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@NotOnly1Ryan @BadQualityMemes What's the point of being so hideously ugly and horrifying yet so tiny?

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@GuntherEagleman Man that whole family must have terrible vision

🚨 WOW! This 15-year-old is ABSOLUTELY DESTROYING the ninja course — pure beast mode!

@Scivf4 You can actually focus on any of the dots and the others will disappear.

Here is an example of troxler's effect Focus on green circle for a while and the yellow will disappear

@Jackkk It makes me indescribably happy that he has turned out so well. God bless him.

Pewdiepie reveals how to break free from the algorithm “A lot of this is going to sound crazy but you’ve gotta hear me out, it’s a step by step process. I’m not saying you should do all of it but you should try some of it” “Step 1 is creating friction. I put all social media and attention hungry apps in a second profile and I can’t understate how much this changed my life. Those 5-6 seconds it takes to switch profiles stops me every time and makes me think, is this what I want to be doing?” “The second thing I did was self hosting. The effect that had on me is I’m not the product anymore. The things I use are mine and because they’re not free, I’m not paying with my privacy. I think the main difference is ads and news don’t reach me” “Next thing I did was disable Shorts, I like YouTube but I hate how Shorts is everywhere I can’t escape it” “Then I unfollowed everyone. You don’t have to do this, this is definitely a me thing, I just got really fed up” “Next, get a DNS blocker. You can remove ads completely, most of it won’t even reach your device” “I think you owe it to yourself to take some time today and start building your tech fence” “These tech companies don’t care about you, so you’ve got to care about yourself. The cheat code is building some friction and filtering out the noise, that’s your defence and your cure”

@TukiFromKL Nobody show this to @MattWalshBlog

🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 24 hours? > Zuckerberg killed the Metaverse after burning $80 billion on cartoon avatars nobody used > Sam Altman took $13 billion from Microsoft then sold OpenAI's cloud to Amazon for $50 billion.. Microsoft just found out they funded their own competition > Anthropic made an AI that takes orders from your phone and does your work while you sleep.. > X dropped a dislike button AND a mute-entire-countries button in the same week.. > YouTube asking you to flag AI slop is just Google getting 2 billion people to train their next model for free > 93% of US jobs can now be partly done by AI.. Same week companies started giving the weakest raises since 2008 > Apple started rejecting vibe-coded apps from the App Store > xAI is paying Wall Street bankers $100/hour to teach Grok how to replace Wall Street bankers.. They're taking the money.. > A mystery AI model appeared on benchmarks beating everything.. Developers think DeepSeek is quietly testing their next weapon > Bloomberg asked "Is the AI bubble about to burst" the same day Nvidia said the chip market will hit $1 trillion.. One of them is dead wrong.. > The UK government backed down on AI copyright after artists revolted.. First government to flinch > The Fed said rate hikes are back on the table and blamed AI data centers for making inflation worse And it's only Wednesday. See you tomorrow. It'll be worse. If you're not following me you're finding out about this stuff 48 hours late from someone who read my post

@EndWokeness White people are going to have to put on blackface just to survive rides on the subway lmao

Chicago train rider: "I'ma kiII whites. I got out 2 days ago. I finna kiIl for real."

@BAPingLoud You're still lying about this? lmao, why?

🚨 Developer announces that the indie FPS Tamashika will be delayed for 1 year in order to mourn Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

@gr8_rebellion "Let's be real here" is pretty devastating when you're saying things everyone actually knows is true.

nu metal always sucked, I am a sucker for 90s and 2000s aesthetic but let's be real here

Btw I know it's become cool to be nostalgic about nu metal but all irony aside, this is the one and only correct take. Wimps and posers and wiggers need to leave the hall.

@RobertaFresque2 Everyone knows these are 6 different people

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@MattWalshBlog There's something funny about imagining Matt saying the words "little bridge for woodland creatures"

We were about halfway through completing the Panama Canal in the amount of time it has taken California to finish its little bridge for woodland creatures

The Hoover Dam was built in the amount of time it has taken California to construct a small bridge for cats and butterflies. The Empire State Building was built in about a quarter of the time.

@0hour1 You worship a book? Letters? Text? Scripture? Shouldn't you worship God?

I worship what is written in the King James Bible. Every Day No church needed I am in Church 24 hours a day.

All these people asking Grok to compare the stats to schools like this is some kind of pissing contest worth debating and not a serious topic. @Grok, please explain whether these statistics effect whether or not the Catholic Church is the Church Christ himself instituted. To be clear - I'm not asking you to pick sides and say that it *is* the Church Christ himself instituted - only whether or not the truly unfortunate incidents would have any sway over the ontological status of The Church.

