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Well, yeah. But if people try to forcibly remove him before that happens probably there will a lot of unnecessary beatings, incarceration and death. Honestly even leftists have been saying this system needs torn down for decades. So if he tears it down, build back better.

I saw $10 at my regular store in Ohio last week. The same was $2 three years ago. That wasn't even good "free range" eggs although I don't believe that marketing. Backyard chickens are where it is at.

Considering he won an undisputed election and at least a quarter of his base are gun nuts, plus police love to use excessive force & violence, that scenario would probably play out poorly for pretty much everyone. I would say try to show conservatives how terrible he really is, but that's not going to happen in Lemmy. I'm not even conservative, I'm anti-authoritarian centrist but even I find this place extremely hostile to conversation with anyone who doesn't embrace the group-think.

I'm an anti-authoritarian Christian, years ago I considered myself an anarchist but not now. My take is that the kingdom of heaven isn't at all the only kingdom, but rather the only eternal kingdom. There is real authority on earth but it should be used to lift people up and free people from bondage. But also there is no shortage of evil and oppression around, that is reality.

I think most Christians want good peaceful lives for all people but the misinformation, indoctrination, gaslighting, strawmanning and such give many of them terrible views on how to work towards that goal.

I think most governments are bloated and ineffective, self-serving and corrupt. Historically the best government is a good king who really cares for his people. But there have been very few of them and since most people with too much power are corrupted by it, I understand building in layers of accountability. We need to ensure that one of those doorstops for abuse is the every-man.

I hate those fucking cameras in the thumbnail. They went up all over my area last year, hundreds of them and at every major intersection. You can't avoid them, there are essentially no routes to skirt around them all. The surveillance state is tracking everyone's movement and financial transactions, and it started before the orange man came into power. The people need to push back and the effort needs to broader than Ds or Rs making the push. If we want to stop a bipartisan surveillance state we need to mobilize We the People.

Eh, it's ten feet more than I have near me.

I don't have space for empty jar storage. Or full jar storage. I wish I did though. I barely have room for dishes. Jars are cool.

Bring an old point and shoot digital camera though. Pics and video might keep you from getting locked up.

I prefer to focus on things I like. I mean, I hate Facebook too. I have an account because I admin my work page but I don't use it personally. But what I like are hikes and campfires and driving on terrible almost impassible dirt and rock roads/trails in the mountains.

I guess it depends on who you consider center. That opinion varies greatly. Some might put Nancy Pelosi there, some would call her right wing. Mainstream Republicans would call her a radical leftist. My personal politics are more anti-authoritarian than left or right. And left, right, or center, most of the people in power lean authoritarian. I'm always advocating for the people to tell the government to fuck off, no matter who is in power.

There are a lot of gnostic writings but they don't hold much value. They were essentially rejected when they were written. You did ask an interesting question though, why we aren't born with knowledge of every language if God wanted to diverse languages.

I've read theology about this as well, and the answer that I'm hearing at the moment regarding that has to do with the speaking in tongues that was released at Pentecost. On that occasion, there were people from many other regions assembled in Jerusalem and when they began to speak in tongues, people from foreign lands heard their own native tongue spoken clearly. The way it's described, it seems even the dialects were correct.

It's not clear if that was a miracle of being able to speak in a language they didn't understand, or if it was a miracle of understanding. But it does seem to be a reversal of the confusion that was caused by the multiple languages at the tower of Babel, yet retaining the diversity and also creating unity. The inferred implication is that the same kind of understanding will be available in eternity when all of the brokenness of this world is restored with a new heaven and new Earth.

Interesting info, thank you. It isn't FOSS so I don't plan on actively using it but I try to keep my finger on what's up. I don't miss Reddit and wish I didn't need a FB for my job. My account is almost a ghost though and I don't have it on my phone. I'm sure they still have way too much data on me though.

I have an extra PSU sitting around and planned to install it. The current one is about 6 years old. I also thought this, but I figured I would see if it continued to work well. So far he's had 2 days with only replacing the case fans and it's working great. If it goes out again, the first thing I'll do is swap out the PSU. Like I said, I was expecting to, even planning to. But it worked without it. So maybe it won't work for long. We'll see!

Thanks for the response. I'm not trained in PC repair nor is it my job but I'm pretty good at it which is why I've done tons of free PC work for non-profits and a little bit of side jobs fixing or building PCs for people I know.

I actually don't know where they were plugged in,but my son does. I was trying to teach him a bit so as I removed the screws from the fans at the front and pulled on each cable so he knew which one to unplug, he actually disconnected the old and then later reconnected the new fans, not me. I made sure he paid close attention to the pin locations, so he can probably tell me when I get home. In theory though, modern PCs should be able to boot with no CPU cooler, they'll shut down quickly when they get hot though. I'll look into this.

The theological explanation I've been hearing recently for that is that God didn't want humanity to be a monolithic entity, but rather to have many different flavors and cultures. Supporting evidence is that in Revelation there is reference to all of the nations and tribes on the Earth being represented in heaven. Meaning that those cultures are retained, minus the worst parts of them. It's actually a great argument for intentional diversity and allowing people groups to maintain their uniqueness rather than assimilate into a global conglomerate.

Yeah I've only ever had one handgun with a safety and I never carried it.

My cat has an M on her forehead and we call her Emmy.

I say give it three years and blue sky will just be a neolib twitter

I would substitute fascist with authoritarian. Not that fascist is wrong, it's just incomplete. Left and center authoritarians have the same playbook.

It's true in many ways. If I buy McDonald's without the app I pay more for it. If I fill up my gas tank without an app like upside, I pay more for it. There are services that aren't even available to people without modern phones (I refuse to call them smart phones). Maybe we need legislation to ensure all available discounts, services and benefits are available to customers equally regardless of how they engage services.