Blue Falcon

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Blue Falcon

Blue Falcon

@Blue_Gyrfalcon

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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
Dinosaur has a specific taxonomic meaning. However, to the general public 'Dinosaur' just means 'extinct reptilian creature, sometimes very large'. I think it is fine to accept this common name, but many scientists spend far too much energy fighting such things.
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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@wil_da_beast630 I think this reflects a divergence in deontology vs utilitarian. The capital attack people argue is more bad from a deontological view; but clearly BLM riots were worse in terms of any actual metric.
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Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630·
Janaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnuary 6th, The Darkest Day of All Time, was in reality far less serious than the 750+ BLM riots. These weren't small affairs, far from big cities and the halls of power. Rioters set up a city state ("CHAZ") in the literal Capitol District of Seattle. An ex-mutual of mine became an Armalite toting warlord. 7 (?) people died there. Rioters sacked the Mag Mile in Chicago, and fought feds for 120 days in Portland. AN ACTIVE POLICE STATION WAS BURNED DOWN, after a medieval street battle, in Minneapolis. 35 people died; $2B in damage was done. All this would be presented as - per trained AI - 5-30x J6 were the parties reversed. Just a reminder.
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Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@waldenpod It is rather hilarious that the 'better news' is most people are going to hell rather than some form of heaven 🤣
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Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@yandjoshi It's hilarious how stupid people are regarding war. No self-respecting culture sends large amounts of women into deadly battle unless absolutely necessary. Not only will they be more easily killed, they are more likely to get raped & enslaved.
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himbo lover
himbo lover@yandjoshi·
why not let them ride as women?? i swear to god this franchise got away with so much casual misogyny and exclusion of women when it isn’t even tolkien adherent like that lol this shit wouldn’t side today
Massimo@Rainmaker1973

Fun fact. In the Lord of the Rings films, most of the Riders of Rohan were actually women with fake beards because when the production put out a call for local experienced riders, a lot of women showed up with their own horses.

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Kidomaki
Kidomaki@kidomaki_real·
@Vortasis The real brain behind avatar is Aaron
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Kidomaki
Kidomaki@kidomaki_real·
This entire movie was Mike and Bryan's attempt at getting back at ATLA fans for shitting on Korra. Notice that every single critique they had of Korra is present in this movie? The AS spamming, him getting played because he didnt listen(unalaq), got washed in the avatar state multiple times, almost destroyed the Avatar cycle. Has to constantly be saved. It's like they looked up every Reddit Korra slander and turned it into a movie, but with Aang. This movie is made out of pure spite.
KACHI 🎎@Kachidey4you

I think the writers for Legend of Aang is the same for Korra cus they just made Avatar state look like childs play🤦🏽

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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@FiredUpCoug I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that all of sports is now in bed with gambling, it's hilarious to be mad at players gambling when the entire industry is completely enmeshed.
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Brigham's Burner
Brigham's Burner@FiredUpCoug·
This is coming from a BYU fan who has never placed a bet in his life. If the NCAA permanently bans Brendan Sorsby, I will be disgusted. Not because gambling rules don’t matter. They do. Not because athletes should be allowed to bet on college sports. They shouldn’t. But because there is a massive difference between protecting the integrity of the game and destroying a young man’s life over an addiction he is now getting treatment for. By all current reporting, Sorsby did not bet on games he played in, did not bet against his own team, and there is no allegation that he tried to influence an outcome. Meanwhile, college football has spent years finding ways for players with far uglier off-field issues to return to the field. And the same college sports ecosystem that lectures athletes about gambling has become increasingly entangled with sportsbooks, betting content, official data deals, and gambling-adjacent money. So yes, punish him. Fine him. Suspend him. Require treatment. Require education. Put guardrails around him. But a permanent ban? That would not be justice. That would be the NCAA trying to look righteous by punishing him for participating in the exact betting culture that they have contributed in building. I stand with Brendan.
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Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@RST_0fficial I find that he treats 'a few historians/historical records' = data = the truth, when in fact, they are just specific perspectives.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen·
In one of his two NYT articles critiquing my book “Toxic Empathy,” David French claims that I argue against feeling badly for dying children. I push back against that complete mischaracterization. In response, French asserts: “I have seen you online, when people talk about the plight of others, you bring up toxic empathy.” “Can you give me an example of that?”
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Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@JonahDispatch As a 'mormon', I want to thank you for your article standing up for us and the fact that we have been hated and persecuted for many years in large part because of theological differences.
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Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch·
I get hating theological differences. I’m somewhat baffled by hating people because of theological differences. But I guess I’m all in for hating hateful actions based on theological differences.
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Jordan Brimley
Jordan Brimley@jmbrim3·
What movies do you think have the most LDS themes without specifically being an LDS movie? Here’s 2 I find to be very Gospel themed: 1. Lord of the Rings 2. The Lion King What are some of your favorites?
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Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@JonahDispatch I love you and the Dispatch- I gotta be honest though, David looked really really bad in this interview.
Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen

In one of his two NYT articles critiquing my book “Toxic Empathy,” David French claims that I argue against feeling badly for dying children. I push back against that complete mischaracterization. In response, French asserts: “I have seen you online, when people talk about the plight of others, you bring up toxic empathy.” “Can you give me an example of that?”

