Chris Howald

High Elf princess To’Ara has learned that some secrets are too risky to reveal and some ambitions too lofty to pursue. Those who oppose her will destroy everything she loves to stop her from becoming the ruler she is meant to be. A Flight From Shadows: Chronicles of Duradim, Part 1: Ascension of a Queen, Volume I a.co/d/04ku6xVB Listen to the podcast to hear the authors tell their story about how the world of Duradim came to be. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/.../creators..… Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2K714Wjbh…... YouTube: @creatorsguildpodcast" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@creatorsguild…

@robalso @ThoughtfulSaint Source: “trust me bro”

@ThoughtfulSaint It boils down to whether Mormons preach a different Gospel than the Apostles or not. And they irrefutably don’t. ✝️👇 youtu.be/pQi2-13y6EE?si…

Episode drops Monday :) Also I think it’s important to note Allie believes people (like me and my family) who reject her church’s 4th century creedal formulation of God will be sent to suffer horribly for all eternity. On the other hand Latter-day Saints believe good Christians like Allie will be received into a kingdom of glory in one of Gods many mansions akin to the kind of heaven she already envisions. When speaking to Protestant audiences in Washington in 1840 Joseph taught that "all who would follow the precepts of the Bible, whether Mormon or not, would assuredly be saved."

please vote so that each bar gets longer from A to D

@jetpen @BobMurphyEcon The appropriate response!

@BobMurphyEcon I move my money into assets that can't be taken. Levers are the path to ruin.

Most will answer this the opposite from the button one: Everyone has to privately pull either L or D lever. If more than 50% vote L, nobody's money gets taken. If more than 50% vote D, they still keep their money, but everybody who voted L gets their money taken. How do you vote?

@slop_bucket @BlueRepublik What do you mean small?… 😳😳😳👍🏻

@BlueRepublik Completely irrelevant question... Is the penis attached to a gorrila still or just a random gorilla penis on a wall? Also, gorilla penises are pretty tiny, like 1-2 inches long.

There is a gorilla penis on the wall If you do not suck the gorilla penis, you live If you do suck the gorilla penis, you will die unless 50%+ of all other people suck the gorilla penis

@BlueRepublik This is the best variation I’ve seen so far!!

Best thing so far this year!!

@micheal_ws18 Me and my buddy hitting the 4 am lift.

X Gym goers.. No cheating… drop the last gym pic on your camera roll! Let’s motivate the real ones👊🏾

But I haven’t seen anything in the Fairtax that proposed redoing the budget. Everything I’ve seen has been a conversion to a consumption tax, but no requirements on adjusting budgets. Debt spending is still a real possibility and tax rates on goods and services are adjusted to meet the government’s demands. That was my big hang up and consideration for what would be more fair, and hold Congress directly accountable. Couple it with repealing the apportionment act, and accountability goes up very quickly. But I haven’t looked at recent fairtax proposals so there could be parts I’m out of touch on.

@ChrisHowald @LibertyCappy @realDonaldTrump @ByronDonalds @RepSheriBiggs @FairTaxOfficial @FlFairTax @ALFairTax @FAIRtaxGuy @fairtax2011 @ByUrLeave_Com @E_Plebnista_USN @srpaugh @Hr25John44748 @RIP_IRS @frogger251 You seem to be putting the cart before the horse. The FAIRtax collects the revenue, THEN the budget is made. Not the other way around. WE determine how much tax we want to pay. The government (who works for US) then decides how much to put to the good uses.

Example number 1,317,120,802 that government is just really really stupid at what it does and cannot be "wielded properly" The only solution is SEVERELY limiting government (we're talking abolishing taxes, money printing, the empire, most agencies) We are cooked

@powerbottomdad1 New invention: the giggling weight ball - you pick the laugh setting for your exercise.

after throwing my 30 lb daughter in the air dozens of times a day i realize id lift alot more weights if they giggled

I disagree. I used to be a fan of the fair tax, but had to seriously reconsider. Now my perspective is such that the only way for taxes to be fair is to require every level that collects taxes (city, county, state, fed, etc) provide a budget by Dec for the following year. Divide the budget by # of tax payers. That’s your taxes. By Dec 31, statements are sent out including an itemization of every penny being spent in the budget. Tax payers payments are due by April 15. That’s it. No exceptions, no exclusions, no subsidies.

@LibertyCappy The FAIRtax gives the power back to ‘We The People’. FAIRtax. (HR25) Now. @realDonaldTrump @ByronDonalds @repSheriBiggs @FairTaxOfficial @FlFairTax @ALFairTax @FAIRtaxGuy @fairtax2011 @ByUrLeave_Com @E_Plebnista_USN @srpaugh @Hr25John44748 @RIP_IRS @frogger251

@JillayneMC @glukianoff

@glukianoff There is no threat to free speech on campuses. This is a problem that is made up entirely by the right wing in America. If you want to claim the earth is flat. That’s your right. But you will not be shielded from the ridicule & outrage of your claim. That’s how free markets work

Why does free speech have a “branding problem”? Part of it is simple. Once an institution becomes ideologically one-sided, it stops needing free speech and starts seeing it as a threat. That’s what I watched happen on campuses. A slow-motion train wreck.

