I’ve been really enjoying the Ten Minute Bible Hour podcast most recently as well as Mike Wingers weekly shows. I’m not Catholic but I do enjoy Pints with Aquinas and Council of Trent on YouTube as well.

I’m very bad at reading books but I enjoyed God Has a Name by John Mark Comer.

Yes. I had a long bout of atheism from 13 to about 24 after I got involved in my local Church. I took a hard look at the way my life was going and decided to surrender my life to Christ after a lengthy period of volunteer work. I can’t say I have all the answers but I do find a lot of Christian apologetics very compelling.

It’s a shame that discussions get so venomous over the question, it feels like there’s a lot of bad actors on both sides who aren’t interested in The Truth and everyone comes out of it hurt.

Yes I bought in August 2024 (mid 20s) and a majority of the houses were estates, nobody was selling and giving up their 10s-era interest rate. Sucks for buyers cause reduced supply increased prices which hurt extra with increased interest rates. I got lucky for finding a house that's weird for 99% of people but perfect for me, but that's basically all you can count on.

I think it disproves that the thesis our students are terrible if we're in the top 10 of the entire world.

Why do American whites and Asians top the charts if they're terrible students? https://xcancel.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1732087511327908128

I have a Mac Studio with an M2 Max as my main desktop and a 5950x as my server CPU.

Have you seen his new series diving into the Gospels? I was curious about that.

I forget how many boomers here didn’t come at Bitcoin from the tech or FOSS side and come at it from a purely economic one.

This is a very well known thing? Coinkite sells a cable that’s “power only” and even encourages using their 9V adapter if you want to eliminate that entire class of attack.

Fortress followed up with their own email.

Just got this email and I believe I'm impacted by this "admin fee" charge. I've had enough bugs with Swan I think I should just switch to River, CashApp or Strike.

have you hear of myanimelist.net ? you can keep track and discover a lot more series than just the big ones.

It was an anime and aired in 98. You can find blu ray rips pretty easily on nyaa.si

Serial Experiments Lain

As a younger person I had a pretty materialist and nihilistic views on spirituality.

As I grew up life became a lot more "real" and paradoxically it made me do a complete 180 on the immaterial. This spiritual change of heart also made me do a lot more "real" material things like volunteering. I think that interaction between immaterial thoughts and beliefs turning into material actions is a key factor in understanding spirituality.

What is the impact of car-seats w/r/t child mortality?

I haven't heard about Tox in a hot minute. It's dead as far as I know.

If you're looking for secure chat Signal is pretty mistake proof - this furry did some recent write ups on what he felt makes a good messaging app. https://soatok.blog/2024/07/31/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-signal-competitor/

I think it's too early to tell. What I will say is people talk about other stuff besides the fediverse on the fediverse, I can't say the same for Nostr. It's mostly super high noise: AI spam, boomer tier memes, obvious scams, and accounts with posts like "I just set up Nostr" and zero other activity.

I also think it's interesting that people here don't know what ActivityPub is. It suggests to me a lotta people haven't done the bare minimum research on alternative social media but are still posting hot takes about it.

I've enjoyed listening to J. Warner Wallace who wrote "Cold Case Christianity" - he was an atheist homicide detective who took a critical look at the gospels as he would for any of his crime scenes. You can check out a video of him here https://youtu.be/ajOYym3IuRk?si=mutOYPPO-FD7sDDk but if you're more of a book guy you can also check out the "Cold Case Christianity" book.

I'm not really sure what this means though, do you not believe in any historical accounts? The gospels are more well attested to than any other ancient manuscripts.

If the question is about the historicity of the resurrection I would be curious what your supernatural beliefs are already.

I'm sure importing more immigrants will help the housing shortage!