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@bankertobuilder @RogerThat1961 Facts. And legally the city is fully liable for damage to your tires, you just have to file a claim.

@RogerThat1961 Doubt it. I have ruined many tires by going over the curbs in these stupid circles.

@skumWgmi You are not burning $12 in gas to mow 1 lawn. But your point stands.

I quoted a boomer $40 to mow his lawn, edge it, and bag the clippings. He laughed and offered $12 "like the neighbor kid used to charge." The neighbor kid charged that in 1994. Gas alone for the mower costs more than that now. He hired someone else. They quit after one mow. He's still looking. Boomers need to go.

@Mark_Wilson_ @0xDavecryps It's just failing small businesses. Even the most dirt-cheap fast food chains pay at least a couple bucks more than minimum.

@0xDavecryps Who earns minimum wage? Even McDonald's pays twice that in the US.

Housing costs have climbed so fast that the average U.S. apartment now rents for around $2,100 a month. Meanwhile, someone working full-time at the federal minimum wage earns only about $1,300 a month after taxes, depending on their situation. That leaves an $800 gap before paying for groceries, electricity, transportation, insurance, or a single unexpected bill. This isn’t about skipping coffee or making a better budget. No budgeting strategy can fix an income that doesn’t even cover the roof over your head. The federal minimum wage has been frozen since 2009, while rents have surged over the years. When the cost of simply existing rises faster than paychecks, people aren’t failing the system. The system is failing them. Until wages begin to reflect today’s cost of living, relying on one hourly paycheck alone is becoming less of a choice and more of a financial risk. For millions of Americans, finding additional sources of income isn’t about getting rich. It’s about staying afloat.

@0xDavecryps Why would the minimum wage need to pay for an average apartment? How about a minimum apartment?

@lukei4655 Very true. We should definitely avoid using the terms Ordinary Form and Extraordinary Form. We should call them Old Mass and New Mass, or Traditional Mass and Novus Ordo.

Offered the EF of the Roman Rite yesterday. It had been a while (I usually offer the OP Rite for trad liturgy). It got me thinking again about how there are actually more substantial liturgical changes between the EF and the OF than between the EF and the OP rite. I think that the OF should probably be considered a different rite instead of merely a different form of the Roman Rite.

No, you got that wrong. They NEVER said they're holding onto it and will pay it back to you. They said they'd pool everyone's money and redistribute it. It's socialism, just like the name would suggest. If you don't get back what you paid in, that's by design. Someone who paid in nothing is getting a nice paycheck thanks to you.

Imagine being forced to give someone 6.2% of your paycheck, every single check, every month, for 30 to 50 years of your life. And that person said, "Don't worry, I'm holding this for you and will pay it back to you on a monthly basis, when you retire at 65." And then they said, "Nah, just kidding. I meant when you retire at 67. And at that time, I'll only give you 70% of what you paid me." And then they said, "Oops, I spent all your money. You're out of luck." That's the U.S. government.

@GraduatedBen This is literally true. Cancers appear in your body all the time, and are successfully defeated by your immune system. When someone is diagnosed with cancer, it just means it's a cancer that their immune system did not fight off.

I believe that many people get cancer and beat cancer without ever knowing it

@BamaSaltyMarine They didn't go anywhere. They never existed. Three groups of a thousand people? That's 3000. Two groups of a thousand? That's 2000. One group of a thousand? It's 1000. No groups of a thousand? It's 0.

Mathematics is the only subject I sill can't understand. How can 1000 people multiplied by zero, be zero people. Where did the 1000 people go?

Yep. Alcohol is fine in limited amounts, but the moment it takes away your right reason, your ability to think straight, it's a sin. But only if it's done on purpose. It was okay to drink a bunch of liquor as a crude anesthetic during an amputation back in old times, for example. You would get absolutely hammered, but it wasn't the drunkenness that was the goal, but instead the pain-numbing effect. Principle of double effect. You can do a neutral action even if it results in something evil, as long as it also results in something good. The good has to outweigh the evil and the evil cannot be what leads to the good.

Is intentional intoxication a sin?

@JScripko @SunnyDfan4eva @ReubenR80027912 Apparently people can smell ants. Like, when there's a colony of ants on the ground they can smell it. I have never noticed an ant smell.

@SunnyDfan4eva @ReubenR80027912 The general term is "anosmia". I have it in regard to stink bugs. I do not smell it AT ALL when I squish one. If I do it near a group of people I wil get quite a reaction even if they didn't see me do the deed.

Real talk: I’m a cilantro truther. I don’t believe, for 1 second, that 20% of ppl are genetically predisposed to to thinking it tastes like soap This is the ONLY food on earth that ppl have this genetic issue with?? GTFO This is just the Latin version of “MSG in Asian food”

@TXJennyAgain @PaulinusOfTrier A sedevacanantist shouldn't want to attend an SSPX Mass though, right? It's a serious offense to offer Mass while mentioning a false bishop's and false Pope's names in the Canon. Lefebvre considered sedevacantism very seriously, but came to the conclusion it doesn't make sense.

