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... yeah, general church practice has changed pretty radically in the last two millennium. Hell, there's been fairly major shifts in living memory, nevermind the differences between any few centuries over the last couple thousand years. Texts themselves may not have changed much, but the emphasis and expression? The surrounding organizations? Those have experienced (and are experiencing) fairly serious flux.

I'd been assuming the people with laptops actually wanted to move it around occasionally, otherwise you'd get a desktop if you could, ya?

Depends a fair amount on available space, honestly. As isp notes, the tower and monitor are significantly more clumsy transit and space wise. It... it's not easy to get a tower in bed with you. Laptop can fit comfortably on a twin. No need for desks, chairs, etc., just wherever you can lay down or whatev'. And if you're moving regularly-ish between places, well...

My case, though, it's mostly just been a series of cost/availability coincidences. I don't really want a laptop, but it's what I've been able to get cheapest (second-hand, family leavings, etc.) for a while now. Still, "tiny desktop" does have some pretty significant advantages in terms of convenience, even if you can't move it any further from an outlet than you could a desktop. When I finally do get around to getting a new desktop, there's going to be shenanigans involving the monitor, a breakfast/lap table, and hinges. The tower will go under the bed or summat.

It's starting to look like another kitten has been converted to the glory of fingers. Cute lil' black one, this time. The now really friendly tortoiseshell that's 2-3 times the kitten's size appears to be somewhat jealous :3

... am slightly worried she might eat the kitten, now, but still. Fingerlolo~

... so it doesn't. Fixed.

I always assumed that the popularity of church was partly due to the "like-minded community" aspect. What does church provide that prayer alone doesn't otherwise?

A priest to mangle the bible into horrible shapes, mostly, with a nice sideline of behavior explicitly contrary to the text (sup matthew 6:1-15) :V

The rest of it is pretty much entirely social, yeah. Not even about being around like-minded people, really (that helps, but churches are often quite fractious*), it's just entrenched enough in a lot of places people realistically don't have a choice but to attend if they want to have any meaningful degree of community integration. Combine that with conditioning the youth to attend and you've got a fair amount of the reason the vast majority of churchgoers go.

*Church politics are often amazing (to watch, from a distance). It's like normal clique/social maneuvering, except the people involved are entirely willing to claim each other are pawns on the devil or cite aural hallucinations as justification for their actions with an entirely straight face, and then shift track not five minutes later. And that's just within a particular congregation! What gets said about other congregations is better left unsaid

Fried chicken is amazing. To hell with the ramen, just eat the chicken.

No, no. You strip off the fried chicken skin, shred up the chicken itself into the ramen, and then eat the skin separate. Skin's the only good part about fried chicken, the rest can be noodlefodder.

'Course, a fun thing you can do is the above, but once you've mixed in the chicken, wrap bits of noodled chicken in the skin and eat that. Can do that with lots of things, really. It's glorious.

I feel like this case was over the threshold, is all.  Lone cop, suspect tries to drive away then run, then when nonlethally subdued he keeps hiding his hands.  There's only so much we can expect from an officer.

Pictured: Why you should never call an ambulance or the cops in any case where you have someone injured (or having some variation of psychotic episode) but still mobile. Or maybe just ever, at this point. Non-compliance, even when compliance may not be physically possible, is apparently sufficient grounds for a police officer to kill you. Better to risk bleeding out or your family member committing suicide or whathaveyou, I guess.

Also, note. You probably don't have much coherence after you've been tazed and brought to the ground. Just kinda' throwing that out there.

There's days I wonder if people even know how to compare GPUs, anymore. I definitely don't, and they seem to have stopped using anything descriptive in the hardware names years ago. CPUs've kinda' been having the same problem, too. Just tell me it's a 3 ghz piece, damnit, not some weird name/model number BS. Even getting kinda' rough with hard drives and ram and junk. I distinctly remember it being easier to figure out what to upgrade to, a decade (or two) ago...