I survived reading banned books

I really do hope this helps change some hearts, 🤞 Oxford, a collector of Bibles going back hundreds of years, lays out the argument that none of them contain the word “homosexual.”
What the Bible actually condemns, he argues, are people who are lazy, weak, slothful, and predatory. To the 1946 translators, that meant “homosexuality.” But Baldock and Oxford contend that that was their spin, not God’s. https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/documentary-argues-bible-references-to-homosexuality-are-mistranslations/ar-AA1dPqtq

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Today is National Ice Cream Day in the US (for me that's every day)

TV/Web #news : 9-month-old and toddler among 3 missing in Pennsylvania
flash floods that have killed 4 |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/9-month-old-missing-4-dead-3-others-unaccounted-pennsylvania-flash-flo-rcna94506

Can the World Make an Electric Car Battery Without China?

"The only winner so far is China.

Despite billions in Western investment, China is so far ahead — mining rare minerals, training engineers and building huge factories — that the rest of the world may take decades to catch up.

Even by 2030, China will make more than twice as many batteries as every other country combined, according to estimates from Benchmark Minerals, a consulting group."

#ClimateChange

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/16/business/china-ev-battery.html

Bill Nye on climate change advice

https://youtu.be/tvUa3wj2qlw

Curating what you see on social media only works if there is no algorithm feeding you garbage.

You could follow nothing but brand accounts on Twitter, yet the trending tab will always be the same.

I was somewhere around five years old when I noticed that all of the things that people were citing as "signs of the end times" were actually things that had been happening *every single year* for thousands of years (earthquakes! eclipses! rumors of wars! the great beast!).

But the things that were actually new and different and more dangerous weren't the things people wanted to talk about.

The meteorologist said there's a flood advisory in our area and that we should seek higher ground. In his next sentence, he warned of possible tornados, for which he advised we should take shelter in a basement or lowest level of our home.

My heightened anxiety doesn't know what to do with this information. 😳

*cries in executive dysfunction*

Hashtags are temporary. 💔

Filters are forever. 💎

#observation

Good cooks know how. Great cooks know WHY.

The resemblance is uncanny 💀

The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
Cities across the US have established RTCCs that police say protect the rights of innocent people, but critics warn of creeping surveillance.
https://www.wired.com/story/real-time-crime-centers-rtcc-us-police/

"Few people know RTCCs even exist, let alone the extent of the surveillance they entail, so they can receive little public scrutiny and often operate without much oversight."

#privacy
#surveillance

TV/Web #news : Which foods contain aspartame? The artificial sweetener is
now considered a 'possible carcinogen' |
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/foods-contain-aspartame-artificial-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-rcna93913

TV/Web #news : Over 1,000 U.S. flights canceled as severe storms take aim
at the Northeast |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1000-us-flights-canceled-severe-storms-take-aim-northeast-rcna94519

TV/Web #news : How a plan to recognize Australia's indigenous people became
the country's latest culture war |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/australia-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-rcna94016

Oh, and by the way, that QAnon child trafficking movie is only a “hit” because the distributors bought a bunch of tickets in bulk to give away for free.