Alex Millar

We need to be TEACHING our children how to use social media NOT BANNING them from it

@shagbark_hick True, but it's better than switching back and forth twice a year

I've got to say, if this happens it'd make me 10x more likely to move to Arizona. DST is a nightmare. Those who are arguing in favor of synthetic, phony, unnatural "government time" are out of their minds.

⚡️A lot of modern adults did not intentionally design late family formation from a place of calm sovereignty. They drifted into it through career pressure, housing costs, dating market dysfunction, status anxiety, debt, geographic instability, extended adolescence, and a culture that kept saying “wait until you’re ready” while quietly moving the finish line forever. So when someone says, “Actually, having kids at 40+ is nice because the career is established and time is more controlled,” it gives the delayed class a redemption frame. It says the lost years were preparation. It turns anxiety into wisdom. And for some people, that is genuinely true. A man in his 40s with money, flexibility, emotional maturity, a stable marriage, and control over his calendar can be a better father than he would have been at 28. He may be less frantic, less selfish, less career-desperate, less financially cornered, and more capable of being present. That is real. But the civilizational version is darker. The society has made family formation feel like a luxury good. Children used to be part of adulthood. Now they increasingly arrive after career establishment, housing security, partner stability, income confidence, and psychological readiness. That sounds responsible at the individual level. At scale, it becomes fertility collapse. The high-agency professional can turn delay into a beautiful second chapter. The average person cannot reliably do that. Delay has costs. Fertility risk rises. Family size shrinks. Grandparents age out of support. Parents have less physical energy. Children get less time with parents across adulthood. Siblings become fewer. Cousins disappear. The extended family network thins. Society becomes older, more cautious, less fertile, more economically defensive. This is the hidden trade. Late parenthood can create calmer parents. Mass late parenthood creates an aging civilization. The post is true inside one man’s life. It becomes dangerous when treated as a general solution. A wealthy 46-year-old with control over time is not the median case. He is the adaptation success story. The failed cases are invisible: the people who waited and never found the partner, waited and had fertility problems, waited and had one child instead of three, waited and became too tired, waited and converted desire into resignation. The real truth: later children can be beautiful when delay produced sovereignty. Later children become tragic when delay was just drift wearing the costume of responsibility. That is the line.

@TheLaurenChen Is that hot?

My hot take is that it's OK for Americans to not want to compete against the entire world for a job in their hometown.

@TheEconomist Good for her!

During Tulsi Gabbard’s tenure the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shrank in size. It also strayed into domestic politics in unprecedented ways economist.com/united-states/…

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The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output. This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest. Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose. You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes. Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning. Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.

@histories_arch @Dr_TheHistories Gives a whole new feeling to On The Banks Of Plum Creek

Occupants of a sod house in Drenthe, the Netherlands, photographed standing outside in 1936... Sod houses were a form of rural housing built from compacted earth, peat, grass, and turf, commonly used in regions where timber and stone were scarce or expensive. In parts of the Netherlands, especially poorer rural provinces such as Drenthe, some families continued living in primitive sod dwellings well into the 20th century. These homes provided insulation against harsh weather but were often overcrowded, damp, and vulnerable to poor sanitation and disease. Rural poverty remained a serious issue in parts of Europe during the interwar years despite growing industrialization elsewhere on the continent. By the 1930s, governments across Europe were increasingly pushing modernization programs aimed at replacing substandard rural housing with more durable brick and concrete structures. The economic hardships of the Great Depression, however, slowed many improvement efforts. Similar sod houses were also widely built by settlers on the North American Great Plains during the 19th century, where prairie grass and packed earth became essential building materials due to the lack of trees. © Colorized History #archaeohistories

Is it okay to restrict people who are unvaccinated? Is it okay to ban young people from social media? Seems to me like these are two of the pretty big moral issues of our age. are there any churches that talk about these issues?

