Seasoned_Greetings @ Seasoned_Greetings @lemm.ee

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Oh, you sweet summer child

Fact is, Christianity is getting less bigoted. Does it matter if it's a calculated move by the Vatican or one man using his authority to call out immorality?

Insult me all you like. The end result is the same

It's better for a good man to take up a morally bereft throne than for him to yield the position on principle to an equally morally bereft man.

Pope Francis may not be perfect, but the facts are that he's still making progress considered unheard of by Vatican standards and he still leads one of the world's biggest religious sects that very sorely needs the progress.

The reason that's never going to happen is because it would be the cause of massive profit losses for digital companies.

Capitalism makes the rules.

I used to have much more pleasant recurring dreams with her son, my grandpa, where we'd just sit on his couch and chat. Then last year in the last dream I had of him, he said he had to go and that I wouldn't see him again. He also told me he was proud of me and that he liked my wife. And I hugged him before the dream ended.

Sure enough, those dreams stopped coming. I wish the evil house ones would too.

The weirdest thing is that my last dream of my grandpa happened around the time my brother's son was born. It's not hard for me to ponder every now and then that my grandpa chose to reincarnate. It's all rather spooky

I have this recurring dream where I'm in my great grandmother's house. Sometimes she's there, but obviously deceased, but still holding conversation like nothing is wrong. Other times the house is empty. Every dream I'm there I'm trying to get out and it seems like something is pulling me back in.

When I lived there over a summer in my childhood, when granny was alive, my brother and sister and I all agreed it was haunted and had stories to tell about the voices and figures we saw. We discovered several years later that the 80 year old house was built on top of an old civil war graveyard.

The supernatural part is, as a 29 year old adult, I was explaining those dreams to my brother and sister and they each said they have them too. Same details, same deceased great grandmother, trying to get out.

She passed when I was 18 and none of us have been there since. The house might not even be there. I heard it was demolished and rebuilt. But the dreams still come fairly regularly

Lord of the Rings - Started with the Hobbit and has been downhill since then

Technically, the hobbit existed before lord of the rings. It was a story Tolkien wrote for his kids, that he later expanded and continued into lord of the rings. Initially, the ring wasn't a ring of power, just a novel trick. And Gandalf wasn't all powerful, he was an old friend caught up in bilbo's shenanigans.

Now if you're explicitly talking about the movie adaptations, yeah. The hobbit kind of lost its magic compared to the lord of the rings movies.

Admittedly, I was diagnosed as a kid. I have functioned with it ever since, so I don't know what it might be classified as these days.

I don't know any better, but it sounds like you have a problem with long stretches of doing the same thing. My wife goes through that. Luckily, she has a job where she has the agency to stop what she's doing for the time as long as it gets done within a deadline. And that's exactly how she handles that. She can't grind out work all in one sitting.

The driving part sucks though. I do all of our long driving so she doesn't have to, but I definitely see how that's a big problem.

Keep your head up. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. And don't forget to forgive yourself. Things will get better.

Reach out if you need someone to talk to. I have ADD, which is significantly less intense than adhd, but my wife has adhd pretty bad so I do get it from an outside perspective.

Then I jump ship to a new job, and the cycle restarts

I won't pretend to know your situation, but the way you talk about the cracks forming sounds a bit like you also have an anxiety problem. You jumped ship, you didn't get fired. I get the feeling that you quit because you felt like you disappointed them.

My friend, you got a degree. You made it through the gauntlet, regardless of how you did it or whether or not you feel like you deserve it. You did it. You are worthy.

The best thing about starting new is that you now have the experience to know what made you fail last time, without the pressure of the people who saw it happen.

It's not going to be easy, but you can do it. You're no more an imposter than the rest of us. There are many more people than you think who just wing it. The most important thing is that you get back up and try again.

They're pretty much the only company on the planet that can push the "because your friends have one" aspect in their marketing and succeed. Apple users think they're all part of this exclusive club and really don't care that they're straight up being robbed by the cost.

This is a symptom of a larger problem, which is that the bar for journalism for conservatives is literally just the big red R next to their names. Anyone who labels themselves republican can suddenly tell no lies and do no harm. That's exactly what right wing media wants, but it has destroyed the very integrity journalism has been built on for 100+ years, and the kicker is that conservatives in this country don't even have a clue about it.

How did civilization get this way?

Well, it started when Nixon posited that conservatives needed a republican news outlet to frame political problems in a way that always casted republicans in a good light, that way a media-landslide like Watergate wouldn't happen again. Fox News was born, and has slowly been pushing our society into what it is now.

So, to answer your question, the snowball started rolling about 50 years ago.

In the scenario in your comment, that very same news network told a bunch of gullable, trained idiots that we are being invaded, in order to make republican policy look good.

Based on experience dealing with people outside the US for my job, I'd say this person is implying whatsapp as the alternative.

I personally don't see the point from within the states, given that whatsapp forces you to connect your number to it anyway.

This... Might not be as dumb as it sounds.

Goddammit you son of a bitch I'm gonna try it

On the topic of generating traffic: I use a little app off of github called geddit. It essentially uses the RSS feed reddit has and skins it into an app. It's pretty bare on features since you can't log in, but you can have a personalized front page. And no ads as well. And nsfw posts/subs aren't blocked.

That's my compromise for accessing niche communities without giving reddit traffic.

Edit: It's an android app. Not really an option if you have an iPhone I guess

After several years of having 4+ cats, I can confidently say that cats care about the location of a piece of furniture more than the furniture itself.

If you're worried about your cat using a cat tree, for example, maybe try putting it next to a window or in a vantage point for their favorite room.

Every time I've moved my cat tree a different combination of cats would sleep on it. Right now it's behind a door and the only one who likes it is my 8 year old torti, who hasn't spent a day in her life on it until now. We put it there temporarily to clean the space it was previously in but we left it because she suddenly started using it.

I would add 5 layer burrito to that mix, to really capture diarrhea you get from the unholy combination of ground meat, nacho cheese, and sour cream.

The problem with that logic is that when awards and scholarships exclusively go to white people or men, it's because "they have the correct merit and deserve those things" and the fact that they all happen to be white and/or men gets overlooked because it's socially accepted that white men tend to be more intelligent than other demographics.

If that fact can go without scrutiny, particularly investigation about the underlying cause of why that is, then calling out race or gender based action that seeks to correct it is hypocrisy.

If we are going to say "It's not fair for black women to have an exclusive way to empower other black women" then we must also say "It's not fair for white men to perpetuate the tendency of also empowering only other white men", because that may actually be intentional by racist white men in power. But that aspect is never even looked at in the same context as something like this.

The way we acknowledge this is either by being conscious of the ratio of white men being handed awards and money or by being conscious of the fact that generational poverty exists and is causing black people, particularly black women to fall behind, and allowing groups like this to exist.

If you can't do either, then you're asserting that it's ok for white men to go without even asking if what they're doing is racist, but not black women. Which is inherently racist and sexist.

I don't disagree with you. All I was really saying was that Overwatch specifically wasn't making money with its model