mark handley
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Of course I expected the “you’re talking about yourself!” comments. To some extent, yeah. I felt myself getting too repetitive on my show so we switched the format pretty drastically and started doing much more in depth analysis of a single topic per show. We’ve covered a very wide range of topics over the past few months, and for the most part the audience has responded positively to it. We’ve had some shows that flopped in this format and some that have hit big. I’d prefer that over sticking to a boring formula that guarantees a moderate number of clicks every time. But I’ve also always tried to find different ways of approaching the material. That’s why I’ve made two movies and two series over the past few years. And I have some ideas for the future that are even more outside the box. You need to keep trying new things in this business or you’ll just shrivel up and die. At least that’s how I feel when I’m doing the same thing the same way for too long.
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Absolutely true. Most right wing commentary in general now is boring as hell. Same takes, same arguments, same points repeated over and over and over again. Same personal squabbles. Same feuds and fights. Tedious. Redundant. The audience is bored to death and rightly so.
Cernovich@Cernovich
Right now almost every "MAGA" account is slop. Zero personality. It's all a rush to post the same clips from cable news and add a formulaic BREAKING headline. Maybe that makes money via engagement. It's tedious. AI is winning. I don't see many humans on this site anymore.
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@SawyerMerritt @Starlink Do you seriously believe that high-speed wifi ranks high up there in things people consider when choosing which airline to fly on? I mean would be nice to have it on a flight, but I doubt it plays into people's decision making process.
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Delta rejected adopting SpaceX's @Starlink on its fleet because it wanted to provide internet connectivity to passengers via the Delta Sync portal, instead of the Starlink-branded portal. Delta has since chosen to partner with Amazon's LEO.
This will result in Delta falling behind many of its competitors in offering high-speed WiFi onboard, as many other carriers are already offering or installing Starlink, whereas Amazon's LEO airplane WiFi for Delta is still a couple year away (or more).
Satellites currently in orbit:
• SpaceX's Starlink: 10,400
• Amazon's LEO: 300
(Delta rejection info according to Ron Baron)
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@farmingandJesus Pets are for us to to enjoy. Nobody should ever accept a pet their scared of, that is mean to you, or makes you avoid them or the couch or a room. They gotta go.
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Question for you guys , our cat has gone 💯 psycho on us out of nowhere for the 3rd time in a month. We’re talking try to climb you and scratch your eyes out, wailing and growling. No one is near her she just snaps and attacks us. She isn’t super nice to begin with but this is insane. Full blown attack….. terrifying.
Anyone ever have this issue ? What was the cause?
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@megbasham @farmingandJesus Dick van dyke and the Andy Griffith show too.
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@farmingandJesus There are three possible acceptable answers. 1) Seinfeld 2) Cheers 3) Frasier.
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@DrFrankTurek The same way they use every other object on earth, as a tool to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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@JillFilipovic Government involvement usually makes things worse.
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Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
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@shagbark_hick 3rd grade education? Sounds like a lot of high school graduates from public schools. Can you read the word silhouette?
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Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all.
I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem.
While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives.
My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition.
Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
Just Jim@JimsTweets
Do Homeschool kids just like, not have to take tests or exams or get grades? How does the government know if the child is actually getting an education and not just like, being neglected
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@ChristinaPushaw @shagbark_hick Getting a useless degree then expecting it to lead to a job was always a lie. Those with good/useful degrees got jobs. There were some segments with tough markets for sure but persistence pays off.
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I remember that year, I was already in college. The white-collar job market was a catastrophe at the time too. We were always hearing about college graduates with degrees from good schools who applied to 1000 jobs and the best they could find was part-time hours at a coffee shop. Can't blame anyone who decided to drop out of society, as long as you're self-sufficient it is no skin off my back.
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Think about it:
You're 17 years old. It's 2011. Everyone is asking what "your plan" is after you finish High School.
All the adults you know who work jobs are miserable. They all work at Wal-Mart distribution, the psych center, the prison. Guys work themselves to the bone, develop serious back problems, wind up on pain meds, and the whole scene is heinously awful. All of them tell you: "don't be like me, don't do this."
There are the much-vaunted "state jobs" but you know you can't get one unless you know somebody, which you don't.
The Iraq War has been dragging on for no real reason for years. All the veterans you know from your hometown are cynical, tell you not to join, that it's all a grift for the CIA to get into the opium trade, etc.
And college? The idea seems crazy; you go to "Thirteenth Grade" in order to someday get the dubious privilege of sitting in an office, asking for vacation days, pushing pencils at a desk?
It shouldn't really be a shock that I and many others my age chose to drop out of society to live without a job, a car, savings, insurance, ID, or a bank account for most of my adult life.
The alternatives all appeared to be absolute garbage. When society sucks, people can and do drop out of society, and I do not regret that I chose to do that. Had you been in my shoes, you might well have done the same thing.
Fabio Mercurio@FDMercurio
@shagbark_hick @PraiseBeToGod77 Why were you voluntarily homeless?
