Like all the other commenters here, an evangelical atheist went off on a condescending tirade, and of course I saw the light immediately.

Out of curiosity:

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Heard. We have a QR 2auth system for one of my work domains, and I let out an exasperated sigh every time I realize I have to get my phone out

I’d heard of this strategy, like making it perform some kind of costly encryption that’s irrelevant to a human user but restrictively expensive for a bot army.

But does decoding a QR code apply? I never really thought about it. I guess it’s an image, it’s at least a little big by comparison… but it’s also in a restricted, easy to capture spot and maybe could be minimized to a fairly small pixel set? Idk how many key pixels you need to parse a QR code… I guess I could Google

*typo bit --> bot and bit --> big… I’m full of bit

3. Bots don’t have trouble scanning QR codes nor emulating Android

Any career.

Had a plumber once who spent the entire hour ranting about being a master plumber and how being a unionized tradesman is the only honorable profession and the water works guy is an idiot for not taking his word as gospel…

He was also like 160cm tall and bald, most insecure being I’ve ever observed walking this planet.

But that, “my job makes me better” vibe isn’t unique to him. Seen it in doctors, lawyers, programmers, policemen, social workers, therapists…

I’d recommend looking at some job postings and getting certs that would support the ones you think you could land.

For me AWS / Azure certs are a clear frontrunner

All substantially less likely to make me think of condoms

Seven Pounds

Watched soon after untimely death of a loved one.

Spent like a week in bed after watching.

It kinda sounds like they started serving meat because they realized they were circling the drain and tried something desperate.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.

Mine

I barely remember it, but I remember that the hardest mode of Shinobi was ridiculous. Basically just had to memorize and execute a perfect movement / attack pattern.

And if memory serves, it was like 2 levels before the final one that was actually the hardest on the hardest difficulty? Getting flooded with some kind of tricky enemy while way in the air?

But then you unlocked God mode and got to just slaughter everything with your OP abilities and sword… actually I think there were at least two levels of those upgrades. One had a life draining effect and the next was just absurd

Oh yeah! And some of the songs on Amplitude

Freya’s lucky number was 13.

Christian missionaries trying to convert the Norse heathens spread the concept of Friday the 13th being unlucky to turn people from the old ways

I wasn’t super into DC comics, but the cartoons were what was on when I would stay with my grandmother, and a certain episode of Superman with Dr Fate really moved me.

There was some terrible magical threat, and Superman had tried to get Dr Fate to help, but he refused with something like, “I’ve banished this threat countless times, yet every time it returns stronger. No matter how hard I fight, mankind continues to torment one another. Evil continues to rear its ugly head. I don’t know if I can still triumph, and I’m so very tired.” And Superman was like “F U I’ll do it myself,”

While Superman was fighting, Dr Fate suddenly showed up with the assist and managed to seal away the bad dude. Superman said something like, “I thought you were done with this fight,” and Dr Fate’s response has stuck with me all these decades:

“You made me realize evil isn’t the only force that keeps coming back.”

Defer to superior logic and not to superior rhetoric.

Compute to battle the evils.

Make open source tools to remove dependency on corporate spyware.

Create smaller low power AI assistants to make the giants redundant.

Create websites that inform rather than misdirect and out-market the evil ones.

Not proposing it’s easy or even realistic, but it’s the same battle that always was.

Similar story here, and I have a lot of regrets centering around the crazy stuff I did while out of my mind.

In retrospect, I’ve come to believe that long periods of little or poor quality sleep led to much more insanity than any specific substance.

It didn’t necessarily have to be stimulants. Anything that kept me up all night getting high or prevented “real” sleep, even computers or video games to a lesser degree, could lead to this state.

Sleep is important.

Please don’t shout 😢

Electronics are for amusement. If he isn’t having fun (fussing), time to do something else.

We use it together and communicate during. Zombie mode --> time to do something else.

Great firewall of my house (whitelist). I’m sure he’ll figure out how to bypass it one day, and hopefully by then I’ve raised him well enough to process the horrors of the open web.