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Cake day: March 7th, 2026

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  • I just noticed after typing this that you use your keyboard on the couch?

    Yeah it’s kind of a weird set up… Tower is on the floor to my left, keyboard in my lap (or ontop of the tower when not in use), to my right there’s a center console thing with cup holders and a little storage area for remotes and such: I rigged up a mousepad on that, and the cord feeds in through that storage area then between the cushions and around the back of the couch into the tower. Monitor sits on a coffee table in front of me. Right of the center console is my wife’s comfy spot, and straight across from that is a wall mounted TV.

    I don’t give a rat’s ass about tv shows, and she doesn’t give a rat’s ass about videogames, but this setup allows us to be plopped down next to each other but doing our own thing on screen.

    And the couch is the most comfortable computer chair ever!!








  • You’re pretty much describing the epicurian paradox. God, or at least the Christian (and similar) god, is presented as being three things in an absolute sense:

    1 - All powerful. His will is our reality, period.

    2 - All good. He doesn’t have even the tiniest shred of evil.

    3 - All knowing. He is completely aware of everything that happens in this reality.

    But we can plainly observe evil every time we so much as turn the news on, so how can that exist in the reality made by a god who demonstrates the three traits above?

    Every single attempt at answering that paradox just shuffles two of the three pillars. (feel free to take a crack at it if you think you’ve got a solution, but this is very much a ‘gotcha!’ kind of situation that you might get really frustrated with, so, fair warning).

    I was raised Christian, but this is a big part of what killed it for me. It boils down to accepting that if there is a god, the Christian presentation of it is mistaken at best, or dishonest at worst, and if we can’t be accurate or honest about even our own diety, then we have no basis for the rest of our religion.