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Embrace the power of And. Material and non-material explanations for things are 100% non-exclusive. More than one thing can be true at a time.

"This isn't something humans are built to fully understand" is sometimes perfectly reasonable and useful theology, and sometimes a total cop-out.

And it can be hard to tell which is which.

Hm, just realized I've never seen a jellyfish 'sona. I want to see that now :)

Free Will doesn't exist because time is fake. Whatever. We have agency and subjectivity and those are way more important.

g'night.

some financial bullshit 

I'm half-tempted to see if I can just immediately refinance with BECU, because they are decidedly not-shitty and I got the insurance check for the stolen car.

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some financial bullshit 

wtfff.

So when I was looking up the credit union the car dealership was offering a better loan with, I saw someone saying "hey it's $12 to make payments and that's bullshit". I asked the salesman about that, and he said "don't worry that's only for phone payments, it's free online".

Turns out the only free payments are for auto-pay. Everything else is $12. I don't want autopay since I plan on making more than minimum payments.

A commonly heard refrain in the let's play/instructional series I'm watching is "as we all know, trees are the real enemy."

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There's something I find weirdly compelling about how Factorio is so unapologetic about the mission being to steamroll over vast swaths the native ecology and replace it with a giant automated megafactory.

Y'all, joining Mastodon was one of the better decisions I made in 2017 :)

Today's gonna be the day where I deal with most of the financial/bureaucratic stuff I've been putting off for the last couple weeks :D

Some good news this morning:

Washington state is now also allowing changing a birth certificate to "X" instead of M or F!

I got an email about it just this morning. :-)

doh.wa.gov/LicensesPermitsandC

Seems like this is a day for people to be unhappy about work shit, huh :(

Fun moment from new year's party:
Someone saying something kinda gay, prompting me to excitedly exclaim "less bien!", immediately followed by three people simultaneously shouting "GIRLS!"

Thanks as always to @sev@witches.town​ for MCing and writing these down; I'm crossposting off of her on bird site :)

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