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These lesser courts are subservient tot the Supreme Court. They are supposed to be doing the minor work so the Supreme Court can focus on the big ticket items.
The whole idea of Stari decisis is to let the Lower Courts understand what the ruling is from the Supreme Court and they can't undermine it.
This guy is an idiot. Watch him run for office after Justice Roberts fires him
the pandemic Biden declared over, just after the trumpists closed schools and public spaces and handed out checks to everyone with trump's name on it? Yeah as an immune compromised + medical family who have been distancing and masking for coming up on 6 years now, we had to choice but to pay very close attention to all this, and we know who did what, and when. Biden declared it over, and then trump2 took the reigns and walked away with it.
Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:Violent explosions shook areas in “Israel” due to a missile shelling carried out by Iran.Hebrew media said that sirens sounded in several areas in “Tel Aviv” as a result of Iran launching at least 7 missiles.It added
My local library uses CloudLibrary, which doesn’t actually support ebook readers. It forces you to install an app and read from your phone. I literally have a card in a neighboring town, just to have Libby access on my Kobo e-reader.
Every time I go in to my local library, I make a point of mentioning that CloudLibrary doesn’t work on e-readers, in the hopes that they’ll consider switching to Libby instead.
The Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board by October 2026, citing fiscal responsibility and redundancy.
I now do some work with computers that involves making graphics cards do computational work on a headless server. The computational work it does has nothing to do with graphics.
The name is more for consumers based off the most common use for graphics cards and why they were first made in the 90s but now they're used for all sorts of computational workloads. So what are some more fitting names for the part?
I now think of them as 'computation engines' analagous to a old car engine. Its where the computational horsepower is really generated. But how would ram make sense in this analogy?
Theorethical physicists, astrophysicists, nuclear engineers, mechanical engineers, and countless other professions depend on the computational capabilities it provides.
Don't let your anger and bitterness blindside you into thinking it's for all the bullshit.
And of course you have to be missing my point entirely. I didn't say to not have the anger and bitterness, but instead to not turn it against the ones that have nothing to do with it.
Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts: Climate change is being used as a pretext to de-industrialise Western civilisation, enabling unelected bureaucracies like the UN to establish socialist global government. "They're pushing it for control and wealth transfer... It's all deliberate."
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The anti-nuclear hysteria that captured the public imagination for generations has not only contributed significantly to climate change, it has literally been responsible for killing hundreds of millions of people.
The Israeli-US military strike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility marks a significant escalation in the confrontation between Washington and Tehran, potentially leading to a broader regional or global conflict.
The incident reveals a deeper ideological battle between the US and Iran, with Washington targeting Iranian sovereignty and independence, and Tehran standing as a civilizational alternative to Western hegemony.
@DBG3D that's an internal contradiction for the people of Iran to resolve themselves. Values cannot be imposed on a society from outside. That logic is basically the colonial missionary mindset.
It's also worth keeping in mind that Iran was socialist and progressive until CIA fuckery put an end to that. The reason the Middle East is the way it is entirely due to western meddling.
Values like the right to exists are a fundamental part of any civilization that deserves to be called that.
LGTBQ+ is not a fashion. We exists since the dawn of time and pursued since them, so there is no impossition of values. Is defense of the human rights. Iran is violating exactly that.
"Iran ceased to be a civilization after 1953. After the intervention of the CIA."
@DBG3D again, my point is that attempts to do things like regime changes and force culture on people does not work. We have plenty of evidence of this now. This is an internal contradiction for people of Iran to solve.
Meanwhile, the west very clearly does not give a flying fuck about human rights in general. It's a civilization fundamentally built on war and exploitation. You can't just consider rights of a single group while ignoring the rest.
@DBG3D I'm pointing out that the values the west has are not consistent, and as such the west has no right to dictate morals to other civilizations. It's not just the US or Israel. The entire western civilization is built on horror and atrocities. The west is responsible for many of the worst crimes against humanity. The genocides, the slave trade, capitalism, and the climate crisis are products of western civilization. The west is a threat to humanity in a very literal sense.
