chiliedogg

The UK has really crossed a red line by overtly outlawwing support of Palestinian Action.

That's me.

I work in a very small city entirely surrounded by a much larger one. The one I work for is an enclave for the 0.1%. The average new home build here is over 10 times the price that of the major city that surrounds us, which is also very expensive for the region.

Suffice to say, I can't live here. I live in a shitty trailer that's about 2 hours away with traffic, but costs $700 a month as opposed to $3000+ for a tiny 1-room apartment near work.

The commute sucks, but I save $115 every day I commute.

Fortunately, I like audio books.

I never finished the 1st one because I found the complete lack of connection between the stories frustrating. I get that they wanted you to be able to play with any combination of the 8 characters, but the story suffered heavily.

It was just 8 separate games played at once with the same mechanics, and the lack of any real overarching story meant the narative scope of everything felt small.

They made a musical about it, with some Suess multiverse stuff built in. It was called "Suessical the Musical," and it's definitely nightmare-inducing.

Yeah, but there aren't an unlimited number of MEs. And MEs have a bunch of power over an EC, since the company can't operate if they walk.

That's one of the reasons to license trades. If you need a Master Electrician for your business's electrical contractor's license, it's a lot harder to spin up fake companies with random, because becoming a Master Electrician takes years of work.

Electricians aren't magicians, and anybody can learn to do what they do fairly quickly. But making the process require rlyears of work means they're less-likely to cut corners or participate in shady deals. They don't want to risk their license.

When I was young, I went to several concerts for DC Talk (his band at the time) and the Newsboys (the band he became the frontman for).

While I'm still religious, I've since become an outspoken critic of corporate Christianity. Having a bunch of rich people singing pop songs to arenas full of people paying hundreds of dollars each with million-dollar lighting systems spotlighting the singers doesn't feel very humble and spiritual.

So it's fair to say I already had issues with this dude for profiteering of people's faith. With the newest revelations, I'm shaking with rage. This assholes and those who hid his actions pretended to be faithful servants while destroying lives and raking in profits and praise. They pretended to be exemplars of goodness so they could establish implicit trust, then used that trust to violate others.

Fuck them all.

You do realize that they're registered 401(c)(3) non-profit organizations, just like other charities, right?

You can't just say "I'm a church" and not pay taxes. You have to go through the exact same registration as any other non-profit. Otherwise, everybody would found a church as a personal tax haven.

It's not about porn games. It's about allowing third-party private interests to engage in censorship.

If Valve were to ban porn games from being sold on Steam because they find them distasteful, I wouldn't have a problem with this. But it wasn't Valve's decision. It was the payment processors who did it on behalf of interests that are apparently allowed to determine what is permissible on other people's platforms.

That's not okay.

The Puritans literally came to the new world to start a theocracy. They weren't seeking freedom from oppressive British rule. They were seeking a place where they could force their extreme views on others.

Later on, their supporters in England actually took over, killed the king, installed their own leaner (Cromwell), and led England into such a clusterfuck that the English revolted against the Puritans and asked the dead King's son to come back and be King.

I wouldn't go that far.

But audit them.and make sure they're actually doing tax-exempt stuff, and be ruthless about removing the tax-exempt status of churches that violate the law.

That's eerily similar to what I grew up with. Like: "are you my sibling, and is that actually my old house"-level similar.

Edit:nm - we had wood floors, and the fan on the right was white.