People have strong opinions about the particulars of Christian Doctrine. It's been a real problem, both for inside and outside the faith observers. From the beginning.
Thinking that their is a "correct" version of Christianity is compelling to people who's business it is to move toward that. But it's frustrating and obtuse to willfully ignore the differences in Christian practice, doctrine, and behavior. Both in current context and historical.
If Christianity makes people better, then why doesn't it?
"Sometimes I think the 'Panicans' in our party would be better off spending their money on Depends to help control all their bedwetting," one national GOP strategist told Axios.
The GOP is trying to ban FUD from the party like r/wallstreetbets. I've never heard someone be so hostile to something that they also dismissed. That quote sounds canned; something they thought about.
Democrats can't lead, they're so beholden to their oligarch masters that all they can offer is co-parenting with fascists. This is an example where Democrats are being asked to choose labor over capital. Let's see what happens.
Apple products are great. The Apple ecosystem, not so much. If you're into FOSS computing and FOSS media formats, you're not going to have a good time.
Fun Fact: Thích Quảng Đức, the monk in the picture was not protesting the Vietnam War, but rather the Catholic oppression of the Buddhist majority by the American puppet government.
I've been told that Kaczynski's manifesto is compelling and some of his ideas about the danger in technology makes more sense now than when he was captured. I'm kinda scared to read it.
I grew up in a county powered by Nuclear. The weird thing is that the plant was in basically the most beautiful part of the area. Their are hiking trails and parks nearby. And the artificial lakes are a huge tourist draw. Some of the most expensive real estate is practically in the shadow of the cooling towers.
The power generation that suffers from bad publicity is not coal.
It makes strategic sense to decouple from American tech now that they know we'ere an unreliable ally. Microslop won't guarantee your data won't go through American servers and jurisdictions. It's also resistance to Tariff wars and Greenland bullshit that pokes the US in it's conspirator industry, Big Tech.
I don't think the proliferation of bad press is anything other than a chronicle of the decline of Firefox.
I've been ride or die with Firefox since early, and I've never daily driven Chrome. But I've had to keep Chrome installed to look at the sites that don't play with FF. Little by little, FF get's worse, and most of the "worst" these days are features, not bugs. Though their are plenty of bugs. They certainly deserve praise for keeping faith with ublock. And I appreciate that they respect privacy more than Alphabet.
I want Mozilla to succeed. I just remember when Mozilla made the case with the quality of their software, rather than the quality of their ethics.
Normal people cry at the end of Schindler's list because of all the Jews who got away. Stephen Miller cries at the end of Schindler's List because of all the Jews who got away.
As someone who grew up rural, it's amazing how many people don't recognize danger in animals. Worse still, they often think in mystical terms like "it can sense I'm a good person", or the animal's acceptance of you is some kind of approval. This is a trope in all kinds of media.
I once saw a tourist approach a small herd of buffalo to get a picture. Anyone who's spent time on the same side of the fence as a bull knows this is insanity. (he was OK, but Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon buffalo will subtract a few from the census every year)
Some of the most terrifying animals aren't even big. I knew a banty rooster known to have killed two venomous snakes and and a hawk. I've also seen him in hot pursuit of a grown men running for their lives. A house-cat in a panic can send you to the hospital.
What do you call a fly with legs without wings? A walk.
Two men are lost in the desert weak from thirst and starvation. One of them spots something and says Hey man, there is a bacon tree over there! The second man says "no such a thing as a bacon tree, that's just a mirage", but the first is already running toward the tree. Just then, a hidden soldier under the tree shoots the first man with a machine gun. As he lay dying, he shouts to warn his friend: "it's not a bacon tree, it's a ham bush".
People have strong opinions about the particulars of Christian Doctrine. It's been a real problem, both for inside and outside the faith observers. From the beginning.
Thinking that their is a "correct" version of Christianity is compelling to people who's business it is to move toward that. But it's frustrating and obtuse to willfully ignore the differences in Christian practice, doctrine, and behavior. Both in current context and historical.
If Christianity makes people better, then why doesn't it?