ThirdNerd

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A pastor invited to DeSantis' Disney board meeting quoted the Bible telling people not to 'resist authority' as it strips workers' park perks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like there are very well educated but still bad scientists, very well trained but still bad singers, very high in position but still bad politicians, etc., etc., etc., there are also very vocal but still bad Christians.

  The Bible is full of directions and warnings against oppressing those who are weaker. Those Christians who ignore or reinvent these are no different than an incompetent scientist who fakes or mucks up data, etc.

  More, the New Testament explicitly warns that bad Christians will exist and that they should be ignored (and will not receive the rewards they think they will).

  Some examples:

  Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 82:3-4)

  Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. (Proverbs 14:31)

  The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. (Proverbs 29:7)

  Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.” (Isaiah 58:6-10)

  When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:9-10)

  Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. (Leviticus 19:15)

  If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. (Leviticus 25:35-36)

  If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need. (Deuteronomy 15:7-8)

  The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ (Matthew 25:40)

  Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, ‘Here’s a good seat for you,’ but say to the poor man, ‘You stand there’ or ‘Sit on the floor by my feet,’ have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?” (James 2:2-4)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the best way to discover RSS feeds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are looking for a way to find RSS/Atom feeds on sites you are interested in, but don’t list an RSS/Atom feed:

  Here is a Textise version and the original version of a Zapier article talking about how to get an RSS feed manually from (many) sites that don’t list one.

  I do this just because I like to and it takes but a few seconds to put through my QuiteRSS (GUI) or NewsReader (terminal based) feed reader apps.

  Here’s the basics from the article (the article itself lists more and more in depth).

  A shocking number of websites are built using WordPress—over 40% of destinations on the web. This means there’s a good chance that any website you visit is a WordPress site, and all of those sites offer RSS feeds that are easy to find.

  To find a WordPress RSS feed, simply add /feed to the end of the URL; e.g., justinpot.com/feed. I do this any time I visit a website that I’d like an RSS feed for—it almost always works.

  If it doesn’t work, here are a few tricks for finding RSS feeds on other sites.

  If a site is hosted on Tumblr, add /rss to the end of the URL. Like this: example.tumblr.com/rss

  If a site is hosted on Blogger, add feeds/posts/default to the end of the URL. Like this: example.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

  If a publication is hosted on Medium, add /feed/ before the publication’s name. So medium.com/example-site becomes medium.com/feed/example-site

  YouTube channel pages double as RSS feeds. Simply copy and paste the URL for the channel into your RSS reader. You can also find an OPML file for all of your subscriptions here.

  Find an RSS feed for any site by checking the source code…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is woke a religion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also why is there a generic Christian but then also Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox? But then they just Muslim and not it’s different denominations? Why even have different denominations when you have the generic catch all and the Other category?

  There are kinds of Christian that don’t fall under Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox by their own measure (which doesn’t care how the Big Three want to categorize them). Perhaps this was why? (Probably not.) Graph should have just lumped them all together as “Christian”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of spam texts I get from Republican campaigns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone definitely signed you up. For lots of things.

  I did that to a friend in college once, but signed her (as if I was her) up for 3 or 4 dozen different religious colleges and organizations, asking them to snail mail her information. Years later she found out it was me and said “I’M STILL GETTING THIS (#&%^@ IN THE MAIL!!!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart cuts starting hourly pay for some workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The change, which became effective in July and was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, will create consistency in starting hourly pay across individual stores, said spokeswoman Anne Hatfield, which will lead to improve staffing and customer service.

  I’d like to know how lowering pay will “improve staffing and customer service”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t recall - I uninstalled it so fast I didn’t register the name. I was looking for a productivity app, so it was a planner or something. If I come across it again I will make a separate post for it so we can all grumble and wow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the legal system so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The legal system is expensive for the same reason the medical system is expensive:

  • When you need to be in it, you need to be in it (e.g., you can’t just walk away from possible jail time or having a steering wheel embedded in your body).

