am unwilling to use it :). I saw JMP here: https://lemmy.world/post/1033514, but TBH, I don't think that it will give me the experience that I'm looking for, given that it seems to translate everything back to generic Jabber.
Edit: Thank you all for the suggestions! I have decided to go with VoIP.ms: I tested it today, and am working on transferring my number to them now.
So, yesterday I broke my dominant arm. Yay! For the next 6 weeks, I have a cast, and at least for now, I can't use my right hand or arm at all (I am typing this with my left hand).
I'm looking for suggestions what I can play. Some thoughts:
- On PC, of couse
- Can be played only with the keyboard
- No time limits or need to respond quickly (e.g. many RTSes)
- I like puzzle games, RPGs, and good storytelling. I want to like sim games, but haven't yet found one that I love.
- Nothing too difficult
Here's a link to my Steam profile, if that helps: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198028619119/games/?tab=all
Thank you all for any advice!
Like it says, I took the Einbürgerungstest this past weekend. The questions are a mix of things that feel pretty obvious (which war lasted from 1939-1945) and things that require memorization (Which chancellor was responsible for the Ostverträge?). In a lot of ways, it feels like another language exam: if you understand German well enough to understand the questions, you can probably pass.
We officially had an hour, but I was done within 8 minutes, and I wasn't the first :).
One step closer to citizenship!
I'm seeing them tomorrow in Munich, and I'm really looking forward to it. How's the opening act, Gunnar? The bit I listened to on Spotify felt very different from The Hu, and I have to admit, I wasn't too excited.