The more I read the Bible (having read multiple versions) as a teen the more I realized that people who claim to walk as Christ did, in fact do not walk as Christ did. There are exceptions, such as the pastor who I met volunteering at a soup kitchen, but a vast majority only prove my point.

Christ walked among sinners, the down and destitute, tax collectors, sex workers and the "unclean". The same people these self proclaimed men and women of Christ will rebuke and spit on.

I always think back to that scene from Castlevania between the Bishop and the Demon: "my life's work is in his name!" "Your life's work. Makes him puke."

Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.

Oh the memories.

I still remember when I met a pilot who majored in geology. I asked him "you know the irony in that right?" He says "yep. But hey at least I can tell you about the mountain we're about to crash into."

Industrial diamonds have always been on the cheap and that industry is far removed from the jewelry/gem industry, in fact a large majority of diamonds that are mined aren't gem grade, they're industrial grade. It's been growing and advancing despite the jewelry/gem market starting to fall.

Also because newer generations just aren't sold on diamonds being a luxury item anymore. Your average Joe just isn't paying their rent or more on a diamond engagement/wedding ring like they used to because, well, that's their rent payment or mortgage for something that's gonna lose value the second they walk out of the store.

That said, before multiplayer was centralised, you checked the server pingtime before joining the server.

Scrolling through servers on CS:Source trying to find one that wasn't pinging harder than my anxiety... Those were the days.

There's still a way to do it but it's convoluted compared to if they'd just add a damn resource monitor into the game itself.

If you still care about figuring out your ping: this comment on reddit from a year ago tells you how to find your games server IP, from there you can just fire up command prompt and hit with ping -n 100 <IP/Adress> This should return your ping and packet loss with the server.

It's great because nobody can figure out who may be doing it.

There's a running theory that it's the same graffiti artist that had been doing anti-corpo stuff during Occupy WallStreet like some kind of ancap banksy but again, they haven't been caught nor identified.

Example A of why you should always have a trusted friend or family member that you make contact with regularly and the understanding of "if you don't hear from me in x amount of time. Something's probably happened to me."

Some person(s) in my city used to go around slapping stickers over Trump bumper stickers that said "drink beer, support the queer!". As of recently several Teslas have had "Built by fascism" slapped on them... Wonder if it's the same person(s).

Inb4 even more "fuck u/spez" spam happens.