I think the typical answer is to start digging into the definition of “love”. I am personally of the opinion that the number of self serving, narrow ways to interpret the Bible significantly outweigh the number of holistic, neighborly interpretations. The history of Christianity is filled with selfish power hungry people using whatever means necessary to justify their quests for power and domination.

How the Bible is interpreted is a perpetually evolving art practiced differently by different group. Do the laws of the old testament apply to modern life? Is the book of Revelation a metaphor for how to live or a literal prophesy for the end of the world?

I personally find great amusement at some of the contrasts between what Jesus teaches and what are taught in the epistles. Most amusing, of course, is how openly Jesus associated with women vs what Paul keeps espousing at the end of 1 Corinth 14 and 1 Tomothy 2.

So to more succinctly state it, since God is manifested in significant part through our actions, the rules are ultimately made up and the points don’t matter. statements like “God loves everybody” is as a declaration of the state of the universe in so far as it is an admission of one’s own moral values. It is imperative to espouse and defend this narrative that God loves everybody because otherwise it becomes false.

If this constructed version of God doesn’t make sense, we can perfectly swap “God” and “Mother Nature” as they are interchangeable concepts. I find some rest in the belief that our existence aligns with the inherent nature of the universe, even if we can be real boneheads about it sometimes.

Pro tip: medical debt doesn’t affect your credit score

I don’t have her passwords, she doesn’t have mine.

Having the means for each spouse to get the others passwords can be pretty essential when dealing with critical emergencies and death. It’s good to have some way for someone you trust to get your online accounts when you pass away so that everything can be concluded and canceled and sentimental content preservation and all that.

For my relationship the means to gain access to my password manager are available in the case of an emergency. Maybe shove the credentials in a bank security box and put access to it into your will if you don’t feel you can trust your partner with the knowledge while you are alive.

World has always been fucked (see Billy Joel’s “we didn’t start the fire” for simple reference). Life is what you make of it

Americans typically have leftovers that they take home

Are you just not aware of how overweight Americans are on average? As i understand it we have been conditioned to believe these insane portions are “a meal”. I was simply unable to start losing weight until i traveled to Mexico to discover and internalize what a normal meal portion is. If you go to a restaurant in the US, you should expect to see most of the people around you finishing their plates

getting people to pay attention to and care about the primaries

Part of this needs to include running for office. Many many many demcratic primary ballots around the country are mostly if not entirely empty

I believe this is definitely a place to focus. In my area there isn’t even enough candidates to fill the democratic party primary ballot, people on this platform bitching need to run for office instead of just whining about it (myself included)

The enshittification reaper is coming for Discord; the writing is on the wall, they are planning an IPO this year. The draw is that it isn’t Discord and that you can own and control the data produced by your organization (or peer group), and have reasonable control over how the platform is changed. Now if none of that appeals to you then you probably aren’t the target audience.

I never understood the draw of matrix.org as a service, the ideas originally driving matrix’s development back in 2017 or so was to be to Discord/Slack/Teams what Lemmy is to Reddit.

I understand and empathize with your frustration, as a commuter long boarder i have similar sentiments about how politeness can inconvenience me because of the precautions i have to take to stay safe. I would, however, like to point out that you are complaining about people putting in an earnest effort to exercise empathy for you; those who don’t bike or otherwise do not have the experience to know that predictability is key, but they are otherwise attempting to care for your well being

There is no perfect candidate because both parties are actively fighting progressivism. What you do is hold your nose and vote for the one who won’t try to eradicate anyone they don’t like from the country and then show up to your local democratic party/club every meeting they have and be actively pissed off at the lack of progressivism. Bitching on the internet does nothing, trying to argue about the best candidate does even less.

Make it known what you want in your community and build a coalition in agreement