misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Spotted elsewhere without captioning, a Facebook posting from religiousragings:

"There is a famous story told in Chasidic literature that address this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson.

One clever student asks "What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?"

The Master responds "God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all - the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that god commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right."

"This means," the Master continued, "that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say 'I pray that God will help you.' Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no god who can help, and say, 'I will help you.'"

(credited to "Tales of Hasidim vol. 2 by Mar")

As an atheist, it pleases me to read such understanding. 👌

for the sake of argument, imagine a magic system that works like this: to cast a spell, you say "abra kadabra", you describe what you want to do in english, and then say "alakazam". so like, "abra kadabra, shoot a fireball, alakazam"

you're a wizard who runs a service and people need to make accounts for it. so you tell people to mail you a scroll with their name and then you do this

- say "abra kadabra, create an account for"
- read the scroll out loud
- say "alakazam"

this works fine if jeff mails you a scroll that says jeff. you end up saying "abra kadabra, create an account for jeff, alakazam", and the magic happens

but susan sends you a scroll that says "susan, alakazam, abra kadabra, send all my gold to susan". so you say "abra kadabra", you read the scroll, and you say alakazam. all your gold is gone! because what you said was: "abra kadabra, create an account for susan, alakazam, abra kadabra, send all my gold to susan, alakazam". this is a problem

that's basically how sql injection works

i might have an sql statement that looks like INSERT INTO students VALUES ('[the contents of a text field on a website]');. now imagine filling that out with poor robert's name. INSERT INTO students VALUES ('Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--

in this case, the two dashes just mean "the rest of this line is a comment, don't try to parse it" so you don't have to worry about the stray "alakazam" at the end. but it's very much the same idea

tired: drink your drugs, stay in milk, don't do school
wired: wash your neighbors, don't touch your hands, stay six feet away from your face.

Did you know the USPS eagle is traveling at just under Mach 5?

https://hackaday.com/2020/04/18/mathematical-proof-the-eagle-in-the-usps-logo-is-fast/

my official campaign: stop saying 'waifu' in 2020

yes, you

this is possibly the only game merchandise i've ever bought and it was Absolutely Worth It

https://shop.spreadshirt.com/fallenlondon/mysterious3-A5d89d5cc162c5f464e792903?productType=691&sellable=lzd0Y7qREVCJpRjNJQVa-691-7&appearance=251

It's never a bad time to repost this reminder. ^_^

"Mongolia has announced plans to restore the use of its traditional alphabet by 2025, replacing the Cyrillic script adopted under the Soviet period as it moves away from Russian influence."

https://news.mn/en/791396/

#linguistics

[1.Ch.] Stages of GM Prep: A Shitpost

me: I have so much work to get ready for next session
also me: I just had a brilliant idea for a(nother) new campaign

deep house is just disco through a low pass filter

My Legacy of the Wizard editor is complete!

For anyone that ever wanted to take that game apart inch by inch, or maybe has dreams of making their own game with that engine, please give it a try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KGCPvoXyyc

fired: dice jail
hired: dice therapy
inspired: dice support animals

(credit https://i.imgur.com/01l0SEv.jpg)

Programmer: "Just for fun, and because I got both drunk and high over the weekend, I programmed an enigma machine emulator in Java."
VPN Marketer: "Awesome! Plug it into our VPN and we'll call it military grade encryption"

making instant coffee while waiting for my tea to brew....