So you could go point for point for rebuttal but don’t and instead write 5 paragraphs of arm waving and whataboutism - “what about other old institutions” - I don’t care, we’re talking about the church.

The comment I replied to, you said “considerable force for good for centuries” now you want to limit it to 2025?

Go ahead and rebut how millions of lives were lost by actively sabotaging condom use and every other crime I mentioned.

I said they’re an overall negative, anti-human institution with a long well documented history of points to back it up.

I didn’t say “nothing good” has come out, beautiful flowers come out of excrement too.

You held on to the “dark ages” - but skipped over the destruction of knowledge that led to them and you wrote what you consider a rebuttal. So let’s talk about that:

They didn’t systematically keep fuck all.

Some scribes kept some books, the ones they could hide from the church. Most of the old writings of classical authors have been lost.

Between 500-1000AD the Church systematically destroyed classical libraries and learning centers. The burning of the Library of Alexandria and closure of philosophical schools eliminated centuries of knowledge in science, mathematics, and philosophy.

The Church controlled virtually all education, restricting literacy to clergy and limiting curriculum to religious doctrine.

Church prohibited dissection and medical research, leading to the loss of advanced Roman medical knowledge. Illness attributed to sin rather than natural causes, impeding medical advancement for centuries.

The Church burned books, destroyed manuscripts, and executed or exiled intellectuals who challenged religious orthodoxy.

It’s an obscene rewriting of history to thank the executioner for the rivers of blood that fed what came after.

I have no idea what you’re basing this comment on.

The sins of the catholic church are many and global and as large and unforgivable as their wealth and reach and history:

From the very beginning they were antithetical to plurality - soon as they got power first order of business was the destruction of classical Hellenistic learning centres.

Then crusades, inquisitions, colonialism and forced conversions, complicit in slavery, the witch trials, and interference with politics all over the world.

Opposition to human rights, anti-science (dark ages anyone), support for dictatorships, residential school systems targeting indigenous children, and the ongoing sexual abuse crisis with institutional cover-ups.

And their worst crime of the modern era: their response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Strict opposition to condom use (in fact actively lobbied against condom distribution and sex education) even as HIV/AIDS spread globally - particularly devastating in heavily Catholic regions like sub-Saharan Africa, the Philippines, and Latin America where the Church wielded significant influence over public health policy (as they still do). Millions of infections and deaths directly attributed to this crime against humanity.

But yes, “force for good”.

To be honest this is only phrasing from people that have never lived under totalitarianism. If you have and then you managed to move or overturn it, you count your lucky stars every day about the ways you can actually affect outcomes in your life.

Of course you are only one voice, but the fact that you’re allowed to organise groups to address grievances is a revolutionary idea that most people that have it barely appreciate it - they think it’s natural and self evident, in fact it isn’t for most of the world.

Has this one done it? or how many such watches in do you get to be happy?

Probably simpler maths than that: the many hundreds of millions that have been flowing from the gulf states and the domestic oil industry can’t compete with musk’s contributions and his terrible polling closed the deal. More money, more better.

The downfall from self inflicted injury will be faster and more severe than anything seen in history.

When two planes love each other very much…

I’m also in possession of original hand-written letters by Jesus Christ himself, inside the original envelope complete with the “par avion” stamp that my neighbour gifted me.

When all you sell is outrage words lose their meaning and things that should cause public outrage become entertainment in the “minute of hate” sense.

Wondering how long has this been cooking? A year or so ago musk started attacking signal for no discernible reason and recommending telegram instead.

Two hours later :

Where does she poop without poisoning of the water table and causing a plague?

This assumes a benign state/host. What I would want from the law is enforcing interoperability and transferability between networks - a portable identity that can be transferred in the first sign of trouble to a different provider.

You also need to be aware that it doesn’t like acidic sauces like heavy tomato as it strips the seasoning and you’ll the taste it in the food. You are better off using stainless steel for those.

I see. The first mistake I was making if I remember correctly was using the same continuous high heat as I would in a non stick and not wait long enough for the pan to heat evenly.

The difference in the amount of mass it carries makes it a different beast to cook in: it takes a while to warm up but also for the same reason it maintains and exceeds the temperature a non stick if you maintain high heat under it.

So try either starting at a low heat and waiting a while to warm up - maybe 3-5min. Or start at a high heat wait 2 mins to get it warm fast and then lower the stove to what would have been a simmer so you don’t overshoot.

Look, realistically, it’s never going to be less work than a new non stick pan - it’s heavy, might need some oil now and then and can’t put it in the dish washer.

But if you are like me, once you settle into a routine that you’re happy with you’ll be glad with the freedom that you don’t have to babysit this thing: that it can take a beating the non stick never could, that you don’t eat pfas, that you can stab it, scrape it, wash it, stack it, throw it in the oven, cook at any temperature, heavy mass means even heat and that you’ll never have to buy another one and will probably pass it on to your grandkids or even let it rust and come back to it and will be fine with a bit of love.

Also “car” - can my local mechanic service it and give it a flying certificate? If not, it’s not a car.

More like a barely road-worthy airplane.

“Where are you coming from?”

…suspect smoking pipe…

“Alright then, keep your secrets”

“Amiable” is not “very friendly” - complete nonsense.

Not quite. It’s just easier to jump in to mechanics you already know, rather than try to reconceptualise the structure and learn to navigate new pitfalls: oh I need to select a server? Which one is the right one? Oh I need a client, which one? Oh I can’t quote retweet? How do I find interesting people to follow? Is this the right handle in the right server or am I following a bot?

Brill. One of us.