@xwanyex You have an easement to take advantage of the reclined seats space when they aren’t using it, but it’s their property. Why do you want to deny them use of their property?
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markovchainlightning
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@dailyregarded
lord have mercy on me, a sinner.
Katılım Kasım 2023
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@BeSaintly It’s to pay off a credit card. It’s probably most wise to let him declare bankruptcy. The guy just wants to keep spending.
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Look I know each situation is different but if it’s your dad, you need to help
The only situation I’d imagine where you may not be morally obligated to help is if he would hurt himself with the money (ex drugs)
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Caller: “ I have a net worth of about $3 million and my Dad has asked for $55,000 to pay his debt. What should i do?” Caller: My 80 year old father is asking my husband and me for $55,000 to pay off his credit card and car loan debt. Dave: What’s your financial situation? Carla: We’re retired, debt free, net worth between $2 and $3 million but we’re on a fixed income and would have to dip into retirement accounts to do it. Dave: And your husband’s position? Carla: He’s firmly against it. But my dad is very persuasive and I feel guilty saying no. Dave: Carla, the answer is no. You have no moral, ethical, or biblical obligation to fund your father’s bad financial habits especially when manipulation is part of how he’s asking. Carla: But he’s 80 and he’s my dad. Dave: Being your dad doesn’t give him the right to your retirement. And “no” is a complete sentence. Don’t give him an encyclopedia of reasons, he’ll debate every one. Be brief, be gentle, and be firm. Carla: What can I offer instead? Dave: Gift him Financial Peace University. Give him the tools to help himself. That’s generous without enabling the pattern.
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@SjefDev showing up at freshman orientation and asking for directions to epstein class.
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@levelsio Caesar took it way too easy on them honestly.
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@mquintos @_brianpotter Of course USAID was training the screw worms. Everyone was on the take.
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@_brianpotter In early 2025, broader U.S. foreign aid reductions (including via DOGE-related cuts to USAID programs) eliminated or paused funding for certain UN FAO Global Health Security initiatives that supported screwworm monitoring, training, and containment
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The US spent 50 years eradicating screwworm from North and Central America.
Over the past 5 years, those efforts have unravelled.
This week on Construction Physics, the fall and rise of screwworm.
construction-physics.com/p/the-fall-and…
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@thechosenberg In the new covenant, you can keep the tip.
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Imagine if Pope Leo showed up to the consecrations in full papal regalia and shouted “NO! This is a lawless action” when they asked “Habetis mandatum apostolicum?”
The aura would have been so intense that I dont know how they could have proceeded.
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@michaelbd He has to excommunicate them so that he can govern them and audience.
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People saying the SSPX story is over, that they are irrelevant now, and exulting in this excommunication have no idea.
The reason for the harsh punishment is precisely because this is an ongoing problem. The Pope is still receiving Anglican bishops 130 years after having declared them all laymen. Unlike 1988, it doesn’t seem like the SSPX is going to endure a major split.
Even from the other side, the Vatican’s own ongoing mandate for “dialogue” with Orthodox and Protestant Christians is easily made scandalous when the SSPX leaders are begging for dialogue and have come much much closer to signing a formula normalizing them.
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@Catholic_bro This makes no sense. Julius Caesar has extant writing!
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Who’s gonna tell em ?
TheSilencedCookieCabalLeader@IsolatedHavoc
@Catholic_bro @Jermainegoat420 @ABC Lmfao you are in the shallows. That's even crazier that you think yhe stories are true if you accept they were written decades after the fact. Imagine thinking someone rose from the dead when the story was written 40 to 50 years after the fact. Bonkers.
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@BreeSolstad Why is a Cardinal excommunicating people anyway? Can he even do that? How does he decide who the Pope is in communion with?
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I’m confused.
Did the Vatican really excommunicate laypeople today or not? 🙏
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@Tawadros15 They’re excommunicated not sedevacantist. They were disobedient but they don’t reject the legitimacy of the papacy.
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It is done. The SSPX is now officially a schismatic Sedevacantist group. All their faculties are suspended by Latae Sententiae excommunication and going to them for Sacraments is now a schismatic act. This is a terribly sad day. If you attend SSPX chapels please stop.
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@eigenrobot @UsingLyft The conquistadors marched around with notaries and read tribes the history of the world and offered them to convert to Christianity and serve the king, then slaughtered them upon refusal. I can’t help but admire it in a way.
