Ahh. Bone Apple Tea moment.

This reaks of chatgpt. All the way down to the milktoast ending.

You’re not wrong. NIV is very generic. Lol.

The thing that stands out to me in the translation you have is making idles to yourself. Instead of for yourself. That and using the term Jehovah. Those to me are major pointers to using the NWT, which among the Christian diaspora is seen as less reputable.

I’m a secular person now but as a formally very religious person I know a bad Bible translation when I see it.

Assuming you a referring to Leviticus 26:1 a better translation from the NIV is:

Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.

Given this I can see how Catholics can justify having statues and art and the like.

In case you don’t like the NIV here is a meta comparison.

https://biblehub.com/leviticus/26-1.htm

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State run is not the same as state influenced. You can’t honestly say they are equivalently influenced.

Also I will restate you posted a literal Facebook post. If you had a better source I know you would rather use that.

This link is to a Facebook post by the CCP controlled “China Central TV” network.

I would be interested in hearing more, but I’m sure you understand why a better source would be a necessity.

Schwip Schwap is my favorite. Mountain Dew is also quite nice when I can find it.

I really appreciate your super stark pro libre software attitude. I want to support you here. You should know that the approach you are taking is ultra abrasive and would probably cause more harm than help.

People would just associate libre software with militant weirdos, if all they saw where your posts.

If you want to make meaningful change I strongly recommend taking a softer less abrasive approach.

We want libre software to be connected with safety, friendliness and personal autonomy, not militarism, chanted phrases, and dogma.

Even on Lemmy the ultra pro libre software social network (relative to non federated networks) your current approach is off putting. I want you to succeed and I think a different approach may be better.

Just my two cents.

Fair. And I see it lol. My inbox is full of people who want to argue with me.

True. But for 99% of people baseline is what they use. Windows can be made very secure by experts but the fact is 99% of people just use windows as is.

You are preaching to the choir.

When it comes to privacy: GrapheneOS > iOS > android with Google.

Android itself is good. It’s just android with Google that’s the problem. (Aka 99.999% of all android phones sold outside of China)

Compared to any android phone the privacy is substantially better. Apple is in the business of selling overpriced phones. Google is in the data collection business.

Fair. You should change Emperors to Emperor then. That way it looks less “both sides”y.

It took Russia and the USA some time to realize they could not win in Afghanistan or Vietnam.

The natives of Afghanistan and Vietnamese eventually overcame the imperialist invaders.

The natives of Ukraine should do the same. The USSR and the DPRK nobly supported the Vietnamese when they were invaded. The west should do the same for Ukraine.

We should not blame the sufferings of war on native peoples defending their homeland from imperialists.

We should blame the sufferings of war solely on the imperialist invaders. In this case, that means Russia.

Ugh. What did he say?

I mean more money would solve the IP issue.

Step 1: Get more money Step 2: Buy additional dedicated IPs for the casino Step 3: Profit from the profits of a casino.

It does not matter if it lumps them together or not. Google still has 90% and they’re not Bing. Yandax another ~3% and they’re not Bing. That means at max Bing is 7% if you combine the rest. 3.5% vs 7% does not change the root of my argument.

Those points you make against Brave are valid though. I just run into too many people who are in the Brave cult and it’s concerning.

Lumping in Bing with Google is just unfair. Google controls like 90% of search. Bing is ~3.5%. Choosing duck duck go and helping that 3.5% is wayyyy better of a choice than supporting crypto bros.

https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

Brave search is run by crypto bros. I’d rather use Kagi or DDG or even Google.