BarrelAgedBoredom

This isn’t true, it’s never been true, and it’s just homophobia. source TL;DW: down detector is based on user reports, all of the articles that report on this bullshit rely on down detector for “proof”. It’s just people trolling and we’ve been falling for it for years. As you can see from grindr’s official status page there have been no outages yesterday (the start of the RNC) or today

Their bathrooms are nice, their food is good by rest stop standards, and their gas is on the cheaper side. It’s a solid choice to stop at when you’re on the road if you’re unsure about nearby options. That’s it. I don’t get the white suburbanite consumerist cult integrating a gas station into their personality. It’s like funko pop people but somehow worse

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I’m bisexual and agender, I have legitimate reasons to not be ok with it. What now? You also don’t speak for the entirety of the LGBTQ+ community, and there’s plenty of us (myself included) that think this isn’t ok

The post is referring to american protestant denominations like baptists, evangelicals, presbyterian, etc. as opposed to capital P Protestant churches. They're usually in smaller buildings that aren't full-time churches/ the space is often used for non-sermon church functions. For example, my childhood southern Baptist church was based out of a community center room that held ~40 people and hadnt been updated since the 80s

Can’t speak for the music but red and white braces = nazi skins. I didn’t see any colored laces so it’s hard to say for sure if they’re white supremacists, the color code has fallen out of fashion too. If there was a variety of colored braces and laces it’d be pretty easy to say they’re not nazi skins, but the fact that everyone is wearing red and white is sus as fuck

Fair enough!. I can only speak for parts of the midwest (from family stories) and the north florida scene. Red braces and laces are still very much a thing here among white supremacists. You don’t see many nazi punks up here but they’re still around. There isn’t much of a skinhead scene generally in north florida anymore, and the color code is slowly falling into obscurity with the exception of red, what little else remains has been absorbed into the more general punk/diy scenes and is seldom seen

Plenty of protestant denominations have lost the plot on the whole "protesting" bit. Joel osteen and Kenneth Copeland's churches are considered to be in the protestant vein of christianity and their whole thing is flaunting wealth and having big, expensive churches. Whether they _should_ be considered protestant is for the various flavors of protestant to decide. As far as I'm aware, there's no broad consensus that defines protestantism besides "likes martin luther", and "hates catholics*"

Despite being called "non-denominational", non-denominational christians are a broad group of independent churches and spiritual movements that fall under the protestant tradition. They aren't a part of larger, more organized subsect of protestant like the baptists or lutherans, but their non-denominational-ism refers to not being a part of/neatly defined by an organized denomination of protestantism. Non-denominational Christianity can even be a nucleation point for new denominations, like the burgeoning evangelical movement that's become a driving force in the fall of the american empire

Fem shep had a better voice actor too

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It is, and yes it is lol

🤷 that's a christian-to-christian thing to determine. I'd love for that to be the case, but seeing as most Christian organizations are perfectly fine with the status quo, I don't see that changing any time soon. Also, Martin Luther was a trash bag for plenty of reasons, I don't see any point in seeking to align oneself with a raging misogynist, antisemite, and author of "Against the Murderous, Theiving Hordes of Peasants", which was written in response to the German peasants war. Valid criticisms or not, the dude sucked and bred a religious movement that was just as bigoted, bloodthirsty, and money hungry as the catholics he was protesting

You're right, I was just using that to highlight the differences between American and European protestant churches. Most american churches have ~75 congregants and are fairly small operations run out of buildings that weren't built with the intention to be a church. As such, they usually lack the aesthetics associated with churches.

And to be fair, I've never been to a European protestant (of any variety) church, there's a cultural image in america of what the average European church looks like, and it's usually an older brick/stone building with high ceilings and round/arched windows, built with the intention of being a church. Many suburban american churches (this is where the folding chair trope comes from) looks more like this:

And this is a really nice example too, I had trouble finding one that reflected the true reality of many of these smaller churches.

If you’re on android, revanced is pretty easy to get up and running, it takes the place of the YouTube app you already have installed so no worries about your limited storage space either

If you’re looking to switch to graphene, you’re limited to the google pixel line, which isn’t a bad thing imo. Older models can be had for cheap, and they have good specs. I’m on a pixel 6 right now and it’s served me well. I’d recommend buying a 7 and up though, as the 6 is nearing the end of its support (I think graphene will support it for a few more years but I’d double check that before buying one). But a standard pixel 7 can be had for ~$150usd so not a bad call. The pixel 9 and 10 have AI chips in them so if that’s a deal breaker for you, you’re limited to the 7 and 8 (both still good options). And if you do move to graphene it kinda nullifies the whole AI chip thing anyway. The default media player on pixels are kinda ass, however. They work fine, but the UI is janky. But there are plenty of media player apps available both on the playstore and through alternatives like f-droid. You can also find cracked versions of most “premium” apps pretty easily online. So if you find a media player you like, but it has ads or some other garbage, you should be able to find a cracked version with little hassle. And completely unrelated to switching phones, if you’re able to add a private DNS into your wifi settings like I can do on my pixel, you can add base.dns.mullvad.net to the private DNS box and it’ll take care of 99% of ads (can’t speak for youtube specifically) on your phone

Ah ok, I must’ve bought the marketing haha. I remember their whole schtick with the 9 and 10 was the “brand new AI chips” for “better performance and privacy”

Just poked around. As far as I can tell there aren’t any options to require additional credentials to open an app on android. Im on a pixel 10 running android 17. However there is a locked “app drawer” that hides the apps from your home screen/ main app drawer that you need to have an additional password to access.

Until you’re part of this turbo team, WALK. SLOWLY.