I miss Mitch 😢

🔪 😜

I grew up in (and eventually left) a conservative Christian church, so I don’t have a good idea of how aware normal people are when it comes to the fears and obsessions of that community. From stories like these I think that there’s hardly any awareness at all – which is totally fine! Those beliefs are erroneous and damaging! But two things worth understanding if you want to know why these complaints of theirs are so common (and wrong of course):

1. Evangelicals believe that if the existence of same-sex attraction is kept secret then no one would ever be gay, and

2. Evangelicals believe that sexy media leads to horniness, which leads to jerking-off, which is a sin – whereas horrifying bloody violence does not.

It’s funny how three or four AI models have become the equivalent of the electronics engineer’s “jellybean parts.” Need a little AI to get people to look at your company? Just grab one out of the jar!

“So…”

“He slimed me!”

“Sir, I posit the existence of a ‘Level 4’ diagnostic, though it may only exist in a higher dimension.”

“Space is the infinite extension of the three-dimensional region in which all matter exists.”

His distinctiveness was a little TOO distinctive, if you know what I mean.

Or, if Spirit Halloween ever loses the official Trek license:

Relevant xkcd:

Too deep.

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“The Special? That’s what I ordered!”

Ut oh, they’re evolving…

“I’ve figured out how to keep the trilbies from spreading, Jim! Just stop feeding them!”

If your employer wants to spend its money on certification, by all means go for it

For real, if you haven’t already try to find every bit of employer-paid training that’s available, it’s worth looking into. My workplace has a corp Microsoft learning account that will pay for one certification test a year, and other deals with online training platforms for free classes that don’t result in “certificates” exactly, but do provided verifiable proof of completion you can post to your LinkedIn or socials. (The real benefit is the knowledge you gain of course, but it’s nice to have some acknowledgment of what you’ve learned.)

“Actually never mind, I’m good.”