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Last paragraph…

"Then the wheel falls off while you’re driving, or the autopilot plows into a jersey wall, and you’re meant to be thrilled.* Glad even. Grateful! This is proof: You were an early adopter. A beta tester, a brave explorer. You’re helping to work out the bugs, mapping new territory. Who knows? In a hundred years this car’s descendants might be as reliable as cars that by then will be 150 years old, and you will have played a part in making it so. Won’t that be nice.

*Assuming you lived through it."

Gorny McGorn Face

Wildermyth. It is a good game.

I wore a Hamilton Khaki Field King on the daily for close to 15 years before I finally switched over to a Garmin smartwatch. The leather strap is more comfortable than a metal bracelet IMO and the watch case is distinctive enough to be a noteworthy fashion statement without being ostentatiously clunky.

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

Something of hers came up on random and I thought, “This is good.” So I listened to a couple more songs and thought, “Hey, these are good too…” And then I saw she had like 7 albums out already and realized, “Holy shit, these are all good!”

0.05% for Dessa at 1,720 minutes (165k monthly listeners).

Is it alright?

It’s more nuanced than that, but generally speaking papal infallibility today only extends to very limited circumstances where the Pope puts on his special papal infallibility hat and says, “I hereby decree…” some specific topic of church law.

A handful of relatives at Thanksgiving wanted to have a conversation/diatribe about what the pope was doing wrong but hey look, I’m gonna go stand over here instead.

X-COM with the Long War mod is where it’s at.

This isn’t going to go down with the strongly Catholic members of my family, all of whom believe they know Church doctrine better than the pope.