I hate everything about this title.

Go for it. In the world of IT, people networking, experience, and certs are more useful than a degree. Degrees might get you past the HR screening, but the others get you the job.

It’s been incredibly informative. The author starts off by stating plenty of other books talk about the “LGB” letters (sexual orientation), but she’s focusing on the “TQI” letters (internal identity of self). Additionally, the most important thing in reading/studying/applying Biblical scriptures is understanding the context of them.

Some super-condensed highlights of the book:

• Discussion of exclusion (of outsiders, specifically non-Hebrew, women, eunuchs, etc.) in the Old Testament for the purpose of protecting the identity and purity of patriarchal Hebraic society vs. the radically-different inclusion brought about through Jesus in the New Testament.
• The application of Deuteronomy 22:5 against cross-dressing (A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing…) is based on a mis-translation of the original text. The original word for “clothing” is keli; other appearances of this word include vessel, receptacle, armor, tool. The word for “man” is geber, or warrior. Thus, a better understanding of the text is “women should not wear a man’s armor”. Another interpretation is not to cross-dress for the purpose of pagan worship, which was popular amongst other religions at the time.
• “God created them male and female” in Genesis is not an argument that only male and female identities exist and anything else is against his plan.
• The author questions why some medical body changes are culturally-accepted (Botox, breast augmentation/reduction, teeth whitening, hair dye, etc.), but HRT for trans* individuals is unacceptable for some people.
• Gender-variant individuals in the Bible: Jacob (who appeared very feminine compared to his “manly” brother Esau); Joseph of the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat fame (the original words for the “ornate robe” that he wore were ketonet passim, and the only other usage of those words appear in Tamar’s story, where she wore “the kind of garment the virgin daughters of the king” wore. Thus: Joseph the flamboyant cross-dresser); Deborah, the judge and prophet (but women at that time were property, so she was doing some serious gender-defying; other eunuchs that play a major role in their stories.

I’m halfway through Bible and the Transgender Experience, by Linda Herzer.

Precisely.

The greatest country in the world!

Some people believe “Hell is other people”.

Others believe “Hell is lack of other people”.

Thanks for the help! I had no idea there was a Steam-wide compatibility setting, I was only aware of the per-game compatibility mode.

Thanks for the assist; for me, Proton 9.0.4 works.

Do you mind telling me which Proton compatibility version you’re using?

Neat! Music month sounds awesome.

Yes, downsides like drinking better coffee and doing laundry and other chores during the lull of the day.

Yeah, I’m using Proton through Steam. OS is Linux Mint.

Does RL allow Linux users now? Last time I launched it, there was a message that Linux was no longer supported, and I couldn’t play online.

Looks delish!

Excellent stuff.

Nah. Live your life to the fullest.

There seems to be a mountain of lore in the Armored Core series that’s waiting to be mined. I really enjoyed the AC episode of Secret Level.

My ports are on the front of the router. No backdoors for me, checkmate Atheists.