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"I thought that you said you were 20 years old!"
"As a programmer, yes," she replied,
"And you claimed to be very near two meters tall!"
"You said you were blonde, but you lied!"
Oh, she was a hacker and he was one, too,
They had so much in common, you'd say.
They exchanged jokes and poems, and clever new hacks,
And prompts that were cute or risque'.
He sent her a picture of his brother Sam,
She sent one from some past high school day,
And it might have gone on for the rest of their lives,
If they hadn't met in L.A.
"Your beard is an armpit," she said in disgust.
He answered, "Your armpit's a beard!"
And they chorused: "I think I could stand all the rest
If you were not so totally weird!"
If she had not said what he wanted to hear,
And he had not done just the same,
They'd have been far more honest, and never have met,
And would not have had fun with the game.
-- Judith Schrier, "Face to Face After Six Months of
Electronic Mail"

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There are a lot of people on here who seem to be sincerely seeking The Lord. Please take a moment to reflect on this passage from Romans 12. We all have a lot of work to do, it's not just as simple as selecting the winning team. Satan wants us to be cruel to our enemies.

17 Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.
18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.
19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
20 “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves:
the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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I used Mandrake back in high school and so hearing Open Mandriva the direct descendant of Linux Mandrake is certifiably anti woke has me very interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1AWos_zm6o
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@FranciscoScaramanga@noauthority.social lol

@Flick from what i know, bad idea to keep it on while asleep, some risk of carbon monoxide death. Has happened in my region

@ThatCrazyDude @Dan_Ramos so that they get immunity from prosecution (read persecution)

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@blueraven7 @black6

"It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic."

That much is true. The rest is, ironically, also the same lunacy coming from a form of scientism.

@Vo i still cant post even images for some reason from the app (tusky). Works on desktop

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Gorgeous likeness of the statue of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and the Greek model Andri Cartoni.

#archaeohistories

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As I am seeing some Medium links in my timeline today, and Medium is pretty annoying (pop-overs and all), reminder you can just replace:

> medium.com

…with:

> scribe.rip

In any Medium link and get a wonderful simple unobtrusive reading experience instead.

#Medium #ScribeRip #AlternativeFrontends

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