Reading through the "Light and Truth Letter" a totally-not-written-by-the-church response to the infamous CES Letter that's been plaguing Mormonism for years now.
It's amazing* how they seem to have managed to not seriously engage with a single one of the issues I have with the church.
#ExMormon #NotACult #CESLetter
* not really
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Let's see how this works with the dish soap trick. I actually think it looks pretty nice.I think it's working nicely. It's still pretty light but I think I like it.
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This is Wearingeul Enki in a Lamy Safari medium nib.It's certainly not the darkest colour and it doesn't seem to travel down the feed very well but it is a beautiful colour.
Probably not one I'd use as a daily driver.
Here it is in my dip pen instead [darker colour with some feathering]
I thin I'm having some toruble getting it to run through the feed.
When it does flow, it looksnice though. That said, I find I need to apply more pressure to the pen than I am accustomed to using.
Probably not a daily driver but looks nice anyway.
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So, the Wal-Mart pharmacy has an app that tells you when your prescriptions are due for refilling. Pretty convenient right? Problem is that it's consistently wrong.
Guess I've got to go home and do a physical inventory of my drugs now.
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So much of my job is this over and over again on a loop:
"So what do you think we should do in order to responsibly build the Torment Nexus?"
"You can't. It's a Torment Nexus. Stop it."
"But the Torment Nexus is inevitable!"
"It's not. You could just not do it. You could stop right now."
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"You have been found guilty of murder."
"But, judge, he would eventually have died anyway."
"..."
Well, I guess I have a cardiologist now.
That was not something I was expecting to be a thing this morning.
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#teeline question:
The word "defund" is tricky, as the way I would expect to write it in teeline would be the same as "defend". I know you can sinetines use a vowel indicator to disambiguate in such circumstances, but the indicators for U and E are identical, aren't they?
I'm not sure this is a case where context would necessarily clear it up either.
Thoughts?
So, while I've always loved the idea of #chess, I've also always been spectacularly bad at it. Can anyone recommend any books or other resources that might help? I had an eBook (or was it a PDF?) on tactics once upon a time, but I don't know what happened to it.
I know that an important key is practice, but the problem is that when I lose, I don't know why I lost, so it's difficult to learn from the experience.
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@conniptions I believe it’s lichess.org.
Building on this: learn to analyse your games using an engine. Only play 5-10 games per day, but analyse each one. At first, look through the game without the engine, try to observe the flow of the game. Try to see if you got outplayed positionally, or you missed a tactic, hung a piece, etc.
Then analyse with the engine. Don’t focus too much on absolute swings of the evaluation, but more on trends.
@teotwaki Doh, of course yes, apologies, was v tired when I posted.
Agreed in re usefulness of using engine for analysis (and importance of analysing games) once there's a grasp of the basic value of material, basic tactics and so on.
Not yet mentioned - the usefulness of puzzles: simpler puzzles help you drill basic patterns and tactics - it's one thing to know what a fork is, but another thing to look at a position and quickly spot an available fork. Lichess puzzles v good for this.
I dunno, but... I'm supposed to be uncomfortable with racism. I don't ever want to be comfy with racism.
Being a decent person requires I'm not comfy with things like racism. If racism doesn't make me feel uncomfortable, something has gone wrong with my moral compass and serious self reflection and self improvement would be urgently necessary. 🤷♀️
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Tip for the non-ADHD folks who have friend-groups containing large numbers of ADHD folks:
If your feelings are hurt because you feel you've been talked over or ignored or something like that, you need to *tell us*.
There are often things we do unknowingly that can make a person feel unheard or disrespected. We wish it was different. We try to make it different (we're almost all trying to learn not to interrupt), but frequently we depend on being made aware that there is a problem.
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I think a general rule of thumb for maintaining positive relationships with ADHD people is that if you have a problem with something we do, you need to be direct because the chances that we are not aware that we're doing the thing or we are not aware that the thing is affecting you are pretty high.
We work really hard at being aware of ourselves and the people around us, but it is *work*. When we're just relaxing and having fun, we may especially be likely to not notice.
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Some people's capacity to just straight-up lie to your face without skipping a beat astonishes me.
Take this conversation between Katy and an unnamed family member:
F: I need you to drive me to the clinic (because I've caught the cough that's been making the rounds in my household for weeks now).
K: Okay, but we can't afford to get sick.
F: It's okay, I'll wear a mask the whole time.
K: Okay.
F: Afterwards, we can go out to eat.
K: How are we going to eat while wearing masks?
F: It's okay, I'm not contagious.
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Ever had a restaurant deny you the discount they offer repeat customers because it's only available via their spyware app or via a dodgy QR code?
It's a good way to destroy your customer base.
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I found some of my old notes from church. God, I really drank the Kool-Aid, didn't I?
Here's a sample:
When I negotiate my standards, I cheat myself of the blessings the Lord wants to give me.
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"The blessings he wants to give me?" Isn't he supposed to be an omnipotent being? I had no idea I was so powerful that I could tie his hands like that.
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I also love how I was able to take down an idea, and then immediately contradict myself with the next one, e.g.:
- Heavenly Father did not put me here to fail.
- A failure is nothing more than an opportunity to learn.
This is the definition of doublethink.
get in, loser
we’re poisoning chatbots
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@Aziz @Jon's Blog Yeah, for me, it's about the auto-repeating tasks. I can't get that with pen and paper, otherwise I'd go that route too.
I'm trying to take the lowest tech route possible these days.
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Just had a monitor fail in the most bizarre way posible. I got some weird screen flicker/tearing. I assumed that it was my video card doing someting wonky, especially since it would happen sporadically when playing Minetest, and would often persist for a while after. A reboot cleared it the first time it happened.
This time it was really bad though. The weird thing is that when I disconnected the HDMI cable, the distortion persisted on the OSD. Also, there was still very distinct remnant of the image that had been on the screen. It wasn't your typical burn-in, as it wasn't static. It was just... weird.
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It's been over a year now since my last blog post. #Today I started working on a new one about my adventures with #org-mode. As an experiment, I'm trying to compose the post itself in org-mode, and then export to HTML for the site.
Depending on how reasonable the resulting HTML ends up being, this might be my go-to method of composing blog posts going forward.
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Friendly reminder to folks on Fedi: the engagement *you* see on a post might not be the engagement the *poster* sees.
Take my silly polls, for instance. I occasionally see comments saying "you'd have more responses if it said [variable]".
Those commenters probably can't see the responses, so they assume few are responding.
My last poll has over 1200 responses, but federation might not show *you* all of them. And that's OK! But don't assume what you see is what others see here.
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@paradoxmo It uses the word "sheen" on the website, but the colour actually changes depending on the angle it's looked at from, which is why a photo would never do it justice.
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Welp, I had hoped this would arrive before the Canada Post strike. I guess not.
That's unfortunate.
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Was mostly successful at this today. Winding the night down with some tea and a good book.
We'll see how I'm feeling tomorrow.
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"too much mental load? Simply reduce your mental load by writing a to do list"
It's like they don't know that writing a to do list exponentially increases mental load for someone with ADHD
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Wow, I finally got to my "shelf breaker" item: the way the church handles reports of sexual abuse. They actually have the audacity to list "the helpline"* as something that makes people safer.
This is some real Ministry of Truth shit.
Source: lightandtruthletter.org/letter…
* You know, the helpline that has instructed these untrained bishops to not report to the authorities and then move to sweep them under the rug.
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