@DBG3D again, I'm pointing out that you have to look at this holistically. The socially liberal values of the west cannot be separated from the rest of western values and considered in isolation. The same culture that produced LGBT rights is also the one that's responsible for capitalist exploitation of the world.
@DBG3D and Israel conflict is a perfect example of how the west uses liberal social values to justify atrocities. Israel has been presented as progressive liberal state that's fighting against uncivilized barbarians who with regressive social values. This logic has literally been used for decades to paper over the atrocities Israel committed in Palestine.
@DBG3D I'm pointing out that these things are directly related. You can just cherry pick aspects of western society you like, and ignore the rest. You have to look at how this civilization behaves holistically. The positive aspects such as social liberties, are often used to justified horrific atrocities against other cultures.
The LGTBQ+ rights were a product of the fights of trans people. In the 1930's for example there were less rejection against us, that changed with the nazis. And I was not talking about that.
LGTBIQ+ people is even recognized as valuable members of the Indian American tribes (maybe not for all the right reasons...). And we were present even in Chalomagne times. He was gay.
We ARE NOT VALUES, we ARE PEOPLE like you or anyone else.
I stop this going backwards and forwards, because you do not know what you are talking about.
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>"O Mary, Mother of God, as you are above all creatures in heaven and on earth, more glorious than the Cherubim, more noble than any here below, Christ has given you to His people, firm bulwark and protectress, to shield and save sinners who fly to you. Therefore, O Lady, all-embracing refuge, we solemnly recall your sweet protection and beg the Christ forever for His mercy. Amen."
>Blessed, most pure Virgin, you chose to manifest yourself shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes. To the child, St. Bernadette, you revealed yourself, "I am the Immaculate Conception." And now, Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, Healer of the Sick, Comforter of the Afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings. Look upon me with mercy. By your appearance in the Grotto of Lourdes, it became a privileged sanctuary from which you dispense your favors. Many have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical. I come, therefore, with confidence in your maternal intercession. Obtain for me, O loving Mother, this special request. Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of Christ, pray for me. Obtain from your Divine Son my special request if it be God's will. Amen
Yes. She is blessed "among women". I'm not a woman. Also her blessing is that she was to be the womb to carry Jesus. But none of this is any indication she is favorable above all else, or special in any way that you decide she is special in. The apostles were selected as well, and they are far from special. Peter is pretty awful actually.
You believe you can understand the will of God. Many have thought this. You don't know why he chose Peter any more than I do. You assume it had to be for special *good* reasons. He also chose Judas. I'm sure there were plenty of bad men he could have selected in the place of Judas, as I'm sure there are people He could have selected in the place of Peter.
You view it like a human interviewing a hiree. >You seem like the perfect candidate for the job!
Sure, maybe Peter was? But that doesn't make him "special" either. He was a tool to perform a task. No one in the kingdom of heaven is greater than anyone else. All of Gods children are Saints. All are equal. This idea of "greatness" is an wholly human feature.
That I can mostly agree with, but at the same time is it not accurate to state that one tool is better suited for a specific purpose (and thus greater) than another?
I mean my Milwaukee impact driver is better than my craftsman hammer. But I see no indication God views us like this, and nor should you. This is a large part of the stories in the bible. The Israelites not understanding that it's us vs them, not us vs us.
Fair I do still believe that as God calls us to certain tasks depending on our abilities and His will it would certainly make sense that some are more apt for certain tasks than others and thus Mary was set apart in some regard
Of course people are more apt to do things. we aren't actually equal in ability. But how is a fisherman more apt to be an apostle? How is a random shitposter more apt to influence national socialism than any other? If you want to know why Mary was selected, it's in the protoevangelium of James. Jesus HAD to be born then, because it was prophesied over 600 years prior by Daniel. The pool of acceptable women wasn't exactly as large as you want to make it out to be. It might have been like 50,000 people. And yes, Mary was very holy, and I never said she wasn't. But nothing says Mary was better than you or me just because she pushed Jesus out of her body.
