I guess I didnt make it clear that Im glad anyone of any faith or belief has a place to congregate and discuss and be a part of the greater community here, and that I didn’t post to randomly insult you. Ive said my peace about how I think it’s happy, comfortable, willful cognative dissonence to say what you believe and then act how you do, I think it’s insulting the arrogance with which you treat people who do not believe what you believe, or people who know something different in their heart just as much as you can know anything in yours. My post was because Im tired of people using this radically compassionate figure to justify actions that have nothing to do with loving your neighbors. Im tired of people telling me to follow their faith when theyre not even doing a good job of it themselves. Its downright silly you expect anyone to listen to you, yet you act as if your belief gives you license to act this way. It’s disappointing you think you can get away with claiming to follow jesus and then act the way you do. My relationship with the jesus i was taught exists is just fine, imho you might want to check yours 🤷

If the god you think exists really does, and they are exactly how the catholic faith as you see it describes, I wouldnt want to worship them. If the god as I understand the bible and christianity tries to describe it exists, then the path to salvation (or whatever) is simply by living like jesus. no preaching, no judging, just compassion. there are no other litmus tests for “entering heaven” no oaths or pledges or weekly meetings- if you think anything beyond living a thoughtful life is important then, wow, I guess

anyway, with the trying to describe supporting anti-trans legislation as just “some of the things the church promotes” … yeah, your transphobic organization sucks. enjoy the rest of the holidays

I appreciate your courage to be disliked.

You’re not the super-best defender of your faith, never mind against the specific things I was mentioning, so I’ll try to be polite.

to gain favor with one person or another

there’s what, a billion christians in the world who are not catholic? about one person in the world for every catholic who knows allllll about catholicism, but said ‘hey wait a second…’ to at least part of the whole thing, and still chooses to try to live like jesus, just not be catholic, risking going to hell. I’d say that’s a few more than ‘one person or another’ who thinks it’s great that y’all are so married to your faith, but it has serious flaws, flaws that don’t say wonderful things about the god catholics worship, nor consequently the catholics themselves.

you are upset at the church on gender issues

you can have all the gender issues you want! but now you’re making them official church policy, and you’re making endorsing LAWS public church policy, and that’s a nice slice of nonsense if you want to continue to be governed and regulated like a church where people go to discuss faith in things unseen, not a political organization using their property for and captive audiences to gather signatures

please don’t attempt to muddy the waters with conflating actively pushing legislation to providing sleeping bags to cold people, or helping immigrants with shelter from a government the church is actively aligning on with issues like gender regulations for children’s sports results (helping fix problems you’re helping create in the first place isn’t a great argument)

purpose of the church is the salvation of souls

the purpose of the church jesus would have started is for everyone to commiserate about how awesome it would be if everyone was nice to each other all the time, but how impossible that is. the rest is window dressing. it’s to recognize love’s awesome power in the face of despair, it’s to instill in people that living like this jesus fellow is probably something awesome to aspire to be, because that’s how you ‘save souls’

I have this discussion with jehovah’s witnesses who show up at my door. god wants you out here shilling for your church? really? i’m pretty sure god wants you feeding the poor. i dont care if some of you in your congregation are already doing that, im pretty sure he wants all of you doing that, all the time, until there’s no one left to feed, and then you can move onto clothing and housing and the rest of the things neighbors need. you know what your neighbors dont need? you telling them how great your church is, or how i should be a member. you get members BY EXAMPLE you dont go bother people about it

and you sure don’t go around as an organization telling other people how they should live, which is what gathering signatures to get a law passed is

it’s impossible to take a stance and not offend someone

the catholic church doesn’t take stances. you’re either living like jesus would, or you’re not. it’s pretty simple, actually, and it’s a super easy way to tell a real christian from one in name only. unfortunately what happens is the people who run your church use its dogma and doctrine to convince members it’s ok to do things that aren’t living like jesus would, for various reasons. now, I guess since y’all have a pope, you can have stances, and they are the official position of catholicism and your god. the fact that these stances so often are total opposites of “radical compassion” and anything that jesus would have wanted, said or encouraged is probably a reason why for every person who claims to be a catholic, there’s another who claims to be christian, but not catholic. but what do I know

anyway. I just figured the church was so hurting for members that you’d finally stopped the anti-trans nonsense. but hey enjoy your continued slide into obscurity, and totally thanks for helping to further divide americans to further your own selfish interests, rather than help unite us with love against this transphobic hate. if trends over the last few hundred years mean anything, whatever humanity chooses as replacements for a much needed sense of community wont be you :shrug:

“This is not the end-all, be-all. It’s not going to solve all our problems,” Saka said. “But it will help us investigate some crimes.”

correct- putting cameras everywhere wont address any of the root causes for any of the crimes youll end up investigating with them!

the question for the city council is why don’t you spend the city’s resources on addressing those issues, instead? I dont want to see more prosecutions! I want to see less crime because the underlying issues have been worked through, not because government enacted more privacy invading stop gaps

As someone who just went through the process to qualify, it took FOUR WEEKS. I was warned from the outset it might take 2-4. Telling someone they wont know if their application for a single unit (the application isnt transferable) will be accepted for 2-4 weeks (when regular, non income restriced units take a few days to a week at most) makes it extremely difficult to shop around. How do you apply for a backup if you wont know if youll be approved for your first choice until maybe a month later?

