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But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”
And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”
He said, “Come.”
So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.
But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.”
Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
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27 Days to Crab Day
what a magnificent way to use technology
Wholesome and amazing, what a beautiful and wonderful use of technology. I am so happy for her. 🥳
Awesomeness
An incomplete list of international aid to Venezuela in the wake of the earthquake
Before anything, you can donate to help directly with these operations via the Red Cross, UNICEF, Catholic Relief Services and almost any other NGO that operates in the region. This list is only current to June 30th at 6:22pm GMT and is not complete. It has more info on the US response only partly because of how large it is-I'm from the US and know where to look on the 10,000 different government websites to find alot of the specifics, knowledge I don't have for any other nation rendering aid. But here's as much info as I was able to find:
American aid:
The US has now committed at least $300 million has at least 300 search and rescue personnel on the ground from four teams, has several hundred military personnel also assisting with relief efforts(such as the repairs of the runway at the airport in Caracas), has had four military field hospitals stood up already and was slated to have an unspecified amount of additional ones online in the next 24 hours.
The amphibious transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale and littoral combat ship USS Billings have arrived to transport goods and render aid via their Marine contingetts. The Fort Lauderdale has also been able to serve as an airlift point, a command-and-control hub for logistics, and administer medical aid with its hospital suite of 2 operating rooms and 124 beds.
The State Department has partnered with a major NGO, the Global Empowerment Mission and Walmart to set up a hub for aid in south Florida. The GEM is already operating donation points across the greater Miami area in coordination with municipal governments, faith-based groups and the Venezuelan diaspora in the region.
The USAF has been flying everything from aerial reconnaissance to transporting aid from the US and other countries to moving relief supplies and teams from aid hubs to the front lines, the latter likely taking the form of helicopters into La Guaira state. They were also able to get one of the runways at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas fixed enough to be functional again, helping ease a bottleneck in deploying aid.
Western Hemisphere aid:
Canada has offered CAD$5 million($3.5 million USD) in aid
Argentina has sent three planes carrying search and rescue operatives, and the largest company it has that operates airports has offered assistance in further restoring damaged airfields.
Brazil has dispatched 36 fire and rescue workers, 8 risk assessment and telecomms specialists, an open hospital, 100 solar-operated water purifiers and unspecified amounts of other aid
Chile has deployed 55 rescuers, 3 tons of humanitarian aid, and 2 tons of firefighting equipment
Mexico has sent 250 military rescuers with dog teams, 4 military aircraft, 12.7 metric tons of rescue supplies, 4 tons of medical supplies, and President Sheinbaum has stated her intent to provide more aid including water purifiers and power generators
Peru dispatched a rescue team and 14 tons of humanitarian aid
The Dominican Republic have sent search teams and supplies in amounts I couldn't find
Paraguay, despite having recently severed relations with Venezuela, deployed 32 military rescuers, with Defense Minister Oscar Gonzalez stating that the relations severing would be no obstacle to rendering aid.
El Salvador has deployed at least 150 of a promised 300 rescuers and pledged 50 tons of aid
Costa Rica's government, through its national branch of the Red Cross, has deployed 48 rescuers and 12 metric tons of aid
Global aid:
Spain has sent 58 military search and rescue personnel, 8 dogs and 40 firefighters
Qatar has sent an unspecified amount of rescuers
Germany has sent 70 rescuers, 7 dogs, and provided 6 military planes for use in transporting aid
Turkey dispatched a team of 67 rescuers and medical workers
Switzerland has mobilized 80 rescue personnel, dog teams and sent 18 metric tons of aid.
France has sent 85 rescue workers
The Netherlands has sent an aid package of 2 million euros($2.28 million) and an unspecified number of rescuers along with supplies
The Czech Republic has sent 70 rescue workers
India has sent two of its air force transports carrying a 41-member medical team, a field hospital unit, two other portable hospitals, 30 metric tons of relief supplies and 6 of medicine.
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Society has released $2.5 million in funds and Pope Leo has release 100,000 euros($110,00) in funds, but both the IRCRCS and the Catholic Church will be focusing more on the collection, transportation and distribution of aid collected from donations-these were organization-level contributions, likely from discretionary funds for future emergencies.
