Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Good guy Tim tryin to make sure everyone has a Merry Christmas. Sounds like nice list material to me.

Are we seriously not doing phrasing any more?

I can’t determine if the picture being various shades of gray was intentional or not.

Grew up beekeeper, did not have one of these.

Wake up babe, new MindsEye dropping.

Local data hoarder who looks down on calls outside the network as obscenities. (Entire collection scraped more aggressively than tech bros training an AI model)

I immediately pull the switch when I hear flattens all the world’s billionaires. The only problem is I can only do it once.

Every other time you dropped it but nothing ever happened to it, and it’s still in your parents basement collecting dust.

Little devil on my shoulder screaming “Reply All: *You’re”

Ich liebe den Struwwelpeter!

The Policy: “Are you sure you don’t not want for us to not not share all your data with third party advertisers?” The Options: Not Disagree | Don’t Agree

Starting a company isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Entrepreneur hustle culture is a neoliberal trap I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I never worked harder for less money, or felt surrounded by the most disingenuous people I’ve ever met than when I worked for myself. I’ll just keep collecting a paycheck and actually enjoy my life while not “on the clock”.

I thought that was the final goal of neoliberalism.

Granny smoked Menthols, these are Matcha.

I really like the sources you provided:

NPR:

After debate last year about whether Communion should be denied to Catholics who support abortion rights, including politicians, U.S. bishops decided not to implement such a policy and instead urged Catholics veering from church teachings to refrain from taking Communion

Wikipedia

In 2008, a minority of American bishops supported denying communion to pro-abortion rights Catholic legislators … These statements of intent from church authorities have sometimes led American Catholic voters to vote for candidates who wish to ban abortion… While there was thus disagreement among the bishops about the opportuneness of refusing the Eucharist to Catholic politicians promoting legalization of abortion, there was unanimity regarding the moral obligation of Catholic politicians who participate in what their Church considers a seriously sinful action to refrain from going to Communion

My takeaway is some Catholics may have been influenced by the opinion of individual bishops, but the church has been quick and consistent in its messaging that in regard to abortion and communion their request is: if you had an abortion, please don’t take communion if you haven’t confessed and asked for forgiveness. (This is the same request they’d ask for what they’d consider any mortal sin.)

It certainly doesn’t seem to suggest the Church is advocating for specific politicians, like my comment you originally replied to mentions.

Don’t port forward Jellyfin. That’s terribly insecure. Just install tailscale or similar and invite the people you wish to allow access.

I don’t disagree with you. My earlier comment that mentions port forwarding and infrastructure comes from guides that direct admins to set up a tunnel through Cloudflare, expose JFs port at the router, and point the tunnel at it. Not only is it insecure and likely to offer poor performance, it’s probably a violation of CF ToS (tunneling video data). Going the Plex or pivpn routes will require a port being forwarded, Plex more a beginner option, pivpn only slightly more complicated, but both still expose an attack surface. Tailscale looks appealing from a security perspective, no port forwarding required, plus I find full mesh networks really neat. I just don’t want to rely on tailscale’s coordinated servers to stand between my network devices since I rely on WireGuard for more than media streaming. Tailscale is definitely a great solution for users with CGNAT-based ISPs though.

It is tragic what is happening to their parishioners right now, but the bishops can only blame themselves. They directly advocated for politicians who are now actively targeting their people.

Tell me you don’t understand Catholicism without telling me you don’t understand Catholicism. If there is any Christian church that doesn’t advocate for specific politicians it’s the Catholic Church.

The special message from the U.S. bishops has no call to action outside of calling for care, well treatment and prayer for immigrants in the U.S.

Special Message

I can tell you exactly how this special message will impact church going American Catholics. The Sunday mass following the message will include in its Prayer Intentions something like “we join the call of the U.S. bishops to recognize the humanity in all people, regardless of immigration status. We pray to the Lord”, and the parishioners will reply whether listening or not “Lord hear our prayer.”

You could’ve made this image using paint in under 5 minutes, did you really need to waste half a liter of water to have AI generate it?