Blessed art Thou, o Lord, teach me Thy statutes

I rewatched the first two films yesterday, and something that stands out to me is that it's really averse to presenting Auradon as having done anything actually bad. Sure, they built a prison island, but all the people there deserved to be there, and sure, a bunch of the people there now haven't done anything wrong, but the new king will solve that. And sure, he didn't bring everyone over, but the people who didn't get brought over are evil and dangerous and deserve to stay there. And when you factor in potential racial readings of the films - what with it being the United States of Auradon and Mal calling the Isle of the Lost her "hood" in the opening narration of the first film - it goes from awkward writing to having unpleasant political implications. It reminds me of Lindsay Ellis' Pocahontas video, where she notes that '90s neo-Westerns were sympathetic to Native Americans, but still had a good white protagonist so white audiences didn't have to feel guilty or complicit in historic atrocities.

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Secondly, I remember Fr. Stephen DeYoung arguing (although I don't remember where) that St. Paul always intended to convert the emperor to Christianity, and with him the empire - then again, considering the central role sacred kingship has historically had in Orthodox Christianity, Fr. DeYoung has a pretty clear motive in making that motive.

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

To spend their days working with their hands, in quiet prayer, and in daily song.

Lately were sung

Toads and serpents make their nests

Where the palmers did throng

Weep, weep, o Walsingham, whose days are nights

Blessings turned to blasphemies, holy deeds to despites

Sin is where Our Lady sat, Heaven is turned to Hell

Satan sits where Our Lord did sway, Walsingham, o, farewell

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

Monarchs historically grew out of warlords, and having a unified war-leader makes you better conquering other people and/or preventing being conquered. Relatedly, the main point of most historical aristocrats (European knights, Indian rajputs, Japanese samurai, Ancient Near Eastern chariot aristocrats, etc.) was to use their free time to get good at difficult, expensive forms of warfare (mostly mounted warfare) to make them militarily competitive with other nations with aristocrats and good at crushing peasant revolts. This is also part of why aristocracy began declining in the modern era, since gunpowder weapons democratised violence.

Like I already saw someone say in the notes, part of the appeal of the monarch is a right-wing version of the Tumblr revolution fantasy; the idea of someone who can enact all the policies you like and doesn't have to deal with compromise or democratic process.

For monarchy supporters in Britain (and presumably in Scandinavia, the Low Countries and Spain), with monarchs who hold little or no political power, the standard arguments are that the monarch is an important symbol for the nation to rally around and a major part of tradition.

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Yes, you're correct. There's been an immigrant population here in the UK all through my life.

But in the 1970s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s, I honestly don't recall there being nearly so many viciously violent crimes committed by immigrants as there are now.

In fact, whilst there are always bad apples in every community. I always recall the vast majority of immigrants to the UK being perfectly happy to adhere to British Law and to respect British Culture and Values.

So what's changed?

Quite simply, controlled and limited immigration has spiraled rapidly into mass, out of control immigration.

Now. I'm not going to deny that there are still many, many immigrants who came to the UK with the intention of becoming British Citizens.

They have their own faiths and cultures. But they are equally respectful of British Law, Values and our Culture which is rooted in Christianity.

BUT the ridiculous increase in numbers has had a terrible effect.

There are areas of many British cities that now resemble the places that these people come from, not Britain.

There are some areas where Sharia holds more sway that British Law and this is not acceptable.

I have enormous respect and affection for our British Sikh Community. They have always shown themselves able and willing to practice their own faith and culture alongside British Culture and under British Law.

They have thoroughly condemned the stabbing of Henry Nowak by one of their own and are to be commended for that.

But I also thoroughly understand why the incident has opened up debate as to why one religious group should be allowed to carry a blade, when everyone else is prohibited from doing so.

This is probably as good a place as any for me to share an excellent passage I read on Substack

Source

Notably Moslem rape gangs are a thing and the UK government chooses to try and hide their activities instead of combatting them.

The outrage currently being expressed by native Northern Irishmen with regard to the attempted beheading of one of them by a Sudanese migrant is more than sufficient proof that UK authorities do little to deter/punish crimes committed by Moslems, choosing instead to sweep such incidents under the rug while dismissing the actions of these barbarians as being “cultural expression.”

The outrage stems from the fact that Moslems are coddled by UK authorities instead of holding them fully accountable under the law.

You: "Nuh-uh."

Not all media sources are accurate due to political/ideological bias. (How do you not know this?) The same goes for leftist governments who have a penchant for covering up crime stats since crimes of all sorts tend to go up under their lax and generally failed domestic polices.

Both the George Floyd and anti-Ice riots are poor examples as proof of your claim. They were not naturally occurring. They were/are the products of Democrats staging color revolutions against both Trump Administrations, first & second.

Check out Crossfire Hurricane sometime as the genesis of the first color revolution staged by Democrats against Trump. Leftist insurgencies are a thing, as are the numerous false claims they make publicly in order to justify their oftentimes illicit and violent actions.

I know media sources can be biased, which is why (as you can see on the chart) it's not from the media but the Office for National Statistics, a government body which operates regardless of whether the party in power is left-wing or right-wing. You still haven't cited evidence that leftists are covering up crime statistics, which doesn't cut much ice seeing as much of the data on that chart was compiled when the Conservative Party was in power.

The same goes for the current anti-Ice riots.

Fomented violence has no moral imperative. No authenticity means no legitimacy. It’s all political theater to manipulate the weak-minded.

Citing crime stats from some random media source means little to me because I’m well aware of how such stats, especially when they originate from your joke of a government under Heir Cuck Starmer, are often manipulated for political ends. It’s the same here in America with Democrats.