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@megynkelly Right. Let's stop using antibiotics and all that stuff. More people dieing opens up jobs for the future. What an awful take. You want more people to die of cancer so someone has a job of caring for the patients slow death from cancer.
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The AI advances are all great, until there are no jobs left for our kids & our medical info is all over the internet & a chat box manages to release a nuke. Watch “The AI Doc” on Apple for a primer. What good is it to cure all disease if there is no more work, ambition or safety?
Mayo Clinic@MayoClinic
A Mayo Clinic-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model can help specialists detect pancreatic cancer on routine abdominal CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis. It identifies subtle signs of disease before tumors are visible, when curative treatment may still be possible. The findings, published in Gut, mark a milestone in Mayo Clinic's multiyear research effort to enable earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers. Learn more: mayocl.in/4eippBP
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@TukiFromKL Yes, legal immigration is good. Illegal immigration is bad and a drain on society.
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the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023..
not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute..
they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid..
the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time
Leading Report@LeadingReport
Immigrants generate more income and taxes than the average person, per CATO Institute.
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With the whole magnitude of what happened, it’ll be important to hear how merch sales did.
ELIZABETH LANE@imelizabethlane
Erika Kirk leaving the scene
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@BriannaWu @Katy_Faust So you're going with,"ignore the argument ". Gotcha.
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@Katy_Faust Katy, you’re a homophobe. No hell is hot enough for you. Go away. I don’t have time for you or your dusty, dried up vibes.
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As predicted, MAGA is coming for gay rights now that the public is getting exhausted with their obsession with trans women. And they’re doing it with the same tactics. Make them out to be sexual predators and fearmonger about children.
I will stand with gay rights, though frankly many of you don’t deserve the support given your apathy to my access to public life.
Katy Faust@Katy_Faust
Yep. Gay surrogacy does get more attention because the children don't just lose their birth mother, they lose their genetic mother and are purposefully starved of daily maternal love. They're also at greater risk of abuse because they are always raised by at least one (if not two) unrelated men- statistically, the most dangerous person in a child's life. But there are myriad accounts decrying surrogacy for everyone. @SurrogConcern @CasaDeclaration @maurel_olivia @JenniferLahl @kal_fell It commodifies children and severs the primal bond they have with their birth mother. It's always an injustice against children. Even when heterosexuals do it.
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$750 MILLION GIFT: Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell are fueling the University of Texas at Austin's medical research ambitions with a $750 million gift that promises to improve patient care through artificial intelligence and increase health care options for the booming state capital. MORE: bit.ly/3OHqicC
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@conservmillen @jchasedavis Am I the only one who doesn't understand this sentence? It doesn't sound like English to me.
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@jchasedavis There’s no there there on this one. They split time to be near grandkids
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No wedding ring. Two different locations. I can’t be the only one that has some questions.
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@_Wilburr_ @WilliamAll23313 @jchasedavis Your fear is well founded, but there are options. Silicone rings are good too.
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@WilliamAll23313 @jchasedavis I’m a farmer and I want to keep my fingers. In your spare time do an image search for degloving. My ring stays on my key ring in my pocket.
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@elonmusk Economics 101 and human nature says this is not possible. Not everyone can have a beach house with an ocean view, not everyone can live on the corner lot. Even if robots can procure things it still takes natural resources (lithium etc) that is not endless or perfect.
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@megbasham Pay for the seat at the front row (not first class), all the laptop room you could ever want.
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I propose on short domestic flights, airlines should have a rule against putting seats back. It’s not necessary and it’s really irritating to person behind you! I don’t understand folks who do this for a flight under two hours!!
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@katiehobbs An easy way to lower the cost of a new home by 25% is to remove all the onerous government regulations. Dropping 25,% off the cost would be quite a boon!
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My Arizona Is Home program is helping more people afford their first home.
If you're ready to buy your first home, you should be able to, which is why I’m fighting to lower the cost of homeownership — so every family can build a future right here in Arizona.
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@megbasham Another option for a person who shares multiple views honestly even if you don't agree with his final conclusions is reasonablefaith.org defenders series.
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Can anyone recommend a Protestant podcaster who offers an apologia of our theology against Catholic theology who is a clear creationist—six days, global flood?
I know there are some who do this who are local flood, symbolic creation type of people and I’m not interested in them. If it’s someone, for example, who would promote Biologos and Francis Collins or work with Biologos, I don’t want that guy.
Is there anyone like this?
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@megbasham @HwsEleutheroi If you can get past his arrogance and and condescension he can be useful but it sure makes you doubt his salvation.
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You mean a video series specifically on Roman Catholic claims? I've done about fifty debates against their leading apologists back to 1990, and we have gone pretty in-depth on the Papacy, Mass, priesthoods, scriptural authority, over the years. Our website now has a page that allows you to search like 3,000 Dividing Line episodes by key word. Sorta depends on what specific topic you are looking at.
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