Catholics believe in free will. You're free to struggle against challenges. God is not a puppeteer you have to obey to.
Life is a gift from God and should be preserved. Chasing death and risks has little to do with Christian values.
It looks like cringe amateur stuff from the inside too, don't worry
No, it's global. There are two timeslots to better accommodate the broadest possible crowd. TWC is mostly active in the USA and Europe atm, because the Indian chapter basically merged with the local IT union and stopped operating as TWC.
The event is organized by the TWC Global chapter, which is the "digital" chapter that supports the local chapters throughout the world.
Look, I'm Italian, I live in Germany and the resurgence of nazi-fascism in these two countries is not due exclusively to the fact they didn't purge nazi and fascist supporters back then, but it's still a very big factor. They never went away, they just went into hide, learn to disguise themselves and came back as soon as the conditions were good. People who were raised fascist in their families and inherited their money, values and goals. There's a line connecting them and it's clear now we would all be better off if after the liberation, the Americans or the Soviets went on to purge entirely those structures of power, instead of trying to integrate them in a democratic society.
I don't think the State of Judea can be ever reintegrated into Israel, let alone in a democracy. They are past any chance for rehabilitation, being in a self-destructive genocidal frenzy that even Netanyahu probably won't be able to stop.
because a media outlet goes where there are viewers. They write to be read, so there's little benefit in going on platforms where there's nobody.
You cannot escape social norms. The act of rejecting them doesn't free you from them. You will be judged for rejecting them and others will adapt to it, either by rejecting them too and creating a new social norm, or shunning you and attaching a certain rejection to a specific social signal. There's nothing artificial on it. The logic you describe is very oblivious to how social norms and social actors work.
Also here we are talking about webcams not really as technological artifacts, but as social tools. Obviously it's not a technical requirement to be presentable, but a social requirement, that's implicit in the discussion.
"Virtual backgrounds as the norm" is an interesting practice, pretty much like school uniforms erasing difference in class by dressing everybody the same.
virtual and blurred backgrounds still signal a lot. Not only they let the viewer know that your environment is not nice, but they also become aware you're somewhat ashamed of it, enough to be willing to hide it.
That quote about reality-based community is also made up.
P38, Emilio Paranoico, 66 CL, Cosmo
but then it's a social force, and social force can be turned into a physical force. I would say any cybernetician would agree with this. Social signals are part of the same system of physical signals. Then we can argue cybernetics is not science but rather its own paradigm, but that's a different conversation.