OT: 36 years ago today, my bride and I got married. The secret of our success is that we both think we were the lucky one.
OT2: I was in a car repair shop this morning where I saw flyers for a fundie church near the coffee machine asking if I was going to spend eternity in heaven or hell. The flyers are spending the rest of their existence in the trash can.
The Christians who offer up their religion as a solution to all the world’s problems remain oblivious to what Christians acting in the name of Christianity have done to their fellow beings. They continue to dream of a world where everyone needs their permission for pretty much everything. If people want to have this silly phone service they’re welcome to it, but they do NOT get to make that decision for anyone else.
Another step toward 1984 Big Brother! If Trump could demand it he would have a mandatory phone system that only allowed positive comments about him and his policies. Like what he is trying to do to Jimmy Kimmel, MSM etc.
This bit has the potential to be the most harmful. It would likely block access to suicide prevention sites, especially sites like The Trevor Project. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
I weep for the homeschooled children whose only contact outside the far right, reality denying, fundamentalist Christian bubble will disappear into the rabbit hole of this extreme firewall.
Apparently, the temptation to acknowledge that Christians are also human beings with human needs and impulses has become too much to handle. They need FILTERS and BLOCKS to keep those nasty impulses at bay, and here's Radiant Mobile to put the blinders on and keep believers in line. Oh, and they provide a bible app as well!
Wonder if that app is okay with Ezekiel 23:20 ... or the Song of Solomon?
It's the cutesy version for kids. Because a story about the god you worship drowning everybody and everything in the world except for a boatload of people and animals is appropriate for kids.
As I have said before, I would not do business with any company that uses religion to promote their company. If you have to put god, jesus or your faith on your business, the odds are you offer shoddy products and service.
I willing to bet my pocket lint that in a few months we will hear about how this business is ripping off its customers by very high cost to low service or that the company promises a service but never delivers!
They already live in the reichwing media bubble. Why not allow ultra conservative christianists to censor their phones? They have been taught to 'believe' christian malarky without question all their lives. And this will make them pure? JoeMyGod chronicles almost one Pedo-Pastor Sex Pest a day... and has for years.
RM steals characters like Snow White, Tinker Bell and Cinderella for their platform without a second thought concerning the commandments against stealing and coveting.
They already champion fictional beings. They don't need to put words in the mouths of other fictional characters.
Hmm. Snow White, Tinkerbell, and Cinderella? They will have to be real careful how the AI slop generates those characters, the Mouse has expensive lawyers.
The Mouse stole them in the first place, and then sugar-coated them.
In the original of Snow White, the wicked queen is forced to wear red-hot shoes, and dance until she drops dead. In Grimm's version of Cinderella, the step-sisters eyes are pecked out by birds as punishment for their treatment of Cinderella.
You don't find those endings in the Disney cartoons.
It's a line from "Peter Pan", where Tinkerbell drinks poison meant for Peter.
It was the first play I did with Leeds Children's Theatre. In the flying ballet rehearsal the wires got tangled, and we had the principal players going round in ever decreasing circles five feet off the floor. Then we managed to fly Peter through scenery rather than through the window.
Someone double dosed the flash boxes before the last performance, so when they went off, they set fire to the scenery.
The bubble must be preserved. Outside information must be prevented. If this isn't the grooming they're so worried about, I don't know what is. Kids raised like this will grow up scared of their own shadow, and they'll vote for the fascists to 'cleans' society of those who scare them. RIP USA
First of all, as far as children go, this is yet another way to take the burden of parenting off parents. So much of modern technology is designed with that in mind.
And lets be honest - anyone who wants to find information is going to find it somehow. Pretending you can block it out completely is just naive. If you don't like something, turn it off or put it away. Don't tell me I can't look at something just because it makes you uncomfortable.
These bubbles this kind of parents try to put their children into only serves to create children who become victims of abuse, sexual and otherwise. It keeps children ignorant of healthy relationships and behaviors while also denying them the language to even express when something does happen. The types of parents looking for this sort of parenting device are only asking for their children to be victimized. Setting up a culture of abuse.
I agree with this. Maintaining a narrow point of view only ensures children lack the breadth of experience needed to articulate. They fail to grasp nuance, and all the holes in their experience are backfilled with ignorance.
OT: 36 years ago today, my bride and I got married. The secret of our success is that we both think we were the lucky one.
OT2: I was in a car repair shop this morning where I saw flyers for a fundie church near the coffee machine asking if I was going to spend eternity in heaven or hell. The flyers are spending the rest of their existence in the trash can.
Happy anniversary.
Thank you.
1. Happy Anniversary!
2. Thank you for your service. 😀
I hope you have many more happy anniversaries!
36 years! congratulations!!
Congrats! 40 years here in July!
Happy anniversary! You both won, that’s for sure.
Happy anniversary to you both, may you and your bride have many more fun years together!👍
Congratulations. Doing some very quick calculations, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m still older than you.
https://youtu.be/P8tTwXv4glY?si=C5kwj-7rQ540wc7W
A song for you both
youtu.be/knp9-GY6fHE
The Christians who offer up their religion as a solution to all the world’s problems remain oblivious to what Christians acting in the name of Christianity have done to their fellow beings. They continue to dream of a world where everyone needs their permission for pretty much everything. If people want to have this silly phone service they’re welcome to it, but they do NOT get to make that decision for anyone else.