C-22 will cost Canada good manufacturing job, ours included. We’re already working on leaving-this bill just accelerates the timeline You can’t build privacy hardware in a country that mandates surveillance backdoors #BillC22 is tyranny dressed up as public safety Elbows up 🇨🇦

For years, I expected my family to leave me alone for a period of “decompression” when I got home from work. I’ve always worked in highly relational, conversation-based roles. I’d often arrive home overstimulated and disappear into my office. My wife would want me to address a discipline issue with one of the kids or take interest in how her day went. My kids would want to tell me about their day or hit me with a thousand requests needing dad’s permission. But I just wanted space. I was fried. “Give me a minute, guys.” Looking back, I see that for what it was: a missed opportunity. A failure of leadership. How a man walks into his home after work says a lot about the culture he’s building. A man doesn’t just bring home a paycheck. He brings direction and masculine leadership. So I changed. I started treating “re-entry” as a moment to lead, and I built three habits to help me do it. Habit #1: I stopped listening to anything on the drive home. I use the silence to pray, collect my thoughts, and gear up to do more work, the kind that matters most. If you work from home, you might need to take a few minutes alone in your office before stepping out. Habits two and three flow from this one. They start the moment I walk through the door. Habit #2: I ask my wife if there are any discipline or pastoral issues that need a father’s touch. There are plenty of situations where a mother needs the father to step in. Handle those. Once I’ve dealt with the kids, I move to habit three. Habit #3: I tell my wife something about my day. She’s been with the kids all day with no adult conversation. More than that, she’s my main support in the mission I’m called to. I want her to see what she’s helping make possible by being a helpmate to me. Of course, I ask about her day too, but I’ve found that priming the pump helps get a good back-and-forth going. I hear a lot of pastors scolding men for not doing dishes or folding laundry. I rarely do either. Not because I think I’m too good for it. It’s just already done. My wife oversees our home well. Besides, me fathering my kids and encouraging my wife does ten times more for the health of our home. My household doesn’t need a second mother. It needs a father. These habits help me get to that work the moment I walk through the door. They’re not rules I slavishly follow. Some days, I do need a moment. Sometimes the drive home just isn’t long enough. This is more about building a culture of action. There are other ways to do this. Find what works for you. The point is to seize every opportunity to lead your home. And a word to the wives: reciprocate. Don’t be the sort of wife who immediately dumps all, and only, the day’s difficulties on her husband. Be ready to share the wins too. And metaphorically speaking, give him a moment to put on his house slippers. If he moves toward you, and you move toward him, you’ll create a more peaceful home. Let this be the attitude of both husband and wife: “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4). That means the husband sets aside his fatigue to engage. And it means the wife doesn’t greet him with a flood of complaints. He moves toward her, and she moves toward him. That’s how you build peace. That’s how you build a home.

The kitchen sink of tyranny.

The strongest case for homeschooling is that nobody loves your child more than you do, and nobody has more stake in their flourishing.

@sorahikariii Nice. But shower curtains are great

love this bathroom design>>

@sleepy_devo Anybody can wear a maga hat?

btw this DOES happen sometimes but replace the indian guys with guys in MAGA hats and that is how trump is running the government, currently.

Fixing the dryer makes me feel like a man

@TXMCtrades Yes, let's ban children from the most used tool by adults. Excellent plan, Smithers

My three point plan: 1) Ban all phones in schools 2) Lessons on chalkboards instead of iPads 3) Writing assignments in class with paper and pencil IMO we have become overly accommodative of screen-based tech and it's actively weakening our kids' development.

@ClarksonsFarm1 Embrace the tradition of the cow in the field and you'll get biodiversity

Thoughts on this?🤔

“E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot'” - CNN, Friday, April 22, 2005

@govt_corrupt Fiat currency

What’s the biggest issue facing Canada right now? 1. Donald Trump 2. The Canadian govt 3. The media 4. Retarded Canadians.