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1 Cor 1:26-28 God chose the foolish things and the despised things. Matthew 5:39 Do not resist an evil person. Matthew 5:44 Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you. No idea what to do with these. 1 thess 4:11 aspire to live quietly and MYOB. James 1:19-20 Be quick to hear, slow to speak John 18:36 Super confusing to me: "my kingdom is not of this world"

What is your favorite Bible verse to pretend doesn't exist?

@justalexoki Countersignaling

how is the anki app $30 and it looks like this lmao

@gutterballzz @CsabaSzekely7 @TerribleMaps ...he Voyageur’s Highway along the Minnesota-Canada border is CURRENTLY only navigable...

@CsabaSzekely7 @TerribleMaps Interesting map, but the Voyageur’s Highway along the Minnesota-Canada border is only navigable by canoe with many long portages. It has not been used for commercial traffic in almost 200 years.

Why has the US not built a canal here to rival the Panama Canal?

@BobBrigham @StatisticUrban What the fuck

@GradualReform @StatisticUrban People are for quality of life and overpopulation is the opposite

This is every census block with zero (0) residents. Huge stretches of the US where not one person lives. The Western US, in particular, is so urbanized and so vast that it's not wholly wrong to think of it as a bunch of disparate city-states connected by thin strips of asphalt.

@MacWBishop Bing bong

@GradualReform Still is. Fuck it, let’s do it.

Nuclear war absolutely was winnable.

@BobBrigham @StatisticUrban Not populated enough Bob. The world is for people.

@StatisticUrban The western United States is still overpopulated. acreage =/= habitat

@Lurker27794215 @number_pizza111 Nah, we just watched it this weekend. It's in there.

@number_pizza111 They cut that out of the Jack Black version

Mass culture was definitely more intellectual until the invention of the radio or WWII or thereabouts. Just read a chapter of Gulliver's Travels dedicated to mocking Leibniz’s work in symbolic logic, and I find that alien enough that I can’t think of a workable modern analogy.

@granitecrystals @ferrismattic @NotThatRBaxter This thread is an example; full of examples. x.com/UpTambourine/s…

@granitecrystals @ferrismattic @NotThatRBaxter The irony is that that conversation kept highlighting the point, with so many Catholics responding "what do you mean? We read from the Gospels all the time".

One sometimes hears that Protestants don't understand RC theology. Peter Kreeft, a Roman Catholic professor at Boston College, notes a massive problem the Church itself has: Many within it don't know the gospel. ht:@NotThatRBaxter

@strikesatchii @rabbriansamuel Which of the Naohide laws do you have a problem with?

@rabbriansamuel When a Messianic rabbi says he loves Christ, there’s a problem: they’re taking advantage of you and your respect and love for the Messiah. Wake up! x.com/i/status/20351…

I'm Jewish. After careful study of the scriptures, I am convinced that Jesus is the Messiah, son of the living God.

@chris_dalke 0% surprising. Game devs are uniquely cracked.

It's super fascinating (but not surprising) that game developers often build user interfaces that are on par or better than commercial mission planning & geospatial tools Source of alpha in hiring for robotics UX roles: Find yourself a game dev...

@Shalom22122122 @sunrisemvmt @MelatKirosCO Heycanyouguyssmooshthetexttogetheralittlemore?

@sunrisemvmt @MelatKirosCO Sunrise movement is a hate movement

BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel: "If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me" DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.

Certainly. 1) it is inferior because it forces yall to reckon with the bankruptcy of your preferred teaching techniques. From your perspective, that is the inferior option. It exposes the failure of progressive pedagogy. Accepting DI means admitting that generations of professors, textbooks, certification programs, and district curricula have been catastrophically wrong. That’s professionally humiliating. 2) It is inferior because even though it gets much better results, it's less fun for teachers. DI scripts are tight. A third-grade DI lesson might have 180–200 teacher signals per 30-minute lesson. Teachers say exactly what’s in the script, use precise wording, and correct errors instantly. Many teachers experience this as “deprofessionalizing” or “robot teaching.” They want to “teach with their personality,” improvise, follow the child’s interests, etc. DI says: your personality and improvisation have been producing lousy results for decades; shut up and follow the program that actually works. 3) It is inferior because it puts the students interests above the teachers. Teachers unions are not academic research organizations; they are labor unions. Their primary job is protecting members’ jobs, salaries, and working conditions. According to them, DI is indeed inferior.

@MrDanielBuck @ShakinthatChalk Direct instruction was found long ago to be inferior to more discovery-based learning. Next

Hear me out: I’m convinced that INCREASING class sizes would actually improve education Why? How? Simple: Teacher quality is the single most important in-school factor Consider something radical: Double class sizes and you could cut the worst 50 percent of teachers Think “can hardly do middle school academics themselves” kind of teachers That also would allow SIGNIFICANTLY higher wages, drawing much higher quality candidates If schools actually have the stones to enforce discipline, there’s no reason a larger class would be more raucous. College lecture halls have hundreds of quiet students after all Only people this would really piss off are unions and low quality teachers. Well I say “stay mad” and improve schools regardless

@eigenrobot Pristine theatrics

abominable

@DefenderOfBasic Found it! defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/delusions-of…

@DefenderOfBasic Fascinating snippet- where can I find the article?

i dont know how to explain this but there is a correct protocol for handling infohazards. All the people who were like "infohazards aren't real" don't even have control over their own mind. Don't listen to them. From the README:

@PharrFromHeaven The NYT article has come out- I'm definitely not on point with my prediction; while some of the abuse may have been facilitated by the high control atmosphere it doesn't seem to have been primarily downstream of it.

@PharrFromHeaven People in organizations: familiarize yourself with patterns of organizational abuse, and start being vocal if you see it happening.

Apparently the New York Times is going to have a big story soon and this story must be some really bad stuff if La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) here in the RGV is already erasing their founder Cesar Chavez. Website "about us" two weeks ago compared to the new "about us" today:

@annbauerwriter I used to be VERY afraid of dying. Now that I'm a Christian, I am not. The two times I've almost died have been marked by total joy, curiosity, and peace. Every time I dream of death without knowing I'm dreaming, I also have the same peaceful happy curiosity.

I am watching two non-believers die, folks (well, one devout non-believer and one fearful skeptic). It's torturous. My advice: Get right with God. Believe, however you have to convince yourself. The alternative? Not good.