Ah! Right! I completely forgot about that.

I was always of the “In remembrance of Me” interpretation. Catholicism gets pretty metal sometimes. Lol

OH YEAAAAH…I’ll admit I completely forgot about that.

I was always of the “In remembrance of Me” interpretation.

As someone not from a Muslim background, thank you very much for the clarification and context!

It irks me to no end regardless of the work, how many people will flaunt their supposed literacy and reasoning ability, but even the weakest “reelijun bad” meme will get circulated with little resistance.

It poisons the well against constructive conversation. Thanks for educating. :)

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

—Romans 1:22

literally

Literally tho?

But unless you’re putting yourself in risky situations or seeking out service members, it’s as safe as anywhere else in Japan as a tourist.

That’s so weird how this sentence could read the same way replacing “service members” with “yakuza”.

Like I didn’t think I’d see stattioned military in an allied country as “rarer than you think, but don’t go looking for them if you wanna stay safe.” Yikes.

Yeah, it’d be awesome if these could be community centers. Local worshipers could still even request the space on occasion!

Replacing them with smoke shops and carwashes and cash advances or a Subway isn’t the net positive we’d hope for. =\

I’ve heard this referred to as a “third space”, a place not home nor work where people can hang out and not be hassled for not buying anything. Like parks and libraries.

They’re quickly disappearing. :(

As a Christian…yeah. Yeah this!

The Church is supposed to be neighbors looking out for each other and studying in each others’ homes, and gathering as a community, not superstar collisseums of tens of thousands (those won’t be closing huh lol) or concert venues or monolithic “Everybody listen to this one guy who read the same book we can read but we should do everything he says.” hierarchy clubs.

They opened their hearts to the rich, the far-reicht grifters, the hatemongers, and pushed Jesus right out in the process. Driven by greed and pushing a worldview of greed, is there any wonder why people are tightening their purses as they get robbed left and right by the false idols they elect?

So… maybe if a major government is paying for it, it’ll improve much faster? Here’s to wishful thinking.

I actually liked the experience. No, not the movie, that was terrible LOL. But I remember watching it with my friends in highschool and we were the only ones in the theater aside from some other group, so we were quipping our own funnier jokes back and forth with these strangers making each other laugh lol.

How so? I was under the impression that the whole agency could be replaced with cardboard cutouts and nothing would really change except getting on planes might be smoother lol.

The webcam being stuck on sounds like a Microsoft “feature” that would accompany “We’ve made updates to our EULA” that you’d be forced to accept to start Windows next time. 😬 Lol

trying to disable the stock ticker (?WTF?)

Geeze I should have invested in “?WTF?🔺” years ago. Look how ?WTF?🔺 is everywhere now! Especially the tech industry. 😭

the world seems to actively hate the idea of kids having something that remotely looks like choice.

Yeah, to these losers anything can be deemed dangerous and in need of government meddling if it interferes at all with the child-to-student-to-taxpaying-employee pipeline.

And drama queens.

“Fascists (like me) don’t care about your feelings!”

That would be super rad but I don’t think something like that exists yet. (Would be COOL to be wrong though!) The best I would think would be how many headsets let you look through the infrared cams.

I’d guess Steam Frame might be the best bet right now just because it’s Linux-first and open, and I think it offers an upgrade for color passthrough cameras.

Lol you’re totally right I’m just playin. That’s still way too little for such a huge country!

We really need a lot more. I rode the BART in the California Bay Area and it was awesome. I wish we could get that all over.

The first time someone used the phrase “horny jail” unironically and wasn’t slapped into the following week

Maybe I’m incorrect but I always thought this came about because people went so ridiculously in the other direction where their dopamine-receptors were completely captured by pornhub, that it was a polite way to bop them on the nose for being a gross gooner in completely non-sexual contexts.

Like anything amusing on the Internet though, it simultaneously started to mean everything and nothing at all, I guess. Lol

“It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.”

—Adam Jensen, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

hop on the US-centric train

Ah, that must be the single U.S train I’ve been hearing so much about!