Shambling Shapes

No change to “not a sin to be gay, it is a sin to have gay sex”. Add on that gay couples are now officially “irregular”.

Wow, great strides there. (👈sarcasm)

In response to a question of whether transgender people can be baptized, the doctrinal office said they could with some conditions and as long as there is “no risk of causing a public scandal or disorientation among the faithful”.

A transgender person would “cause a public scandal” according to any priest that doesn’t want to include trans people. This announcement is pointless, it changes nothing.

When the system allows racists, sexists, homophobes, etc. to wield authority, then the system is racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.

Heh. Who saw this coming when Musk initially got involved in Twitter?

Bought. Tanked. Paying a 00’s celebrity to endorse a pink icon. Next up is hire Aaron Carter to sign the app startup jingle? But only for paying subscribers though, ofc.

Of some formulations, yes, there is a shortage going on like a year now. Nothing in the article indicates that it is why this dude isn’t having his prescription made available to him.

“[…] despite not having his prescribed dose of Adderall during trial hours.”

So he’s not being given his full prescribed amount? WTF. Give it to him.

I don’t really care if this guy is trying to use ADHD as an excuse for his crimes or not. I DO NOT want judges and lawyers deciding if I really need my prescribed meds or if maybe I can get by on half. I would call that a human rights violation.

Just give him his damn prescribed meds. Full stop. His ADHD is then off the table as a possible excuse.

0% surprised by this.

Nah, some Catholica do. Some are pissed a Jesuit priest, among the most progressive of orders, is the pope.

Also, his word isn’t as binding as you think unless he speaks ex cathedra, which no Pope has done in decades outside canonizing saints. The pope can say all he wants about gay marriage or global warming or whatever, it’s not binding unless he says it ex cathedra and it will be a cold day in hell before he does something like that. It would split the church apart immediately.

“I’m pretty certain he has already publicly apologized though.”

Feel free to share evidence of the public apology, you seem to be remembering something no one else saw. All I’m seeing is him making excuses, no apology.

“the person touching me apologized”

Important part missing from this puzzle; any acknowledgment or apology from the leader of an organization sexually harassing women he has power over.

“I’m ready to be vilified to defend my ideals,”

Ok. He’s a gross, sexist man who any organization should be embarrassed to have as a representative.

“I grabbed that part of my body that you have already seen”

Ah, so he’s done this sort of thing before. Repeat behavior, unapologetic and doubling down on it. This should take the Spanish FA less than 24 hours to kick him out and issue an apology statement for having kept him on for as long as they did.

I want to hear about what the contaminant was. I saw in another article that these are additive manufactured parts; they take powder metal, use a laser to fuse it together, and 3D print the parts building up layer by layer. Any extra metal powder is collected, sent to a company for cleaning/testing/certifying and then recycled through to use in the printers again.

So was the contaminant there from the beginning or was it introduced into the powder at some point as it cycled through? What does their readacross look like; are there other parts out there that potentially have similar contamination? I hope they eventually disclose way more detail and progreas as the investigation continues.

It’s the one listed in the article that I see in daily life. It also has a reputation of being progressive, with their advocacy for LGBT+ rights and support of Bernie Sanders.

Soooo, the company owning Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is continuing to operate in Russia because “exiting is not straightforward”. Bruh. You’re going to lose money in exchange for not supporting a murderous regime. It is straightforward.

I would be surprised if $30/hr is an increase. Since they already serve the food cafeteria style, their waitstaff can handle more tables at once than waitstaff in a more traditional restaurant model. $30/hr in tips in Denver isn’t really that much.

It was always more about smoothing out the dead/busy times for me. Don’t schedule me if I’m going to sit around doing nothing and not earning tips, but also don’t underschedule the busy times leaving me to handle too many tables and losing tips because the quality of my work drops. Maybe a flat $30/he will drive the restaurant to schedule more efficiently.

This one is going to require some poking around at other resources and summaries from legal minds greater than mine. I am baffled by the explanation laid out in this article.

This may be the most direct Catch-22 situation I’ve seen outside fiction novels, but with shitty stalkers. The stalker can’t be convicted unless he’s intending to threaten. He can’t be considered threatening if he doesn’t admit to being threatening. So as long as he says he didn’t mean to threaten, despite literally telling the victim to die, he can’t be convicted.