@DrChrisParry You should have insisted on helicopter transport and a campus tour in a hummer
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Luke Calvin Ryan
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Luke Calvin Ryan
@FearGodBuild
Christian Husband, Dad & Carpenter turned Architect in North Idaho
Moscow, ID 参加日 Ağustos 2022
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Gave lectures at a university this week.
Was asked by administrator how I was planning to come and go.
I said, 'By car'.
He said, 'We must reduce our carbon miles'.
I said, 'Train and taxi will cost you four times as much'.
He said, 'I need to meet my carbon targets'.
I said, 'I'm coming by car or I don't come'. It adds three hours to my journey'.
He said, 'It will have to be recorded that you are a climate denier'.
I said, 'I'm driving'.
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@RationalBuild So good. It would be better with no windows or doors.
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When I first saw the Boston City Hall in person, I cried.
The sublimity of the design overwhelmed me. It was an aesthetic experience that bordered on ecstasy.
I wish more architects have the courage to build bold statements like these
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A lot of our problems can be traced back to people on the far right who hate the concept of cities and people on the far left who hate the concept of beauty
City Aesthetics ⛩@cityaestheticss
A lot of problems in our cities can be traced back to when we thought retail areas like this was a good idea:
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I've observed the problem with right wingers- I think that's a symptom of deeper issues like hyper-individualism and civil laziness, etc. The left's hatred (and fear) of beauty has been an active strategy that has gained traction since the early 1900s. I think people are slowly catching on and pushing back.
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@TheMaineWonk Payroll taxes for most of those companies listed and all their consultants + contractors is definitely in the billions
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Taxes Paid By Illegals (2023): $89.8 Billion
Taxes paid by Tesla (2024): $0
Taxes paid by GE (2024): $0
Taxes paid by Facebook (2024): $0
Taxes paid by FedEx (2024): $0
Taxes paid by Nike (2024): $0
Taxes paid by AirBnb (2023): $0
Taxes paid by 3M (2023): $0
Do you get it yet?
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@Templarpilled The cathedrals built during this time period are arguably still the pinnacle of human achievement so far.
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This must go so hard if you know nothing about history
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@elonmusk Winston Churchhill said 4 children was the minimum for every family capable- 2 for replacement, another for minimum growth, and the 4th just in case! Although now I'm being told he was a wOrSe viLLaiN thAn HiTleR, so...
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People who have kids do need to have 3 kids to make up for those who have 0 or 1 kid or population will collapse
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
HUMANS NEED 2.7 KIDS PER WOMAN TO SURVIVE... WE'RE NOT EVEN CLOSE Scientists now say 2.1 kids per woman won’t cut it - 2.7 is the real number needed to avoid long-term extinction. Right now, the U.S. is at 1.66, and most rich countries are even lower, including Italy at 1.29 and Japan at 1.30. The new math factors in randomness - like who never has kids or how many girls are born. Elon’s been warning about this for years, but most Americans still aren’t losing sleep over it. If things continue as they are, humans have their days numbered. Source: Fortune
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@DanToTheRescu @Thinkwert Let's be honest, it's just the Strat. As a graphic designer to put a guitar on a t-shirt, 100% you get the Strat. I think in 200 years that may move to the Tele since chicken pickin' is what God intended when he and Leo got together and crafted the perfect American instrument.
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@DmitriyMolla @stevemouzon Little burnt offerings to the climate gods
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What @stevemouzon doesn't understand is that this is a very green development. He didn't notice the hundreds of solar panels on the school roof. I would also bet that there are a few hundred bike racks on the school property, which is also very environmentally friendly.
Steve Mouzon@stevemouzon
Let’s quit doing schools this way: supersized, accessible only by car from arterials, impossible to safely walk to school, consuming 60 acres (large enough for a small town), auto domination causing traffic jams, time lost & wrecks, separated from everything else, etc.
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@Brandon81Hansen @CoreyJMahler For a child to be baptised the parents do have to believe and must confirm their belief before the church.
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@CoreyJMahler It wouldn’t be limited to adults or any age necessarily.
Baptism is limited by belief.
So the term age of accountability I would guess encapsulates the scriptural idea that you need belief before you are baptized.
Verse 👇
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Dear Baptists,
Please give me the verse (or chapter) that teaches only adults (or those past the ‘age of accountability’ or similar) may be baptized. If you cannot do this, you must repent.
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@elonmusk It could be the future when we figure out how to transmit energy from panels (or boilers) in space using some sort of quantum entanglement drive. Probably 400-600 years out from getting there, similar timeline from gunpowder being discovered to making it really useful
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Solar power is very obviously the future if you can do elementary math.