I would tend to think that if God were to create prophecies and plan to enter the earth as Jesus at some point that He would create the ideal woman to come out of
What does this even mean? What makes a woman ideal? She was his mother. Here is my best guess as to why it was Mary. If you read the Gospel of James, you'll see that she is claimed to have been excessively holy even by the standards of the priests, not just the other girls her age. She was then trusted to a man far her elder (Joseph). If virtually anyone else had become pregnant, they would have probably assumed they just had sex.
>Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
>“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
>God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
>But you are the same, and your years have no end.
So does God want us to retake Jerusalem, or does he want us to let infinity niggers into our coutries?
if it counts for anything once I move I plan to go to the local Orthodox Church and I'll have my woman come along
My woman does not believe in the Pope as anything other than a figurehead which I suppose makes her not a "true Catholic" but I don't care on that part
It isn't nonsense. He is a young man working his way through issues you've had a lot longer to deal with. His family isn't religious and the woman he loves has driven him to believe the lies of men (denominational Christianity).
But Elizabeth was the mother of John, and among those born of woman no one greater than John existed, so clearly Elizabeth was very blessed, by your logic.
This is the invention of man. Mary has no special connection to Christ. She is not any more connected than any other child of Adam. If anyone was blessed, no one was more blessed than Adam, his first creation.
She was chosen by God to house God inside her for 40 weeks (give or take). This 100% means she has a special connection to Christ just as any other mother does to her child, as well as that she was the perfect person to be Christ's mother
Mothers don't have special connections to their children. Mary has no more of a connection to God than John, Abraham, Isaac, Adam, Moses, or any other. If anyone could be called "blessed" it would be Enoch, as he is the only man to have never died.
Never said she was the perfect mother, but that she was the perfect mother for Jesus. Do you believe that Jesus being left at the temple was not perfectly according to God's will
Let me rephrase, because that didn't actually clarify. This is an English problem. Petros refers to a "rock or stone" something that an English speaker might say when referring to something that you could pick up. This is in contrast to something like bedrock, or a mountain, or even a large bolder, which you cannot.
The catholic view is that God was calling Peter the "bedrock" or foundation of His "church" which is not true.
English isn't a language that generally uses different words to refer to the same object of varying size/use etc. This canned AI response does a good enough job of conveying my point.
What about the verse after -- "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”"
From what I'm gathering from this discussion Jesus is using wordplay on a nickname He gave Peter and saying he's the foundation on which the Church is to be built upon (especially considering the following verse)
You only see it as word play because it is in English. Jesus didn't give Simon the nickname of "foundation" and Jesus isn't saying Peter is the foundation. Also just because Jesus is still referring to Peter is verse 19 doesn't mean Jesus is saying ONLY Peter has this special power. There is also no other witness to this special power catholics seem to think Peter had, which would have invalidated the works of all the other apostles.
No, if it were English it wouldn't be wordplay. Rock and Peter are nothing alike in English. However Petra and Petros are quite similar
I understand it doesn't mean only Peter has it, but it sounds an awful lot like the rest of the disciples are also there and He doesn't reference them specifically
He does reference them in verse 20. He doesn't reference them in verse 19 because the entire exchange is 3 fucking sentences and the bible isn't a transcript of entire conversations. He references Peter in verse 19 because he was specifically speaking to Peter.
The catholic view has to be along the lines of
>Jesus asks a question, 2 sentences later Peter gives the correct answer, so Jesus rewards Peter with the ultimate prize and not the other 11.
It's juvenile, but also contradictory to the entirety of the rest of scripture, and isn't even what the sentence is actually saying. As the AI image i posted says, Petros is not a foundation. Peter is Petros. He is a stone. He is one among many. He WAS tasked with proselytizing which perfectly tracts with the context of verse 19, but in no way should this be read to say Peter is the foundation (serious heresy against Jesus) or that he was the only one given this special power. This is an inference by men who had a vested interest in propagating their views.
