Former Catholic, now atheist. In my fundamental years growing up as a Catholic and being a member of our Catholic school and church, we were entirely service based and helped do those things Jesus was all about: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick (hospice, nursing homes), etc. We never crammed our religion down someone’s throats. Today, I still live Christ-like even though I’m not christian.

I’m not in Texas, but one of my favorite videos of Talarico is his sermon to explain the difference between Christianity and Christian Nationalism. This sermon isn’t cramming religion down your throat - it goes through the dangers of Christian Nationalism and presents it in such a digestible manner. It made me angry on behalf of Christians (given that I’m a former one who strived to do good for others and serve my community like Jesus in the bible did) since Trump and his cronies co-opted Christianity.

“James Talarico Delivers Sermon Against Christian Nationalism - October 22nd, 2023”

https://youtu.be/Blph_2RSBno

Duration: 18:46 minutes

Long video, but it’s really good. Video hits harder since it was before Trump was re-elected.

“They have co-opted the Son of God. They’ve turned this humble rabbi into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear-mongering fascist. And it is incumbent upon all Christians to confront it and denounce it.” - James Talarico.

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For now. GrapheneOS is partnering with an OEM that will offer smartphones that meet their hardware security standard. They announced this a while back and are expecting to be able to reveal the new OEM either this year or 2027. The exciting thing is it will be running on modern Snapdragon processors rather than Google Tensor.

Hopefully all the hardware component shortages due to AI won’t have an impact to this OEM’s plans.

Confirmed, my comment above is inaccurate as the Nintendo DS game cartridges do not use NAND; rather, Nintendo DS cartridges use mask ROMs.

Edited my comment above to remove that misinformation. Learned about this stuff years ago and I must have lumped DS into the mix.

Buy your games on GOG and own them forever. You can also buy a cheap, slow as hell external drive and backup your installer files, too. You can still buy games on Steam since most of them don’t have DRM. For now, Steam is also great, but a decade from now they could enshittify.

If you only do console gaming, buy physical cartridges and discs as much as possible. You’ll keep most of the game and can play whenever you want. An example of being able to play “most” of the game applies to games with legacy activation servers, such as Splinter Cell Blacklist and Watch Dogs 1. Most of the game is playable, but anything that requires a connection to that activation servers no longer works.

Finally, scour Craigslist, flea markets, and yard sales to buy old game consoles from before this DRM mess. All those old games still work great. If you buy Wii U, 3DS, and Switch 1, make sure to boot your console and every single game at least once every few years. Yes, every single one of your games. Due to NAND volatility, this will protect your games and console (Wii U) from NAND failure and increase longevity.

Edit: removed Nintendo DS from the list I provided. Nintendo DS does not use NAND; rather, the DS uses mask ROMs which does not have the limitation of NAND volatility.

Agreed. This looks like Control Resonant.

Thanks. Yeah, I totally forgot about this. Oof.

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“Day of Love”

No, not like that!

Hey. What’s up homie? Have you heard about Bitcoin? It’s a great financial freedom and I’m extra generous today reading your comment. It’s Discord keyword triggered my human detection algorithm. If you send me one, I’ll send you two back. Spread the love and the positivity fir Discord and Bitcoin users like you! ⭐️🥰🖕

Or if you’re busy, I’m actually the MasterCard. There has been a totally true breach of your bit corns. Please PM your seed words on Discord and I will secure it. Again this is Victor MasterCard. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

That could work. They should only be songs from when I was a teenager—

Wait. They’re classic oldies now?! 😢

You da real mvp. Thanks!

Great idea. Thanks!

This one, too. Thanks.

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Edit: Read their posts. It’s a bot account spamming these images. Probably needs to banned.

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Reported against community rules.

Edit: Read their posts. It’s a bot account spamming these images. Probably needs to banned.

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Ah crap I activated your Trap Card!