George Stratton ⛰️🇮🇱

Prophetic Doctrine #pride

Note how she says "Could" pay for etc. - Because it'll never be used for anything like that, instead it'll, as per usual, disappear into the pockets of all the NGO chains that just so happen to end up funding Fauxcahontas and her compatriots. Again. This is just DOGE Revenge.

@HLC_actual I mean... 99% agree - but I'd rather go back to 09/10/01 as far as airport security theater goes, thanks.

It’s ridiculous

1. This is a lie 2. Read the damn bill 3. The text beginning on page 12, line 22 makes abundantly clear that what you’re saying isn’t true 4. Why can’t Senate Democrats argue against this bill without lying?

@phil_lyman @DataRepublican @mormonweg Bah, as of 2014 thanks to SB54, caucuses are basically meaningless for state elections, anyway; they just get overpowered at the primaries by out of state corpo cash candidates.

@DataRepublican @mormonweg How many members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government infiltrated Utah GOP caucuses? How many became state delegates?

Mormon Women for Ethical Government (@mormonweg) is quite upset that I dedicated a presentation to them to a Utahn Republican Women's group. They called it "absolutely false." I don't know what they are alleging is false, like Bill Kristol is among their biggest donors (as @labtechleigh found), or that their co-executive director Jen Thomas represents MWEG in a meeting series as part of a fractal ecosystem to transform America's governance. But in the spirit of last year's thread on @CODEPINK , I will do a 100% factual, zero opinion, receipt-based thread on MWEG to clear the air. As MWEG said - "be kind, but be direct." 💕💕💕💕

@DataRepublican @mormonweg x.com/jonasthenephit…

@taddariusorwell @DataRepublican @RogueLou18 @mormonweg Incorrect interpretation of partial data. I get why you'd think that from only consuming those sources and avidly avoiding talking to any of us, though... 🙄

@DataRepublican @RogueLou18 @mormonweg Mormons are liberal globalists.

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@norskelynet @LundukeJournal The 1st being "I'm under 18, tee hee."

@LundukeJournal "I am 18 year old or above" is the 2nd most common lie on the internet...

You may recall that, a few days ago, systemd added in a piece of functionally to be used in relation to Age Verification. That code change was submitted by a developer named Dylan Taylor. Dylan also submitted similar proposed code changes to Ubuntu and Arch Linux. There was an immediate reaction to these proposals. Conspiracy theories began flying (“Did he make these changes for the government?”, “What organization is behind this?”), and the personal attacks quickly followed (including threats of violence). Now, as you may be aware, I am no fan of adding Age Verification to Operating Systems. I consider it to be, to put it mildly, a terrible idea. But what were this developer’s *actual* motivations for adding this specific functionality, in this specific way, to systemd (among others)? After speaking with Dylan, it became clear that he was attempting to find a way to meet the requirements of the law in, what he saw as, the least horrible way possible. Dylan: “It exists purely to help Linux distributions meet the "letter of the law" in specific jurisdictions by providing a way to store a self-reported birthdate locally on the machine. You can enter any value here, even January 1st, 1900. There is no proof required, no ID scanning, and no external tracking.” Personally, I think even this limited data collection goes too far. But Dylan is not alone in considering this approach. Several major Linux distributions are currently considering similar solutions to complying with the Age Verification laws: collect a user supplied “birthdate”, using the honor system (with no additional verification), and hope that is enough to satisfy lawmakers. This is how Dylan explains why he went with this approach: Dylan: “The CA/CO laws will do probably nothing of value for children using Linux, and nobody is claiming otherwise, but the fact of the matter is that not doing something to meet the requirements will hurt the ability for system integrators and commercial enterprises to continue to contribute to free and open source software and ship it on new devices. I don't think anybody would benefit from that.” While I see adding this functionality at the system level as a massive mistake, as it will undoubtedly be expanded to facilitate further Age/ID Verification and privacy intrusion down the road, I can understand the logic. This is a debate that is currently being had in many projects and corporations. With wildly varying approaches already being decided upon. With all of the conspiracy theories being floated around, I asked Dylan if anyone paid him to submit these code changes, or if he did it on behalf of any government agency (as some corners of the Internet have suggested). Dylan: “The answer to both questions is obviously no. Any CS undergrad could have written that PR. They didn't NEED to pay someone with a degree in software engineering to do it. It's adding an additional field to a database with PII in it already.” Oh. And I noted some people attacked Dylan while calling him a “Jew” (in very *ahem* colorful ways). So, as ridiculous as it seems, I asked him about that, too. No. He’s not Jewish. He was raised Catholic. Dylan: “Either way, I find the religious attacks disgusting.”

@thekytikat @DonutOperator OK, see, now this shows that once again, media/journos are full of crap. Sure as hell wouldn't call that "No arms and no legs." "No hands or feet," sure.

@DonutOperator x.com/HomaBashNews/s…

Well ok then

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"I accept that Jesus created the Universe out of nothing in seven days, flooded the whole planet, appeared in a burning bush, parted the Red Sea, rained bread from heaven, made a donkey talk, trapped a guy inside a fish, turned water to wine, healed the sick, raised corpses to life, conquered sin and death forever, and sits enthroned as King of all Creation. "But there's no way He could have ever made Himself known to anyone outside ancient Israel. That's just too farfetched!"

@BradRTorgersen @faithandheresy Weird, its almost like he felt a need to leap ahead of any direct accusations, as if he felt a deep understanding that his position is morally indefensible. Weird.

@faithandheresy Why did you immediately assume this was about you, dear anon? 🤨🤔

Who are the moral people? The ones whose positions (on anything) are demonstrated far more with actions than with words, whose statements and choices don't shift with (perceived) public opinion, and who are ultimately willing to pay a price. "No good deed goes unpunished!"

OpenMandriva Linux says they are currently considering multiple approaches to dealing with "stupid, dumb, and evil" Age Verification laws. Ranging from ignoring the laws entirely... to possibly having a separate "1984" edition only for "surveillance states" which require Age Verification. While OpenMandriva doesn't appear to be ready to announce their exact strategy, it does seem clear that their Linux distribution will not be implementing Age Verification for all users. I reached out to the project lead for OpenMandriva and this is what he said: "Obviously we don't like those laws at all, but at the same time, we don't want to punish people who had nothing to do with such idiocy for their governments' stupid, dumb and evil decisions."

@AndyYoung46 @DeseretStone @Mormonger

"the Book of Mormon describes God as once being like man and progressing." Is that the chapter before or after Heavenly Mother gives birth to Satan, I can never remember...?