How can everything be without purpose, and yet be capable of generating purpose? I'm perpetually challenged, trying to remember that I am the unreasonable one in this conversation.

Culminating, of course, in the one that the ultimate goal of it all is other than Single Prayer.
But who will bother with wallets anymore, once paradise is fully legislated? Private property is so capitalist.

I'm relatively confident that somebody opened the /. article table in phpMyAdmin and just edited the title field.

The Argument Clinic.

If it was only a bug, it was a very peculiar one at that. I was able to pretty much declare relationships with any other ID during the time when I could not do so with you. I was wondering if perhaps they intentionally changed the code so as to make it impossible to pick a relationship with an account that is less than X days old?

A more interesting bug, IMHO, was seen here on the front page very recently. That article exceeded the character limit for an article title when it first hit the front page (and of course Timothy, in his infinite wisdom, did not notice it). The solution apparently was to change the code (perhaps only for that story? who knows...) to allow for a longer title for that story.

Notice that of course they did that for a story that aims to make the democratic party look bad. Had the story been aimed at the republicans ... well, it wouldn't have ever made it to the front page anyways.

"while you are here, in your non-dirt phase, make the best of it"

It's like The Best of Bread, with less nutrition.

Dirt is without purpose.

Indeed, hyper-materialism means nothing. I've never denied my origin, or current existential status. Nor am I fogged in, dead, or asleep. I anticipate your simple Argument Clinic contradiction, and will keep praying for your escape.

I don't know what the wait was supposed to accomplish, but I was finally able to put you on my friends list today.

I don't know if you saw the article here a week or so ago, but there was a front page story linking to an NPR story on scientists giving up on their careers because the funding situation is so miserable in this country. There are literally labs closing down in every top-tier research school (Ivy Leagues not excluded) as we speak due to funding. There hasn't been a raise in funding to even match inflation in many years, and meanwhile schools are hitting PIs for more money to keep the lights on. If you could gather up a .5-1M dollar budget (Canadian and US dollars are close enough to interchangeable on this matter) you could talk any of a number of excellent labs from excellent schools to come to your side of the border.

I have many Canadian friends, colleagues, and relatives. They have provided great examples for me of how most of the FUD over the problems with the Canadian system are indeed just FUD. The waits are no worse than here in the states, with the added bonus of knowing that whatever they do to you, it won't be able to drive you to financial ruin.

As someone whose insurance on the American side of the border nearly drove him out of school and into the poor house (by none of my own fault), I can see real value in that.

Perhaps tough was not the best word for that application. You seem to be describing what I was aiming for, though. I can't say I have any idea what I would do if I found myself down the same path.

On a completely different note, I remember some time back you had a series of JEs along the lines of "stupid landlord tricks". My wife and I recently moved out of a rental house and it seems that our now-ex-landlord is following a similar playbook to yours. Hopefully I don't have to take this fool to court.

"you continue to play dumb"

I doubt I'm out-dumbing you.

Oh just get stuffed. You can't argue hyper-materialism here, then "little mysteries" there. Oh, wait: in crapflood mode, such contradictions are a requirement.

If it makes no difference at all, because you are Dirt, then the illusion of "how you want to live" also dissolves into nihilistic dirt, Dirt. You can slam your fingers in your Overton Window, but it was all variations on dirt, Dirt. At least, that seems the conclusion of your course. With which I don't fully agree. Sure, the flesh is dirt, but our very conversation itself negates the assertion that dirt is all there is.

And then the big reveal that "reactive programming" was really a cover name for "Macho Grande programming".
All those coders who swore on pain of death that they'd never be over Macho Grande then get together for a bit of Agile Pair Scrum seppuku.

Yuda man.