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It is bonkers to me that people give so much authority to the catholic church. If they were doing the right thing the child diddling pieces of Fluffle Puff were in jail and excommunicated.
about 12 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@nerthos Sounds great! I was not very informed or I forgot the news about that. I guess my avoidance of religious news is the culprit.
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@nerthos Plus, the vast majority of said CSA cases happened in the 60s and 70s. At the same time hippies were taking 14 year olds to concerts and giving them drugs to sleep with them, Michel Focault (of marginality theory fame) was leading a political movement to remove age of consent laws in France, and universities worldwide taught that you should do LSD and pedophilia was actually a very good thing for the kid's development.
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@adiwan Yeah it was nice. They excommunicated like 900 priests between 2004 and 2014 when serious investigations took place.
Obviously there will always be incidents like with any crime (there are over 400k active priests plus a whole lot more clergy staff, nuns, monks etc) but the cover up policy is over. Now they try to do an internal investigation first and if they find anything, excommunicate and report to secular law, unless it's within the vatican, which as a sovereign state has the authority to trial.
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Also I can verifiably say I was one of the pope’s first six thousand followers on Twitter, this should make me eligible to be a bishop
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I miss the old web in way. Everything nowadays is so filled with unnecessary JavaScript bloat and animations and endless scrolling and overlaying popups that it sucks out all the usefulness of the website while being laggy as it can be.
about 12 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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There is nothing inherently funny about the new pope being from Chicago, so why did I start cracking up when I read it
about 12 days ago from web -
2025 continues to be the year of happenings, newest one is also manga tier. I don't want this year to end.
about 12 days ago from web -
I know this is going to come off like some lame joke, but today I watched White House security wave in two 20-somethings in suits riding Razer scooters into the drive
about 13 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Rise of the Blartists, don't mess with their mall
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18 naked cowboys filing for bankruptcy because tariffs are hurting small businesses
Ram ranch is under foreclosureabout 19 days ago from web-
@zeldatra US marines in their black ford raptors going hungry today
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On the silver lining of things, I guess, at least none of my coworkers are Alec Baldwin, eh?! Because he's so stupid he murdered a woman!?
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I think this idiot's parents celebrated the pregnancy with daily shots
about 13 days ago from web -
Why do I even enunciate some days, how the batcave you gonna mistake "four" as "six?"
about 13 days ago from web -
Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.
about 20 days ago from web-
@adiwan You can use a drill to make holes in a stump and pour acid in to rot the wood quickly and make it easy to dig out, but obviously this makes the wood unusable.
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@nerthos Thanks. I'll try it with an old bush next to my terrace that will be a cherry to remove. I have a bottle of Hydrochloric Acid and some Citric Acid powder.
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I started properly dieting instead of half-assing. This kiwi SUCKS!!!!
about 18 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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An almost fantastic level of unthought out this way today, like could anyone ever explain this to someone who can't figure this out on their own?
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Got coworkers talking about how their doctors told them they have vitamin D deficiency. They complain it makes no sense because they're out in the sun all day. Except they wear long sleeves and pants and a sun hat, and I'm just sitting here thinking "You understand that only the backs of your hands and random odd angles of your face ever get any actual sun exposure though, right?"
about 20 days ago from web -
Yet again a fantastic round of Andor episodes.
about 20 days ago from web -
I've disposed of my jalapeno plants. They were not in good health, floppy leaves and all-around yellowed and had a silvery layer (mildew?) on the leaves. Despite having flowers in bloom and some growing fruit I went to the decision to get rid of them in case they spread mildew to nearby plants.
about 23 days ago from web -
Ooof. I'm exhausted after another D&D session being the DM. I had to reshuffle and rework my prepared stuff to make sense with all the content my players have skipped. This time I really tried not to hinder the players with stuff that makes only sense to only me at the time. I tried to avoid hidden mechanics. Anything that only makes sense when knowing all the machinations in the background. If it is not presented to the players or convincingly told to the players it robs them to make an informed decision and thus agency. On the other hand it makes me do more work before the start of the adventure and also between the sessions. Practically I threw out half of what I did months before.
about 24 days ago from web -
In a moment of 2000IQ clarity, one of the students zapped his phone's charging port with a lighter electric igniter and killed it
Immediately after, he asked me if doing so was harmful for the device
I love my jobabout a month ago from web -
the day Adobe kills the SWF format altogether I am kiwied, everything I do now is layers upon layers of SWFs composited together and I don’t know if I’m capable of learning new ways
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I find that the screen keyboard on my phone seems to be more or less of a piece of crap depending on what app or field I'm typing into, but in no case is it unlike trying to speak with one's tongue cut out and jaw wired shut. I hope there's a Hell bad enough for Steve Jobs.
about a month ago from web-
@scribus One thing he did was good: kill off the Adobe Flash plugin. It was a lot of trouble security-wise and performance on PC and especially mobile was atrocious. My HTC Desire Z could run Flash but more on paper than in practical terms. Also this move has eradicated Flash websites. They work now as good as they did back then, not at all.
Despite of that I agree to everything you said.
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