That’s hilarious! Do you have a link to the story?
Here ya go.
Link to the paywalled story on the New York Times website and further link to a TikTok video of Father Tom McCarthy (a friend of the Pope) telling the story.
Thanks all.
The pope is in charge of the richest church in the world; the Catholics having more land and treasure than any other religion! Surely his holiness can get an ATM card for his sundry expenses?
I mean, he’s a single man with free accomodation and meals provided. He doesnt even need to buy his own shoes, let alone the occasional Uber Eats guilty pasta pleasure order to the Vatican.
He still needs to file a change of address and contact information when he moves. 
And, apparently, even as a cardinal, he still had his own bank account.
Right after he was elected to the papacy, he paid the bill for the hotel room where he had been staying and collected his own luggage. In other words, this guy is relatively modest.
On his way back to the Vatican after praying to the Virgin Mary, Francis stopped at the clerical residence in Rome where he had stayed before the conclave to collect his luggage and to pay his bill.
Wrong Pope.
Do we have an anti-Pope anywhere? Asking for a friend…
Yes. His name is Charles Stross.
A young man [18 years old] who was turned away from an informal soccer game in Michigan fatally shot a 15-year-old boy and killed a woman who tried to help the victim, all in the presence of other kids, police said.
And some people think that soccer isn’t important!
Indycar is (or was, at least - the store page seems to have been taken down) selling this shirt to promote the grand prix being held in DC this summer;
That ain’t a dog whistle, that’s a dog foghorn.
Did you mean to put that here? It seems like it belongs in the evil thread.
Apparently he’s not available, though.
I had to look up who he was; the CEO of GameStop.
Pretty funny, but he’s not exactly a household name so that context might have been useful. Or a link back to the earlier post in this thread that mentioned him. (That post was 2 days and a good number of posts ago.)
It’s like when the SDMB automatically bans somebody threatening legal action against the board. I approve.
He’s fundamentally distorting the purpose of the Turing test. Turing thought it would be a great leap forward for computer science if a program could pass the test, but he very specifically warned against trying to draw any philosophical conclusions about the nature of consciousness from the results of the test. Dawkins is just wrong when he says that a machine passing the test would meet “Turing’s operational definition of a conscious being”.
Yes. Context is important. I had no idea why @Smapti linked to that.