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Catholic. This is my own opinion. Display some adaptability. Could be wrong: I don't know it all. Buzzword compliant. I do computer stuff.
Nashville, Tennessee Katılım Kasım 2006
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In an ancient little church on the outskirts of Paris, a Korean woman is leading the faithful in song at every Mass.
She is helping the Church re-establish its dominance in beauty, transcendence, and hymnography.
This is Catholic beauty. This is what the Kyrie should sound like!
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I doubt if this will have any effect on the entrenched, but I’m going to do my best.
Whenever I hire someone who has never worked in or for the Catholic Church, I have to give them this dreadful speech.
I always have to tell them to prepare themselves for awful people.
In their work in the church, they will encounter some of the cruelest, angriest, most judgmental and manipulative people they will ever encounter.
I tell them that it’s oddly a good thing: most people who go to Church do so because some deep part of them knows they are broken. I invite them to pray for the people screaming at them over the phone, gossiping, complaining. I invite them to give Jesus the pain and let it be a fuel to never inflict that on others.
I know everyone loves to have their favorite cause as to why people don’t go to church as much, but unlike most I actually talk to people.
Whether it’s in the confessional at weddings or in supermarkets, I spend a lot of time around people who don’t go to church and for most of them it’s pretty simple: the people they know that go to Church do not appear any better to them.
They look at us and don’t wanna be like us, not because of our virtue, but because of our arrogance, our unwillingness to meet people where they are.
Being a public minister means you’re going to receive inordinate amounts of praise and inordinate amounts of criticism. The sharpest knives and the best aimed arrows always seem to come from those people who should have your back, but don’t. They’re too busy evaluating if you’re doing it right.
Like many people who are trying to evangelize, I am doing my best. There’s a fear always at work in me that I’m not doing it right, that despite my best efforts, I’m leading people to hell by accident, all kinds of things that bounce around in my head. My comfort is always the God can see my heart: he can see how deeply I love him and want to help people know him.
My challenge is that he’s the only one who can see those things. Everyone else looks at me and see their own issues through me.
Today, I am so grateful to Jesus for those who accept me as I am, who fight hard for personal holiness, who don’t spend a lot of time evaluating those who are evangelizing and who lovingly correct me when I need it.
I’m also grateful for those who choose to fight the good fight in public, knowing that the deepest pain will not come from sinners, but the righteous.
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The stupidest thing in this stupid post: that a token tax would "Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax".
This requires that firms are rational enough to reduce energy costs to save on the tax, but irrational enough to leave even larger savings on the table in the form of reduced energy costs right now.
Mark Cuban@mcuban
We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level. Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens. It will accomplish 4 things (at least ) 1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization Which will 2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption Which will 3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x Which will 4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally. Thoughts ?
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Interesting review of Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization firstthings.com/kinder-gentler… which talks about the softer authoritarianism and semi-legitimacy of post-Soviet USSR (useful for understanding American society c 1995-today, I'd argue).
I'll likely buy the book.
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He said, from behind a block, like the big he man he is.
bdunbar@bdunbar
All that from 30 seconds of video. Must be his superpower.
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'Hey, Sargn't need to talk to you for a quick minute' is all it would have taken for it not to be any kind of a thing.
Brad R. Torgersen@BradRTorgersen
Video is missing crucial context. We're left to infer what started it. What I will say is that unless an officer has a very good, very specific reason to be in an NCO's business, getting into an NCO's business like this in front of troops isn't ideal. "Remonstrate privately, praise publicly," is seldom the wrong answer.
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The machine gunner was way late to the party.
War Flash@WarFlash_2630
🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️Ambush initiated with bag pipes. Canadian Army & US Army
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@LPNational LP Allies excluded all right-wing libertarian candidates from their debates.
It's sick to see the national party amplifying this fringe group of far-left libertarians.
More proof we need to EndTheLP.com
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Not a great smell, agreed.
But it does trigger some fun memories.
Shooting machine guns in the rain.
Sitting in the back of a six-by tired and exhausted but satisfied.
Watching Smith, who imbibed just before formation, compelled to swallow, and vomiting in the grass.
travis4nh@travis4nh
I started getting nauseated from the smell of chewing tobacco so I left. Sorry, comrades. Fight the good fight without me for a bit longer.
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Imagine how the cops treat people who are not rich in friends.
Rep. Donald McFarlane@donald4nh
I look forward to hearing back from the chief with additional detail, because this video strongly suggests that all of these cops need to be fired and some serious apologies issued by the city to @jeremykauffman, his family, and the people of the state. The behavior of all of the officers apparent in the video is disgusting, reprehensible and, by appearances, unlawful.
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"show me your ID" is not a lawful order in NH.
I am Jack’s Rage@ImJacksRage
"I will obey all lawful orders" apparently doesn't include providing your ID 🙄
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@amitylee13 Fighting off the left-libertarian loser brigade every two years is so tiresome.
Please consider joining the campaign to end the Libertarian Party so we can stop having to do this.
EndTheLP.com
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