I don’t think a schism would be needed. Many of the current cardinals are ultra-traditional and want to return to more firebrand/traditional policies. And that is because some of the most powerful orders within the church (for example Opus Dei) already align very closely with project 2025 ideologies. They would love to dovetail in with the project 2025 team, expand it into other Western countries, and drag the entire Catholic Church along with them.

Innovis is a weird one. It’s much less well known to many people than the ‘big three’. But regardless, it’s used by some pretty big companies, and its origin stems from the likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And some of their services/interface are comically outdated, which to me makes it potentially prone to abuse. And that alone warrants giving it some attention.

Your debit score is important because that’s what most financial institutions check against when you set up an account with them. They typically don’t use credit scores for account eligibility. So debit scores (which are almost exclusively controlled by FIS) can be susceptible to abuse from that angle and in that industry.

ETA: Yes, the response time for the credit bureaus is pretty fast. I recommend seeing up a free account with each of Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union. They will try to trick you into the paid account during the account creation process, so watch where you click. But their free accounts are decent and get the job done. Plus they make it easier to freeze/unfreeze your credit score than using no account. Innovis’ process is ready too, and fairly quick, but it’s very old-school.

Yes, it objectively is. And so are various other text editor options that are out there.

But just speaking about Notepad++, you can scale it down to a very simple text editor (like Notepad), it you can easily ramp it up to a much more feature rich one. And for me, the ability to have a vertical list of files is a big plus. As is its ability to optionally show line numbers.

Yeah, it’s a bit annoying. But I think it’s worth it.

For anyone else who is interested, the four credit bureaus in the US are: Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, and Innovis.

You might also be able to freeze you debit score with FIS.

Edit: For credit scores I might be thinking of locking not freezing as being the free option.

I think they are about to.

Republicans: let DOGE do whatever they want!

DOGE offers severance packages to a bunch of people and then gets the agency they are targeting dragged into expensive legal challenges.

Republicans (looking at the sum of those expenses): look how much these federal agencies have cost us! It’s outrageous!

Or COBOL, apparently.

Could it be they didn’t understand some fundamental information on how COBOL handles default date values? No, it must be the 150 year old vampires exploiting Social Security!

She played the role of a neurotic, anxiety-riddled ‘hoooor’ so well. Clearly she was a very good actress. RIP.

He’s not going to even understand most of the responses he gets, so this is an exercise in futility. In some cases it would be like having a village idiot judge the Nobel prize candidates.

Why is the Canadian baby so unhappy? Shouldn’t they be happy? Or at least saying “sorry!”?

Wouldn’t surprise me if the person administering the test was also paid under the table by Musk Snr to make sure Elon’s result looked better than it actually was.

My first car was a Nissan too. It was an unreliable piece of shit. So based on that palpable experience, I’m glad this merger is off.

Ahh, so we’re into the ‘threatening the opposition for contrived threats’ stage of the new fascist regime. A little bit earlier than I was expecting. But not a big surprise, considering the state of this speed run to democracy’s end.

If you have a color printer you could try printing out an image from [this website](https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/( in front of your face and let it take that photo. Might be more hassle than it’s worth though.

I’m convinced they are doing this in preparation for the negative impacts of climate change (which of course they publicly claim doesn’t exist). It’s flagrant theft from and disenfranchisement of the working and middle classes. The mega rich are hoarding as much stolen wealth as they can, so they can live in secure ivory towers.

They don’t give a shit about anyone else. Including their own descendents when it comes down to it.

They haven’t said yet. But my guesses would be the following reasons:

• Their app store has never come close to competing with the Google Play Store, and so they probably feel like the extra expense of running it for all Android devices isn’t worth it.
• They want to make it Amazing device exclusive to try to push sales of days devices.

Are you on the ground floor? If not then maybe whatever is below you is really warm and the heat is coming up through the floor. But I guess in that case the floor would feel warmer.

Time for NATO 2: No Fascists Boogaloo

And Russia has zero interest in working with Biden. Because they knew that between their election interference, their US-based puppets, and general voter dissatisfaction with Biden (and Harris), all they had to do was wait it out to get a much more favorable administration who will acquiesce to their demands.