Censoring basic facts? That's Christianty, all right.
Reality is too toxic for them.
Christians claim that their "belief" in a magical being makes them more moral but clearly they have no self control and zero morals.
Nuhhh-uhhh! You’re not even considering all of the pastors who didn’t molest a kid today.
Yet.................................
“… He says Radiant is working with the Israeli cybersecurity company Allot to block categories of content,”
Like a genocide in Gaza?
I trust this just about as much as I trust Trump to do the right thing in the unobserved presence of a child.
“You’re not making rock and roll (smart phones) better. You’re just making Christianity worse.”
This brand of Christianity just makes damned near EVERYTHING worse. If they actually IMPROVE on anything, it is news to me.
Another step toward 1984 Big Brother! If Trump could demand it he would have a mandatory phone system that only allowed positive comments about him and his policies. Like what he is trying to do to Jimmy Kimmel, MSM etc.
𝑅𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙𝑖 𝑐𝑦𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓-ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚.
This bit has the potential to be the most harmful. It would likely block access to suicide prevention sites, especially sites like The Trevor Project. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
I weep for the homeschooled children whose only contact outside the far right, reality denying, fundamentalist Christian bubble will disappear into the rabbit hole of this extreme firewall.
Apparently, the temptation to acknowledge that Christians are also human beings with human needs and impulses has become too much to handle. They need FILTERS and BLOCKS to keep those nasty impulses at bay, and here's Radiant Mobile to put the blinders on and keep believers in line. Oh, and they provide a bible app as well!
Wonder if that app is okay with Ezekiel 23:20 ... or the Song of Solomon?
I don't remember there being children in the Noah's Ark story. Well other than the drowning babies I was shown in JW children's books of course.
It's the cutesy version for kids. Because a story about the god you worship drowning everybody and everything in the world except for a boatload of people and animals is appropriate for kids.
Adult children, yes. Kiddos, no.
Noah had three sons and their families on board.
Yes I'm aware. His sons and their wives.
No children.
As I have said before, I would not do business with any company that uses religion to promote their company. If you have to put god, jesus or your faith on your business, the odds are you offer shoddy products and service.
I willing to bet my pocket lint that in a few months we will hear about how this business is ripping off its customers by very high cost to low service or that the company promises a service but never delivers!
Christians = hypocrites!
Just like Christian "health insurance."
Identity theft racket. Calling it now.
Bingo!
I must be using my cell phone wrong. I use it mostly for calling people or occasionally as a flashlight.
They already live in the reichwing media bubble. Why not allow ultra conservative christianists to censor their phones? They have been taught to 'believe' christian malarky without question all their lives. And this will make them pure? JoeMyGod chronicles almost one Pedo-Pastor Sex Pest a day... and has for years.
RM steals characters like Snow White, Tinker Bell and Cinderella for their platform without a second thought concerning the commandments against stealing and coveting.
They already champion fictional beings. They don't need to put words in the mouths of other fictional characters.
Hmm. Snow White, Tinkerbell, and Cinderella? They will have to be real careful how the AI slop generates those characters, the Mouse has expensive lawyers.
"the Mouse has expensive lawyers"
The Mouse stole them in the first place, and then sugar-coated them.
In the original of Snow White, the wicked queen is forced to wear red-hot shoes, and dance until she drops dead. In Grimm's version of Cinderella, the step-sisters eyes are pecked out by birds as punishment for their treatment of Cinderella.
You don't find those endings in the Disney cartoons.
I do believe in fairies! I do believe in fairies! I do! I do! I do!
Bert? Is that you? 😁
It's a line from "Peter Pan", where Tinkerbell drinks poison meant for Peter.
It was the first play I did with Leeds Children's Theatre. In the flying ballet rehearsal the wires got tangled, and we had the principal players going round in ever decreasing circles five feet off the floor. Then we managed to fly Peter through scenery rather than through the window.
Someone double dosed the flash boxes before the last performance, so when they went off, they set fire to the scenery.
https://youtu.be/lrpXArn3hII
Personally, I believe in clock-swallowing crocodiles...
*claps happily*
The bubble must be preserved. Outside information must be prevented. If this isn't the grooming they're so worried about, I don't know what is. Kids raised like this will grow up scared of their own shadow, and they'll vote for the fascists to 'cleans' society of those who scare them. RIP USA
First of all, as far as children go, this is yet another way to take the burden of parenting off parents. So much of modern technology is designed with that in mind.
And lets be honest - anyone who wants to find information is going to find it somehow. Pretending you can block it out completely is just naive. If you don't like something, turn it off or put it away. Don't tell me I can't look at something just because it makes you uncomfortable.
Any bets as to just how fast some kid is going to install a VPN or some other workaround to beat Radiant's security? 😁
Only the ones who go to public schools. The poor homeschooled kids are screwed.
These bubbles this kind of parents try to put their children into only serves to create children who become victims of abuse, sexual and otherwise. It keeps children ignorant of healthy relationships and behaviors while also denying them the language to even express when something does happen. The types of parents looking for this sort of parenting device are only asking for their children to be victimized. Setting up a culture of abuse.
I agree with this. Maintaining a narrow point of view only ensures children lack the breadth of experience needed to articulate. They fail to grasp nuance, and all the holes in their experience are backfilled with ignorance.