felbane
What acute answer.
I'm just pointing out that within the constructs of the predominant Christian mythologies... Johnny's fucked himself over unless he recognizes he's being a shit and atones for it.
Whether you assign any validity to the underlying dogma is an individual choice. People have a tendency to overlook logical inconsistencies in their faith frameworks, in any case.
There's a subtext that you guys are missing. The devil wins whether he says Johnny won or lost.
- If the devil wins, he gets Johnny's soul per the terms of the bet.
- If Johnny wins, the devil gets Johnny's soul because he's committing multiple deadly sins purely by boasting and challenging the devil for a golden fiddle: pride, greed, vanity.
If he deems Johnny the winner, Johnny is less likely to challenge the decision, and he's also more likely to continue committing the sins of pride and vanity (by boasting of his victory over the Devil Himself).
Johnny's only chance to avoid his fate (per most strains of the Christian faith) is to acknowledge and repent/confess/absolve his sins by seeking divine mercy. The devil knows this is unlikely.
Johnny lost as soon as he uttered his first line.
What's worse is the fact that 85% of those exorbitant bills are either substantial overcharging to game the insurance system, or costs associated with paying entire departments of people at the provider whose job is to figure out how to get insurance to pay them for procedures.
Our oppressive healthcare costs are entirely the fault of the private insurance industry, and the corrupt politicians who accept bribes to keep it that way.
"And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling bigots!"
Me reading this list: "Maybe I should move to Minnesota..."
You are describing a state of software development that has existed since the introduction of punch cards.
Practically every business I've worked at has had some internal library or repository of commonly used behavior that can be included in day to day projects.
There's Finamp, a music client for Jellyfin with offline playback. I've not used it personally yet, but with Spotify ratcheting up prices again I'm in the process of switching to self-hosting my music library. When that's up and running it's at the top of my list for Android clients.
Esperanto.