Sedevacantists don't believe popes must be impeccable but that they mayn't be heretics. Around 2010 there was a crackdown (or more like some lecturing) against sedevacantism at SSPX chapels. That didn't change individual beliefs, it just made persons more careful & quiet. You likely know quite a few sedes but miss them for their discretion.

There are a number of pro-SSPX groups on various platforms . Not infrequently there are comments of a sedevacantist nature, which are of course inappropriate because the SSPX are not sedevacantists. The disturbing thing is that, if one looks closely at these accounts, it becomes quite obvious that they are trolls. It is possible that these troll accounts are an attempt by sedevacantists to encourage SSPX adherents to join their cause. However I think it much more likely that this is an attempt by pro-conciliarists to tar the SSPX with the brush of sedevacantism. It seems to be effective ; even serious commentators frequently refer to the SSPX in terms which imply they reject Leo as Pope.

@icpolicy @japan_nobunaga Standard expectation is 15%. Less if the service is lacking. More if they go above and beyond.

@japan_nobunaga A guide to tipping in America. Baseline 20%, never go below. Is there an attractive girl nearby who might see how much you tip? Add 10% On a date? Double the amount. DO NOT TIP if the restaurant has an attached drive thru, unless it is a Starbucks. I don't make the rules

Quick poll, Americans only 🇺🇸 Tipping 20% at a restaurant: A) Totally normal, I always do it B) It's gotten completely out of control 😤 Reply A or B + your state. I honestly can't tell what's "normal" anymore 👀

@pallnandi Yeah but that's wildly inefficient for a hotel to run that way. And you're not paying for a full day. Who said you were? You're paying for the amount of time you're paying for: 3pm to 11am. If you want 24 hours it's going to be more expensive, that seems fair to me.

If I pay for a hotel room at 3 PM, it should be mine until 3 PM the next day. Not 11 AM, not “whenever checkout is.” I’m paying for a full day, not a shortened stay that quietly benefits the hotel more than the guest.

@actingliketommy Yeah but the workers also don't have to pay cash back to the company if the company can't pay its bills. An owner may have to do this if he wants the business to stay alive.

Capitalism: Man gets an idea. Has money to start idea. 50,000 workers work FOR YEARS to realize the idea and create something that resonates, shaping it all the way. Man keeps stock, becomes billionaire. 49,000 workers can barely pay their bills. Rinse. Repeat.

@actingliketommy @humpty27 An LLC is not getting approved for loans unless it's successful. Most business ideas have to be funded or backed by personal assets to get started.

@humpty27 No man who has ever started a business has “lost everything.” That’s a fucking myth you dumb fuck. An LLC takes loans and all those loans die with the company. You’re an actual fool believing that capitalist slop.

@HiddenYorkshire @christisrisen17 @dogslovecranmer God can bestow graces on you anyway, when you receive invalidly but you aren't aware. But once you find out, you definitely need to receive validly in the future and it would now be a sin to knowingly receive invalidly.

Interesting. The implication of this DnD-esque theology is that the Eucharist can be somehow invalidated and God, like some papers-please beaurocratic official, goes, "Well, I know you believed you'd communed and received in penitence and faith, but actually the magic words weren't spoken and so it's all null and void, I'm afraid." That doesn't like the Gospel to me. It sounds very Temple worship and Pharisaical.

i am convinced of women’s ordination because i was raised on sacraments from a woman priest and ive never seen an argument i consider sufficient to overcome the personal experience of my reception of Christ’s body and blood from her

@cappuccinoo2000 @theskeetman1776 @dogslovecranmer Yeah and most parishes suck.

@theskeetman1776 @dogslovecranmer Women aren’t in silence in any church. Most Catholic parishes utilize women too, just not as priests. They’re in the sanctuary as readers, cantors and Eucharistic ministers, and they usually are running most parish functions.

There's nothing evil about them it's just kinda messed up to add to the 15 decades that had already been in place for a very long time. The 150 Hail Mary's symbolize the 150 psalms as a layperson's way of echoing the 150-psalm Divine Office. Having 200 changes this, but it's not that big a deal. I don't pray them anymore but I'm not gonna yell at someone who does.

Wait a minute ✋️😳 There are Catholics who don't pray the mysteries of light ( Luminous mysteries)?

@UziCryptoo Mortgages may be higher than apartment rent, but they're not higher than single family home rent. Consider buying a condo if you want the advantages of ownership but don't need a single family home.

I’m genuinely starting to not see the point in buying a house anymore. - Most houses I’ve looked at are over valued. - Property taxes (in Texas) are wild. - I have to maintain everything. - Mortgage would be more than my rent. - No guarantee value would increase. - Less amenities than a luxury apartment. Am I crazy for feeling this way? I feel crazy for feeling this way.

@Sara_Costa_1008 @EVR_Forge I think you might not know what the word heretical/heresy means. Heresy is when you publicly preach a belief that goes against what the Catholic Church teaches. Exactly which Catholic teachings has the SSPX preached against?

@EVR_Forge I went to an SSPX church as a child (before they went heretical). The priest (and he was back then) was rabid, frothing at the mouth against the non-SSPX church down the road. This is the point; they can and do say whatever they want with zero reprocussions. That leads to heresy

I seriously wonder if Pope Leo has ever spent 5 minutes in his life inquiring about what actually happens in a SSPX chapel.