I’m currently playing a tabaxi rogue based off Slinky Malinki, but I also want to play a tabaxi barbarian based off Scarface Claw.

My kids really love those books, and it turns out kids books make great scaffolds for RP characters.

Try using “to the best of my knowledge”, I find it is indicating that your knowledge is not complete.

But it also indicates you have thought of the situation.

What I’m getting at, is not about finishing books, it’s more about the time.

Slow down, take the time, even 10 minutes, to improve your mind. Reading, any type of reading, improves your thinking.

I use keepass XC, and keep it up to date on all my devices using syncthing.

I have considered bitwarden with self hosting, but keepass had always worked well.

Read books.

Really anything, philosophy is great but some don’t have the patience for it.

If it’s graphic novels or “kids” books, it’s all good. Spend a bit of time every day reading.

Just use a password manager, FFS it makes all of your online interactions safer.

Once setup, it is easier than not using one.

Christmas and guy Fawkes are especially out of place.

Yes, let’s encourage the public use fireworks in summer. Great plan.

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That is cheap compared to NZ

I have always wondered what a white Christmas would be like.

Usually it is baking hot here, none of the “traditional” foods make sense…

I’m not sure what to say…that really sucks.

Wow that is expensive.

In NZ I’m on a 300/100 plan with no data cap, for $77/month. That is about $43USD/month.

Have they tried “thoughts and prayers”?

I get this, after working retail as a teen/early 20’s. I hated the music, the commercial nature of everything, the fakeness of it all. As a special extra, for those in the southern hemisphere “traditional” Christmas food is so dumb here.

But you know what “cured” me of this. My kids, they are what it’s all about, they love the songs and gifts, time with us. Lake days and sun… its all wonderful to them.

It is not “just” quantum physics that shows the deterministic universe is impossible.

Relativity theory shows, there is no “universal clock”, this is distinct from Newtonian physics which assumes a single universal clock.

You may not want to accept that the universe is not deterministic, and there are big gaps in our understanding of reality, but this isn’t one of them. On a fundamental level, the universe is probabilistic.

You are in good company however, Einstein famously said “god doesn’t play dice with the universe”, when he initially discovered this fact. He came to accept its reality, at the evidence is overwhelming.

Following the teachings of a blue hedgehog

One option…lean in, HARD! Dial the crazy up to 11… One up every point she makes, every single time.

You don’t even need external drivers. Reading Stoic philosophy, and abiding by the teachings will get you there also.

Your argument is circular.

In your view, determinism requires impossible perfect knowledge. It only seems probabilistic, because we can’t do the impossible.

This is also not a technology problem. These are not limits we can overcome.

If you are really interested, look into the uncertainty principle.

At this point in science we are as convinced as is possible to be; that the universe is probabilistic in nature.