There is a website run by the city to point you to these units, but it’s one giant list/map, and has no knowledge if any of the units are actually available, just if a property participates. There are dozens (hundreds?) of properties with these units- it was a slog to find some available.

I admit unexpected downtime sometimes frustrates me, too, but SDF is community funded and volunteer operated. I always assume there is someone working to fix things (as soon as they actually know something is down), but I also know crashes, upgrade woes, hardware failures and the like will happen. Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?

Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, it’s more than likely going to continue to happen 🤷

I started paying for kagi when I learned it works more like classic (vintage?) search engines. More focused on accurate results, which may be a few or nil, instead of mangling your terms into something they can sell & insert the highest paying advert that matches something close.

I have not been disappointed. They also do AI stuff, if youre into that. Or you can toggle it off, and never use their assistant.

AFAIK there is no way to enable previews. I believe it was originally designed that way for security reasons. I ended up changing my whole multi-user profile setup after I realized this.

“… and as a devout christian - a follower of the teachings of jesus and the bible - it’s good that we’re providing for the sick and the poor, especially since these people are our neighbors and fellow community members, nevermind just other human beings that we should indiscriminately treat with boundless love and compassion.”

oh, whoops he meant “… and fuck that- the benefits of my labor only go to my tribe, and those other people can suck it” because that’s what the super wealthy pay him to say to keep all of the poor folk divided and fighting amongst ourselves

I just gave up

at some point, I realized I don’t ever want to be their idea of a perfect person to loan money to (read: perfect person to drown in debt and make as much money as possible from), and I wear that “unworthiness” as a badge of honor

only there to disadvantage poor people

it’s awesome how much money I’m paying various apartment management contractors to pull exactly the same data from exactly the same government agencies and credit bureaus. sometimes multiple apartments use the same application/screening contractor, but they wont re-use the data they pulled without charging me again - it’s not even a week old! some of these are public records they’re pulling! and I already have a current copy of my credit report I could provide them! they tried to legislate a ‘comprehensive reusable tenant screening report’ here (washington state USA), but it’s not mandatory to accept it 🤦the whole thing is scam after scam, double- and triple- dipping

how much do you want to bet some people own apt management companies AND application/screening companies? if my finances were tight, applying for multiple places would be out of the question

cash app recently started working where just a month ago the play integrity check would fail, and you couldnt log in.

also shoutout to USAA for not checking and allowing use on rooted devices (after an appropriate warning)

Tea tree oil might help. It doesnt do anything for how much you sweat, but it can do a good job of killing the things that cause the smell. A drop goes a long way, can use with antiperspirant.

FYI they sell one that can be reprogrammed. It’s still USB PD, but that covers most use cases.

They also sell a kit of compatable barrel jack plug adapters of many shapes and sizes.

FYI it does work, but be aware youll need (sandboxed) google play services installed on at least one profile of your phone to connect a wearOS device

I searched for one of these md data drives for a while, but could only find them as part of a sony desktop

LGR is such a gem

AAoWaS was a gem! It was one of the few games I actually enjoyed when we got a 386 and VGA, and the old IBM with CGA moved into my room.

i love noticing the little details

the “22” on the bag

depending on your area, more and more transit organizations are publishing their routes using General Transit Feed Spec (GTFS). since the routes and schedules don’t change often (a few times a year at most) you can grab the archive and do your route planning offline. Im not sure about any apps that do long distance multimodal planning, or airlines that publish those datasets, but my homeassistant instance shows me next scheduled times for nearby bus and metro stops completely offline using the dataset. there are tools for completely offline transit routing, too.

FYI as someone who has filled out that form many times as “exempt” I can say no one has ever asked any questions about it. If they did, I’d probably tell them it’s none of their business- I’m the one committing the crime if what I’m signing isn’t true, and at no point in submitting it are you asked to prove youre exempt (until you file your 1040 the next year, if you file one)

But it’s also pretty hard to argue later you must have just “done the math wrong” ’cause there’s a whole separate section for declaring youre exempt.

They also still take out social security and medicare.

I started paying for kagi after ddg and qwant and the rest just gave up on searching for what I asked it to search for. “Oh, you searched for more than one word? Well what if I just throw one of them completely away in the name of being able to show you some ads- I mean results”