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@SuperLutheran Having a hands off approach and letting congregations do their thing will certainly work for growth, but how will you maintain consistency when it comes to the particulars of the religion?

There is a reason there are thousands and thousands of Christian denominations which all interpret the Bible differently and promote different values and politics.

@BigTony I thought Enter Electro had a weaker story than the original Spider Man on PS1, but it retained the comic-book charm and was still worth a playthrough.

@ImperialAgent He's partly right because the the economy SHOULD have crashed between March and May when the banks were failing, but unlike in 2008 when the government waited months before buying up the sub-prime mortgages, the Federal Reserve acted immediately to bail out banks in real-time.

GDP is only positive because of massive government debt and spending ($600B in one month).

We're heading for a debt crisis and something between stagflation and hyperinflation.

@SuperLutheran The problem is that while everyone might want change, nobody can agree on what they want instead.

Complaining casts a wide net and gets you a lot of support, but once you start suggesting solutions, you'll find that support erode and your support fracture into deferring groups with their out values and interests.

It takes a lot of resources to "reform and rebuild" anything, and historically consensus is built by the strong imposing THEIR vision on the weak.

@Pain66

@djsumdog @37712 @ButtWorldsMan @Mr_Mister it's a meme from the future.

@ButtWorldsMan that's pretty clever. Just point out how over-represented "mormons" are and wait for the internet to "correct" you.

@dander @shortstories It's a normal part of getting old. Your skin loses is elasticity and begins drooping, and "lose" your earlobe gap as your skin sags.

You can pull the skin back with plastic surgery or use botox or whatever, but your earlobe gap will still be gone.

@mangeurdenuage try using dishsoap. oil and water don't mix, so you'll need something a bit stronger than handsoap to clean oil off your hands.

However, using dishsoap will dry your hands because it removes the natural oils in your skin, so use some moisturizer for something other than masturbation for once.

@VooDooMedic it could be, but I need to know more.

Also it says it uses blockchain but doesn't use cryptocurrency tokens and isn't a CBDC, so I'm interested to know how it works and how accounts are settled.

If it's tied to claims on real assets (especially gold) we're in business.

@cuddlebaboon @VooDooMedic @mrhorsetwat the reason the government doesn't blame sugar is because it's not sugar, it's high-fructose corn syrup, and the reason we use high-fructose corn syrup is because the corn lobby is very influential, so we subsidize corn and tariff sugar from South America, making high fructose corn syrup cheaper.

Your body can't absorb fructose as energy (as opposed to glucose). It has to be processed by your liver. Too much fructose becomes fat as your liver is overloaded

Smégol: "Wicked men; servants of Sauron. They are called to Mordor. The Dark One is gathering all armies to him. It won't be long now. It will soon be ready."

Sam: "Ready to do what?"

Sméagol: "To make His war. The last war that will cover all the world in shadow."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/10/26/israel-hamas-war-france-strengthens-naval-presence-in-the-eastern-mediterranean_6205154_4.html

New custom server emoji

@ButtWorldsMan you're not going to be able to read any detail once that is shrunk down. . . I'll just do it myself

@ButtWorldsMan no because it has to have a transparent background

@ButtWorldsMan send me a png of <50kb

@Pain66 don't let them gaslight you into thinking they've changed or learned their lesson either. They are just temporarily being nice to you because they need something from you, and the nanosecond the danger is over they'll go back to bitching about toxic masculinity and how oppressed they are.