I used to read a blogger who insisted that "All right, I'll go to Hell," from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature. Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a "Get thee behind me," and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too. Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because "they can change their name, I'm not changing mine."

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I have a lot of ambivalence about Jordan Peterson but there's a lot to chew over in this:

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it's really useful to investigate the viewpoints of people who have opposing views to yours because they'll tell you things - not only will they tell you things you don't know it'll also tell you how to see the world in ways that you don't see it and they'll also have skills that you don't have

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but agreeable people especially if they're really agreeable, are so agreeable that they often don't even know what they want because they're so accustomed to living for other people, to finding out what other people want and to trying to make them comfortable and so forth that it's harder for them to find a sense of their own desires as they move through life

This one especially is on my mind, as I try and explore if "anhedonia" - not feeling pleasures as sharply as most folks - might be cause rather than an effect of my "group think" and looking to objective corectness through the group. Yesterday's meteorite was going at 75,000mph! I kind of forgot space stuff is that stuff. Earth's orbit speed is around 67K mph. And the speed at the equator is around 1,000 mph.

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The dark side isn't evil, it just draws Force from emotions. The Sith decided the strongest emotions are the grief and anger you get from the Sith training, so it seems evil. Other grey force users have drawn force from within using other emotions and were powerful, too.

The light side is not "good" either, it just draws force externally. Perfectly possible to be evil, it just helps to meditate a lot and be very calm and neutral, which means most light side users are very controlled and reasonable.

All the light and dark talk is just propaganda and distraction by Jedi, the dominant force users, to make everyone think they're inherently good.

Probably a little too relativist for most trufans in a "From My Point of View, the Jedi are evil" kinda way but still. Like I'm sure if you think deeply enough about it may or may not hold up - that Dark side Force isn't intrinsically evil, but more likely to be amplifier of hot emotions.

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Con..."grad"...ulations Reena and Roman

Lovely little game Portrait Gallery of an Artist by Daniel Linssen - exploring recrusive spaces, as if the "M" in M C Escher stood for "Mario".

(Tbh I bailed about half way through, my walljump mojo was weak, so I sought out a longplay to see the rest)

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Funny rant domain: Just f***ing use HTML. (Is it weird that I'm "censoring" cussing?)

(Not to nerdily miss the point, but I think the PHP/JSON-on-Filesystem//HTML5/CSS/Vanilla JS stack  is the logical extension of that when you actually do need to get a little data onto or off of the server. Buildless, evergreen, runs for years, avoids package dependency hell...)

It reminds me of The iPhone is a piece of s***, and so is your face, extolling the virtues of the clever foldy keyboard Nokia E70 over the then new iPhone. Obviously iPhone-ish slabphones won - but it took iPhone a while to catch up to that -- recording video, an app store, even copy and paste weren't there at first...

(I suspect that second rant page - a "cgi" page still surviving like almost two decades now - has the same "technology should just work for years" attitude of the first rant.)

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There was a loud boom heard all over Boston Metro area at about 2:11

Some point out it South Carolina had something similar Thursday.

This xitter points to maybe a meteorite...

Damn S+S gonna close. I (re)met my ex-wife there...