Ugh. I’ve been using Ente photos since I de-googled and gave myself until the end of summer to decide if I want to upgrade my subscription. All week I’ve been trying to figure out if how to migrate to Ente auth. Grrrr!

Thanks, OP!

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That’s a very good question.

What possessed that conclave to come to that swift decision? What was the motivation?
The conclave states that they elected Pope Leo XIV because he is moderate, he has good administrative skills and the time he spent in the Americas will hopefully make him a unifying figure for the church.

Meanwhile, I still haven’t gotten over the fact that the cardinals elected an American for a pope. I didn’t think that would ever happen. Ever.

Let me be clear, I mean no disrespect to anyone (the church, it’s allies and enemies). Like it or not, that position yields power and there are approximately 1 billion Catholics in the world today.

Pardon the long rant. The short answer is: The pope serves the church.

A primary school teacher by profession, Soriano developed the idea after witnessing first-hand the power reading had on his students, most of whom had lived through intense life conflicts at a young age. Starting in the late 1990s, Soriano traveled to communities in Colombia’s Caribbean Sea hinterlands with a portable library, which began with 70 books.

Books lost from the collection include a sex education manual and a copy of Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel Like Water for Chocolate, both of which were not returned by borrowers. A copy of Paulo Coelho’s 1990 novel Brida was stolen by bandits, who tied up Soriano after attempting to rob him and discovered he had no money.

Yes, books are awesome!

Everyone must stand alone

!vampires@lemmy.zip

No, it’s not Twilight - it’s Dracula (Bram Stoker read through by chapter). Enjoy.

Ugh, sorry. I wasn’t trying to crush your groove. FWIW, I do admire your sense of humor and bringing up the Knights Templar was romanticizing war…

So you are saying Vatican doesn’t have holy hand grenades, holy dove fighter jets, holy cherub bombers, holy drones dispersing holy water & holy napalm, etc?

Seriously?!? I have so much holy water from the Vatican replenished each year that it may be enough to end the drought in Gaza. You want a holy machete? You got it! You want a holy cow? You got it! But not on Fridays. You want an aerial assault with holy water balloons? You got it.

Better yet, I can send you some holy water to make your own holy 💩! Be warned: sprinkling your doors and windows each night with holy water will not stop vampires from entering your home! 😂

The Crusades were dark times especially with the Knights Templars at the Pope’s disposal. The height of their power and tragic end is incomparable to anything that I know of today.

If the photogenic Swiss Guards are anything like the Swiss Army, they wouldn’t be capable of invading anyone except Lichtenstein, lol.

Much love and No disrespect to the Swiss, their Army and the Swiss Guards

EDIT: Clarified the difference between Swiss Guards and Swiss Army with links from Wikipedia and We Are The Mighty.

Russia-installed occupation authorities in Ukraine’s Luhansk region created an online “catalogue” of Ukrainian children, offering them for coerced “adoption” through the education department.

The database includes 294 Ukrainian children, who are sorted and categorised so that the users can “filter” them by age, gender and physical traits, like eyes and hair colour.

The children are advertised for their character traits, with some described as “obedient” or “calm”.

In numerous cases, the children are described as “polite and respectful towards the adults”, “disciplined” and “not conflictive” or “can be relied on to execute tasks”.

This sounds horrible. There’s an inventory (catalog) of children. Goods/products are inventoried, not people.

😂

TBH, I doubt that she would be allowed in…

🤦🏻‍♀️oh geeze! Thanks so much. Pardon my stupidity.

Leaving now.

Gone to the ER for a killer headache that turned out to be ‘just’ stress?

Some doctors actually make stress a diagnosis for something they don’t have a clue. A family friend was diagnosed with stress, turned out to be cancer.

But if the underlying causes were identified and treated and you’re no longer struggling with your mental health, should that old diagnosis still prevent you from doing things that require a sound state of mind?

As long as it’s identified and treated; some cases need ongoing care and attention.

abortion is illegal - unless the mother’s life is at risk

Exactly, too vague.

Any non-specificity in legal definitions for medical criteria should be rejected automatically. Give me ranges. Actual lab values. Vitals. Times. Put those in the fucking law - there should be zero ambiguity about this kind of shit.

Physicians don’t want to do that IRL because of a probable malpractice suit let alone sit down with policy makers…ugh.

Thanks for the long rant; I agree.

Holy shhhh… Anchorage, AK is #2?!? I gotta stop binge watching NatGeo. Thanks for the list, sorry I got off topic.

Carry on.

Agreed.

She also mentioned politics and there’s this:

The previous leader of the Catholic Church, late Pope Francis, maintained daily contact with Gaza City’s Holy Family Church before his death, the parish priest of the region’s only Catholic church told ABC News after his death in April.

Absolutely none.

He is a religious leader who greeted the people with his Message of Peace when he first became pope. Perhaps now is a good time to express that message outside of Rome along with a message of goodwill toward all.

Many Christians feel that he should visit Gaza anyway because of the church that was damaged from an Israeli airstrike and the recent bombing of a church where people claim sanctuary.

Moon mist is an ice cream flavour popular in the Atlantic Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador.[1] Believed to have been created in Nova Scotia in the 1960s, the ice cream is an unusual combination of banana, grape and bubble gum flavours and is sold by many of the large regional dairy producers.[2][3][4] These flavours are not fully blended together.

Oh my goodness! That sounds amazing!

Ditto on Wiki’s Current Events Portal and RSS (which you curate yourself). That’s my current setup, I’ve tried others but keep going back to Wiki and RSS. Good luck!

This is from USA Today

Davis* did not release his name and said a motive wasn’t immediately known. She said he does have a “rap sheet” with the department, but did not elaborate.

*Austin PD Chief Lisa Davis