17th Century Conservative

The headlines smack of another attack—not the last, and not the worst.

@VenkateshHRin @DaveWhapham @NoahKingJr I mean efficiency is going to inevitably lead to downsizing. Even if it only results in a 15% reduction of man hours on a given project, companies will find a way to complete the project with fewer men.

@1600sPaleocon @DaveWhapham @NoahKingJr No matter how good they are at using the AI tools or all those upskilling, there is a ceiling for accommodating? Is this what you mean?

Software Engineers, what’s your backup plan if Artificial Intelligence writes better code than you in 2 years?

@DaveWhapham @NoahKingJr You don’t need a whole team for that anymore. A project that took five men to do before will soon be done by one man with AI. The other four will be out of jobs.

@NoahKingJr No plan needed. We will still be engineers. The difference is we will have AI agents that work for us. You still need to have a coding and engineering background to create quality software, even with an AI agent doing the coding.

@speedbumpjc @JoelWBerry And the difference is we can respect the first one while castigating the other, got it.

@1600sPaleocon @JoelWBerry Yes, it is easy to distinguish between someone being swept up in what was already fashionable prior to their rise to prominence, whereas Isker is seeking to resurrect a belief not prominent in society. So yes, Coolidge can be "caught up," while Isker is digging up old lies.

Yes, eugenics was all the rage in 1921, just like transgenderism was all the rage in 2020 and population hysteria in 1970. The thing these ignorant dorks leave out is where that came from. Charles Darwin’s theory was a cultural phenomenon. His own son Leonard and his cousin Francis founded the Eugenics movement. Under Teddy Roosevelt, pygmies were being captured from Africa and placed in cages in zoos in the Bronx and the World’s Fair as Darwin’s “missing links.” Madison Grant wrote his book about the “Great Race” which was widely celebrated by the scientific community, and later became Hitler’s favorite and most cited book. Margaret Sanger was pushing birth control to get rid of “human weeds.” Henry Ford was donating to the Eugenics movement. He pushed to collect genetic information from public school kids to use for planned eugenics legislation in America. And yes, Roosevelt and Coolidge even got caught up in it. It was a pseudoscientific fad based on Darwin that turned into a social contagion. The movement died an embarrassing death thanks to Hitler, and dorks like @contramordor and @BonifaceOption dig it out of the trash like some sort of forbidden knowledge “they” hid from us. Complete brain rot.

@StandAndKnox Thanks for correcting me. I wasn’t interested in verifying that myself.

@1600sPaleocon Yea. They just made it up.

No simp stuff. This is just my opinion. Yall gotta forgive patricharyhannah. Wasn’t cool. But we’ve all sinned. Think about it

@StandAndKnox Was that a false rumor?

@1600sPaleocon Nope. No only fans. Get it right.

@NPWhite717 To structure it properly: Everything that exists has a cause. God exists. God has a cause. But this begins with a major premise that no one affirms, and even the conclusion doesn’t in itself prove anything about God’s existence.

@NPWhite717 It’s not even a properly-structured syllogism.

Yes, this would be devastating if that was our contention, but it is not

@JoelWBerry So Coolidge is just a guy affected by his culture while Isker is a eugenicist digging in the trash?

@1600sPaleocon I think he, like all of us, was affected by the culture he lived in

@TentSpike God has written his law into the nature of all mankind. This law remains in force after the fall, but our ability to know it perfectly has been tainted. This is the law that Cain broke. God later inscripturated this law in the Ten Commandments.

Ever noticed how Cain knew it was wrong to murder Abel yet the law wasn’t given to us yet through Moses?

@SanctusPalus @bendellwerry I’m a guy, and ended up starting a friendship with another guy I saw reading a book at a fast food restaurant, though we were total strangers to each other before. I said “Hey, I see you’re reading [X book by an atheist author], what do you think of it?”

@bendellwerry How do you approach when they’ve got their noses in their Bible? Genuine question. I hate feeling like I’m interrupting.

working at a nearby coffee shop today and i cannot stress enough that if you are single you need to be finding a local coffee shop there are millions of Christian girls doing their quiet time right now

@bendellwerry This is a risky proposition. You could run into someone like this:

@freefrompoison I’ll buy you a red whistle that you can blow anytime a guy approaches you in a coffee shop.

@1600sPaleocon Not respecting someone’s personal space and desire to exist in peace without being infringed upon is equivalent to rape

Doing their quiet time and you’re inviting men to disturb them?!

@freefrompoison Yeah great point. Asking a girl out in a coffee shop is equivalent to rape.

@1600sPaleocon Well yes, women should close themselves off in their houses because them just existing in the outside world means they’re willing participants in their harassment. Inviting it, asking for it. That sounds familiar….

@dietdrcicero @truebluej @bendellwerry Why did they call CPS?

@truebluej @bendellwerry this is even considered a conservative area (Eastern WA)

@realmrolympian “That’s my purse! I don’t know you!”

They got a ginger Viltrumite y'all...

“Claude, create a whip for me to hit you with. Make no mistakes.”

@TheAimAndAuthor That means my PCA pin is now limited edition!

Speaking of infamous Presbyterians, did I just become one? The biggest threat to the PCA this morning is evidently the infiltration of unofficial PCA lapel pins into the ranks, AND NOT the embracing of female ordination among its churches...who would have thought! Per Per's request from the Administrative Committee, we have removed the PCA pin from our store this morning. To my many solid brothers remaining in the PCA, God be with you. 🫡