jakeva

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Software developer in Salt Lake City. Elixir/Phoenix, Golang. https://jva.lol — essays, travelogs, haikus https://mastodon.social/@jvalol

I build https://popsicleboat.com

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Comment · 3 years ago
The big one was about 10 years ago and I agree with you about letting go of the past. I'm no longer angry or bitter. I got into another serious relationship a few years ago and it didn't end well either but not as bad. I found myself not as affected by it. Both taught me a lot. Where I am now I'm happy to be single, I can do what I want. Nobody to argue with or plan my weekend for me. I'm open to another relationship in the future but I'm not really looking for one and I see things in potential relationships differently and with more skepticism.
Comment · 3 years ago
I haven't been single all my life, but the relationships I have had have taught me things that makes it easier to be single. I remember the good times fondly, but the bad times remind me why being single isn't so bad.
Comment · 4 years ago
I did, and lots of former mormons who leave their religion and embrace the vices of the world after their two year mission.
Comment · 4 years ago
Where I work the P in PTO means "paid"
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm irrationally annoyed that the first graphic misspells "stash" twice.
Comment · 4 years ago
I prefer working from the office, even if it’s empty. 99% of my interactions continue to be remote but I like to have somewhere that isn’t my home office to do work. I don’t like being _that_ much of a hermit.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
But shaming victims is acceptable?
Comment · 5 years ago
I've got ls aliased to exa
Comment · 5 years ago
The first mention of Christianity is one in which it is rejected

"In Plato’s Timaeus, God does not create the universe, as does the Christian God; He simply finds it one day. It is in a state of total chaos. God sets to work to transform the chaos into order. That idea appeals to me, and I have adapted it to fit my own intellectual needs: What if our universe started out as not quite real, a sort of illusion, as the Hindu religion teaches, and God, out of love and kindness for us, is slowly transmuting it, slowly and secretly, into something real?"

Comment · 5 years ago
"But the problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups — and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into the heads of the reader, the viewer, the listener"

I wonder what he would think of today's world

Comment · 5 years ago
My interpretation would be closer to "the jab slows the spread".

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