Silver, they/them. Should probably start posting

The only other thing is that not all USB-C cables are created equally. The form factor is standardized, the insides are not, some shitty, cheap, cables are only rated for data not power, or for low power needs. You can search for charging cable to make sure you get one intended for power transfer.

Happy disability pride month!

The general gist of the versions of the story that I've heard (from how I've always heard it told at least, mostly back when I was in Sunday School) was that when Jesus went to the temple during Passover there were a bunch of people who had turned it into a marketplace where they were selling livestock, and that they were turning a location meant for worship into some kind of marketplace. Also that the money lenders were taking advantage of people while doing the exchanges, and it was generally really scummy business being done.

The message they always seemed to apply to it was "Jesus doesn't like when people try to turn houses of worship into markets, and he really doesn't like scammers and con artists. Don't sell things in church, and especially don't use it as a place to con people."

So.

The money changers are at the Temple because Ancient Judaism wasn’t like Judaism today where each synagogue is self contained. It was a temple religion. Ancient Judaism was a temple religion Hinduism and Buddhism is where sacrifices are made. For Temple Judaism with the Holy of Holies, be the time Rome colonized Judea, Jews made grain and animal sacrifices a monotheistic G-d.

Before the Romans sacked the Temple and stole our treasure (you can see a depiction of the theft on the Arc of Titus next to the Coliseum), the BeitHaKadosh, aka THE Temple in Jerusalem was the place in Temple Judaism that people came to to make pilgrimage to G-d. Just G-d. He is only there. Temple Judaism was centralized.

Come to the Temple. Spend the shekels you can afford get the portion of the right kind of goat and grain. Make the sacrifice.

Very organized.

So why are money changers at the Temple?

Well Jews live all over the world. That was true then as it’s true now.

We have for example fragments from hundreds of years before the Christian bible was written of a letter written from a Jew in Egypt to a relative in…I think it was Samaria??… talking about Passover preparation. (@prismatic-bell you know the one I mean )

So you’re a Jew from Egypt with Egyptian money and you need an unblemished goat to make a sacrifice unto the Lord your G-d, how are you going to get it? You found a good goat but the merchant only wants shekels.

The money changers do a service. If they are Jews and they do it at a fair rate? They they did it within the Commanments of G-d and enabled other Jews to serve G-d.

Jesus is an uneducated carpenter reacted like angry teenager who read a blurb about what divinity could be but who doesn’t understand that all of these things - the marketplace the livestock the money changers - can and do exist to serve G-d as it functioned in Temple Judaism.

Jesus’s response is Roman. He just reacted decided to destroy the Jewish way.

I don’t bother to entertain the “was Jesus real” question. The writer decided to write a story that distains and destroys the entire functioning of Temple Judaism.

I suspect this is in the same vein. Most people are not hanging out with Temple-era Jews and have no reason to have learned this, and Christianity itself has this weird duality where the "old testament" might be allegorical, but because the "New Testament" takes place in Roman times where record-keeping became so much better, clearly it's actually accurate and this stuff was actually said and done.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

Here ya go

if I make these links clickable they'll get deleted so please copy and paste them:

Livestream: https://www.twitch.tv/enderempress

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

everyone knows about this meme, right?

but does anyone else know the woman who made the food? no? time to educate!

This is “Mother Mary”, the owner of Blackberry’s mother.

She made all the cakes for the restaurant while it was open. Chef Gordon Ramsay tried her red velvet cake, and spoke this meme-able line:

He then called Mary over, complimented her food, and gave her a peck on the cheek.

Look how happy she was to hear that!!!