Apologies accepted, and to be honest I’d rather have a tense argument than to be ignored, especially when it’s a good opportunity to learn 😁

Wishing you all the best

It’s the same fucking reason Michael Scott isn’t bankrupt when he says, “I declare bankruptcy”

Which is funny to the audience because everyone knows that’s not how banking works. It took me a while to find out what exactly was missing because the definition - which is a translation of the original - is full of “term of art” hidden jargon. Easy traps for outsiders. I’m not trying to get out of being wrong btw, just saying that there is probably a reason this is a common misunderstanding and not a matter of being dumb.

After digging I’ll concede the point.

My misunderstanding was on the “he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole church”, specifically “defines”, which is not simply, as I understood it, “makes a statement concerning X”

Edit: I was wrong

Speaking infallibly can be done a number of ways, including the one which I literally quoted, from the Vatican council. This is not external information, this is catholic doctrine. You can find it on the official Vatican website, though only in Latin: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/i-vatican-council/documents/vat-i_const_18700718_pastor-aeternus_la.html

It is possible to establish doctrines a number of ways, including through long collegial processes as you describe. Those are simply not the only ways, and an ex-cathedra declaration is the prerogative of the pontiff alone.

What specific point are you disagreeing on with me here? How is the declaration from Pope Leo not ex-cathedra per Vatican I?

Well the pope just needs to not contradict their predecessors for this to hold. We’re (me included) snarking because Popes did materially support & call for wars, but (recorded) official statements have generally been anti-war.

Although funnily enough, unlike their roman counterpart, orthodox / coptic patriarchs always refused to call for holy wars, because:

• As a matter of principle it didn’t really fit
• Giving Christian support for wars made those wars (which were usually inevitable anyway) a Christian vs. non-Christian matter, meaning the church would die when it could survive under non-Christian management
• And Muslims invading the eastern roman empire tended to be pretty tolerant & the taxes imposed by Muslims (including the Jizya) sometimes were even lower than those they paid under byzantine rule
  • And they also really did not care about the canon of the catholic churches (coptic, orthodox, roman), meaning heretics who would be burned or need to reform in Christian lands could live normally under Muslim rule

Edit: I was wrong

How is the Pope making official statements (“defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals” pretty much sums up all pontifical statements that aren’t a direct response to world events) concerning faith/morals which is destined to catholics anything “rare”?

BTW you paraphrased in a way that makes it less legible (IMO), here is the original:

[…] when the Roman pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals

Source (Vatican 4th session, chapter 4)

We don’t have the official statements made by Urban II When he called for a crusade, I’d argue it’s a bit of a stretch to say that he didn’t bless that war to some degree, but if you someone wants to argue otherwise I guess we’d have to agree to disagree.

On the other hand, pope Leo made this statement:

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs

• He is Is the Roman Pontiff, and there is no indication that he’s making this statement outside this role
• He has made a declaration which can be qualified as a doctrine
  • “a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief” Merriam Webster
  • That point can be argued though, “doctrine” is a weird word.
• Which is applicable to the whole church (“Anyone who is a disciple of Christ”)

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Yeah I wish lol. She’s just a crook, check her wikipedia out

Lol her wikipedia article lists a history of corruption from oil companies

Unless the US comes out and denies it, there is no reason to doubt it. They’re boastful enough not to let Iran claim total victory

Huge W.

Anything that puts the US farther away from being able to terrorize the world (like they did with Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan and so many more) is a win for Humanity.

These kinds of situations are inevitable in capitalism

Damn, maybe Germany would benefit not to align itself with the empire then huh

I disagree, yellow paint is pure laziness. Games can still rely on lighting and other environmental guidance, but they just chuck paint everywhere instead of thinking their level design & environments correctly.

Elden ring is a great example of that, constantly placing environmental clues everywhere to attract your eye without needing any objective markers or other cheap tricks

Remind me of the consequences when they killed 160+ schoolgirls on the first day of their attack?

Not updated but it still works fine

Some stuff that you can use are

• AdNauseam, visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them, nuking the usefulness of ad trackers

• TrackMeNot, spams queries on search engines, clicks some links here and there, all in the background. Works perfectly with AdNauseam, nuking both ad & search profiling

Then there is this experimental (HARPO: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising) paper on using ML to obfuscate online tracking, it’s a research paper so my understanding is limited to the excerpt 😅 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05792

Could be done on another device though, a computer could pretend to be your phone and start sending tons of useless data maybe? I don’t know how feasible it is.

You’d have to automate the retrieval of IDs for each data harvesting platform (including web based cookies to be feature complete) and manage to send the properly formatted data on each platform.

Funnily enough though, the kind of fuzzy data generation that just looks plausible enough could be a great usecase for LLMs

Nah, a reverse faraday cage, something that would make telemetry useless by flooding it with trash. We can try all we can not to be spied on, but it’s an uphill battle. If we start being so noisy that they’d have to sift through tons of crap to maybe perhaps get a tiny speck of useful data, it won’t economically make sense to continue harvesting the data.

It’s one of the things I do with a combo of trackmenot + adnauseam, spam web search & click websites and all their ads automatically while I use my computer. Good luck profiling me correctly

Yeah it’s the program, ~ is not an issue in filenames, Vim even uses it as a character in the temp file it creates when editing a file. Is a VM something that could work for that specific usecase? I know I have one just to upddate my logitech devices