Ohhh, friendo, there’s about 500 million Christians in Africa that are heavily besieged by Evangelicals pushing this for the political clout. It’s rampant.

Plus, that Joel Osteen guy peddled a version of this hard.

Yeah, the widely practiced “Prosperity Gospel” stuff is like a religious studies PhD designed the most anti-Christian form of Christianity for a thesis, and suddenly people started picking it up and running with it.

Remind me which level of Hell the hypocrites are in? Is it higher or lower than the one reserved for Jesus now?

Yeah, I think that seeking simple meaning is the inevitably of growing up in the mess of being online. Being offline and finding meaning in life is the purest form of rebellion to the status quo.

The number of them fully embracing and aspiring to things like tradwive life is terrifying. Their motivations are different, but the result is very similar.

You should get a better VPN. Mine only gives me this rarely, often when I’m using a node that I can assume is where a bunch of prime would use to run bots.

I also use them, and have liked the results.

I get this. If I wasn’t already familiar and comfortable with OSX, I wouldn’t have been nearly as confident switching over and knowing how to tweak things.

Both NYC and LA have good ramen places. Doesn’t mean I’m only a hurry to get on the 405 in a new car when I know the MTA map like the back of my hand.

Not really. You have the domain for it too be the domain. Just sign up for a Tuta account and have it auto-forward to you.

Also, don’t get a domain that directly links to your name. Just an overall best practice.

I just did this a few months ago. Totally worth it.

Ensure that whoever you use for web hosting allows for the creation of multiple addresses, with one as a catchall. The real power you’re paying for is beyond an alias that shows your real address, you can use an address like March2025@yourdomain.net to sign up for things you expect to be spammy or whatever, and delete the address in 4 weeks and just vanish from their records. Also helpful, if you do need that account back in a year or two, you can create it again in about 30 seconds.

WTF? No! The call center people didn’t do this. What the hell is wrong with you?

You call and ask them that you have a question, and that it’s to ask their marketing team “what the hell?”

Treat call center folks are your allies, and they can easily become that for you. Abuse is literally the only wrong answer.

First question: What the hell is this?

Second question: What the hell is wrong with you people?

I’ll see that green owl in Hell, I will!

The ego inflation would go like this:

“Sir, we want to put you on a new $500 bill. The EU has a €500 bill as well, so economic studies show viabil-”

“They already have a 500? No, I want a $1,000 bill, then. Put Elon on the $500.”

“Sir, yes sir, thank you sir.” boot slurping noises

There’s one more…

https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thtablrtsuyc1.jpg

Looks like one of those images that’s a old as the internet. Mac OS 8 on the screen was released in 1997, and this looks like a pretty late 90s type of photo. The 90s were wild when it came to things like someone taking photos, being then developed, scanning them, putting them online, etc. Stuff like this was the foundation of early memes and websites.