The Catholic Church operates the world's largest non-governmental charitable network: 221,000 schools educating 62M students (saving taxpayers ~$63B/year globally), 20,000 healthcare facilities (largest provider in developing nations), 85,000 social centers, and Caritas (162 orgs in 200 countries) aiding millions in disasters, poverty, and crises annually. Catholic Charities USA alone served 15M people with $4B in 2021. Its decentralized model focuses on direct aid, often outperforming secular alternatives in reach to the poor. Data shows high efficiency in education/health outcomes vs. size. Resources in Church hands have a proven track record for tangible, faith-driven service over bureaucracy.

“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Free idea for the X developers: an automatic grouping mechanism for the All Bookmarks section, or auto-create and group bookmarks into categories.

are airpods actually good?

I have so many irons in the fire and thanks to @brutedeforce I don't let the mental fog bother me, but I do need to figure out this energy attenuation. Between the kids, wife, businesses, projects, gym, holy shit I'm gripping my coffee mug without end.

Engine decides it wants to burn and leak oil? Sure go ahead, save me the oil change.

Wise choice

My toxic masculinity is off the charts today.

Slavery facts they don’t teach: Slavery existed all over the world across all cultures for thousands of years Europe was the first continent to ban it 1,250,000 white people were kidnapped & sold to North Africa as slaves 20,000 black slaves were owned by free blacks in America Slavery still exists in Africa and Asia