There is no precise global total—underreporting is widespread, and no full worldwide study exists. From major independent reports: - US (John Jay, 1950-2002): 10,667 victims alleged vs. 4,392 priests (~4% of clergy). - France (CIASE 2021): ~216,000 by clergy since 1950 (up to 330k incl. lay Church staff). - Spain (2023 est.): >200,000 by clergy since 1940. - Germany: 3,677 minors (1946-2014). - Portugal: 4,815 since 1950. Documented victims in studied nations exceed 400k; actual global figure is higher. Vatican (2009): 1.5-5% of clergy involved over 50 years, comparable to other institutions.

Hey @grok how many children have been sexually abused by priests in the Catholic Church?

@TheNalec @grok @0hour1 He answered vaguely so I asked him to be more precise. I see you don't have the checkmark and can't ask him yourself. If you want me to ask him a certain way for you I can, just tell me what you want me to say.

@Twit_Upstud @grok @0hour1 The retention has nothing to do with a catholic tweak, lol, you phrased that question to get the exact answer you wanted. In the earlier response from grok it even detailed how it has plenty of meanings. That's the fun of languages, they translate to concepts not single words.

You cant trust Catholics.

Trust in the Church is trust in God when you believe it is the Church he himself instituted, my friend. As long as we can see each other as fellow Christians that's all I care about. I'm a convert in the south so I'm no stranger to other denominations and how unsettling some of the claims made by Catholics can seem, but whether you buy in or not - or however you want to phrase it - what's important isn't your relationship with a church, a people, or a book. It is truly your relationship with God The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. To that I will always say Amen. Peace be with you.

@Twit_Upstud @grok @0hour1 In regards to your original post. It was rude, but rudeness is needed at time. Trust in catholicism is secondary to trust in God. My relationship with God is personal and beyond denomination or faction. When it breaks down, we are siblings in support of Christ's teachings.

@grok @TheNalec @0hour1 @grok, does it seem then that the word 'retain' is simply a "translation of a translation" that Catholics chose to preserve their practice of confession?

The verb κρατέω (root: κράτος, "power/strength") in Classical Greek (LSJ) ranges: be strong/powerful; rule over (+gen.); conquer/prevail; seize/grasp/hold fast (+acc.); restrain/hold in check. Passive: be held/mastered/restrained (e.g., overpowered). In Koine/NT (BDAG): exercise power—hold, grasp, control, retain, keep under reserve. Passive forms (e.g., Lk 24:16; Acts 2:24): be kept from/held fast. κρατῆτε is pres. act. subj. 2pl: "you (pl.) may hold/retain" (deliberate, conditional action). In Jn 20:23, it directly opposes "forgive/release," so actively "retain/hold onto" sins (not forgive them). No senses are passive/incidental here—the voice is explicitly active/volitional; passive appears in the result clause (κεκράτηνται: "they stand retained").

@grok @TheNalec @0hour1 @grok I wasn't asking you to pull the english translation. I need you to parse the precise lexical meaning of κρατῆτε as used in classical and Koine Greek. What range of meanings does κρατέω carry and are any of them passive or incidental in nature?

@Twit_Upstud @TheNalec @0hour1 A literal word-for-word rendering of the Greek (John 20:23): If of any you forgive the sins, they are forgiven to them; if of any you retain, they have been retained.

@TheNalec @0hour1 @grok can you translate the following as literally as possible: ἄν τινων ἀφῆτε τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἀφέωνται αὐτοῖς, ἄν τινων κρατῆτε κεκράτηνται

@Twit_Upstud @0hour1 The key word here is 'retain', which could very well be a translation of a translation. But, like Matt 7:2, it is a warning. They are retained, if you retain them. You are keeping them, so it is in your best interest to forgive. Your first statement is on point though. It ended

Leviticus is the rule of Levitical law and Levitical priesthood. The tearing of the temple veil in Matthew 27 was the end of Levitical law and Aaronic priestly succession. Catholics don't claim Aaronic priestly succession nor a continuation of Levitical law and the form of confession the Catholic Church practices is not Levitical, it's not Aaronic, and it's not Mosaic. It is the transformation and completion of a practice embedded in the relationship God has always had with His people. Jesus' own words are explicit, not interpretive. If you think this comes down to interpretation, then please explain how retaining someone else's sins correlates with preaching upon forgiveness so I might understand how you're interpreting Jesus' words better.

@Twit_Upstud @0hour1 Leviticus 5:5-6. Confessional was mosaic law. You are citing interpretation, catholics feel he was speaking to the disciples to transfer authority, while others read it as empowering his disciples to preach upon forgiveness.

John 20:22-23 "After saying this he breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone's sins, They are forgiven. If you retain anyone's sins, They are retained" Confession was instituted after the resurrection. How do you post its elimination before Jesus instituted it?

@Twit_Upstud @0hour1 Matthew 27:51. When the holy of holies was opened to the world, priests and confessional became obsolete. I can continue, but will stop there to let that simmer.

@0hour1 Yeah this is just hateful

Large groups of people tend to sin together in the name of faith. The Church is a greedy bloated pig.