@brianhollinger @Cernovich @vikingtherax Except for a HUGE mistake: Nixon took the US off the gold standard, setting us up for the inflation we see today.

@Cernovich @vikingtherax Nixon was a great president

Watergate was fake. WMD’s were fake. J6 was fake. Charlottesville was fake. Almost every Boomer benchmark of reality is fake.

@DividendMil As both a design engineer and builder I’ve had to use it, but I could have learned it almost anywhere along the way in my degree path. Personal finance would have been better to learn early in my education.

Apparently everyone on X is a carpenter so I’ll try this again… I’m 42 years old and I never once had to use the quadratic equation in real life… That’s why they should teach personal finance in school instead

@ChrisMartzWX If you want eliminate gerrymandering, repeal the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act and uncap the house, as intended by the founders and the constitution.

Gerrymandering should be illegal period. Can we at least all agree on that? Or is this going to be a left-right issue like everything else seems to be?

@SixCatsNow @crochet_mom314 That’s a sorry excuse for a failed education system.

@ChrisHowald @crochet_mom314 There's only so much we can do with children whose parents neglect their intellectual needs.

As someone who got a teacher's certification alongside my degree in chemistry, the majority of you are ABSOLUTELY smart enough to homeschool your kids. The education classes I took were by far my easiest courses in college.

@crochet_mom314 @SixCatsNow Not only that, but look at literacy rates in America among children who go to school. Some parents fail to educate their children properly, but teachers fail to do so at MUCH higher rates, and it’s THEIR JOB!

@SixCatsNow There are "homeschooling" parents who neglect their duty to educate and their children usually end up in public schools. But the data shows that the majority of homeschooled students perform better on all standardized tests than their public schooled counterparts.

@Messinadress1 As someone who went to school, 90% of teachers aren’t smart enough to school your kids and are doing them a disservice.

The counterfactual argument is all of human history and every government intervention that has ever happened throughout all of time. Yes, the DoD pushed this forward, but your claim that this annexation example of how government did it better and cheaper denies that history by ONLY focusing on the outcome we see, which is a biased perception. If this is a true example of government doing it better and cheaper, it is the only example in all of history, meaning the probability that it actually fails the retest is on my side. If anything, the argument you could make is that this is an example of how government can force things to happen by leveraging control, but you cannot make the claim that it is better or cheaper than it would have been had the private sector done it alone.

Private contractors built the hardware under DoD contracts, but the government funded the $10B+ R&D, orbital testing, and policy decision to make signals free/global in 1983—creating the unified standard that drove the $1.4T economic boom. Fragmented private systems (pre-1983 analogs like early LORAN or proprietary nav) rarely converged that fast without a forcing function. Today's competition (Starlink PNT, commercial alternatives) is accelerating *because* that open foundation exists. Counterfactual ROI is speculative either way.

Go for it

“Competition's improving it now either way.” This both a cop out and a straw man. While the DoD paid those organizations, that are, for all intents and purposes, government locked and controlled and far more representative of private-public partnerships than purely contracted organizations. Not only that, but they are SO closely tied to government that competition is virtually impossible. The claim that privately done would not have resulted in a more unified or stronger outcome belies historical precedent. And the claim that the ROI globally is a significant return, ignores the near certainty that, had the private sector done it in its entirety, the ROI would likely be significantly higher.

Private contractors (Rockwell, Boeing, etc.) built the satellites and did most tech work under DoD contracts. Gov funded the ~$10B+ initial R&D for military precision needs, then made signals free worldwide in 1983. That universal access created $1.4T in private-sector economic gains (NIST/RTI data). Pure private might've been cheaper/faster today (Starlink-scale launches, startups like TrustPoint claim full constellations for 1 GPS-III satellite's price, ops under $1M/yr vs gov's ~$2B/yr). But without the gov push, a single free global standard probably wouldn't exist—fragmented paid systems instead. Competition's improving it now either way.

What would the comparative cost and efficiency be if this were created and managed by the private sector rather than government. The DoD may have been the push, but there is a VERY strong argument that, while the DoD handles it, they did not make it better or cheaper that the private sector would have. In fact, I would argue that most of the work was done outside the DoD, but they overpaid for all the work, and now they overpay for management. I estimate that it would have cost less to have let the private sector fully develop, and cheaper to maintain the “free” system globally by contracting with said private sector controllers, due to better efficiency and the opportunity for competition.

@JonMack_SLAY @DefiantLs Sure. GPS. The US government (via DoD) developed and maintains it. It's now free worldwide, replaced costly maps/compasses/charts, and slashed logistics, aviation, and delivery costs while boosting accuracy and speed. One clear win.