Compared to the Sun, all other energy combined is like caveman burning some twigs.
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan
…10%
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@pswnsn @crwiley1962 At least that would make our $ go further, so yes.
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@crwiley1962 Excess wealth used to build palaces, cathedrals and monuments was far better spent
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@wrathofgnon My friend and I were joking that drywall is the new asbestos. I feel like there is room for innovation to come up with a workable plasterboard that will last centuries and not be toxic
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Drywall is manufactured from mined natural resources often with a mix of recycled contents from coal power plants, contaminated with heavy metals, arsenic, off-gassing formaldehyde etc. The production is energy intensive. Installation is hard on human bodies leading to more cases of occupational injures than almost any other building trade. At the end of its lifecycle (currently a couple of decades at most) it is inevitably landfilled leading to further pollution.
Or you can go with wood paneling. It literally grows on trees, a huge carbon sink, lasts for many centuries, so clean you can compost it, no off-gassing, and when you move house or tear it down, you can take it with you and reuse again and again.
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Totally agree that electric is the future for the average commuter, around town and hopefully even real road trips, but it's a distant future until battery technology is revolutionized and the grid is upsized to handle en mass daily charging. Probably 50-100 years out at least. Until then I'm closely watching the development of series type hybrids like @EdisonMotorsLtd is working on for semi trucks and work trucks. There's some inefficiency when the concept is taken to smaller automobiles, but they have the range, versatiltity, serviceability (and power) that many need out here in Middle America.
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@FearGodBuild @_milankovac_ Why?! Electric is the future no point in powering the past that would be like saying let's try to get these tires to work on a horse or something. No disrespect, just doesn't seem appropriate
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This weekend, I drove to Napa and back - close to 200 miles - on FSD.
I think I had max a couple interventions and they were both comfort-related, meaning not necessary per se.
My car took me through my neighborhood’s winding, hilly streets, got on the highway, navigated San Francisco’s weekend road mess, crossed the Bay Bridge, stopped at a supercharger, and then headed straight to my destination in Napa.
The way back was just as clean, this time over the Golden Gate Bridge.
I had relatives with me and they couldn’t believe it; they said it drove smoother than any of us (thanks, Dad! … ).
Most people just haven’t realized yet that this technology actually exists now, and you can get it on your own Tesla car. The moment it goes entirely unsupervised will be wild.
Massive engineering push for a decade by the team.
@aelluswamy
Joe Rogan@joerogan
I had my Tesla model S drive me home the other day with FSD, and it’s fucking wild. Changes lanes to avoid slow traffic, stops at red lights and stop signs, hits the blinkers and turns for you. It’s bananas.
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@WhiteHouse @Paula_White @Franklin_Graham @Jentezen @CBillingsley A woman leading worship is shameful.
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A powerful evening at the White House Easter Prayer Dinner. ✝️ @Paula_White @Franklin_Graham @Jentezen @CBillingsley
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“In 1950 less than 5% of American children were illegitimate.
Today that number has risen to 40%.
Nearly half the children in America are bastards.”
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A client of mine just got a Tesla for his wife. She's back and forth all day with 4 kids in school/extracarriculars. 100% self driving- flawless. This is small town sprawl middle of nowhere Idaho (pop 40k) with hills, confusing old bridges over 2 large rivers, weird street design and traffic. I'm blown away. Somebody please do this with a gas car!
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It’s hard to believe until you try it
Milan Kovac@_milankovac_
This weekend, I drove to Napa and back - close to 200 miles - on FSD. I think I had max a couple interventions and they were both comfort-related, meaning not necessary per se. My car took me through my neighborhood’s winding, hilly streets, got on the highway, navigated San Francisco’s weekend road mess, crossed the Bay Bridge, stopped at a supercharger, and then headed straight to my destination in Napa. The way back was just as clean, this time over the Golden Gate Bridge. I had relatives with me and they couldn’t believe it; they said it drove smoother than any of us (thanks, Dad! … ). Most people just haven’t realized yet that this technology actually exists now, and you can get it on your own Tesla car. The moment it goes entirely unsupervised will be wild. Massive engineering push for a decade by the team. @aelluswamy
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@WSJ @WSJopinion That's what people like about Trump- he's often very happy to ignore expert concensus.
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From @WSJopinion: Not since Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff has a president chosen to disregard a larger body of informed opinion than Trump did when he instituted his protectionist trade policy, write Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux on.wsj.com/4j5fPBT
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