I’m having a problem with comment sorting too. I have it set to Top, but every post loads with Hot instead.

I’m on version 0.19.13.

I once had a delayed reaction version of this. My alarm went off at 6:00AM, and I decided to close my eyes for 5 more minutes. But, didn’t wake up again until 7:05.

However, I didn’t notice that 65 minutes had passed because I only looked at the minutes portion of my clock and assumed everything was good. It wasn’t until I got a somewhat frantic phonecall asking where I was that I realized my mistake.

Sounds like some North Korea envy.

Zero tolerance policies aren’t meant to protect students, and they aren’t even meant to protect bullies. They’re meant to protect teachers and principals, mostly from having to face scrutiny for how they handle bullying. They can just punish all parties equally and wash their hands of the matter, and any criticism can be deflected by saying, “zero tolerance; everyone was treated the same.”

I don’t disagree that one can generally talk about books in that way, but given what I know about how biblical authorship, I think it’s an incorrect (or as you say, misleading) way of describing the Bible specifically.

Of all the books that became canon in the Christian Bible, the most recent ones were written in the late 1st/early 2nd century CE. The later edits were additions, deletions, or alterations to these existing works rather than entirely new books on their own, and by the time those edits were made the books were already being used as scripture in Christian communities.

I’d liken it to The Hobbit. The first edition was published in 1937. In order to align more with The Lord of the Rings, a 2nd edition was published in 1951, and it contained significant changes to the the characterization of Gollum and the function of the One Ring. However, despite those changes, I would never say that, “The Hobbit was written in 1951.”

My final note: you can see in my first post that I agreed with the sentiment of the post I was responding to: that, “Christ would likely not quote documents written after his existence,” as you said. Many words have been put into the mouth of Jesus of Nazareth, because everything written about him came after he was too dead to make corrections.

The original post says that “the Bible” was written “hundreds of years after [Jesus’s] death.” I consider this to be an incorrect statement. When someone says “the Bible,” I wouldn’t think of only the most recently composed passages, but as a whole, from Genesis to Revelation.

This doesn’t mean that those recent passages weren’t written hundreds of years after Jesus died, only that I wouldn’t identify that point in history as “when the Bible was written.”

What is it that you think I was implying with my post?

I don’t see where I said otherwise.

Let’s be correct here: the Christian Bible was canonized centuries after Jesus’s death. That’s not the same thing as being written.

I still appreciate the point you’re making, though.

I never truly appreciated this recurring gag in the Buttons and Mindy segments of Animaniacs until I had a toddler of my own.

I’m a sailor.

Ships sound a certain way, even when not sailing. If they ever sound differently, you know something has happened and you’ll have to respond to it. Even if it’s just a drill, the response is the same.

My sailing days are actually behind me, but I still get tense when I hear unusual sounds in my house or office.

For French that’s correct until you start talking about different sized rocks. Regular rocks are feminine, but boulders and pebbles are both masculine.

I’m extremely sensitive to changes in noise levels. Whether it’s a very loud and short noise, like a door slamming, or some change in background noise, like a furnace turning on, I’m just acutely aware of it.

Canada apparently had a record-breaking summer in tourism.

I do this, and I also still say the date and time in the first sentence of a voice mail.

I played at varying levels of intensity between 2010 and 2015.

I met my first serious girlfriend through the game. It was also a long-distance relationship, and led to the frankly absurd story of how I lost my virginity, which involved a massive snowstorm and a lost passport. The relationship didn’t work out, but it was formative for me as a person.

These days, I still occasionally hang out with some of my old guild mates, who still play the game. Not as much anymore, especially after our D&D campaign ended, but I still consider them some of my closer friends.

I got a free three month trial for Google’s AI Pro plan, and Google wouldn’t shut up about the fact that I had the offer waiting, so I gave it a shot. It’s been more annoying than anything else. Gemini made me feel icky when I tried it, and now I get irritating popups asking me to use an AI tool every single time I go to type something in a Doc or Sheet

My brother in Christ, I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics. I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand, and it is mostly text. This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind. I do not need your help with anything.

I had a DM who did something similar. We all had to describe five NPCs that were important to our characters: two friends or family members, two enemies or rivals, and one fate-bonded character who could be friend or foe.

In addition to the RP possiblities, it also gave the DM a ready supply of NPCs to populate the setting.

In addition to the normal investment stuff (for me it would probably be Bitcoin, or maybe shorting the market in 2008), here are a few things I’d have to consider:

1. I’m now an atheist in the body of a teenager who is super involved in his church and private religious school. I’ll need to be delicate in navigating this, as I can’t just suddenly turn all those things off.

2. I’m being dropped into one of the toughest years of my life mentally. All the bullying I suffered starting at age 10 is finally manifesting in bouts of anxiety and depression. I’ll be better able to handle it, and even push back at the new round of bullying. I don’t know if I’ll still be friends with the same people.

3. I’m going to get another shot at my relationship failures, starting almost immediately with my high school crush. I know that my wife will be waiting for me sometime in the mid 2010s, but all the very many other chances I had are also in front of me. I’ll have the experience to better handle them, and I’ll won’t have the inhibitions and hangups of my youth (see point #1). The question is what to do if any of them turn serious, as again, it will be another 10 years before I will be able to meet my wife.

4. I’m going to get another chance to consider my career. I don’t think I would change it, as that would mean not meeting my wife. However, I know there are things I could do better that would make the first 10 years of my career more fulfilling.

‘Epitome’ will forever be epi-tome in my head: ‘epi’ like in EpiPen and tome as in a big heavy book.

And the ‘c’ in ‘indictment’ also always gets pronounced when I read the word to myself.