Pretty sure God knew Peter would get it right before He even asked the question (considering He knew about His death, the denials, et cetera) and it was just to further prove the validity of Christ and His Church
Also it's not a heresy against Jesus to say that Peter is the foundation on which the new Church is to be built upon after Jesus is no longer physically on Earth -- foundation doesn't mean "guy you worship" it means "main support and what everything else has the ability to grow upon"
If the foundation is removed without there being another foundation to take its place, the house falls. If there is another to take its place, it stays. When Christ leaves earth, He is no longer physically there to ensure that the faith remains stable, hence Him ensuring there is a new stabilizing force ("foundation") before He leaves
"But what happens when Peter's time on Earth ends" hence apostolic succession
"But a Church without Apostolic succession runs just fine with only Jesus as a foundation" yeah but He's not there to correct the issues that arise which is why you get so many different denominations that are totally incompatible with one another
Doc, he was responding to my comment that Peter’s name was rock. He merely pointed out that the name Jesus gave him is not the same word He used to when He said Peter was the rock to build on.
D0c believes that because a few words earlier "Petros" is translated as "Peter" that Jesus is somehow telling Peter that he is special and will build this "church."
But God is calling Simon a stone.
>And I tell you, you are Peter,
Grammatically, this would make Jesus autistic/retarded. he knows he is Peter.
>18 And I tell you, that you are a stone, and on this bed rock I will build my "congregation", and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.
I have a pinned post about this. Jesus is the foundation. Calling Peter the foundation is heresy.
In Hebrews 11 he names many of the witnesses for Hebrews 12:1 including Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Sara, et cetera
Saying you have a cloud of witnesses looking down upon you could mean it's metaphorical except for the fact that it's stated that God is only the God of the living, not of the dead, and thus if they are looking they have eyes and ears
If they can see and hear you, what is wrong about asking them to pray for you?
(Not entering the thread; I'm just popping in during a bathroom shid--here to share a something cool about the word 'cloud'. 🤍 🍻 🤍 )
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You know how we, in English, say a "flood" of people? In Koine Greek (both within and outside of scripture) a gatherings of people are sometimes called "clouds."
An example from scripture would be how Christ's second coming is described as being "with the clouds of heaven" in some verses and "with His tens of thousands" in another about the same event (within any version). (Some versions lean full on with the actual idea of physical clouds and say "on" the clouds but still say "with" His tens of thousands in the other verse, but the "on" is not there.)
Anyway, the idea ties with the Koine Greek way of saying that you and I are "in the air" (which is not to say in the 'ouranos', the 'heavens'), and this is the same as what we, in English, would call "on the earth." (Wave your arms. Feel the air? You are in the air, but not the "sky." So "in the air" people might gather into "clouds.")
That's the meaning too of the "prince of the authority of the *air* " in Ephesians 2:2--it's the "prince of the authority of *here* " in our way of speaking.
I've heard people say >Do you think you're smarter than all the priests who came before you who dedicated their lives to this?
Well yes, I actually do (because I probably am, at least smarter than a good 99.99% of them), but people refuse to accept that I have so much more information at my fingertips than they could dream of. Translations are based on THEIR understanding of language at the time they translated, and what they FELT fit the meaning the best, not on what the words ACTUALLY meant. Take John 3 where Jesus says you must be born from above, not born again, as just one simple example.
yeah my bad when I ask people to pray for me I'm actually going against the Bible (I'm not) just like how when I ask Mary to pray for me (and specifically mention her Son) I'm actually somehow bypassing the Son
Also "Queen" is used as a reverent title, not a literal descriptor
But she's not a queen. At all. She is not worthy of such a title.
There's a difference between asking someone here to pray for or with you than there is asking a deceased individual to do that. Mary can't hear you. It's not her part to pray for you.
Mary? Simply Mary. What else is she? A Human alike any other.
For being so special Jesus talked of her and to her very little in the scripture. As a matter of fact Scripture has very little to say about her. Heck even Jesus said John the Baptist was the greatest.
"Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he"
a) if you're quoting that then why do you not believe that John is greater than Jesus (born of women) b) It's clearly a simple praise that is then used to illustrate a point c) Mary is in Heaven and thus greater than you, why insult her?
I thought I had a post bookmarked I made commenting on all of the verses that say "kingdom of heaven" or "kingdom of God" but I can't find it. those 2 phrases are interchangeable. You should listen to this though.
