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- Comment on Global Spelling Bee 2 weeks ago:
hehe
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 2 weeks ago:
🤷 that’s a christian-to-christian thing to determine. I’d love for that to be the case, but seeing as most Christian organizations are perfectly fine with the status quo, I don’t see that changing any time soon. Also, Martin Luther was a trash bag for plenty of reasons, I don’t see any point in seeking to align oneself with a raging misogynist, antisemite, and author of “Against the Murderous, Theiving Hordes of Peasants”, which was written in response to the German peasants war. Valid criticisms or not, the dude sucked and bred a religious movement that was just as bigoted, bloodthirsty, and money hungry as the catholics he was protesting
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, I was just using that to highlight the differences between American and European protestant churches. Most american churches have ~75 congregants and are fairly small operations run out of buildings that weren’t built with the intention to be a church. As such, they usually lack the aesthetics associated with churches.
And to be fair, I’ve never been to a European protestant (of any variety) church, there’s a cultural image in america of what the average European church looks like, and it’s usually an older brick/stone building with high ceilings and round/arched windows, built with the intention of being a church. Many suburban american churches (this is where the folding chair trope comes from) looks more like this:
And this is a really nice example too, I had trouble finding one that reflected the true reality of many of these smaller churches.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 2 weeks ago:
Despite being called “non-denominational”, non-denominational christians are a broad group of independent churches and spiritual movements that fall under the protestant tradition. They aren’t a part of larger, more organized subsect of protestant like the baptists or lutherans, but their non-denominational-ism refers to not being a part of/neatly defined by an organized denomination of protestantism. Non-denominational Christianity can even be a nucleation point for new denominations, like the burgeoning evangelical movement that’s become a driving force in the fall of the american empire
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of protestant denominations have lost the plot on the whole “protesting” bit. Joel osteen and Kenneth Copeland’s churches are considered to be in the protestant vein of christianity and their whole thing is flaunting wealth and having big, expensive churches. Whether they should be considered protestant is for the various flavors of protestant to decide. As far as I’m aware, there’s no broad consensus that defines protestantism besides “likes martin luther”, and “not catholic/orthodox”
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 2 weeks ago:
The post is referring to american protestant, as opposed to capital P Protestant churches. They’re usually in smaller buildings that aren’t full-time churches/ the space is often used for non-sermon church functions. For example, my childhood church was based out of a community center room that held ~40 people and hadnt been updated since the 80s
- Comment on Trivia question 4 weeks ago:
Cow bush
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 4 weeks ago:
Just hopping in to glaze Anker a little bit too. I’ve had their 6ft prime (had to look up the model) braided cable for over a year now. It lives knotted up in my work/school bag. I’m not easy on any of my stuff and it’s worked perfectly and looks as good as new.
When I’m at work the cable is sitting on the floorboard of an ambulance cooking to death because the transmission is directly under the cab and heats the floor up so much I use it to warm my lunch. It’s been ripped out of its spot, stepped on, caught and pulled on things and just generally beaten up and still works great
- Comment on Numbers don't lie 1 month ago:
I’m in ems as well, we call our involuntary psych admissions “72 hour vacations”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Do keep in mind that “incrementally further right” is still fascism at this point. We’re past the point of debate on whether this is a fascist regime or not. Even the best case scenario, a Bernie-like figure will still be ineffective at corralling out descent into the depths of fascism. The state is beyond saving and we need to foster community strength and dual power structures to brace for the collapse and allow us to rebuild in the aftermath
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 2 months ago:
This piece of shit murdered his daughter over trump, the articles title says it. Why are you changing the title OP?
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 2 months ago:
Refer them to the documentary boss baby if your early employment history is ever brought into question
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 3 months ago:
I’m halfway between the both of you (minus souls like games, fuck that noise) got any recommendations? I’ve been leaning towards “not gamery games” a lot more lately
- Comment on I would also be confused 3 months ago:
Big money salvia is on lemmy?
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 3 months ago:
Petroleum jelly would work, but it’s not intended for consumption. If you do want petroleum products intended for consumption that will do exactly the same thing, get some mineral oil
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 3 months ago:
Ah ok, I must’ve bought the marketing haha. I remember their whole schtick with the 9 and 10 was the “brand new AI chips” for “better performance and privacy”
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 3 months ago:
If you’re looking to switch to graphene, you’re limited to the google pixel line, which isn’t a bad thing imo. Older models can be had for cheap, and they have good specs.
I’m on a pixel 6 right now and it’s served me well. I’d recommend buying a 7 and up though, as the 6 is nearing the end of its support (I think graphene will support it for a few more years but I’d double check that before buying one). But a standard pixel 7 can be had for ~$150usd so not a bad call. The pixel 9 and 10 have AI chips in them so if that’s a deal breaker for you, you’re limited to the 7 and 8 (both still good options). And if you do move to graphene it kinda nullifies the whole AI chip thing anyway.
The default media player on pixels are kinda ass, however. They work fine, but the UI is janky. But there are plenty of media player apps available both on the playstore and through alternatives like f-droid. You can also find cracked versions of most “premium” apps pretty easily online. So if you find a media player you like, but it has ads or some other garbage, you should be able to find a cracked version with little hassle.
And completely unrelated to switching phones, if you’re able to add a private DNS into your wifi settings like I can do on my pixel, you can add base.dns.mullvad.net to the private DNS box and it’ll take care of 99% of ads (can’t speak for youtube specifically) on your phone
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 3 months ago:
If you’re on android, revanced is pretty easy to get up and running, it takes the place of the YouTube app you already have installed so no worries about your limited storage space either
- Comment on another Freud meme for the day 3 months ago:
Got a real m’eme hot off the presses for you!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Humans are apex predators. You are one of the floaty chair people in wall-e
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 4 months ago:
🤨
- Comment on On dasher! 4 months ago:
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 4 months ago:
Most of the time I’m sauteing an onion before I even know what I’m gonna make
- Comment on A drop of whiskey vs bacteria 4 months ago:
Maybe just a tiny crash, let the hype die down so I can finally get a bottle of pappy
- Comment on 每次拉屎都尿尿但不是每次尿尿都拉屎。 5 months ago:
Jokes on you, I peed 10 minutes ago but now I have to poop
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 5 months ago:
Post that hog
- Comment on Interview With the Sandwich 5 months ago:
That isn’t a po’boy. I am triggered
- Comment on What a welcoming party 6 months ago:
I watched the what we do in the shadows movie on mushrooms, wouldn’t recommend. I don’t like horror though so ymmv
- Comment on Girls 6 months ago:
I’m in school for respiratory therapy and we learned about laplaces law as it relates to alveoli in the lungs. What are the typical applications of laplaces law? Just wondering because I’m drawing a blank on other ways it could be/is used
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 7 months ago:
The elements of fascism could be construed as a childish/immature perception of reality, where the performance/aesthetics of maturity (particularly as perceived by chauvinistic men) is paramount. The examples listed in this post speak to uniformed (i.e childish) views on power, masculinity, and justice. These topics, among others, are sticking points of every flavor of fascism.
I’m not necessarily saying that this means the american population is immature, but our current fascist regime utilizes these tropes (among other elements of american culture) in their rhetoric, propaganda, and policy decisions to influence the population in pursuit of fascist ends.
