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
@steele yes! We bought a real gym-style one maybe 10 years ago. I think it was about $650 new on a half off sale. It's used multiple times per week by my wife and now my kids. I use it at times in the winter.
Last year I bought one of those under desk treadmills for my home office. It was a lot less expensive, and broke within a few months.
@steele
It does make a difference, for sure. Our kids nearest grandparents are a thousand miles away. Babysitting is a huge expense for us and we very (very) rarely get a night kid free. Which is okay. But it's a vastly different experience than those with grandparents they're on good terms with nearby.
@realcaseyrollins Hold on. New Zealand is 2nd. They were in the news during Covid for the most extreme personal freedom limits - or am I mis-remembering. Canada being 13, 12 higher than the US.... when Trudeau does things like freeze bank accounts of anyone who donated to peaceful protestors...
At first glance I have doubts about the quality of the list.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
@realcaseyrollins are you familiar with https://mcbroken.com/ ?
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CNN Host Sues Trump For Assault And Defamation After Town Hall
"He said things I didn't agree with. Even worse, he said things I didn't like," said Collins in a statement. "It was the most traumatizing experience of my life. It was assault, plain and simple. And defamation. I'm suing Trump for $5 million like that other lady."
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"The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by 'the veil of familiarity.' The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story . . . by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it." — C.S. Lewis
@realcaseyrollins yeah, I wondered about the timing of this.
This reminds me of how the Living Wage push for part time teenager first jobs led to kiosks and fewer jobs.
Last time this happened it led to the rise of "reality TV", right?
Will this strike push for AI replacing writers? Maybe not away... Maybe there's contracts in place. But I wonder if this one thing will lead to the other.
My Jr higher was asking about reliable news sources.
I suggested to him that people used to think good news was information that aligned with reality.
Today we get alignment with a narrative regardless of reality.
I settle for sources with a declared bias because then you know how to filter it.
Funny to see a post yesterday about how people should be scared of Fox News CoMiNg fOr yOuR FaMiLy.
Fox is going after the guy that the "Fox news is ScArY" crowd are upset about.
In a situation with one of my teen sons that seems hopeless.
And yet, God does pretty good with hopeless.
May we not grow completely weary.
@steele Is there always am inherent conflict here? Anyone who thinks another should be jailed is an un Christ like clown? Or is it only in certain categories?
Yesterday I thought, wait.... Have we ever seen Lemon and Carson in the same room?
Now the same lawyer represents both.
Here's my theory.... Fox and CNN realized they had someone working in disguise at a competitor and let him go.
But which is the costume? Was Carson dressed to as Lemon to make a mockery of leftists, or was Lemon dressed up as Carson to make a mockery of Conservatives?
https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-don-lemon-lawyer-110412342.html
@freemo I'd recommend reading this book for anyone feeling in the dark about the background of this topic and wanting to understand the conflict, driving philosophical movements, and how it's playing out specifically in the US.
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution https://a.co/d/8sRrW4q
Not sure what to make of your reply, but here's the specific bill I was thinking about here in #Colorado, where the stare government is working to forcefully control zoning and occupancy laws in cities across the stare, taking control away from cities, counties, and homeowners associations.
This not only blocks non aligned regions from influencing the state government, it literally removes the right to influence what happens in their own backyards. (Yep, state will take over what can happen in backyards.)
I figure you have specific examples from #Republican controlled state legislators getting laws passed that remove local government rights and give them to the state, which will show this isn't an issue of just one political party.
(Here's a link from a #Democrat Friendly media outlet to not have any contrary bias, for further reading) https://www.cpr.org/2023/04/12/colorado-land-use-bill-explained/
@swcollings experiencing the same thing here in a single party Democrat state blocking input from republican leaning cities and counties.
@thor My nonfiction reading has convinced me that I have an obligation to read fiction.
I'm not an author, probably not going to be able to communicate how and why I'm this medium, but thought I'd mention it as I hadn't been drawn much to fiction as an adult, but my nonfiction reading has me convinced I must pursue it.
Dude in medieval armor expertly explains why he's pro-death penalty and why pro-abortion arguments are immoral
Met a #Denver Mayoral candidate today. He knocked on my door and we chatted for a few minutes.
@athos G. K.Chesterton
Gilbert Keith. Not AK. 😳
“Societies are far gone in depravity when toleration is seen as a good in itself, without regard to the thing being tolerated.” ~GK Chesterton
Here's a reference : https://publicsquaremag.org/dialogue/tolerance/what-love-isnt/
- 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