This program is going to be titled The Kingdom of Heaven, or the Elections of Men? We are going to begin by presenting a short sermon by Bertrand Comparet, and making some remarks in reference to it.
I don't get the point you're trying to make. They weren't healed because they physically touched his clothes, vs those who tried to but couldn't reach.
Im not sure why i should have to explain something so self evident
> And behold, a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment; 21 for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I shall be made well
But it clearly states that the belief they would be healed is the reason. It had nothing to do with physical contact of linen.
Not if I didn't know about it. My point is simply that the bible is clear that God does not have a mother. God is the first, and no honest priest would try to imply otherwise, so when people like Paleface say things like
>Are you denying that Christ is God or are you saying that the Bible is lying when it calls Mary His mother?
They are being disingenuous. It's jewish pilpul.
>Well aksually, Mary gave birth, so so she is Jesus's mother, but since Jesus is God, that means she is the mother of God, so you see she is really special because God wouldn't exist without...
blah blah blah.
I grow tired of pseudo-intellectual nonsense, especially when it fails to understand the simple concepts the Bible is trying to convey. Luke 3:38 is there to explain what "son of God" means. Jesus IS God. He is not a separate entity, or a "part" of God. God is One, and Jesus is Him.
I'm sure he did, but this view that they walked around speaking Aramaic is most likely modernistic academic nonsense. There are verses that are quoted throughout the new testament that are grammatically different between the LXX and masoretic texts, and clearly support a translation from the LXX.
My view is that they started to get it wrong rather quickly, and the wrong survived. If I quote an apostle as saying X and a rebuttal is >yeah but this church father from 300 years later said Y
Why would anyone have had to? It sounds like what you are saying is >unless X exists in the way you think it should, X isn't valid. >Because Y exists, that means Y could at least be valid.
But this is literally what happened before Jesus. The established orthodoxy got it wrong. All of them. So why would you expect it to be different? The entire point of Revelation, and Daniel, and Isaiah and Jeramiah etc where it talks about anything having to do with "end times" is that we still all got it wrong, so Jesus finally returns to save us for good. Jesus's first coming was about redeeming His chosen, not about fixing all of our problems.
From my point of view, you're saying something like >to debate whether or not Hitler was evil, you first have to admit that he tried to systemically eradicate all jews and did kill 6 million of them.
I don't take it personally. I'm not mad, and I'm not trying to be aggressive. I just fundamentally disagree.
We could discuss Daniels 5th kingdom and who you think that might be, but I notice this funny trend where people (I'm not saying you) generally tend to hyper focus in on words or phrases and not others. Like Matt 16:18-19. But I could argue that at least from my perspective, the gates of hell have prevailed against the catholic church, so Jesus was lying, or the RCC isn't "Gods church."
Meanwhile I can quote Jer 30:30/Heb 8:8 until I'm blue in the face and people will deny that the new covenant is only for the biological children of Israel. And that Israel was a living person, not a country, and not "jews."
“The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Donald Trump will be remembered as a uniquely unqualified and terrible President.
What was all this for? You destroyed whatever shred of credibility the U.S. retained with other nations. You demonstrated that Israel, in particular Benjamin Netanyahu, dictates U.S. foreign policy. Iran's nuclear program was not destroyed, and they will likely decide to ramp it up and build nuclear weapons.
Truly unhinged and disconnected from basic humanity.
"#Maersk said that following a review of its operations in the occupied #WestBank, it had decided to follow the guidelines of the #UnitedNations... #OHCHR, which maps out the names of companies operating in the settlements where around 500,000 Israelis live in contravention of #internationallaw...
The action "comes after months of sustained pressure from pro-@palestine activists"
Washington’s military intervention in the Iran-Israel conflict has affected the foundations of the global security order and further destabilized the situation in the Middle East, according to the Chinese newspaper Global Times.
That's a dramatic mischaracterization. She said she might go independent, but there's a lot of stuff she doesn't like about Democrats so would rather not join them.
President Trump posted on social media that Iran and Israel have reached a "Complete and Total CEASEFIRE." There has been no official word yet from Israel or Iran.
