I’m a nerd, not really a weeb. So this is an anime thing? The comic didn’t make any sense to me until this thread.

So that you can brush your teeth, etc, while your partner is in the bathroom.

I believe they’re talking about YouTube shorts.

Many communists would be ideologically open to working with Food Not Bombs. Many anarchists would work with a communist organization to promote universal healthcare.

I don’t consider myself an anarchist, but in my personal experience, I see more anarchists practicing praxis. As a noob leftist, I’m going to see who is contributing to my community and help them out.

I suppose these are the “certain instances” you mentioned, but I feel like there are enough of these to comprise all the activism I personally am capable of. I’m studying theory. I listen when people talk about goals and how to restructure society, but I’ll be happy if we can pass socialized medicine in my lifetime. We can worry about “after the revolution” when we come to it.

During the investigation of child sexual abuse, if the perpetrator is a Catholic, they’ll ask if the abuser confessed. If so, the priest is liable to be prosecuted.

Honestly, my biggest problem with the law is how unlikely it is to ever be prosecuted. Proving that an abuser confessed would be impossible. They are infringing on the First Amendment and ensuring that no abuser ever talks to their priest, but in practice priests probably won’t follow the law and if they don’t the state is unlikely to actually enforce the law.

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Everything is important and very interesting? There’s clear priorities, maybe even a checklist? Sign me up.

I’m not sure I understand you. Can you give an example of a conservative making a comment that pits one minority against the other that took the left out for a week?

You didn’t need to explain that patent laws existed before 2020.

In May 2020, WHO, the Government of Costa Rica and other partners launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) to facilitate faster equitable and affordable access to COVID-19 health products for people in all countries. C-TAP, which is currently endorsed by 45 WHO Member States, was a response to the global Solidarity Call to Action. Its implementing partners include UNDP, the Medicines Patent Pool, the UN Technology Bank and Unitaid.

https://www.who.int/initiatives/covid-19-technology-access-pool

Medical patents do always cause death, of course. Artificial scarcity protects profits at the cost of lives. Bill Gates, and the Gates Foundation at first, opposed programs to allow poor countries to produce the vaccine themselves.

If things worked the way they should you don’t just confess your sin and go about your day. The priest assigns a penance. We are at the edge of my knowledge, and I would love for a Catholic to chime in, but I know penance can be harsh, especially for a grave sin. I’m not sure how it works in practice.

The idea is certainly not to just allow it to continue. Here we get to obvious failings of the Catholic Church. But, honestly, it’s not like the government is that great about protecting children from powerful men either.

You’re asking me to cite a source for Gates’s donation to the “Not a Tax Dodge Foundation”? After I said "I’m sure it will be more elegant than that, but that’s the basic grift. ”

Please go look up the term “hypothetical”. You might want to investigate the Onion too.

Note for the internet: I am just clarifying the Catholic stance. I am not Catholic and not defending them.

Priests cannot reveal what someone tells them in confession. It’s a lot like attorney-client privilege, as your priest is supposed to be your advocate before God. Breaking the seal of confession is a big deal (to them) because, just like criminals deserve representation, sinners need to be able to confess.

You’re okay with a child going hungry because their parents “didn’t work hard enough”?

Also note that printers come with a smaller cartridge. Buying another printer isn’t cheaper, even if it costs less.

I work in IT. Our clients are small offices with existing equipment. So I see a wide variety of machines in different environments.

I would only buy a Brother printer. No question.

Someone could probably do this. But it would just be a fun project, not replicable.

You’d need to write your own printer driver. There are probably some open source libraries out there to do most of the heavy lifting, but it’s still a project.

The big issue is going to be the interface between the pi and the printer’s “motors and wiring”. Doable, but too finicky to publish a “kit” or something for someone else to replicate. It could be worth the work if it would help other people, but I don’t think that’s on the table.

Honestly, I think anyone with the ability to do that would probably find it easier to just build their own printer.

2022…I wonder how many people died to protect corporation’s profits in two years of a global pandemic.

Your “nothing wrong” includes frequent trips to Epstein’s island. 😬

I guess I’m just a crazy online Leftist for not thinking a nice donation to NPR is enough to even out molesting kids. I guess you want to give him a tote bag?

Sure. The Gates Foundation gives the money to the Totally Not A Tax Dodge foundation which quietly pays the Gates kids as much as they want. I’m sure it will be more elegant than that, but that’s the basic grift.

Meanwhile, Gates uses his reputation as a philanthropist, and all the soft power from controlling billions to further his own interests and cement his personal philosophy as the only option.

The charity means that the American people have no control at all over how the money is spent, so the plebians have to beg at their door for money to be used in the way that Gates says it must be used.

Everyone uses this cliche. Nobody seems to understand it.

a bad or reckless manager can put the company at significant risk

Yes. In this circumstance, the manager opened the company up to a lawsuit with his comments. It would have protected the company to punish him or have him take some sort of class.

You can just say that HR is usually bad at their jobs. “Protecting the company not the employee” is completely meaningless here.