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@theblessedsalt @AaronIrber @HaikuFictionDJU My kids don't know what any of these are and I don't even know what ATLA is. It's not even a moral thing my kids have better and more enjoyable things to do than consume midwit slop

I know some trad parents who have disallowed things as tame as Bluey, ATLA, Marvel. I don’t think we do our kids any favors by sheltering them, but by letting them have access to the battles they can fight, gradually, and the ability to make choices they are mature enough for. The goal can’t be to keep them utterly safe, only to cast them into the world as adults. The goal needs to be practice toward mastery of self and of the world.

Found out today that some friends of ours, trads, have only one kid left practicing the faith because the kids grew up to run from the overly strict moral views of their parents. Begging you good folks to make our faith first about encounter and friendship with Christ and to avoid being too strict and imposing more than the Church does. I’ve seen it break so many over the years. Let your kids enjoy things, provided they are not sinful. I’m begging you. Don’t wrap your own hang-ups in the Catholic identity.

@nic_carter Based. Happy for you

Tonight I was received into the Catholic Church. I received the sacrament of Communion and Confirmation under the patronage of Saint Andrew at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach, administered by Bishop Delgado.

@DoctorPerin @cremieuxrecueil low GRE/SAT scorer spotted

@cremieuxrecueil They primarily measure math and English. IQ tests measure verbal and perceptual reasoning, among others. The overlap does not make them the same.

Teachers average among the least intelligent university graduates. Little of what they 'learn' is even relevant to what they end up doing. In a given year, the lowest-scoring groups on the GRE, SAT, and ACT are usually those pursuing degrees in education.

@malibu114 @aidannonx Absolutely, it's the correct method of BC if you don't want a baby

@aidannonx 10 to 15% of abortions occur with married women. I get it wouldn't be the preferred method of BC in a marraige, but since abstinence is the only sure way to not to get pregnant, would withholding sex be an acceptable form of BC for either spouse to use if they didn't want a baby?

@RoKhanna @JDVance Come on bro, it's a little early in the election cycle for the "Can you confirm or deny whether you are literally Hitler???" questions

Your ally Orban conceded. In 2028, will you @JDVance follow suit if you lose?

@RorateCaeli SSPX rejected overtures from JP2 and Benedict though, so "muh Bergoglio" is an unconvincing defense of schismatic tendencies

Not saying Opus Dei doesn't have problems -- it does. But we have a different point: being the only Personal Prelature has not prevented "The Work" from being disassembled by the Vatican in the past pontificate, and still feel under siege in this one. This is one of the reasons why those advocating a similar structure for the SSPX should think twice: HOW can we convince the SSPX to take up a structure after what happened with basically everyone under Francis (including those with long autonomous structures, such as the Order of Malta)? In our opinion, the vagaries and violence of Francis destroyed trust in the Holy See for generations.

@CopiaffeKris @firstthingsmag @catholickelsey What's wrong with the photo?

Bishops Must Reclaim the Church’s Full Immigration Teaching by Kelsey Reinhardt @catholickelsey firstthings.com/bishops-must-r…

@ravenousreader The concept is good, but having to use a smartphone app seems counter-productive. Which also seems like a grift, with the monthly subscription or whatever. The cheesy meditations written by randos seem unecessary when we could just use the ones from the Divine Office.

Men will ask my husband to do exodus 90 and then look down (I don’t have better phrasing. Sometimes the are just disappointed) at him for saying “no”. But like we live an ascetic life already. He is good and doesn’t say anything to justify himself, but it’s so frustrating. When he is frustrated he will say something rude like “I hate exodus 90” he doesn’t it’s just that he did it more than once starting 11 years ago leading us to be able to live off grid for an extended period of time 5 years ago. He is just over it. He isn’t less than and neither are you. Yall are in different “seasons”. Normalize being okay with that.

@perrymetzger x.com/i/status/20228…

We started as wanderers, with no possessions but stone tools and our minds, and no understanding of anything that lay beyond our immediate senses. We have travelled so far, learned so much, and built so much, in only a very short time. We will learn and build so much more, and travel far beyond the stars we see with our naked eyes at night. What great wonders will our children yet see? What will they come to know?

@tr0skinz @HIX54 @LechugaMunoz @grok @PalmerLuckey @lsanger @exec_sum @grok explain all the ways in which animals are killed during the production and transportation of vegan food - eg. extermination of rats and other pests, bone and blood fertilizer, etc

@HIX54 @LechugaMunoz @grok @PalmerLuckey @lsanger @exec_sum How is it "nice" to exploit, commodify and slaughter innocent sentient beings? @grok explain all the ways non-vegans are harming animals. Mention all the industries and practices.

