SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
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.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
#uspol Which party has changed? Is agreeing with the other party's still living former presidents being extremist?
@bibliolater I've thought the same... I often appreciate your posts. What's driving the need for a new instance?
@bibliolater I've thought the same... I often appreciate your posts. What's driving the need for a new instance?
@medigoth Lady Grey is my go to. I order in bulk for my home. 🫖Headed to check prices now.
@YoungBlood some nonprofits, from your local church to some parachurch organizations haven't taken government money or take limited government grants. Others get their funding primarily from government so seem less like NGOs and more like... GOs. It's important to make a distinction.
Numbers like this for all nonprofits must include every church property, for example. Is that really the problem? Or is it the organizations used as an extension of government? Huge difference.
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Exclusive: Nigeria Massacre of Christians: Eyewitness Accounts as the Left Claims This Is Not Happening
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/exclusive-nigeria-massacre-christians-eyewitness-accounts-as-left/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/exclusive-nigeria-massacre-christians-eyewitness-accounts-as-left/
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Don't be shy about telling the truth. Don't be afraid to question what you believe to be true.
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I wonder if we could reduce our troubles by renaming ICE the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
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🖥️ **AI is fast. But checking its work is slowing workers down.**
"_A new Workday-backed survey found that nearly 40% of AI's value is lost to rework and misalignment._"
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/workday-study-looks-at-time-spent-fixing-ai-errors-2026-1
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One of my old college friends messaged me earlier this morning. I usually only hear from her once a year, can exchange a couple messages, and then she goes back offline.
I completely forgot that she is Iranian, and her family is in #Iran. (I think she still lives in the #USA.) She hasn't been able to hear from her family in a week because of the blackouts.
If you guys are of the praying type, please pray for the following:
a) That the protests end soon with the rebels as the victors
b) That the blackouts end
c) That the people who have been injured in the violence are able to recover from their injuries
If you are not the praying type (or even if you are), please signal boost this story. I've been following it for a few days even before knowing that my friend's family was in danger, it's a huge story and arguably the biggest news of the week, more people should be talking about this.
I completely forgot that she is Iranian, and her family is in #Iran. (I think she still lives in the #USA.) She hasn't been able to hear from her family in a week because of the blackouts.
If you guys are of the praying type, please pray for the following:
a) That the protests end soon with the rebels as the victors
b) That the blackouts end
c) That the people who have been injured in the violence are able to recover from their injuries
If you are not the praying type (or even if you are), please signal boost this story. I've been following it for a few days even before knowing that my friend's family was in danger, it's a huge story and arguably the biggest news of the week, more people should be talking about this.
@Salaru yes, Google will decide what's right for your child, and it's the same they decided for every other child. Full access to the gates of hell that is unfiltered internet access. You can't limit or monitor the activity of your minors once Google does that. Google will monitor and manage what they access, but won't let you.
step 1: don't tell Google your kids actual birthdays. Protect their PII.
step 2: choose an independent service for parental controls. I'm a month or two into using qustodio, there's others out there as well.
Google has no respect for parents rights and responsibilities.
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White House Announces Over 1,000,000 New Jobs Were Created In December But They Were All Filled By Marco Rubio
https://babylonbee.com/news/white-house-announces-over-1000000-new-jobs-were-created-in-december-but-they-were-all-filled-by-marco-rubio/?utm_source=fediverse
Rubio addressed what they mean: “What’s going to happen here is we have a quarantine on their oil. That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interests of the Venezuelan people are met, and that’s what we intend to do,” Rubio explained.
And
“It’s running POLICY,” he said. “We want Venezuela to move in a certain direction because not only do we think it’s good for the people of Venezuela, it’s in our national interest.”
Mary Margaret Olohan on X: "Rough translation of Maria Corina's message: Venezuelans, The HOUR OF LIBERTY has arrived! As of today, Nicolás Maduro faces international justice for the atrocious crimes committed against Venezuelans and against citizens of many other nations. Faced with his refusal to" / X
The federation feed, like legacy media and other democrats cries End of Democracy, Worse than Hitler, etc. no matter what the current popular vote winning president does. When it's fascist it he sneezes, the timeline looks effectively the same with Trump authorizing extracting the dictator from #Venezuela.
As far as I remember, every president has done what would seem to us non scholars and their political opponents as a violation of the War Act, so that's just Trump acting like Biden, Obama, Bush, Reagan, and Carter.
So that's sort of ho him, the way both party's commander in chief had acted.
But... Can the US arrest and extract an illegitimate leader from his/her own country? Can we declare we'll just run another country for a while?
These are the things that seem different with this situation.
Always way way behind my wife's annual reading goal, I started the new year with reading 10 books cover to cover before I went to bed this morning.
The problem is... soon I'll run out of toddler board books and my pace will slow.
#newyears #resolutions
I drove past a church sign yesterday that read, "JOIN US FOR LESSONS AND CARLOS" Which I thought was a strange message. Like... Hey public, Carlos is here soon!
I looked back and... Yeah, it said CAROLS, which made more sense was wasn't nearly as funny. I'm sure there's a chance that the front of the sign said Carlos, but I probably just misread it.
https://qoto.org/@bibliolater/115708528499000242
Shocking news that before the decline of Europe, when the birth rate was higher, people valued having babies.
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.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
