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Trump Slams The Beauty Of A Lotus Flower In Scathing Truth Social Haiku - The Onion

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“STEM UGLY. BEAUTY A HOAX! LOSER LILY. SAD!”

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Devastating take down.

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Free to What? - Catholic Husband

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Freedom is thought to be the ability to do whatever someone wants, as long as it doesn’t impact another. This definition trivializes what freedom is because it severs the connection between choice and purpose. I could do any number of things that would not affect others and would be profoundly harmful to me. That’s not freedom.

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➕

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Free to What? catholichusband.com

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I’m happy to share that the latest issue of Applied Bioethics Magazine is now available!

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Along with the release comes a total redesign of the website, which I think matches project nicely.

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Enjoy!

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Issue No. 02 - The Family

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🦉

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Trump Waives Sanctions Against Russia Just Before New Law Takes Effect - WSJ

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In the executive order, Trump stated that waiving implementation of most aspects of the law was “in the national interests of the United States.”

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It isn’t.

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@manton looks awesome!

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I saw an interview with the Chick-fil-A CEO and he said they wouldn’t participate in shrinkflation.

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Sorry, bro, not true. The cookies and breakfast scramble are definitely smaller. And I say that as a Chick-fil-A Signature Member.

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🐓

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Saturday breakfast.

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Tiger Woods Unimpressed With Roadster As He’s Flipped Dozens Of Vehicles - Babylon Bee

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“And I didn’t need any fancy technology to do it,” he said. “Just pure talent.”

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Blowing off our responsibilities.

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Watched: Mulan 🍿

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Episode 287: American Girl Doll Day: chetjcollins.com

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Quick stop at the library.

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Dave Ramsey Terrorizes Neighborhood In Adjustable-Rate Mortgage Costume - Babylon Bee

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“Boo! I’m here to make your monthly mortgage payment significantly higher!”

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Apple Pages > Microsoft Word

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What Hell Is - Catholic Husband

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What hell is isn’t really the point. Hell is not a created place, it is a place that is defined by what it lacks: God.

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➕

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What Hell Is: catholichusband.com

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Lot Wins Halloween Couples Costume Contest Dressed As Pepper Shaker - Babylon Bee

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“We had talked for years about doing a couples costume,” explained Lot. “She would always pick something, then change her mind a dozen times, and it would never actually happen. This year, she was pretty set, you might say. I know she would have been pumped to win”

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View out of the sunroof that I’ve never noticed.

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@bloftin2 I have the MV88+. I was way better about recording regularly when my kids are younger, but still love the way that I can go back and hear their little voices from years ago.

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@manton No edits. I ended up having to send the link via Dropbox to the .wav file. I record in Motiv and drop it into wavelength. I have the intro as a separate clip, so my workflow is to start a new podcast in Wavelength, drop in the intro clip and then the podcast I just recorded, and hit publish

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@manton I recorded on my MV88+ in the Motiv app which used the wav format. The file is too big to email, so I just uploaded it to my account. It is right next to the Wavelength upload.

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@manton I just used the updated Wavelength for the first time. My voice is distorted from the recording I imported from Motiv. Is there a layer of processing that I’m missing in the new version?

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Episode 286: Bowling: chetjcollins.com

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Egypt Saved After Joseph Advises Pharaoh To Stock Up On Emergency Food Buckets From My Patriot Supply - Babylon Bee

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“My Patriot Supply is the original and largest ‘patriot’ survival company,” said Joseph. “Without them, we’d be stuck storing grain in silos, and that’s a lot of extra work.”

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Leatherman Glider: chetjcollins.com

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I’m very happy with the fact that my smoke detectors all run on the same circuit and alarm when any one of them detects a problem.

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But the late-late night false alarms are just the worst.

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These Influencers Are on a Mission to Stop People From Paying Medical Bills - WSJ

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Ian Howard was shocked to get a $1,000 bill for a brief visit to the emergency room that determined he sprained his ankle in a fall last year. Instead of fighting the bill, he just didn’t pay it.

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I am no advocate of the vague and slow billing for medical services. But I wonder how long Ian would have a job if his employer’s all customers decided to steal $1,000 of their goods and services.

