As a fun fact, some interpretations say that by binding Isaac and being ready to proceed, Abraham failed the test, either in the eyes of God or at the very least in the eyes of the author. The second verse has God saying (JPS Contemporary Torah)

Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love […] [emphasis mine]

And after stopping him, the angel (which is identified with God) says

I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me.

The description of Abraham’s love for Isaac is missing, despite identical phrasing (also in Hebrew) otherwise. It’s as if God (or the author) is taunting Abraham.

This also raises a concern about God’s omniscience; he says “now I know that you fear God”, as if he wasn’t previously sure. There are many ways to resolve this, but the Bible is just very inconsistent everywhere.

The Bible has tons of edits like this, it’s fun to spot them—and even more so to guess the intent behind them. Often when a seemingly irrelevant detail (or an entire chapter) is inserted in the middle of a story, that’s an edit (although there are also genuine errors). In general, the Bible is not as well put-together as people tend to think. In this case, whoever wrote this wanted to make clear that Judaism does not condone human sacrifice, in contrast to other contemporary religions.

Others (chiefly those who consider the text to be holy) interpret the pronoun change as indicative of an emotional separation between Abraham and his son, as if following these events they don’t want to walk together any more.

You’re right. In fact, I think the easiest OS to install is probably some sort of Linux distro. But most people don’t install their OS. And Windows is shipped built-in on many computers (even though we’re starting to see some Linux options as well).

If you want, you can also compile everything with Nix!

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

So glad I managed to jailbreak mine just before they did this

I’ve experienced this, but only occasionally, and I can’t figure out what causes it. One time the search returned good results, and a refresh returned garbage. I have no idea why.

Not as bad, but people interested in Ancient Greece / Rome / classical studies tend to be somewhat conservative. It’s (to some extent) the only part of academia which is overtly conservative.

But yeah, you can do a lot worse, that’s relatively mild

If you self-host Bitwarden you can also get the paid tier features

Though if you happen to be within Israel or Palestine, you can stream it for free

Left foot

I’m the exact opposite: I always try to end on the right foot!

Is that mpv 👀

As far as I know, it’s literally just Linux, so anything is possible

This is one of those pictures you can hear

Fortunately, browsers have safeguards against this sort of thing (activating the camera without user interaction)

…right?

Homo ignorans :)

That’s just Mexico’s actual name

I’m not sure how common this is, and I probably need to delve into the literature a bit, but we typically learn that our language has a simple 3-“tense” system (past/present/future). Aside from some obvious exceptions such as a periphrastic past habitual, periphrastic conditional (contrafactual) form, two imperatives and some compounds using the passive participle, I’ve noticed myself using the past and future purely aspectually, such as with present time descriptors.

We also have historical present (but it’s not good literary style) and whatever the future equivalent of that is named.

Can you give more examples? I’m really curious now

Can anybody transcribe the first word? I can’t make it out