maol

The actual Vatican seems to use its own .va domain name, which neatly sidesteps the .com vs .org dilemma.....but doesn't explain why they let randomers use catholic.com and catholic.org.

Is it an offence against the church for a group of lay theologians to ordain an AI? no idea. It is very funny though

Yeah, but there was a lot of blood under the bridge before they could make a truce. But I'd never heard of the truce, that's beautiful. ETA: sadly it seems the truce didn't hold more than 10 years, which is still pretty good. The original Israel-Egypt treaty it was based on seems to have held for about 4 years

In Cambridge, there's a sign at the train station with a quiet joke....

Ah yes, the Bloods and the Crips. Because those two gangs are well known for peacefully coexisting (?!?!?!?)

This is literally the same conversation therapy approach they use against gay people lol* the idea is that people believe they're gay because they are insecure about not being traditionally masculine or feminine enough (usually due to a bad relationship with their parents) and if they just learn how to be masc enough/fem enough then they'll be able to be heterosexual.

*kill me now

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

Reminds me of this bloke's approach to teaching swimming.

Oh my gahhhhd. "Most child abuse is committed by family and friends, so why not commit some abuse against your child?"

I started (but didn't finish) a degree in city planning, and we literally spent a lot of the first year learning about why planned cities are usually a bad idea. Siskind's a schmuck

Ah, the idea that merely living in the same country as some rich people means that you yourself are rich.

His glowing reference to the "aggro Scots Irish" reminded me that the "Scots Irish" are descended from Ulster Protestants, and that it wasn't fun being an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland for much of the 20th century. Ian Paisley famously said that Catholics "breed like rabbits".