How do you feel about conservatives?

Why?

The media has been trashy for ages. You gotta check out a book from the 70’s called The Mind Managers by Herbert Schiller.

Meesa thinks you is right!

He’ll move after the first big fart.

“You’re basically just a rabbit, aren’t you?”

They’re not pointless for the laity at all.

Church services are for religious education. I’ll be honest, I’m not sure why masses were conducted in Latin until the 1980’s - despite Latin having died out centuries ago.

At best, Latin masses are more about the traditions of man than religious education. At worst, Latin masses are for religious obfuscation, rather than religious education.

It’s impossible to be educated in a language you don’t speak.

It would be one thing if all Catholics were required to learn Latin in school, but they’re not. Since Catholics aren’t required by the RCC to learn Latin and the RCC never taught it, most Catholics never learn it. The ones who do learn it do so either to learn more about the roots of the English language or because they intend to enter a scientific field.

Latin is a beautiful language which a lot of traditional Catholics find more reverent than, for example, English.

Latin is also a dead language.

Most people - Catholics included - don’t speak Latin. It died out at least five centuries ago.

I myself prefer a good reverent Novus Ordo mass to a Tridentine one, but if I understood Latin well I would likely prefer the Tridentine.

You’re only proving my point. Latin masses don’t benefit you. They don’t benefit most people - Catholics included. They haven’t benefited most people for centuries.

We still do sometimes. You’d be surprised by how many IRC channels still exist.

Yeah, I’ve been beta-testing a Lemmy app on my iPhone and it’s not perfect and it had an issue which caused me to accidentally double- and triple-post.

I’m hoping the EU’s new battery law will mean all countries will get Sony Xperias with removable batteries, though I realize it’s probably too much to expect.

I have a dislike for the church, not the laity (churchgoers). Regarding masses, I meant that masses were conducted exclusively in Latin until the 1980’s - which makes those masses pointless for the laity, as Latin has been a dead language for centuries.

What do you mean by “ph”?

Well, at least it won’t get you in trouble at work or otherwise around others.

I was referring to the days when the Catholic Church kept the Bible in Latin and hunted down anyone who had a copy of it in a local language, burned their Bible, strangled them to death and then burned their dead body at the stake to intimidate the public. I was also referring to the fact that Catholic masses were conducted in Latin until the 1980’s.

Has Asus’ build quality improved? I read that it tanked after Lenovo bought the company.

Has Asus’ build quality improved? I read that it tanked after Lenovo bought the company.

I didn’t mean it in a good way.

Yeah, I’ve heard about Shiftphone. It might be possible to have a company like Clove ship one to me, but exchanges would likely take ages, which is one of the reasons why I haven’t just had a Fairphone imported by Clove. Ideally, I’d like to be able to go the store where I bought the phone if I need to get an exchange.

Hopefully, companies won’t either make EU-specific phones with replaceable batteries or remove the headphone jack to make room. I’m mostly optimistic, but a also little concerned.

That’s very Catholic of them.

I think it would be best to hold off until the Lemmy developers push out an update which solves the issue of having separate communities for the same topic on multiple instances. For example, multi-community feeds or merging instances.