I’ve also been to a county meeting like that. The topic at hand was expanding a greenway, but one Karen took up most of the meeting complaining about (what I have to assume is her imagination) people smuggling hookers into the city by canoe.
Easy. Use open source code and licenses to make my software ubiquitous. Convince manufacturers they need my software preinstalled at no cost to them. Once every piece of hardware is on my system, close access to it and say it’s for your safety.
I think there’s plenty of non-Linux people here, you just don’t notice them because they have interesting things to talk about instead of their OS testing hobby.
And why doesn’t this mayor have an issue with their poor constituents being stuck in “shitty houses”
I can never tell when someone is just arguing for the thrill of it or if they’re genuine…
As someone who’s had five dogs and three cats + been married, divorced, and remarried pets cost more just in terms of money. I bought real wedding bands & engagement rings from a proper jeweler for about $1,500 USD per ring. On the other hand I spent between $1500-3000 in vet bills alone for almost every pet I’ve adopted just in the first year; not to mention the toys, food, etc that comes along.
I suspect you’re gonna say “oh, well some people spend tens of thousands on wedding bands” which is true, but those are also the types of people who spend five-figures on purebred pets and doesn’t apply to the average experiece.
Guarantee you that cat will cost more in the first year than a ring from a fancy jewelry store
I don’t think they care as much these days, I’ve seen some absolutely wild fake names recently
A) you don’t have a choice. Christianity teaches that our lives are deterministic, God chose who will and won’t make it into heaven. If he decided to design you to be a sinner who won’t accept him then that’s your fate.
B) Pharoah never had a chance. It wasn’t himself or the devil who made him reject God, the Bible itself that God hardened his heart and made him act the way he did. Same with Judas, he was chosen to fulfill prophesy. Sure, a different follower could have betrayed him, but it had to be someone because God decided that someone had to take the fall. He wasn’t even able to repent afterwards, even though he tried.
C) Almost everyone ever born won’t make it to heaven according to Christianity. Many are called but few are chosen—as you mentioned narrow is the path according to scripture. It also states that “many” (interpreted majority of) Christians will stand before him in judgment and be rejected because they didn’t believe in him the right way. Performing miracles and healing the sick isn’t enough if you weren’t the right denomination with the right version of the Bible.
D) the beast and antichrist are both human, one a politician and one a religious leader who team up to deceive the world
For me it was the fundamental contradiction between God being both good & all powerful. If (S)he created everybody exactly the way they are, how are they to condemn anyone to hell? Some people are born incapable of communicating or understanding anything, some people are born with their wires crossed and are just evil, some are born in a time/place where they never hear “the good news”. Why would a good and loving God condemn them forever for being exactly what (S)he designed them to be?
The Christian Bible I grew up with was rife with examples of people God created and designed specifically to be antagonists so they could be punished: Cain, Pharoah, Ahab & Jezebel, Judas Iscariot, Ananias & Sapphira, The Beast & Antichrist, etc.
Find someone with the same first name as you and steal their last name
I’ve wanted to get into making stained glass art for about a decade now. I’ve spent countless hours watching instructional videos and researching, I just can’t justify dropping a thousand dollars on just beginning a hobby, not to mention the space & clean air requirements
Also they need to ban Ai videos from YT Kids
The 08 at the end of their name is the number of accounts we’ve had to block so far
Generally, yes. I spent years of quite a bit of effort to only surround myself with people who treat me as an equal & share my general values. I have to turn my brain off during serving-the-capitalists hours though.
You always have a toaster and butter on the train?
Anything by Pimplywimp, but especially Holy SH!t
Awfully soon after the Meta AI exploit. I wonder if this is an admission that anthropic has access to government systems that Trump doesn’t want people to get into.