SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C.S. Lewis ( on government response to #COVID and other crises?)
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Thanks for the welcome, #@freemo Here's my #introduction .
I'm...
• a dad of a handful of kiddos, married, living in Colorado.
• a Christian in the Anglican tradition, and suppose I'm an unaffiliated conservatarian.
• a reader, working through the great novels as well as easier/fun books and nonfiction.
• a card and board game player and am happily teaching more to my kids as they get older.
• short on free time. I enjoy a philosophical pipe as I read and/or reflect, and occasionally get my guitar or bow/arrows out to learn new skills.
• a software developer... and have been for a very long time, now in the world of APIs and cloud development (CRM/SFDC).
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Are any Harris voters asking themselves how they came to be on the same side as Dick Cheney - a man they called literal Satan?
I assure you that Dick Cheney has not changed.
SecondJon
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2.2 million views in less than 24 hours. The truth about humanity’s darkest day will not be suppressed.
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If I was in #Congress, I'd propose two common sense gun violence bills:
1. Make mass shootings in gun free zones illegal. Mass shooters should not be allowed to kill people.
2. Make violating state #guncontrol laws illegal. Too many mass shooters violate #guncontrol laws to get their weapons of war, this must be stopped.
1. Make mass shootings in gun free zones illegal. Mass shooters should not be allowed to kill people.
2. Make violating state #guncontrol laws illegal. Too many mass shooters violate #guncontrol laws to get their weapons of war, this must be stopped.
It's strange that the #harris party, the guardians of #Democracy, are investing so much time and money to try to remove opponents from the ballot.
After they killed #Kennedy campaign, they're next going after Stein and the Green Party.
https://apnews.com/article/jill-stein-wisconsin-president-ballot-2024-e8cb52080dc7ba32997642e962dc0b06
"Not only has #Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald #Trump, but the spin of Harris's coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump's coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative)."
Or as #Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy, "We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us."
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A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.
Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.
Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.
Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.
And they don’t get the hype they deserve.
Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.
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Source: libsoftiktok
Planned Parenthood is bringing a “mobile health care unit” to the DNC and are offering vasectomies and to help women abort their babies. Demonic.
Original tweet : https://nitter.privacydev.net/libsoftiktok/status/1824970751407227249
Planned Parenthood is bringing a “mobile health care unit” to the DNC and are offering vasectomies and to help women abort their babies. Demonic.
Original tweet : https://nitter.privacydev.net/libsoftiktok/status/1824970751407227249
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Democrats: “Trump’s tariff proposal will raise prices and hurt Americans!”
Also Democrats: “We need higher corporate taxes!”
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Six months ago at a neighborhood event where Mike Johnston, mayor of #Denver, was promoting millions in spending to reduce homelessness I asked him about the cities and states with the most spending on this and how their homeless numbers INCREASED. He assured the crowd that wouldn't happen with his plan. His plan was different.
Six months and $155,000,000 later, homelessness has increased in Denver by 12%.
The mayor's response? A victory dance over the 150 net decrease in "unsheltered homeless" (yep, that math is one million dollars per person in net decrease) and a tax hike to take another $100,000,000 from tax payers to do the same thing that saw a 12% increase in homeless over six months... But do it harder.
Which #harris policies are you most supportive of? ( Links to policy details of possible, please.)
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Hey buddy, can I interest you in another #salesforce Apex Trigger framework?
It's MIT licensed and ready to go on GitHub here: https://github.com/processity/apex-discovery-triggers
I wrote a bit about it on LinkedIn (sorry - the README in GitHub is fine, too, but we don't have a blog yet)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apex-discovery-triggers-aidan-harding-19jce
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They’re manufacturing a political sensation out of absolutely nothing. We’ve never seen anything quite like this.
With the presumptive nominee being appointed never having received a single primary vote, let's be sure we call it the Democrat convention, not democratic convention. There's been nothing particularly democratic about the Democrat primary.
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“This guy went into a Kamala Harris event with a Trump shirt on and then to a Trump event with a Kamala shirt on
The difference in the way he was treated is just jaw-dropping”
It's disappointing to see people straw man all non Democrats as hateful toward immigrants in order to claim that Christians must vote for the party with unrestricted abortion as their unashamed central sacrament.
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