  • Even if it’s for things you are choosing willingly, both systems have over time set themselves up as the only possible options - either by making it a crime to take care of your issue outside their system, or by making you believe that only going their route is the safe / effective / trustworthy way.

  • Both are incredibly, unapologetically, corrupt to their core, with no one really accountable for anything beyond a few “examples” made here and there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming to you soon...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I started having problems with freetube a few months back, as well. I switched to one of several piped instances (whichever one is working at any given time) in my browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a world full of spam, and then you read this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate stuff like this, that thinks it’s being “cute”, or “cool”, or “clever”, or whatever as if the company and I have some sort of personal relationship and could just interact on this level. No, Ridiculous Company, you and I do not have any kind of relationship - and now we never will even try again for one, any time in the future. In fact, from now on every time I see your logo, I will remember your “cleverness” and imagine a room full of imposter marketers and imposter developers sitting in a plastic building full of foosball tables and needlessly-big vertical monitors being “clever” for each other while their stock goes further and further down the toilet.

  Or is that just me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What UPS does to cookies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they didn’t eat them…? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopping at Target⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I see continued guaranteed employment for someone who needs a job. Can’t clean up after meatheads with AI - yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I installed a deb package this morning and started it up - only to face an ad for other software. It’s seeping in…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrinkflation is out of control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy less. Use less. Reward good pricing with your money. Spouse stopped buying favorite frozen sausages months ago because they went from $5 to $12. The other day noticed they are “on sale” for $5.25. Bought 2 and will continue buying them until they go back up. I’ve also started buying a lot of things on sale in bulk that will store awhile, so I can just walk by the ridiculous pricing until the next sale drops it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the receipt says the 18% “helps facilitate a higher living base wage for all our employees”, then that’s already the tip. So I would write the word “ZERO” on the tip line, and never return to that restaurant.

  I’ve already stopped going to anywhere that:

  1. Pulls stuff like this, or

  2. Wants me to input a “tip” for fast food (which includes coffee shops - looking at you, Starbucks) and other places that don’t use the traditional waitstaff model for pampering and serving your table, or

  3. Makes me input a tip up front before I get “service” or even product.

  All of the above also means I’m eating a lot less garbagey and/or overpriced food-stuffs from restaurants these days. Better health. More money in my pocket. Higher quality food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube recomending shorts to premium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have begun to believe that YouTube is trying its best to get me to never use it, ever again. Between the intrusive shorts, the algorithm that recommends the same exact things I’ve either already watched or haven’t watched for the last months despite them showing up all that time, and having to pay to get rid of ads only to live through sponsored ads that seem longer and longer all the time. On my PC I just use newpipe or piped.online, but the family Roku version of YouTube I watch hardly at all now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You didn't bought it you rented it!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So happy now that I’ve been too lazy to let my printer update anything for the last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 careers where workers will have to change jobs by 2030 due to AI and shifts in how we shop, according to a McKinsey study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The obsession with increasing profits without concern for what’s needed for basic human community and living (like, gainful employment) has been destroying jobs/careers since the start of the industrial revolution - and the computerization of more and more just makes it happen faster.

  The working class has always suffered worst and faster, but soon even lawyers, teachers, social workers, therapists, doctors, and more will be less and less needed, as well, as their industries get more and more computerized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that there may be random internet posts from today that in the future may be seen on the same level as Plato or other great philosophers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think people 500+ years from now will look back on us like we look back on people of the European Dark Ages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOUR whole parking spots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised it’s not keyed all the days long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just subscribed to Lifehacker a few days ago, and now I've unsubscribed. The articles are nothing but tech product-shilling, non-stop. Mostly Samsung and Apple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It did used to have great stuff. I first unsubbed years ago, and remain unsubbed until I forget what crap it became and resub - and then <DOH!> unsub again.