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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
Does @whignewtons have any thoughts here? Genuinely curious.
Carrie Severino@JCNSeverino

This is absolutely outrageous. That the liberal justices weren’t willing to work quickly to finish their Dobbs dissents given security concerns is bad enough. That Kagan was actively bullying her colleagues into slow walking the opinions when doing so almost led to an assassination is next level. Justice Thomas has commented about how much he valued the type of collegiality the Court used to have. Breyer was a gentleman and part of that old guard. Kagan has been implicated in very political behind-the-scenes dealings before (like vote trading in the Obamacare case), but this takes the cake. Fantastic reporting from my friend @mzhemingway in her new book, "Alito." foxnews.com/politics/kagan…

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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@jkimballcook Progressives are much more likely to cut off people they disagree with, rather than discuss and tolerate. You can see this all over left-wing discourse.
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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@AndrewTWalker Honestly I just thought she brought receipts for everything, he had nothing.
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Andrew T. Walker
Andrew T. Walker@AndrewTWalker·
Watched the French-Stuckey debate. My main takeaway: The whole debate centered upon a truth-emotion continuum. I think Allie Beth came out ahead for one main reason that colors every issue debated: She indexes her understanding of emotion and empathy on a biblical axis, whereas French elevates emotion and empathy to a disproportionate degree. The consequence is to unmoor emotion from truth. There's simply a difference in rhetorical strategy: Stuckey focuses more on logos; French on pathos. Along those lines, another reason I think Allie Beth had the stronger hand is that she refuses to play the game of pitting love against truth (1 Cor. 13:6; Eph. 4:15). She's no less interested in kindness or empathy, but properly indexed by Scripture. French's focus on catering to emotional equilibrium (and thus hewing to progressive niceties) requires him to blur biblical categories. Biblical ethics requires both logos and pathos, but our loves must be ordered and governed with a proper foundation. And notably, French's empathy tends in one direction, toward those to his left. In short, Allie Beth focused on objectivity, reason, and right and wrong as the grounds of what constitutes love and kindness, whereas French's instinct is to defer to emotion and aesthetics.
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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky·
I think what this position misses is: 1) Kids are gonna have a surname 2) Having the whole household share a surname really is useful for a whole lot of purposes and parents who don't share surnames with their kids often face administrative challenges 3) Making up a new surname for the whole household breaks ties with *both* sides of the family and also most people see it as kinda cringe 4) So it's either his or hers or hyphens 5) Hyphens are fine, many countries do that, but they do make it literally impossible to write your full surname on many documents for many name combos, so you're back at having a name that creates recurrent administrative problems 6) So the lowest-friction solution really is his or hers 7) There's no fundamental reason it has to be his, but either way somebody is gonna give. You can argue it should be the man, but the only argument for that is matriarchy, which is no more compelling than patriarchy. 8) On the other hand the argument for "this is just the convention, don't sweat it too much" is fairly strong
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic

I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.

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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@InezFeltscher What's hilarious is 10 minutes ago Richard would've written a very similar piece, but he's found a new crowd to grift to
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Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️
Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️@InezFeltscher·
If you’ll put aside your ruthless and unearned contempt for the right long enough to think for 5 seconds about the actual question, you’ll see that the difference is that I’m measuring the consequences *by household* and not men vs women, as though their interests are inherently oppositional. Cheap immigrant labor undermines the wages of men in many professions, true. It undermines women’s wages too, although less so because of the distribution of jobs disproportionately filled by women (HR isn’t really being undercut but mass migration). But it also provides this “benefit” of relatively cheaper childcare, which is only *useful* to households where both partners work. So in the one-income family: immigration undercuts the man’s wages, and that hurts the whole family. In the two-income family: it undercuts wages, but those cuts are offset by the ability to purchase a much-needed service, that, outrageously expensive though it is already, would be much more expensive if it weren’t dominated by recent immigrants willing to take low wages, which makes possible the wife’s second job. Still, it’s so expensive that it creates political pressure - in blue states this pressure is acted upon - to create direct taxpayer subsidies for part or all of the cost of childcare. These are costs borne by everyone, including the traditional family, which is now privately paying for the costs of their choice (forgoing the wife’s income) AND paying into systems to subsidize the costs of the two-income family (needing a service like childcare).
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania

This is funny. They invented a whole brand new form of economics to justify their dislike of immigrants and working women. So immigrants 1) Undermine the wages of men; and 2) subsidize wages of women (whose jobs probably shouldn't exist!). How convenient.

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Blue Falcon
Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@annbauerwriter Your standards of normal behavior have been extremely dulled, clearly.
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Ann Bauer
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
Ok, there are some good arguments against me here. I see that it's problematic. But I have to be honest, living in a largely gay community in MSP for all those years, I knew a lot of people who did stuff like this. It was unexceptional. (Which I agree is a concern)
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Blue Falcon@Blue_Gyrfalcon·
@tlloydcline Very few Christians believe in such Calvinist ideas, hence they are literally extreme.
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Timon Cline
Timon Cline@tlloydcline·
I do love it when the Guardian tries to explain religion by pretending normal doctrines are “extreme” Predestination and Providence are “obscure” and not just Calvinist but “deeply Calvinist”
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