@HunDriverWidow I figured this had to be the case before he could act. He wouldn’t leave us vulnerable like that. Funny that all levels of people in the internet are talking about or being a possibility though. Even Dems. Crockett? Did they think it was going to help them somehow?!
errands complete and wow, it's freakin hot out. when i see snacs and junk that i'm tempted to eat at the grocery store, i just repeat this prayer over and over in my head (can't really remember it perfectly from memory yet but close enough)
Whenever someone tells me I need to sign an NDA, I give a nod and say, "NDA" with the tone and inflection of Diedrich Bader saying, "Fuckin' A" in 'Office Space.'
Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.
President Trump responded on Monday to criticism from the Former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, who said that Trump’s Iran strikes “pushed the US into another war,” signaling a potential nuclear war.
BREAKING: Prominent Democrat Campaign Treasurer Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement
Katherine Buchanan, a former treasurer for numerous Democrat campaigns including Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, pled guilty to embezzling over $840,000 in campaign funds.
She also allegedly lied to the IRS in order to save over $670,000 in taxes.
Buchanan is scheduled to be sentenced in October and faces up to 5 years in person PER charge.
In any case, we will need to address GHWB and corporates working with the Nazis to gain wealth. It's the biggest part of the narrative, imo. They are never mentioned.
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Driver failed to control their car and avoid a collision.
FTFY.
I'm sure the car did actually take the action. But there are TONS of unavoidable warnings and reminders to the driver to supervise and take control when FSD goes wrong.
Which you can do by such super-technical means as "hitting the brake" or "steering the other way" or "flipping the right stalk up". Rocket science, I know.
Driver's fault. Bad technology, yes. Worse driver.
Next year's Monkees Reunion Tour will be the first to include all four original band members. That's because Michael Nesmith, who had not joined previous tours, has decided to come along.
Nesmith, of course, is best known as the last original Monkee to run out of money.
Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.
Kinshasa, 23 (Prensa Latina) While the United States awaits the arrival of delegations from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda for the signing of an agreement, another important point in the conflict will be negotiated in Qatar.
The Youth Platform Held the International Anti-Imperialist Conference “Situation of World War 3 and the Task of Anti-Imperialist Youth” wapnews.org/?p=7913
Those who turned on Trump are the idiots, and the dangerous ones. They go off half cocked with little to no accurate information. And now this: ::CEASE FIRE::
President Trump posted on social media that Iran and Israel have reached a "Complete and Total CEASEFIRE." There has been no official word yet from Israel or Iran.
Mubarak told Thatcher King Hussain did not have the courage to curb Islamists’ influence after remarkable election gains, British documents reveal middleeastmonitor.com/20250623…
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Friendica.Eskimo.Com Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.
Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.
Mastodon.Eskimo.Com Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.
NextCloud.Eskimo.Com Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.
Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.
Yacy.Eskimo.Com Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.
Shell Accounts A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.
Account Types We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.
Web Hosting Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.
Remote Desktop Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.
Applications Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.
E-mail Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
Security[color] Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.
[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.
Available Shell Servers
We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.
All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.
Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).
Alma.Eskimo.Com This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid. Anduinos.Eskimo.Com Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others. Debian.Eskimo.Com Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded. Fedora.Eskimo.Com Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed. Kali.Eskimo.Com Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites. Manjaro.Eskimo.Com Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed. Mint.Eskimo.Com Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu. MxLinux.Eskimo.Com MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS. PopOS.Eskimo.Com popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others. Rocky8.Eskimo.Com Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.
Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools. Zorin.Eskimo.Com Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.
Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.
One afternoon Yasodhara came home, her face filled with grief. She did not speak to anyone. A young child she had tended for more than a week had just died.
Despite all her efforts, she could not rescue the child from death's grasp. Overcome with sadness, she sat in meditation while tears streamed down her cheeks. It was impossible to hold back her feelings. When Siddhartha returned from a meeting at court, she again burst into tears. Siddhartha held her in his arms and tried to console her.
