“President barely passes budget despite his party holding both chambers of Congress” isn’t a major anything.
It is a despicable continuation of the November 2024 disaster, but this isn’t anything worse than what anyone with any wisdom at all saw coming seven months ago.
(It is less-bad than it could have been, in the way that food soaked in piss is less-bad than food smeared with feces. Small victories, though…)
1: what the frick are you doing in Excel that needs even 10^2 columns? Rows go up to 2^20 (~10^6), and the thing starts to run like ass way before that.
2: Excel does have a RXCX format, if you really do need to go out hundreds of columns.)
3: feel free to ignore. Bitching about being forced to use the wrong tool is definitely more stress than anyone needs.
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In NY we have these amazing devices, where they can adhere a chemical to blank ballots before voters mark them to be scanned.
It’s a fairly obscure tech, kind of like an additive manufacturing rig that, instead of adding one plane at a time to build a 3D physical thing from the bottom up, uses small rows of line segments to create a two-dimensional image. These “printers” used to be widespread, but still do have enough niche uses that the government was able to acquire some fairly easily.
It’s also going to make that lawsuit in New Paltz very interesting.
Right now non-voters are essentially checking a quantum waveform of a box, that collapses to endorsement of the eventual winner.
Id much rather they make a choice, even a random one.
Your experience is far from universal. Working with actual code files, visual studio works very good.
Mix in XAML blazor, however…
(Note that both file formats are abstractions from which C# classes are.generated…)
There are no such things as unreconcilable contradictions.
*: and by “common” I mean “as I believe most Christians understand it.”. I’m sure some don’t, and that there’s at least one sect that would call me funny names for saying anything.
Common* christian theology posits that God is a perfect judge of law and fact, seeing as she has both infinite patience, infinite subjective time, and accurate knowledge of everyone’s points of view.
“Why does evil persist on Earth then” comes down to either said evil being necessary for some unseen purpose, said evil being irrelevant to God’s plans, or said evil being the consequence of some mortal privilege. Or some combination thereof.
There has been a lot of christian thought about why evil persists, and settling on an answer to it is essentially the base of all persistent ecumenical schisms. Other religions add even greater complexity, because once you examine perspectives off the abeahamic tree you quickly find that not even “Good” is consistently defined.
The moral and philosophical questions don’t get much easier if you remove God from the equation, or even if you adopt a nihilistic “only the momentary physical now matters” perspective.
If you don’t believe me, try coming up with an answer to “why is killing bad” that you can get agreement on. (Not just “is killing bad,” but an actual casual why.)
According to snopes, it looks like you need either fraud, professional misconduct, or an interaction beyond an anonymous donation.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/woman-sued-sperm-donor-for-child-support/
'course, it’s easy to imagine a woman telling some guy she wants a “sperm donor” and then being awarded child support. Which, in fairness, is also usually a strong argument from the guy to have partial custody.
There are some applications where “industrial energy” isnt electricity or motion but instead simply heat.
AFAIK synthetic fuels would be more dollar-effkcient for many usages than an equivalent electric heater, even if we ignore the tooling cost.
But if its not a blowtorch and instead just motion, electricity is electricity and the only thing really special about “industrial use” is the amount demanded.
Graceful degredation is a choice, made in the negative by survivors of the dot-com bubbles that fiercely want to extract a level of customer loyalty that mere “actual companies” could never dream of.
Business software is a weird world. Made weirder than there absolutely are people paid by Intuit (not OP) whose job is to convince people who don’t currently pay for QuickBooks that paying for QuickBooks will solve whatever quickbooks-esque problem they have.
It’s worse in the IT side. I’m modestly sure that COBOL and Java are only still around because of IBM and Oracle sales staff.
(Maybe less so for Java than COBOL. Or maybe Oracle’s sales team is just better.)
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If you think either Apple or Microsoft wouldn’t do that,.you’ve likely too young to know about “hackingtosh” computers or too nerdy to have read the windows 11 coverage.
That neither company would do it without a profit motive is a good argument to ban both from running “app stores”.
There is no pattern of facts where “Apple gets to collect a tax on any transaction you make on your iPhone” is a good thing
No apologies necessary*. I certainly wasn’t trying to offend, just be accurate in model setting.
A more accurate umbrella term for “affair tolerant monogamy” would probably be “non-monogamous”, with the dividing line between that and “polyamory” being exactly what you said : all persons in the relationship cluster knowing the stances of all other participants.
Accurate and non-offensive terminology can be hard.
It does circle us back to OP, though. The answer to “what happens when one couple breaks up in a polucule” is a loud and emphatic that depends on what type of polucule you’re in.
(*: no apologies needed from you. To the extent that I caused you any distress I sincerely apologize. Causing pain was not at all my intent.)
While this is certainly a valid form of romance, it’s more accurately described as “non-exclusive simultaneous relationships” than a single “polyamorous relationship”.
Some people really do live in multi-partner committed households, but those seem most often to be dominated by a single person, such as fringe Mormon polygamy. And the most common form of "polyamory’ is probably “affair-tolerant monogamy.”
It’s a big complicated world, and variations of how humans with form intimate relationships fills all possibilities when there is no enforced legal prohibition. (And,.sometimes, even then.)
The star trek prime directive is essentially “every species has the right to develop their own culture.”. Which nicely mirrors an EPD phrasing of “every person had the right to develop their own gender.”
If we instead go with a phrasing like “never interfere with pre-warp societies”, we’d need to add on bits about “except when they’re about to die” or “except when the fate of the galaxy is at stake”.or “except if you know them really well”, and have a codicil for the similar principle where warp-capable species also get to do their own thing.
Here’s a useful starting point I found from a five minute web search, which helpfully has pointers to where the author believes the term originates.
God said no such thing.
The Roman Catholic Popes and cardinals are the ones who said “no divorce.”
When Moses wrote down the law, the rule was was “ok, divorce if you must.”
According to the Gospels, Jesus (God) appropriately said “divorce is bad, and leaving your wife for a younger model is just adultery with extra steps.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+19&version=NIV
(Matthew 19, the aforementioned gospel.)
https://www.insight.org/resources/article-library/individual/what-did-jesus-say-about-divorce
(A Texas pastor opining on the topic. A bit too anti-sex for my taste, but a fair sample of Texas conservative Christendom.)