Rex Bloom

@J_Koenig21 If you can 10x the money elsewhere get a loan for the whole purchase and add gap insurance.

I’m about to buy my wife a new car. I’ve always paid cash for my vehicles, but she has more expensive taste than I do 😂 At what price point do you start considering financing instead of paying cash? Hard for me to justify dropping $60k–$80k cash into a depreciating asset when I know that money could 10x elsewhere.

@jamesonhaslam Why are Peter Pan and the Lost Boys always flying?

EMERGENCY I need your best dad jokes (this is for a bit tomorrow) Hit me 👇🏻

So if I find an eagle's feather on the ground and keep it- that's breaking a law?

Wife is singular and means what you described. One man, one woman. That is a marriage. Plural marriage is an abomination. It really could not be more clear even if it was restated similar to what you have written. You are deceiving yourself if you twist both Moses words and Christs words (two fold witness to this truth) to mean anything less than God’s plan and instruction for marriage in all of history.

@GenuineRex @MattTestifies @SenorVito9 Something like: "...hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none; For I the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts."

Do they understand....we no longer practice polygamy? Like...

@LDSStoic @MattTestifies @SenorVito9 “A man shall leave his father and mother and cling to his wife”. What else could God have said through his servant Moses and his Son Jesus to make this more clear to you?

@MattTestifies @GenuineRex @SenorVito9 Further, those messy outcomes are desperately clung to as evidence that polygamy is wrong when no such preclusion exists in the Bible. It is the injection of personal philosophy into the Bible while still claiming the Bible is infallible and inerrant. "Convenient Interpretation."

And that is the argument and pushback you are getting. This is not a 2009 message board it’s what you teach here and now today that’s in question. David was a murderer. Jacob was a liar and cheat. Not all the actions of these men are the Lord’s stamp of approval on their marriages. Their family lives were mostly a disaster and it was in large part because of their polygamy.

@GenuineRex @SenorVito9 No, I don’t think it was unbiblical. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, and others make that a hard claim to sustain. I do believe the Lord ended the practice for us, and we sustain that. Current practice and biblical precedent are different questions.

@MattTestifies @SenorVito9 Do you agree with those arguing that polygamy is wrong and unbiblical? That should end the argument if you do.

@SenorVito9 Some people are arguing with a version of us that only exists in a 2009 message board.

@SenorVito9 There is a big difference and a wide gap between someone who says “we don’t do that” and someone who says “that is not right”.

@OzgurCreativity @JaneMcApine Not sure “cleaned” means the same thing to you and me.

@JaneMcApine It looks like Hamsi Tava. The dish is made from several small fish that are cleaned.

What is this food called?

@chribjel Bro never used a high level language.

guys.. C is not a low level language

@JacobDubin @kristijan_kralj lol. I meant solid like concrete.

@GenuineRex @kristijan_kralj did you mean solid or SOLID? 🤣

The hidden cost of "enterprise" .NET architecture: Debugging hell. I've spent 13+ years in .NET codebases, and I keep seeing the same pattern: Teams add layers upon layers, to solve the problems they don't have. IUserService calls IUserRepository. IUserRepository wraps IUserDataAccess. IUserDataAccess calls IUserQueryBuilder. IUserQueryBuilder finally hits the database. I've seen a lot of classes having one-line methods whose sole purpose was to call the next layer and that's it. But to change one validation rule, you step through 5 layers. To fix a bug, you open 7 files. The justification is always the same: "What if we need to swap out Entity Framework?" "What if we switch databases?" "What if we need multiple implementations?" What if this, what if that. The reality: Those "what ifs" don't come to life in 99% of cases. I haven't worked on a project where we had to swap the ORM. But I've seen dozens of developers waste hours navigating through abstraction mazes. This happens with both new and experienced developers. New developers asking on Slack all the time: "Where to put this new piece of code?" But senior developers are too busy to answer that message. Why? Because they are debugging through the code that has more layers than a wedding cake. The end result? You spend more time navigating than building. Good abstractions hide complexity. Bad abstractions ARE the complexity. And most enterprise .NET apps? Way too much of the second kind.

Solid analysis. Interfaces are almost never needed and simply add complexity. Interfaces are great for third party api calls you need to test. You can use a mock (basically a runtime interface) or code to an interface. With ef core in memory I don’t need IRepository or IDaraAccess style abstraction.

@JacobDubin @kristijan_kralj Obviously he isn’t talking about that level of abstraction. This is internal c# clean code slop he is arguing against and it is a solid argument.

I like the sentiment. I don’t agree with the premise. I’d say abstraction is actually logical. Otherwise we’d all be writing in 1s and 0s. Each level of abstraction adds needed value but the value must continue to outweigh the cost. That’s the difference between good design and a messy maze of abstraction. At some point someone will make a decision that affects every decision that follows. Try and make good ones.

@Arkypatriot I had this exact same thought. Took my son a few years ago. We were underwhelmed. It was not bad but it was also not amazing. There is one 5 miles from me now and I haven’t been though it has been open for a year.

I finally tried Whataburger in Texas after hearing people talk about it like it was a religious experience. And I’m just gonna say it… I still don’t see what the big deal is. It was fine. Not bad. Not life-changing. Nobody’s ancestors whispered “welcome home” when I took a bite. So all of you who love it please explain yourselves.

@Faustzme Gal 3:22. Believe. Romans 10 gives a little more detail in what that belief entails.

According to the Bible, how does a person become righteous before God?

@Ihunanya_chi Relationship. I have been thinking this same thought recently.

In many religions, fear is what keeps people there. So let me ask you as a Christian: what is keeping you in Christianity? ✝️

@craiginite @MrsCMFrancis The cows. Says right on the label.

@MrsCMFrancis What do you think is bioengineerd?

EXCUSE ME ALDI I was unfamiliar with your game 😱😱😱 $5 and 5 actual ingredients.

@Govindtwtt I quit eating at these places 30 years ago, are they just now noticing?

McDonald’s says customers are “pulling back.” Same with Wendy’s. Same with Burger King. When fast food loses traffic, it’s a stress signal. People are tapped out.

@LynneBP_294 Leave that meat alone.

Hashbrown crusted and buttered ribeye and eggs! Too much or just right?

I started making appointments when I asked once and was told to come on over and ended ip watching ironman 1 and 2 while waiting. Shiuld have probably left but it felt like my turn was soon the whole time. If your barber is good they will be busy and if they are great they will make and keep appoinements. He might not even require me to confirm I am still coming but it’s easy.

@GenuineRex @TaliaGraceSable who the fuck checks in for their barber? i just show up to my hair dressers place and wait like 15 minutes, then they cut my hair, then i pay them. i stg you people are obsessed with appointments and reservations, most stuff used to be cheaper and not require an appointment

what does checking in for a flight do? why is this a step?