"Gopa, tomorrow I will go with you to the funeral. Cry now, it will lessen the pain in your heart. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are heavy burdens each of us carries in this life. What has happened to the child could happen to any of us at any moment."
Yasodhara spoke between sobs, "Each day, I see how true all the things you have said are. My two hands are so small compared to the immensity of suffering. My heart is constantly filled with anxiety and sorrow. O husband, please show me how I can overcome the suffering in my heart."
Siddhartha embraced Yasodhara tightly in his arms. "My wife, I myself am seeking a path to overcome the suffering and anxiety in my own heart. I have seen into the situation of society and human beings but, despite all my efforts, I have not yet seen the way to liberation. Yet I feel sure that one day I will find a way for all of us. Gopa, please have faith in me."
--- From Old Path, White Clouds, by Thich Nhat Hanh
@Proletarian Rage BRICS threatens the Jewish hold on money. Iran is central to BRICS so the Jews simply can not keep hands off, their livelihood depends upon it.
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BTW, he was a guy paying bonus money to Afghan and Iraqis for killing or capturing American soldiers. The press then took that information and transplanted it onto some Russian guy and claimed Trump was linked to him.
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I'm the dev that created the "Bookface" schemes for the Friendica "Frio" theme. I know I've been taking a long time to answer some people's questions and feedback. That's because for weeks I've only occasionally been able to log into my main account on friendica.world. Today it seems that server has become completely inaccessible. 😭
As that server is down I couldn't just migrate my account, so I've set up a new account here at dillyofapickle.com. If you were friended to me over there you'll need to send me a request here. But I also moved here because @Kevin has embraced my projects for his server and is running newer versions than most other servers I could find. And I kind of need to see it in action for real, not just on my dev server.
I guess for the foreseeable future updates to my Friendica projects will be posted from this account.
@Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin Pygoscelis Papua, I would invite you to join mine, friendica.eskimo.com/. It has been up for four years now, started shortly after the Covid fiasco vaccine roll-out in November of 2020. I got kicked off of Facebook because I made it clear that the side effects of the Vax outweighed the benefits. I started it on an i7-6850k machine but it became clear that did not provide adequate resources, then upgraded to an i9-10900k, and through various hardware issues finally to an i9-10980xe, overclocked to 4.5Ghz all cores, nvme RAID for root and database, hd raid for storage, machine that it is on today. It was difficult finding hardware that could adequately address the power demands of an overclocked i9-10980xe but finally did so it is table today. I initially put it up with the Vier format as I did not so much care for Frio but did like your variation Bookface, however, attempting to implement it per the instructions on the site I was not successful at. I did not want to leave it called Frio even though it was clearly something else, I really wanted to give users a choice, and I tried to rename unsuccessfully. So I would very much both welcome your presence and any aid in implementing bookface. With the amount I have invested in this machine and the fact that I'm still here after 4-1/2 years I hope that it is clear I'm in it for the long haul and again would welcome your presence.
@Nanook for me installing bookface was just putting the directory in the correct place and setting the instance to use it. Also .. love Eskimo.com I had a shell with you years and years ago under the username edgewise! Glad you’re still at it after all of these years!
@Kevin @Pygoscelis Papua The way it was the name was still frio in the files so I was concerned it would conflict with the real frio. Thank you. We do still offer shells, these days with about a dozen different vendors, all of the SunOS stuff has been replaced with Linux, and all of the machines have full desktop graphical access with x2go and most with rdp and vnc. We had guacamole but the newer version hasn't played well still trying to work out bugs.
@Nanook There shouldn't be any conflict with "real frio" as Bookface is just scheme files for frio that go in the /view/theme/frio/scheme/ folder where frio should just pick them up and add them to the list of schemes under Settings > Display > Theme Customization.
@Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin What was the website with the theme again? I will give it a try, I thought I ended up showing two copies of frio but will give it a try.
The authenticity of host 'gitlab.com (172.65.251.78)' can't be established. ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:eUXGGm1YGsMAS7vkcx6JOJdOGHPem5gQp4taiCfCLB8. This key is not known by any other names. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes Warning: Permanently added 'gitlab.com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts. git@gitlab.com: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
@Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin That one also fails: git clone github.com/randompenguin1/book… fatal: repository 'github.com/randompenguin1/book…' does not exist If I go there with a web browser, I get a 404 error.
