@steveconaway1@AMillershaski Not a chance they use or even remotely consider the “bad ground” when that mellow river bottom dirt is just sitting there waiting to be built on. Same as the industrial solar people.
@jodiecongirl As a family with multiple children we specifically switched the brand of toilet paper we had used for 10+ years because of a marketing campaign. The ads were very short lived, probably no more than a month or so but to this day (10-15 yr later) we still won’t buy it even on sale.
The most millennial thing about me is that NO I do not want to open this link in an app, no I do not want to download an app to view this, please just let me open this in a tab in the browser. I don’t want another app, I just want to see the three pictures or whatever in the app I am already in. Do you know what is also an app? The browser. That’s an app. Stop pretending I can’t see this stupid article unless I download another thing that wants to track me and I have to come up with another cutesy username and save another password in my password manager that’s already been hacked btw and I have to configure fucking notificationnnnssss and I have to figure out why it’s still pinging me anyway and I have to block everybody I know in a new place and god no I do not want you to look at my contacts and tell me if Jerry who I worked with ten years ago also uses FlimFlam and no I do not want another app that has a nearly indistinguishable icon from the app I actually do want to use fairly often and no I don’t give you permission and no I don’t want to tell you my gender and no I don’t want to figure out another interface and hate it for new reasons I had never even imagined before and no I don’t want to get my hopes up about a better way to see pictures or read articles or listen to music because we allllllll know by now that it will just be short form video all over my fucking unconfigurable feed by the end of the fucking day. I just want to open the link in a tab!!!
The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.
And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before.
If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from Father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early, you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.
Saw this & thought I'd repost.
@dlongenecker1 A small town Colorado church where the creed had been “reimagined” as a song with a chorus and verses. I don’t remember any heresy and I’m relatively sure we didn’t miss any parts of the creed but it was WEIRD.
@LMcLachlan60@VanceCrowe This. I have heard it phrased differently but same idea. It’s not your job to pave the road it’s your job to teach them how to drive. (In bad conditions and good!)
@TheCatholicEngr Mass each night this past week with neighboring parishes coming in to celebrate (we are a Sacred Heart parish) culminating with our feast day Mass. It has been amazing actually.
@canonlawyered@jpodhoretz A couple of posts in to the thread he says that they were poor and made good choices to be better so I think the comparison is with starting from a similar position and the outcome of the different paths.
@EmilyKath319 This is exactly it for me. We don’t attend TLM we go to our local NO but it is definitely exhausting to fight your own inner dissatisfaction at “Mass: The Musical” or at the boomers in the parish having a melt down every time Fr tries to do reverent things that look traditional.