Or are you going to maintain Starmer et al are honest and honorable UK elected officials? Try and I will laugh in your face.

Or look at how your police handled the Henry Nowack situation. Yeah, they were sooo open and honest about what occurred there. They had to be forced to tell the truth. Btw, has even one of those POS constables been held accountable for their despicable and racist actions against a MURDER VICTIM? The short answer is nope.

Make whatever claim you want. But the surrounding facts and circumstances do not back you up. There is social unrest in the UK because a certain imported segment of your population is not, generally speaking, held fully accountable under your laws. Everyone knows this. And your government goes out of its way to protect them - and their crimes.

And you’re wrong about Crossfire Hurricane. It was not an investigation. It was the basis for a semi-successful coup against President Trump in his first term in office.

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I don't doubt that Henry Nowak was treated unjustly by the police. My question is, why do you think his murder was proof of systemic prejudice by British police but George Floyd's wasn't proof of systemic prejudice by American police? Saying "everyone knows this" doesn't make something true.

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Yes, you're correct. There's been an immigrant population here in the UK all through my life.

But in the 1970s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s, I honestly don't recall there being nearly so many viciously violent crimes committed by immigrants as there are now.

In fact, whilst there are always bad apples in every community. I always recall the vast majority of immigrants to the UK being perfectly happy to adhere to British Law and to respect British Culture and Values.

So what's changed?

Quite simply, controlled and limited immigration has spiraled rapidly into mass, out of control immigration.

Now. I'm not going to deny that there are still many, many immigrants who came to the UK with the intention of becoming British Citizens.

They have their own faiths and cultures. But they are equally respectful of British Law, Values and our Culture which is rooted in Christianity.

BUT the ridiculous increase in numbers has had a terrible effect.

There are areas of many British cities that now resemble the places that these people come from, not Britain.

There are some areas where Sharia holds more sway that British Law and this is not acceptable.

I have enormous respect and affection for our British Sikh Community. They have always shown themselves able and willing to practice their own faith and culture alongside British Culture and under British Law.

They have thoroughly condemned the stabbing of Henry Nowak by one of their own and are to be commended for that.

But I also thoroughly understand why the incident has opened up debate as to why one religious group should be allowed to carry a blade, when everyone else is prohibited from doing so.

This is probably as good a place as any for me to share an excellent passage I read on Substack

Source

Notably Moslem rape gangs are a thing and the UK government chooses to try and hide their activities instead of combatting them.

The outrage currently being expressed by native Northern Irishmen with regard to the attempted beheading of one of them by a Sudanese migrant is more than sufficient proof that UK authorities do little to deter/punish crimes committed by Moslems, choosing instead to sweep such incidents under the rug while dismissing the actions of these barbarians as being “cultural expression.”

The outrage stems from the fact that Moslems are coddled by UK authorities instead of holding them fully accountable under the law.

You: "Nuh-uh."

Not all media sources are accurate due to political/ideological bias. (How do you not know this?) The same goes for leftist governments who have a penchant for covering up crime stats since crimes of all sorts tend to go up under their lax and generally failed domestic polices.

Both the George Floyd and anti-Ice riots are poor examples as proof of your claim. They were not naturally occurring. They were/are the products of Democrats staging color revolutions against both Trump Administrations, first & second.

Check out Crossfire Hurricane sometime as the genesis of the first color revolution staged by Democrats against Trump. Leftist insurgencies are a thing, as are the numerous false claims they make publicly in order to justify their oftentimes illicit and violent actions.

I know media sources can be biased, which is why (as you can see on the chart) it's not from the media but the Office for National Statistics, a government body which operates regardless of whether the party in power is left-wing or right-wing. You still haven't cited evidence that leftists are covering up crime statistics, which doesn't cut much ice seeing as much of the data on that chart was compiled when the Conservative Party was in power.

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Yes, you're correct. There's been an immigrant population here in the UK all through my life.

But in the 1970s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s, I honestly don't recall there being nearly so many viciously violent crimes committed by immigrants as there are now.

In fact, whilst there are always bad apples in every community. I always recall the vast majority of immigrants to the UK being perfectly happy to adhere to British Law and to respect British Culture and Values.

So what's changed?

Quite simply, controlled and limited immigration has spiraled rapidly into mass, out of control immigration.

Now. I'm not going to deny that there are still many, many immigrants who came to the UK with the intention of becoming British Citizens.

They have their own faiths and cultures. But they are equally respectful of British Law, Values and our Culture which is rooted in Christianity.

BUT the ridiculous increase in numbers has had a terrible effect.

There are areas of many British cities that now resemble the places that these people come from, not Britain.

There are some areas where Sharia holds more sway that British Law and this is not acceptable.

I have enormous respect and affection for our British Sikh Community. They have always shown themselves able and willing to practice their own faith and culture alongside British Culture and under British Law.

They have thoroughly condemned the stabbing of Henry Nowak by one of their own and are to be commended for that.

But I also thoroughly understand why the incident has opened up debate as to why one religious group should be allowed to carry a blade, when everyone else is prohibited from doing so.

This is probably as good a place as any for me to share an excellent passage I read on Substack

Source

Notably Moslem rape gangs are a thing and the UK government chooses to try and hide their activities instead of combatting them.

The outrage currently being expressed by native Northern Irishmen with regard to the attempted beheading of one of them by a Sudanese migrant is more than sufficient proof that UK authorities do little to deter/punish crimes committed by Moslems, choosing instead to sweep such incidents under the rug while dismissing the actions of these barbarians as being “cultural expression.”

The outrage stems from the fact that Moslems are coddled by UK authorities instead of holding them fully accountable under the law.

You: "Nuh-uh."