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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:

Now make the executives pay back every bit of money they stole from their employees

Gig economy was our justice system asleep at the wheel while fatcats created a way to work around all our hard won labor protections

The people in charge and the investors will never be made to give back what they stole from the people who actually did the work. Uber, doordash, instacart, theyll all fail, thousands will lose a source of (illegally low) income, and the ones who made it happen and profitted the most will happily move onto the next clearly illegal venture until the court catches up with them again.

I say we hunt them all down and make a nice stew.  They know what they did, and Im fresh out of compassion for the rich- the rest of us are trying our best not to be complete assholes and theyre just laughing like "you idiots could have a yacht!" 

But, hey, enjoy your gig economy stuff, dear reader. Youre totally not condoning their behavior by continuing to order thru amazon or riding with uber. Enjoy those sweet, sweet savings youre making off the backs the would be union employees, who instead get to work as contractors with less than minimum wage and no unemployment, no disability, no medical or dental or vision insurances. No raises. I mean people made good money doing USPS, UPS, FedEx hell even domino's pizza, and now we've whittled away those careers - and people have the balls to complain about missing packages? youre the one who only wants to hire somone willing to work for a pittance to deliver your stuff

Theyve been employees the whole time and there will be NO recourse for those who knowingly and willingly stole from these workers for years. Years! As we all looked on and bought stock in their illegal companies because the giant corporation we work for doesnt have pensions anymore

Yeah this is all a wonderful system working perfectly, no notes

...im gonna go have a good cry

"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

If they don't have to explain themselves, then they shouldn't expect one when the angry mob shows up at their door 🤷

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 🤷

citing an executive order

An EO!? It doesnt fucking matter what any despot wannabe in office says- we have a constitution. It states you havr freedom of speech. As long as they were on their off time, someone should lose their job for this firing.

She says 'it was clear' the airline and the union 'needed another tool' to continue negotiations after the union went on strike.

Arbitration isn't a fucking "tool" that somehow magically facilitates negotiation; it's a weapon used to bypass the legal system and force parties to agree to a resolution. Take your fucking doublespeak and shove it. If parties can't reach a resolution within the legal framework, it's not the damned government's job to step in and force one- that totally negates the power labor has to refuse to work.

This Jobs Minister clearly cares more about perception and finding a resolution ASAP than she cares about labor and our rights as workers. Never forget who actively works against us as workers.

"Someone should tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative that we worked out a long ago to breaking down the factory owner's door and beating them to death in front of their family. I feel like they forgot."

Why do we strain so hard to find hidden messages when the truth is staring us in the face- it looks like a bunch of white folks following some supposedly divine decree to drive natives off their homeland, selfishly displacing and decimating the bison population while theyre at it, claiming that's some sort of heritage to be proud of. I dont need to count words or notice weird capitalization to know some twatwaffle who celebrates the absolute worst and overtly racist parts of colonizing north america posted this

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.