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That was something I actually really liked about old Twitter: with only 140 characters (or whatever the original limit was), you really couldn’t add the extra fluff to soften your opinion. You just said what you meant as succinctly as possible and let the masses react as they will.

I’d like to think it forced more people to go “mask off” with their opinions and stop hiding behind fluff, but it also perpetuated an attitude of toxicity that made Twitter ripe for extremist exploitation

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I’ve never done it and now I feel bad :(

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It’s a nightjar ninja who comes in during the cutscene

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This is one interpretation of the story, but definitely not the accepted interpretation amongst the varying sects of Christianity.

Catholicism espouses that Mary was without sin, and Protestants generally disagree (Lutherans being the notable exception). They also believe that the trinity is intertwined yet separate (God is the father, Jesus the son, and the spirit a procession of both)

Most protestant sects generally believe that Mary was not without sin, but did indeed become pregnant without sex. They consider Jesus the biological son of God, and therefore fully human and fully divine (this is supposed to be a paradox and not make sense). Jesus is affirmed to be God’s actual son in all 4 gospels and several of the Epistles.

There doesn’t need to be a “logical” explanation free of contradictions and impossibilities in Jesus’s origin, simply due to the fact that he is God, and therefore above human understanding.

Source: I grew up in the church and was surrounded by theologians against my will. I got out, but the knowledge is still knocking around in my head.

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Don’t give up hope! Both Bilbo and Frodo were called to adventure by Gandalf at 50, and Bilbo left the shire for more adventure at 111.

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Of course not, don’t be foolish.

Inserting oneself into another’s bubble without thought or tact can make one come off as creepy or threatening.

All it takes is thinking with your eyes, ears, and brain rather than your dick.

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What would be a good method to minimize gaming addiction in kids?

I agree that time limits aren’t ideal, but is there a better solution besides vetting every single piece of media a child wants to consume? I grew up with both, and it just taught me to be sneaky, which then ended up with me exposing myself to some truly awful stuff on the internet

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Regardless of how much any teen cares about their after school job, it’s just that: an after school job.

This opinion of service work expressed in the OP doesn’t seem to realize that if we restricted these jobs to only the people who don’t “need” a living wage, then there would be no fast food for lunch, no quick trips to the store during school hours, and no starbucks in the morning on the way to work during the school year. If you want the convenience of near instant food and services at any time of the day, then you need to pay the price of giving the workers a living wage (or we end up where we are today)

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I agree, a good pocket knife is a great purchase!

One thing for readers to keep in mind is that unless you know how to fight with a knife (and know that the assailant doesn’t have a firearm), then it’s a very bad idea to brandish a knife even as a threat. If the assailant is able to disarm you, then you’ll be in a much worse situation than if you didn’t have the knife at all.

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