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Theft of service isn’t a remedy; it’s theft.

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Watercolor is very nice.

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Trump Accounts’ Expansion Pushes Donated Individual Stocks Into Kids’ Holdings - WSJ

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And officials simultaneously blessed an untested idea pitched by wealthy prospective donors: pushing individual stocks directly into kids’ accounts.

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Five year holding period, and now the initial idea is devolving into another program to direct capital and social policy. Might be on the wrong track.

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@manton I’m grateful you built the Bookmark feature to download the entire webpage. Really gives me confidence in the archive even if the bookmarked page is deleted in the future.

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@manton I was able to get my blog to behave as expected by adding “pagination.pagerSize.” to the config.json.

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Also wanted to say, I was doing a bunch of messing around with design and publishing this morning and the speed improvements you’ve been working on over the last few months really show. It was super quick to make a change and see it live.

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@manton I’m using your Paginate Setting plug-in (v 1.0.1) on Hugo 0.158. In settings, I have it set to show 25 posts on my main page, but only 10 are showing. Is there a change in 0.158 that stopped the plug-in from working?

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@manton Just a quick note of thanks for Micro.one! I’m testing out a new business idea and needed a podcast host that was low risk and super simple. Micro.one is the perfect fit for testing the waters.

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@Mtt let us know if you find one!

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@manton the schools run papers/homework through checkers like they have for decades checking for plagiarism. The real problem is that students can miss learning important skills, like looking at search results and determining which websites are credible and which aren’t. Not to mention the ability to think, develop an argument, and communicate it.

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@manton I started using Categories to automate management of collections, like podcasts, instead of my old way of manually updating a single page of links. With the podcasts specifically, the page load time is getting long with 276 episodes.

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The plug-in for archives works so great, it would be the perfect solution.

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Hope your summer is going great!

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@manton any plans to add a version of the Archive with months plug-in to handle Category pages?

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@Mtt I love the Arc. Looking forward to the video!

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@Omrrc oof, I’m sorry I missed this comment! I’m with you 100%, these time capsules are totally worth the effort.

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@manton Can I get your professional opinion? My middle school son has been coding with blocks since Christmas. He’s comprehending concepts and wants to start work on learning a language this summer. Lots of chatter from him about Python, but we just don’t know where to begin with all of the languages. Where do you recommend a young programmer start their journey?

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@manton I can confirm that impulse will never go away. It’s liberating to draw a line and declare a book “done.”

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@manton Thanks; I made that update!

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I hope you’ll seriously consider publishing the paperback. You only have to publish once and then it can live forever on Kindle Direct Publishing (or some other print-on-demand service). You wrote a real book; it deserves to have copies on people’s bookshelves.

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@Mtt any update on the social media images for users with multiple blogs? This would be super useful for me.

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@chrisheck much, much better. I should’ve done it sooner!

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@manton I’m using their ancient built-in plugin. I don’t think it has any export functionality and really hasn’t received meaningful updates since ~2018. I used to be very active in the Rapidweaver community and I might be the most active blog plugin user in the world; it’s pretty much abandoned. I can export the site to a local folder, and it gives me a .php file for every blog post. I don’t think an importer is really worth your time because I’m sure I’m in a very, very small group that would need this functionality, if it’s even possible.

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I have all of my blog posts in Ulysses, so my workflow is to publish them all from there. The redirects would be great, but I’m still moving to m.b even if I can’t do them because this is a huge body of work and I want it on a modern platform that’s going to last.

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@manton moving a 12 yr old blog with 1000 posts from Rapidweaver to m.b. Was hoping to redirect the links but the URLs are unique so a rewrite won’t work.

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@manton do hosted blogs still have access to their .htaccess file?

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@manton Perfect, that worked. I’m not sure how often you login/log out and wanted to make sure you were aware. Have a great day!

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@manton Is there a known issue with logins? I’m trying to update payment methods on the accounts for my children, but I can’t log out or log in? Clicking “Sign Out” just takes me back to the Discover page on their account. Logging in to a different child’s account on a different browser just puts me on the Micro.blog public/logged out page. Putting in the direct URL to the “Plans” page just takes me back to the login screen.

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