Author of The Fiefdom Chronicles, owner of the Intercede Novena app nitter.net/IntercedeNovena
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It's okay, Narnia fans have experience with jackasses creating false Aslans.
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article I wrote for younger folks on meeting your Catholic spouse
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Devin Rose retweeted
A Catholic priest in Minnesota was visibly overcome during the consecration at a school Mass on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. While the moment was initially described online as a possible visible Eucharistic miracle, the local pastor later clarified that Father Brent Bowman received a profound, personal grace from the Lord.
The powerful video shows Father Bowman struggling with emotion as he celebrates Mass at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Hopkins, Minnesota. It quickly spread across social media, where some viewers called it a “possible eucharistic miracle in the US.”
But what happened, the pastor explained, points to an even deeper truth: Jesus is truly present at every Mass.
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📹: St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church, MN
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Meet your spouse by doing the opposite of what I did
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What a blessing, to be part of a school in our town, where the children go to daily Mass. This is @ChestertonETX in Tyler. My son's a sophomore here.
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Re: Blake Bitcoin: Having been into various alt-coins for many years, including PoW ones, before deciding Bitcoin was unique among all cryptocurrencies, the difficulty of launching a coin now, versus in 2009, is that there is a MASSIVE amount of compute power out there that can be directed at your new coin, and so one miner can get 51% share fairly easily and then you are at their mercy.
That compute power can be just CPUs, CPUs with semi-optimized miner, and then in a short while GPUs can be brought on board with some or all of the algorithm (depending on what it is), and finally ASICs can be designed and deployed.
This is what Blake Bitcoin is experiencing. There is no easy solution to it. Ideally they would have launched with some kind of moat--could have been a proprietary optimized miner for instance--but I guess they didn't as the hard fork was made quite quickly after BIP110 didn't succeed.
So the hope is that a miner with a majority is a good actor and prioritizes long-term gains of the coin versus short-term gain of using their 51% ability to re-org the chain as they see fit.
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you don't have to be convinced, but obedient. Humility
I’m not convinced that Jesus is going to send me to hell on basis of skipping Mass
I enjoy going to Mass. I’ve heard all the teachings and theological explanations as to why it’s a grave sin to neglect it, but I’m not convinced.
There’s certain Catholic Church teachings that seem to only cause scrupulosity amongst the faithful.
Ironically, the actual faithful are the only ones who are negatively affected by this teaching (due to scrupulosity), because the 80% of Catholics who don’t care to go to weekly mass also don’t care about it supposedly being a sin.
People should go to Mass out of love, but if there’s the underlying threat of hellfire, it’s not 100% out of love anymore no matter how much you love going.
Ready to be informed of my damnation by anonymous X users for this opinion.
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Bitcoin: anyone can fork off at anytime. The ultimate metric as to which fork is most successful is economic: how much value does the market assign to a particular fork?
In this way, Bitcoin is a socially controlled phenomenon. Can a group sway the miners? Can they sway the developers? Can they convince people to use a different codebase from the most popular Bitcoin Core one? Can they convince Bitcoin users to do this or that?
Understanding this is why I have never been overly angry at the Bitcoin Cash people, or even the BSV people. You want big blocks? Huge blocks? 60+ GB file storage blocks? Go for it.
The Blake Bitcoin fork? I understand why those guys have gone off and done it. More power to them. How successful it is remains to be determined, but they believed that the principles by which they wanted or thought that Bitcoin was governed were violated or proven to be false. A line was crossed for them, and they've taken action to make it more in line with how they want it to be.
This doesn't mean that they are bad people. Nor in my view does it mean existing Bitcoin is bad or no good anymore. So I don't feel the need to condemn the one and cheerlead the other, overlooking the real faults going on.
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I just reread The Wind in the Willows and Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh and now am onto Beatrix Potter
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rockets are also faster than people. And electric cars. And dogs are. I could barely even catch our chickens that were running loose today. What does it prove?
A humanoid robot just ran the 100m in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, beating Usain Bolt's 9.58 world record.
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Our Lady Queen of Heaven obtained every grace for our new school and all the students, families, faculty, and financial partners.
— Praise God 🙏 #AnsweredPrayer #IntercedeApp
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Child’s play
The US debt clock has officially surpassed $40 trillion.
Congratulations, America! This is an incredible milestone!
On the same day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that in September, they will be ramping up YCC.
Considering that the United States has a multi-trillion dollar budget deficit, I would also consider that QE.
The money will either need to be printed, or new debt will have to be issued on the short end.
Additionally, yesterday 20 and 30-year Treasuries exceeded 5.3%, a multi-decade high.
To celebrate these incredible accomplishments, consider purchasing some physical #gold and #silver today!
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Yeahhhh!
Dear College Board,
Consider this a public warning: any further backroom tactics or efforts to use public-records requests as a means of burdening or intimidating us as a competitor will be met with complete transparency.
Our legal team has now had to devote time and resources to responding to the public-records request you submitted in Texas. You are, of course, entitled to make such requests. But understand that the same public-records laws are equally available to us. For everyone of these you throw at us we will throw five back at you. I can’t imagine what we could uncover from the decades College Board has spent wining and dining elected officials. Keep playing dirty and it will all be exposed. All of it.
We are fully prepared to submit corresponding public-records requests regarding College Board’s activities, communications, lobbying efforts, and state contracts across multiple states. We are confident that sunlight and transparency will serve the public interest.
CLT has competed in the marketplace openly and fairly and clearly we are winning. If College Board is concerned about losing market share, the answer is not political maneuvering or attempts to burden your competitor. The answer is to serve families and schools better, improve customer service, and offer a product that earns their trust.
We welcome truly vigorous competition. Because those of us who do not live in comi-land know that competition benefits the students we exist to serve.
Jeremy Tate
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First day of school at @ChestertonETX for my son. We've homeschooled almost exclusively up to this point.
But with our daughter's death, he's the only child we have here on earth, and sitting at home with dad doing math gets pretty boring and lonely.
God bless all our new students!
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A system where no one person or entity is in control is difficult to work in, because we naturally want our side or group to control it.
Bitcoin miners have a lot of skin in the game, probably more skin than any other entity. But they cannot ignore node runners, nor can node runners ignore them.
Just because node runners are not in sole control of Bitcoin does not mean that Bitcoin is bad or has gone off the rails.
In this particular situation with BIP110, not all node runners, nor even a majority, supported the changes, so this argument about node runners not being in control is even less strong than it could be.
Even if miners have more power in the system than is ideal, that does not mean Bitcoin is garbage and we have to fork or start over.
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe in dogma and know it, and those who believe in dogma and don't know it. (Chesterton)
I have greatly appreciated Kratter and his videos these past years. I'm a big fan. But one can turn something into a religion that is not a religion.
In this case, it's unhelpful to be dogmatic about one's opinion about how powerful node runners should be in Bitcoin. The fact of the matter is that BIP110 failed with the percent of node runner support that it had. It is what it is.
Better to bide one's time, see how one can influence the system over time, make a strategy and slowly build up support for it until the right time to strike comes, rather than abandon it because one specific effort failed.
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