...and the kid who drew the orange was paid by the...local orange juice cartel, or something...who were making tons of money off of this entire kerfuffle.
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Sorry maybe I'm giving away my country of origin but this part here is really hard for me to wrap my head around. I have no prior experience with this concept to relate to. Please be patient with me. 🤔
Y'know I actually enjoyed when churches would put on (actually) funny skits or silly Christmas plays for outreach or whatever because like, entertainment is a universal communication medium, and what's wrong with having a little fun along the way?
But that was on the order of your local middle school production, maybe. Cardboard, craft paint, and a lot of suspension of disbelief. :p
This "Cirque du Holé" business in gigantic "campuses" is embarrassing. Like that time all those churches loaned out a literal micro roller coaster to each other for. . .some reason. . .?
What a grift.
purposefully designs the overpass to pass over a black community and evicts them all
Adds black history mural along the same overpass
Kinda like what few American trains still operate. O.o
"I mean sure it violates the letter AND spirit of the Constitution which I've been sworn to uphold, but I've been told after having their rights under [that silly document I don't care about] violated wholesale, the questioning is usually just a major inconvenience, so it's fine to harass, intimidate, assault, and capture U.S citizens similar to how I treated women in college lol."
Kavanaugh, J, basically.
pow pow pow pow pow pow
Oo, my popcorn is ready!
Hey, that takes a lot of strength, and I greatly admire and respect you for it. You've got a good heart and I can tell you didn't mean any harm by it. Thank you for considering my words with the best intentions. (I'm REALLY sorry if I came off harsh earlier!)
You are very cool. :)
I struggle with that right there with you, and I pray we both find the strength to be His light in dark places when it matters the most.
I wish you and yours a blessed Christmas/Holiday Season and New Year.
Stay safe out there! :)
I wanted to say something about this because it dont think this has ever happened? Can you give me an example?
Sure! I'll be transparent with you, I could probably stand to memorize my history a little bit more, BUT...this is going a little bit far back.
There's actually a REALLY GOOD pair of podcast episodes by "Behind the Bastards" called "How the Rich Ate Christianity."
Part 1: https://youtu.be/gyHd6wEC4IE
Part 2: https://youtu.be/LL8s7N0TU-c
It does a very good job of detailing how churches back in the day just didn't have the sorry reputation they have today among the general public.
The rich-n-powerful of the time actually considered Christians to be pesky bleeding-heart socialists that hurt their plans for maximum wealth extraction. Churches were busy feeding their communities and protesting landlords and stuff, rather than worshiping work.
So the fatcats got together and worked to supplant churches of MANY denominations by sneaking in pro-capitalism doctrine in exchange for financial support, for instance. It's where we started hearing this absolutely bananas idea that God shows His love and approval by making one wealthy. (?!?!?!?)
As well as "preaching" about individualism instead of community and looking out for ones' neighbors.
Along with lots of other weird nonsense like I heard in my non-denom circles growing up, like :
"Oh, the 'eye of a needle' was actually some kind of weird gate in the city walls that camels had to awkwardly pass through, so uh, it's not impossible to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and be wealthy, just uh, difficult! Yeah! You have to be worthy of handling the wealth! But you can be rich, yes!"
(Zero anthropologic / archeological / literary / theological / historical support for this notion.)
So that's what I meant about good churches doing God's work getting "replaced" with profit-friendly religiously-flavored feelgood self-help seminar campuses.
I hope that helps explain where I was pulling that from! :)
This is a very valuable take and much needed perspective here. I appreciate you sharing it!
Also can't help but lol at your experience with the wild girl who definitely used Skinner Box conditioning to make sure you always opened her emails! 😂
I miss a lot of the spirit of the hijinks and lulz internet, but I definitely don't miss all the disgusting shock content that came with deeper web exploration. I visited the famous /b/ exactly once and decided my soul didn't need that shit.
There's a lot of gore stuff that I think was photoshopped, but also damn someone spent time making that?! I didn't care to analyze it, I just wished there was such a thing as brain bleach.
There was also sites that would punish hotlinking by replacing images with the infamous "goatse" (no.), which was really great when trying to send my girlfriend a funny picture I found and she got to it too late. LOL that was fun to explain why she was seeing what she was seeing.
People warned me of misnamed videos on Kazaa and stuff turning out to be abuse material or execution footage but thankfully I mostly avoided that.
I remember clicking a phony download link and getting eyeball-blasted with CSAM ads seared into my brain once. (Actually I think I sent the link to the FBI on this one.)
Yeah, I miss the expressive freedom of "at your own risk" Internet, simply because you weren't as much constantly being tailed by marketing bots and algorithms, but I don't miss the mental trauma that came with clicking the wrong link.
You're right though, in a weird way a bit of prior desensitizing can almost help us keep it together if we find ourselves in a really, really bad place. But I wish for a world where nobody has to do that...
This is all also why, even though I find the Dark Web super intriguing...I don't need that shit. Lol
I think they meant "reference number" like some sort of "remember this code if anything goes wrong or we won't refund you" to return a product or something lol.
I think this is a major issue with such things though. There's so much paper mail especially where it says "keep for your records" but it's like... between some fuzzy limbo of necessity and garbage.
...so it either gets scanned to PaperlessNGX or gets stuffed in a "I want this stupid paper off my desk and I'm not sure if I should keep it" box that I'll go through when it's full. Lol
I'm self-hosting Karakeep for exactly that reason,
Oh my gosh what is this.
I want it.
This is going to end up an enormous chunk of my server space isn't it. :3
I still have well over 100 tabs in my mobile browser
I think this is just a side effect of how mobile browsers seem to work. Every quick little lookup I do is in its own tab, and I close the browser instead of the tab when I'm done, so if you're like me, it builds up to an absurdly high number very fast.
If I haven't gone back through that list in like a month I just take a deep breath and hit "close all tabs".
I'm gonna try this Karakeep though. I've tried traditional bookmarks in Firefox and...I never actually reference them. Lol
This sounds like a good way to have multiple sessions of players playing lawyer and looking for the most ridiculous loopholes LOL. Take a shot every time a PC interjects with "WELL, technically...!"
It sounds like it could be really satisfying but REALLY complicated setting up a plot involving a contract with these things hahaha.
But I suppose they don't have to be a source of lawyer drama at all. They're a great tool for the DM to say "I prepped this quest arc and you agreed to it so you're damn well going to do it or else!" Lol
What a fascinating concept though. Woe betide the party who doesn't read the entire contract!
Lol that sure was a...Great Leap.
It's freaking heartbreaking how many parents seem to just want to "keep their kids busy" and be left alone.
Like, my homie, you didn't HAVE TO reproduce if your idea of parenting is "Here's a TenCent GPT plushie to poorly mimic human connection and an iPad because I'm just really into my career right now."
Our culture has been polluted by greedy interests to the point of failure.
No kid deserves to be abused like that. It's intellectually and emotionally akin to introducing them to cigarettes.
We're thrilled to be expecting, and don't take it for granted like so many seem to. This kid's gonna be read to by us human parents, gonna learn to use actual computers, appreciate vintage media, touch grass, draw/paint/sculpt for fun, and develop their own imagination.
iPads, cocomelon, genAI, and tiktok can go die forgotten in a ditch, along with these "AI toys."
Exactly. It's just another arm of the AI bubble forcibly reaching into a place it doesn't belong with haphazard and dangerous results.
As a millennial who's still just trying my damnedest to learn everything I can and be a capable, intelligent, creative human being with my life, and maybe do something neat with all that...
These findings bring me to enraged tears over what they did to us in 2020.