BREAKING: France has gone all-in on science, investing €30 million in AI, health, and climate initiatives.

@eigenrobot I don't regret it, there's more to life than Lifetime Earnings. The research was fun. I met my wife. The PhD credential was critical, at least at that time, in getting an ML job with zero industry experience.

the amount of regret that i have about grad school has been growing lately. so many working years wasted and i don't think what i learned is as pleasant or as helpful as i once did. not sure what to do with this awareness. how's everyone else coping

@SimoneHCollins Did you actually have these kids?

Having kids is the most important decision I’ve ever made.

@BldgCatholicMen Yes, but ditch the potatoes

Imagine a Retreat for Catholic men in which we: — Pray the Liturgy of the Hours — Celebrate the Holy Mass daily — Read/Discuss through the Cardinal and Theological virtues around a bonfire — Strength Train & Hike — Eat healthy food (Meat, veggies, potatoes) — Get good sleep The goal being: to return to our families refreshed and strengthened physically, mentally, and spiritually as husbands and fathers. Is this something you’d be interested in?

@JulieLovesFluff If you are a senior/staff level engineer at the higher paying tech cos, "exceeds expectations" bump in comp can be about 100-150K. "greatly exceeds expectations" can be nearly double that.

My husband singlehandedly architected, wrote and supported a program that made his (small, less than 50 people) company $7.8 million dollars last year while also serving as the development manager because the guy quit with no notice and they proudly announced this and rewarded him with ~3% of his salary as a bonus (less than $10k after taxes). He is so mad he's applying with their two competitors now. He's the only one that really gets how the software integrates with all the other stuff they do because they keep letting developers go and not replacing them and won't let him cross train anyone else on the software. Gonna be a bad time for them once he's gone. I think skipping the announcement and bonus would have been better than this route, he had no idea they made that much off of him.

@TheMindScourge This is just not true. For most of our babies I've been better able to comfort them ( when they're not hungry for milk) than Mom. I guess some dads don't have the same connection with their babies but it's not universal

I’ve had 4 newborns and, fundamentally, newborns have zero interest in their fathers. They just don’t. They are entirely fixated on their mother. They know her from being in the womb. They know how she sounds, smells, the rhythm of her heartbeat. The father is a stranger by comparison. They don’t know you. So when you hand off the baby to the dad, you might as well be giving the baby to a random person on the street for all the baby knows The dad’s role is the support the mother however possible. But you cannot get the baby to care about the father for several months at a bare minimum. Some dads take this personally. They think they have to do something. But there’s nothing to do. It just isn’t about you A great example of this is skin to skin contact: fathers can warm their baby against their chest, but also overheat them, as the heating is unidirectional and there’s no feedback Whereas with the mother, the thermoregulation is bidirectional. Her chest can warm up to 2 degree C or cool up to 1 degree C to thermoregulate the baby

@brian_armstrong You should have a bunch of kids

Had dinner last night with a bunch of hard-tech founders from El Segundo. Really inspiring stuff TBH. They're building hypersonic missiles, autonomous fishing vessels, nuclear power plants, drones to maintain undersea pipes and cables, early detection sonar systems, etc. Made me more bullish on America. Many of them in their 20's, already married with bunch of kids, and surprisingly experienced managers/leaders for their age.

@VitalikButerin @jaredpolis @RichardHanania @captgouda24 @Aella_Girl Cancelled my weekly recurring buy of ETH. Although you are at least correct in putting these 3 Thought Leaders in the same reference class.

@jaredpolis @RichardHanania @captgouda24 Agree @Aella_Girl too of course

It doesn’t mean I agree with them most or all of the time, but I recommend following public intellectuals @RichardHanania and @captgouda24 who are doing actual thinking which is rare these days

@animalologist Just curious what was so important to "tie you where you were"? Was it really worth more than a life with this man?

@selentelechia Curious who/what is an example of this?

monks who light themselves on fire? perverts. moms who flay their psyches to tolerate unnecessary parenting practices, call it virtue, and document it in public? perverts. your libertarian uncle who makes a big deal out of refusing normal creature comforts? pervert. ignore them.

over on religious mom twitter there's some ladies discussing how they have made idols of things like...sleep. and sanctification and surrender and yada yada and like, okay, but. there's a really common, really weird Type of Guy (gender neutral) that crops up in these crowds

@owl_elc @spongeworthy2 Personnel for delivery and distribution, it's not that strange