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@UsingLyft effective organized violence is very different from fistfights tho
completely different psychology involved
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Idt anglos today are the same as the ones who did that. The very idea of a fight is basically off the table for a large number of white men. White guys used to throw hands over disrespect just 200 years ago and now most are like “oooh that’s naughty and for the blacks”
do things@rjackcarlson
@UsingLyft Like 3000 Anglos took over their subcontinent. It’s simply not threatening. But overall I agree with your sentiment.
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@KhanFormBias Maybe once he’s excommunicated them then he can invite them to give a blessing by the tomb of St. Peter. The SSPX (like Islam) also is part of the plan of salvation.
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@Xtopher_Uzo “Make of that what you will…”
Just say whatever you’re trying to say.
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Many SSPX and other Tridentine Catholics love Saint Padre Pio. But what if I told you that Padre Pio remained obedient to the Pope after the Second Vatican Council?
On September 12, 1968, Saint Padre Pio wrote this letter to Pope Paul VI:
"...I know that your heart is suffering much these days... because of the lack of obedience of some, even Catholics, to the high teaching that you, assisted by the Holy Spirit and in the name of God, are giving us.»
I offer you my prayers and daily sufferings as a small but sincere contribution... that God may give you comfort with His grace to follow the straight and painful way in the defense of eternal truth, which never changes with the passing of the years.
Also, in the name of my spiritual children and the Prayer Groups, I thank you for your clear and decisive words, especially those contained in the encyclical Humanae Vitae; and I reaffirm my faith and my unconditional obedience to your illuminated directions."
Just 11 days later, on September 23, 1968, Saint Padre Pio died.
The last gesture we knew about Padre Pio was not one of rejecting the Pope or breaking communion with the Church. It was a witness of prayer, fidelity, and unconditional obedience to the Successor of Peter.
Make of that what you will.
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@selentelechia @lymanstoneky I have myself seen a small baby jealous; it was too young to speak, but it was livid with anger as it watched another infant at the breast.
-St Augustine of Hippo
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@besttrousers You actually can just dismiss it. I don’t have to a priori believe every proposed model.
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General reminder that "this analysis makes aSsUmPtIoNs!!!" is not a good counterargument.
You have to beat a model with a better model.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
There are some center-to-right wing accounts I follow that are more offended by the possibility that some public health sources are over-estimating the death count from Musk carelessly destroying US global health programs than by the core fact that Musk really did carelessly destroy US global health (and bragged about it relentlessly) in a way that clearly killed people. These people know who they are, and they're wrong.
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@feelsdesperate @JerusalemDemsas Do you believe that more, fewer, or exactly the same number of deaths occured in 2025 compared to the counter-factual in which USAID was not gutted?
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@WilliamJen46953 @BishopBarron If he was a good guy, he’d agree with me and come to all my same conclusions.
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Augustine’s conversion cost him everything he loved. He sent away the woman he loved, gave up his career ambitions, and spent the rest of his life producing the theological foundation of Western Christianity. The Augustinian arc isn’t about a restless heart finding peace. It’s about what you surrender when it does. What has Vance surrendered?
And if Girard truly shaped his conversion, he’d recognize his own political operation as the thing Girard spent his life warning against.
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Friends, I recently read Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir. Many things struck me, among them that Vance has a certain Augustinian arc about him.
My full review of “Communion” can be read in the link below:
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@cremieuxrecueil When you want a retard foid but most retards are dudes. 😢
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Agreed. In real data, there's ~nothing at the mean and the variance gap is present, but not enormous.
For example, here's the 2025 SAT national sample and Michigan's sample (that's a state where almost every high schooler takes it):
Alicia🦎👁🗨🪐🌘 ⬛️ (Doctor)@hollowearthterf
Why didn’t you use the real graph?
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@bumbadum14 Even saying it’s front loaded buys their framing. It’s like saying the balance is front loaded. You pay the interest on the amount you owe.
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It should be illegal to complain about money while being such a slovenly fat creature.
Yeah, mortgages front load the interest. Thats how this works, go on a diet and save some money fat ass
MatrixMysteries@MatrixMysteries
An American buys a $138,000 home. She sends the bank $9,286. After interest, taxes, and insurance, ONLY $952 goes toward the loan. $8,300 is PURE interest. This is how the system turns ownership into a lifetime of payments.
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