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This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

Beam Test Performance of AstroPix sensor with 120 GeV protons
Bobae Kim, Regina Caputo, Manoj Jadhav, Sylvester Joosten, Carolyn Kierans, Henry Klest, Adrien Laviron, Richard Leys, Jessica Metcalfe, Jared Richards, Nicolas Striebig, Amanda L. Steinhebel, Daniel Violette, Maria Zurek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06084 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06084
arXiv:2602.06084v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AstroPix is a high-voltage CMOS (HV-CMOS) monolithic active pixel sensor (MAPS) developed for precision gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the medium energy regime, as well as for precise shower imaging and tracking in the Barrel Imaging Calorimeter (BIC) of the Electron Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We present beam test results of the AstroPix v3 sensor using a 120 GeV proton beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF), performed as part of the broader experimental campaign for the BIC prototype calorimeter. The sensor's 500 um pixel pitch enabled precise measurement of the beam profile, providing important information for calorimeter performance studies. Using the measured 120 GeV proton data, we measure the energy deposit of minimum ionizing particles and use them to extract the corresponding effective depletion depth.
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Der Vergleich von Tür zu Tür muss aber auch Parken und zur Tür gehen beinhalten.
Und selbst WENN das Fahrrad 5-10 min länger dauern WÜRDE, ist es noch immer die intelligentere Entscheidung.
Finanziell und gesundheitlich sowieso.

So the Canada - China trade deal just announced is interesting, particularly regarding Electric Vehicles. It was primarily about restoring our agricultural trade with China by allowing their EVs to access our market. But it will likely, despite the limited amount that will hit our shores, jumpstart the EV market in Canada. Cars that are feature rich and cost less, like the one reviewed in the YT video linked below, will push current manufacturers in Canada to up their game.
Doug Ford abandoned his Captain Canada persona and selfishly attacked the deal because of potential impact on Ontario's auto industry. Part of his statement demanded that the Federal government cancel their Electric Vehicle mandates because it was too costly for manufacturers to build them. I think Toyota and Honda, long time Canadian partners, may be concerned about the deal, but U.S. manufacturers are abandoning EVs and Canada. Hey Doug, I thought we were Open for Business?
#CanPoli #GlobalTrade
https://youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI

Wir können uns Inkompetenz und Respektlosigkeit nicht leisten. Nicht gegenüber Frauen, Mädchen, nicht gegenüber unseren Kindern und ihrer Zukunft.
Was die CDU uns in die Bundesregierung gesetzt hat ist längst nicht alles, was schief gehen kann.
Und was ich besonders schade finde: die CDU hat einem jungen Menschen eine Chance gegeben. Nicht nur für Herrn Hagel, sondern eine für alle jungen Menschen hätte er zeigen können, dass man nicht erst kurz vor der Rente sein muss.

CDU-Spitzenkandidat in Baden-Württemberg: Manuel Hagel erklärt den Treibhauseffekt falsch und blafft Lehrerin an
Kurz vor der Landtagswahl im Ländle fällt Manuel Hagel erneut ein Schulbesuch auf die Füße. Vor laufenden Kameras unterbricht er eine Lehrerin. Den Schülern erklärt er den Treibhauseffekt falsch. Der Spott auf Social Media ist groß.

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: You're absolutely positive?
AVON: Yes.
BLAKE: Good, disconnect it. [Avon starts to work.]
[Storage room with shelves of bins, etc. Cally and Gan herd their prisoners inside.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/64 B7B6

AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…

„Wer arm ist, ist selbst schuld“ sagen die, die völlig richtig finden, Mindestlohn oder weniger zu zahlen, damit ihre Gewinne passen. Und sie werden dir erzählen, wie jemand nur hart arbeiten und sich schlau anstellen müßte, um selbst reich zu werden. Frag sie, wie die Welt aussehen würde, wenn alle, die jetzt selbst schuld sind, diesen Empfehlungen folgen und reich werden würden, und es wird sich zeigen, daß diese Welt darauf beruht, daß ganz viele arm sind – nur daß es sich besser anfühlt,…

I'm still gonna try to do my activist for American shit when its certain to actually get through to people but after this month and the renewed bickering on Kamala v. Trump I'm gonna have to be a bit selfish and actually focus more on my own country's politics, god forbid.

success! Upgraded #footiMac to Debian 13/Trixie and brought Mastodon along for the ride.
Had a few hiccups...
1) I upgraded elasticsearch and ended up having to clear out its cache files as it didn't want to 'upgrade' them itself.
2) postgresql 15 and 16 are still running in the background and needed new timezones in their configs.
3) Charlock_holmes ruby gem was unhappy (as noted in recent Mastodon release notes) and needed: bundle install --force to actually get it to install again.
4) libvibs is not happy either, so I turned it off in the config file. This seems to be an ongoing issue.
Once those things were found and fixed, it all came back up.
Phew! Wonder what else broke lol
#Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost