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Not powerful, but often useful, column -t aligns columns in all lines. EG

    
$ echo {a,bb,ccc}{5,10,9999,888} | xargs -n3
a5 a10 a9999
a888 bb5 bb10
bb9999 bb888 ccc5
ccc10 ccc9999 ccc888
$ echo {a,bb,ccc}{5,10,9999,888} | xargs -n3 | column -t
a5      a10      a9999
a888    bb5      bb10
bb9999  bb888    ccc5
ccc10   ccc9999  ccc888

  

If Trump wasn't an egotistical shithead he would use this to his advantage.

I've switched from using dd to using pv to write disk images to removable media.

Don't run killall on aix before reading the man page!

The huge list of sites can be found here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/tree/master/yt_dlp/extractor

Great call out! I first used ftp about 30 years ago, and lftp has been my go to for about the last decade. I rarely need it anymore, but I still use it for quickly transferring files with my homebrew switch.

I love jq, but I wouldn't call it "surprising simple" for anything but pretty-formatting json. It has a fairly steep learning curve for doing anything with all but the simplest operations on the simplest data structures.

Also, you can make yes return anything:

    
yes no

  

One of my coworkers lost a lot of weight, and when I asked him what he was doing to lose weight he said he was ordering kids meals.

Strong atheism is a belief based on faith

My guess is this is why you're being downvoted, because everything else seems to be accurate.

Saying strong atheism is based on faith is the same as saying that believing dragons definitely do not exist is based on faith. In such a scenario, we all have infinite faith because we all firmly disbelieve in the existence of infinite things. We are so faithful in that scenario that the word faith becomes meaningless.

I'm honestly not sure what your point is in firmly asserting that strong atheism is a faith based belief. At best it seems like dying on a hill of split hairs.

Also for anybody else who is interested, here's some relevant reading material https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheism#Weak_vs._strong_atheism

Believing that The Force isn't real doesn't make me a Star Wars fan, or even a Sci-Fi fan, even though that's a Star Wars belief. People can have strong opinions about something without that belief indicating that they are devout zealots about that topic.

I'm not sure if this is what you were hinting at, but that is called The Malthusian Trap, and we keep finding ways to escape it. Climate was never part of it though, but I agree with you that climate balance is suffering as a result.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-malthusian-trap.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

Seriously. Looking back, Christian love was something that caused a lot of subconscious confusion and friction for me over years, and was probably what started my journey out of Christianity before I had any conscious doubts.

As a person of faith, I have been horrified to watch Christianity’s fall from grace in mainstream America today. Having mentioned my church in passing to a group of peers, I was once recently met with surprise—surprise that I’m a practicing Christian because, I “seem like a nice person.” I’m no biblical scholar, but I’m pretty sure that if people conflate your religion with being a terrible human being you’re probably doing it wrong. Yet in recent years that has arguably become the face of mainstream Christianity, and any Christian who cares about the future of our faith should be deeply concerned.

Amen to that.

There is (or was?) a church in SF Tenderloin that lets people sleep in the sanctuary every weekday. Somebody quietly comes around to offer meals to anybody who is awake. I was already an exchristian at the time, but being there and seeing that was inspiring. It was the kind of church action that every church I ever attended called people to do and claimed to do, but never did.

Edit: here's an article about it https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Project-Gubbio-at-St-Boniface-sanctuary-of-sleep-3407103.php

Looks like it's more than just Tenderloin https://www.thegubbioproject.org/

I guess you were never guilt tripped after being forced to watch Hell's Bells.

Also, Chick Tracts were huge in the 80's and those are not "chill and be a good person" kind of things. Nor is slut shaming. I could go on.

Who needs grandma's love and attention when an artificial surrogate can consume it and dump it all into an aggregated user profile of grandma instead? /s

Meanwhile, my late grandmother was the kind of woman who would notice the television distracting from a conversation, turn it off, and say "tv dominates the room." I miss her a lot.

Plus AI can't eat grandma's peach cobbler a la mode.

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This aligns well with something I wrote during a long period of loneliness and mild depression:

even my successes are failures.

100% agree. I was recently thinking about the Two Minutes Hate and how polarized our politics are these days.

In re-directing the members' subconscious feelings away from the Party's governance of Oceania and toward non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thoughtcrime and the consequent subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals.

Wag The Dog.