Wait, are you trying to use the address the way Friendica is truncating it? Because it's: https://gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookface or https://github.com/randompenguin1/bookface
@Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin This did what it did before, I now show two frios under theme selection: frio - V.1.0 Responsive theme based on a modern HTML/CSS/JavaScript framework. frio - V.1.0 Responsive theme based on a modern HTML/CSS/JavaScript framework. Vier - 1.2 "Vier" is a very compact and modern theme. It uses the font awesome font library: fortawesome.github.com/Font-Aw…
Well my Bookface scheme doesn't have the frio theme with it. It wasn't even forked from the frio theme. So I can't begin to tell you how you ended up with two instances of frio. But I also don't do git pulls/clones or anything command line. I'm using both GitLab and GitHub through their web interfaces and download zips with my browser and manually move files onto my dev server (because I barely have any understanding of how git works in the first place - I'm more of a web and graphic designer than a programmer).
"I'm more of a web and graphic designer than a programmer)."
I hope you'll create issues when you think the code is a barrier to making a good theme in that case, and you're not sure how to change it. I don't know the code *that* well but I am more of a programmer than designer, and I really feel like UI and even more so UX is the main thing holding Friendica back. Not that new functionality or adjustments to them won't be needed, but still the main thing.
Have been making a few changes related mainly to UI/UX in the main code base recently, and I'm planning more. I have a list of maybe 50 things I'd like to change or something, and it's scratching the surface. Certainly some things are a lot more important than others so they should probably be prioritized by a combination of importance and how easy they are to change.
@Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin Ok my mistake, the second frio entry was just the result of making a copy in frio.backup. Now I've tried both placing the files in /view/theme/frio/scheme/ directory as well as putting them in /view/theme/frio/scheme/bookface/ directory. Either way it is not showing up under theme selection.
After you've selected "frio" as the theme it's under the "Theme Customization" section where you pick "Light" or "Dark" frio schemes and the Bookface ones should be listed after, with "Custom" as the last option.
Strangely I just noticed that for some reason your name is cut off on my own instance but not on yours, where it simply wraps:
Both servers should be running 2024.12, and mine is the latest Bookface version, so I'm not sure what's up. Normally I'd precisely cross check with friendica.world, but oh well.
Also just so I understand things correctly, was Kristi H also involved in Bookface's creation? I saw she posted about it, but that was just before I created my account, and since then it seems she's been gone.
Oh, great! 😃 I came to friendica three months ago, found a lot of great ground work had been done and was being done, but also that it really needed some comprehensive changes in UI/UX to be usable by most people and actually become a real alternative to e.g. Facebook.
My plan is to drag as many people along to the alternative platforms to big tech as I can, so it's not enough that I know how to use it. The big tech social media platforms should really become a thing of the past. It's too much power on too few hands, and that power is actively being misused.
At the same time I didn't find many thinking about what changes needed to be made or more importantly doing something about it, so it was inspiring to see your posts and thoughts about it, and work towards it. But then, I noticed you were seemingly gone, and thought perhaps you'd given up on friendica, just before I was able to get a bit involved and perhaps help similar things along.
So I'm happy to see that's not the case, and you're still here! I understand the work/private life account separation. Have considered doing that myself, or perhaps using circles or something for that purpose.
@marcus @Kevin @Alt Pygoscelis Papua Personally, I like the UI better than any other social media I've looked at thus far. Not perfect but I like the fact that it handles long format posts, bbcode, multiple languages, and the overall format.
One aspect I don't like is that you can't make the global page the default and that you must leave it to post. But overall I like it.
An area I think that needs work is the internals, I have hubzilla and mastodon, but friendica is far heavier in resource usage than either of these.
Is the "global page" /community, ie. the circle icon?
I actually just made an issue suggesting making it possible to post from that, as well as the other pages under one's profile where it's currently not possible, except perhaps the "Personal notes" page as that already has a button there used for something else (= adding a personal note).
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