Starlink has begun providing free internet service to customers of Spanish comms firm Movistar in the hard-hit state of La Guaria(only 300,000 people compared to 5 million in Caracas, but that's a single city that can very easily relay satellite uplinks) and is working on linking up with state-run telecom firm Movilnet and local private firm Digitel to provide free service as well. The US State Department has said it's working on getting more Starlink terminals into the country, as alot like with Ukraine there's no form of bad conditions beyond an EMP or the terminal itself breaking that can stop it from connecting to the internet.
Croatia has contributed 1 million euros in aid($1.14 million)
China has provided 100 million yuan($14.7 million) in funding
The EU has said it will send aid worth 5 million euros($5.7 million) worth of aid focusing on shelter and health care. It also said it would organize an air bridge to transfer aid, presumably to ferry contributions from smaller states as well as private entities and nonprofits
Finland has had two major NGOs donate a combined 170,000 euros($194,000)
Jordan has sent a total of 100 rescue personnel
Israel has dispatched 16 rescuers despite not having had formal relations with Venezuela since 2009
South Korea will provide aid worth about 7.7 billion won($5 million)
Sweden has contributed 80 million krona($8.2 million)
The UK has sent a team of 68 rescuers with dogs
Syria has sent 15 rescuers.
Some of these are wild. Syria is still trying to not fall back apart, and it sent help. It and Israel have been flaring tensions for years, yet they're both operating search and rescue teams in Caracas and La Guaira right now. Peru's gone from one political crisis to another while this has been unfolding and yet it still sent help. All of ^^^ for the sake of helping save lives. It's things like this that remind you how humanity made it this far in the first place.
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We have run out of boxes
As has the city
But there are still many more books
I have a proposal:
Packing up all her paperback fantasy books while thinking wistfully of all the conventionally attractive yet somehow nondescript looking cover models with their Hot Topic / Renaissance Faire wardrobes recently put out of work by generative AI
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An apt metaphor for how the elites will always deal with crises--the little people must suffer to solve the problem, while the powerful will be comfortably ensconced away from the consequences of their decisions.
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SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS —2003, dir. Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore
I think the United States has lost basically every war it has fought since the creation of the military-industrial complex
You lose every war you never fight.
Or you win every war you never fight?
Which is it.
My kids will put the blue rectangle on the flag in the weirdest places.
Like, elementary-age kids, you see the flag in your classroom every day presumably. Why do you have no idea what it looks like.
Bishop Fulton Sheen understood that Catholicism and Americanism go together, that to be a good Catholic, one must be a patriot.
Sheen’s radio hour helped define and publicize a Catholic patriotism in an era when some still questioned whether Catholics could be proper American citizens. Sheen, versed in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotelian virtue ethics, worked tirelessly to reframe patriotism not just as compatible with Catholicism but as the fulfillment of Catholic social teaching. He argued convincingly, week after week, that the loss of God and religion in America was, in fact, the same phenomenon as the loss of patriotism and love of neighbor. Love of God, love of country, and love of neighbor are rooted in the same virtue of piety, and “when one goes out, all go out.” Sheen saw that the American right and the Catholic Church were engaged in battle with the same enemy: atheistic communism. Unlike some of today’s Catholic integralists, Sheen did not identify the power of the Church with the power of the State but instead insisted that the authority of the State rested in the consent of the governed. “God could save us from our chaos and our slavery by force,” Sheen said, “but that would be the destruction of liberty. God awaits man’s free and unforced response to His call, that is why His last farewell to the world was from the powerlessness of the Cross where His eyes could summon us to the sweet purpose of life.” The Church cannot rob individuals of their freedom by compelling belief, but rather “begs us to seek the things that are above, to rise in our minds with Christ in His Glory.”
“God could save us from our chaos and our slavery by force,” Sheen said, “but that would be the destruction of liberty. God awaits man’s free and unforced response to His call, that is why His last farewell to the world was from the powerlessness of the Cross where His eyes could summon us to the sweet purpose of life.” The Church cannot rob individuals of their freedom by compelling belief, but rather “begs us to seek the things that are above, to rise in our minds with Christ in His Glory.”
Going to add the RSS feed to restored audio of Sheen talks: https://anchor.fm/s/f1047aa8/podcast/rss
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......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"
*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all
YOU. YOU SEE MY VISION.
People: exposure to the fae realms makes you weak and sickly. Because of the fae
The fae: wow wow wow i LOVE uranium!!!! We should put it ALLLL over our land!!! This won't cause problems!
You can never leave after eating fae food because you get radiation poisoning and also you're now a walking biohazard
The tinkerbell chernobyl post strikes
