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Holy shit, TIL IBM has been around since before WWI.

"desktop" in general is a much smaller number than it once was, since laptops can do so many of the things people once used desktops for.

Also worth noting that just because a Pope says it doesn't make it the stance of the church. For all that he has basically unlimited power of government, he (and popes generally) doesn't address major points of doctrine.

The thing is, he's said more than one thing? He's such a politician. He definitely says "gender ideology" is bad because it "erases differences" when he's in front of conservative bishops, but he also genders trans folks correctly and actually talks to them and treats them kindly (according to them even) apparently regularly. I don't know if you have been a trans woman trying to talk to a bigoted priest before, but they tend not to be great at being kind to you and they certainly don't call me "she".

And he says it erases differences. If "gender ideology" is being a non-bigot about gender, then that respects differences. What erases differences is forcing everyone to conform to only two set gender stereotypes.

Yeah. I read things like this and just wonder what exactly I'm erasing by being myself? And if I do my best to try and parse his statements about how we should be acting instead of the "gender ideology" way of acting... I don't stop being a lady. It's not a thing I've "decided' I'm going to do now that I'll stop once you remind me that I'm called to be a human and live for good or whatever. Pretty sure I've been doing that the whole time, if I understand it at all.

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It’s why sola scriptura is a ridiculous theology that can justify anything

Fun fact, in formal logic once you accept a contradiction, you can literally prove anything.

If nothing else, I'll say that the Catholic Church really doesn't seem to have an official stance on "transgenderism". There's lots of priests and bishops who will try to convince you it does, and there are plenty of them talking about how "gender ideology" is "colonizing the family" or some other similar things, but even the Pope who just said all this also says of trans women that they are "daughters of God" and meets with them regularly. There's are groups in the church made of bishops, Cardinals, and priests who explicitly support LGBTQ people and trans people in particular.

My father once tried to tell me that capitalism was fundamentally about making people happy. Because, see, the whole point is bringing to market a product that people want to give you their money for. That's the whole point, you see. The people wanting things. The money is just a by-product, you probably shouldn't pay too much attention to it. It's not like another word for money is "capital" or anything.

What a riot.

I mean it's technically illegal, but then so are a lot of things.

Sounds like there is a space for a competitor if anyone with enough capital wants to invest. It's one industry, Michael. How much could it cost, ten million dollars?

Yeah, the trick is to only molest them when no one is watching, and don't put it on your resume.

I gets me some delicious, fresh baked memes from above wholesome farm (discord channel) that I know won't make me feel worse because they enforce their utopian ideals through heavy handed moderation.