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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • That’s one of the fundamental disagreements between Catholics and Protestants.

    A Catholic would argue that veneration of saints isn’t worship, it’s showing respect for someone who exemplified Christian ideals, or died as a martyr. Canonization is basically the religious version of the Medal of Honor.

    A Protestant would argue that the distinction between veneration and worship is arbitrary, and veneration of a saint essentially amounts to idolatry anyway.












  • I dunno if there’s a deeper reference to it, but to me it’s just a simple visual pun.

    You know how licking a lemon makes your face scrunch up?

    The folder licked the lemon and it scrunched up so tight it’s now a ZIP file.

    The reason laughing at it makes you an old fart is because it uses the WinRAR icon.


  • Technus@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlHow American
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    Yeah, even the actual sentiment of the video is more like, “it’s not great but it’s the name that stuck and there’s solidarity behind it.”

    The problem, as always, is lumping people together when they didn’t ask to be. Most of the newer, more “politically correct” terms are even more generic and alienating, and, once again, being forced on them from outside.







  • You wouldn’t even need to take Bitcoin someone has access to.

    There’s tons of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are theoretically unrecoverable because the private keys to the wallets containing them have been lost, or the hard drives they were on were sent to a landfill (and thus began the world’s shittiest treasure hunt).

    However, by spending any of that Bitcoin you’d probably make international headlines and end up starting a market panic, because the most likely explanation for gaining access to that Bitcoin is that you found and exploited some vulnerability in the protocol itself.