Horatio Nelson

Catholic. American. Male, 39, single. Software developer.

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@RhyminCarly Use certified mail for all checks and things - it proves when you sent it, and that she got it.

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@josephpmbrtn @Heminator @mckaycoppins @TheAtlantic For the record, the correct line is "let us die to make men free."

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@RhyminCarly I'm sorry 😥. I know it doesn't feel like much of a consolation now, but if you keep getting near misses, you'll get hits too: If you can keep applying to similar things, and getting this far, you'll past it. Keep trying!

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@RhyminCarly The entire point of email is that it is asynchronous - you can send whenever, and they will get it when they check. It's mail.

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@berrysweetmum Words have different meaning in different contexts. If you're learning to read - no, it doesn't count. If you're discussing content - yes, it does. Listening to Hop on Pop doesn't make you a reader. Listening to Bible in a Year means you answer 'yes' to "do you read the bible".

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@berrysweetmum Honestly, we don't even know they're real - easy to make an account and slander anyone, these days 🤷‍♂️.

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The honest answer is, every generation has its struggles and limitations. Respectfully, this is a mirror image of "Why does it trigger boomers so much to tell them to fix their own computer? genuinely, what is the deal? why is it so upsetting? are they really that stupid that they can't figure out how to type a question in google?". Or blue-collar workers' same question about changing your own oil, or white-collars' question about shopping car insurance every year. Please, imagine something that is hard for you, that you hate doing, and have some imagination about what particular thing that might be for someone else.

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"They have little fault in this?" I'm sorry - but as they themselves said, they own their suppliers. They chose GCS, and built a system reliant on it. Their response has been very good - transparent and accepting. But this is 100% on them - you never get to blame your suppliers to your customers.

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@deredleritt3r Yes, it's a big moment. But AI has been super-human in some areas since at least ~1700. And yes, the areas have increased a lot over time. But it's on the same continuum.

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It went ok. I didn't get the result I was hoping for, but it wasn't a disaster. 🤷‍♂️

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Please pray for me. I need to do something very difficult and terrifying, and I really need it to go well. Please pray I get the results I am so dearly hoping for! 🙏

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@RhyminCarly @snoopys_version "God loves you."

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@cathquaestor @luinalaska Yes, in fact an Amish man was quite unkind to me as a child, in a way I still remember to this day.

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@HaruhiAisaka @timothyjphelan We have these too in the US. This never works, and, frankly, I'm pretty sure the people running them don't have any evidence to think they work. I suspect they are more concerned with their own self-image, than with actually reaching or helping people 😡

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Cool reference! Thanks 💙. I haven't read more than your little snippet yet, and it definitely has weight, so I'm not discounting it. It is still one bishop's speech, so not definitive on the council fathers as a whole.

Even if he is saying there have been thousands of pure excathedra statements, and is correct about that, it still amounts to roughly once a year. Far from my 'minimalist' account, but also far from what people imagine when they hear 'Catholics believe the Pope is infallible' - not every press conference or off-the-cuff remark is without error.

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I don't think that's quite correct, or I'm not understanding you clearly. I've only encountered this "submit in well and intellect" applied to the magisterial teachings of the Church, not to general statements or letters from the Pope. Obviously ex Cathedra statements from the pope aren't the only way something becomes magisterial (also councils, etc) - but if we're talking about papal infallibility...

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I didn't say that Papal infallibility was the only source of magisterial (infallible) teaching in the Church. It's not. But the others like councils, etc. are more involved and involve other bishops, etc. So they don't rely on the Pope in at all the same way. The Catholic church acknowledges that Popes are wrong all the time.

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@owenbroadcast Oops, you're right. I misremembered the immaculate conception as being early 1900s, but it was in fact 1850s. Sorry!

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IANAL, but let me take a crack at this. If you have a busted tail light, the Cop has the right, as decided by the supreme court, to hold even the passengers of the car until the stop is completed. They are detained. This case looks symmetric to me. A violation did occur, and the cop has the right to perform a stop of the vehicle. And to detain the passengers until the stop is resolved.

The law does not demand that the violation be by any of the occupants of the vehicle - if the driver is borrowing the car, but the owner of the car didn't properly register the vehicle, a stop can be made. Same here - as I read the statutes, the cop can stop a Waymo if its registration is expired, regardless of whether it has any passengers or not. And if it does, he can detain those passengers until the stop is concluded.