Polyester Mather

@El_nene_60 What was the biggest benefit you found?

Reading the rabbinic literature made me realize how the rabbis smack talk each other. It's good to read what happened after the post-70 temple period. The positions are a little funny, but they also contain some very well-written knowledge. They also have theological issues.

The thing I’m missing most while traveling is coffee that tastes just right.

@gonefishin1948 I don't currently live in an area with many Catholics or Orthodox brothers. Is it more common for them to emphasize their denomination?

Usually a Christian who is not Orthodox or Catholic will not say what group of other Christians they belong to. Why?

It seems the Boers who have come to America are outdoing us for patriotism. We need to step up.

@GreeneMan6 From the listener's side we need better ways to find you. I'm not sure if that looks like an webring or something much better but it has to be possible.

@PolyesterMather what is your suggestion?

Everyone I know here is a experiencing the same problem: Xitter - higher engagement than ever, no growth in a year Substack - 4x the engagement as last year, no growth YouTube - continued high enragement, no growth So what causes this? Perhaps our “right-wing” sphere just hit limits of its growth? This doesn’t make sense, we are making constant inroads into other demographics, and until we hit “Daily Wire” levels we haven’t exhausted the number of people willing to hear our message. Perhaps people are just ‘logging off’? That can’t be the case since there is higher engagement than ever. Perhaps an algorithm change or shadow-ban? Ok, but it works strange. Usually engagement and growth track together. It’s almost like social media has been “siloed” such that people are encouraged to watch what they already watch but really nothing new.

When I block someone it would be nice if X noted the post I blocked them from.

@CapCapeMan @JesseKellyDC What do you believe to be the issue that would stop us?

@JesseKellyDC There is a middle ground. You can’t deport 40 plus million people

The head of DHS should be a bloodthirsty savage who’s so passionate about removing foreigners that the president has to hold him back and tell him to tone it down. Instead we’re stuck with this loser.

@jrswab You should

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@RevivedThoughts I was thinking Daniel.

Besides Revelation, I think the most misunderstood book in the Bible is probably the book of Job.

You should try and learn to give more attention to the process and the work itself rather than the end result. Way of working is always better to think about than the reward. If you can’t enjoy the process, the end result will be meaningless or super short lived. Funny enough, this mindset will make the end result even better.

@DelusionPosting Girls should mention astrology on the first date.

@elonmusk That is a neat idea but the cost of running an LLM would have to come down a lot to justify not having repeatable, portable lower layers.

This is exactly right. Source code is on the verge of becoming like assembly. The next step is getting rid of “source code” entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI.

@theiaincameron I suspect Germany’s four largest cities are on a quadrilateral.

Germany's three largest cities are on a circle, weirdly. (Sent to me privately so I don't know who the original author is.)

@Austin_Mathew_ Starting memorialist and becoming real presence after reading a few of the church fathers.

What’s the biggest doctrinal view you’ve changed your mind on as a Christian?

@ShamashAran I’ve only ever had two where it was a relief.

Time to play everyone's favorite gameshow! "Heart attack or Anxiety Attack" Most likely its an anxiety attack because I have to fire someone in about 30 mins.

@ruthdelioncourt @ncbscotts @Savsays I’m worried that we need to move to economic warfare to match Indias warfare against us.

@ncbscotts @Savsays They’re trying to claim it’s only 5 million 🤣 it’s easily 30 million. Easily. India is a hostile nation and we need to expel every single Indian.

I’m sitting on a bench in BELLEVUE WASHINGTON and I have never seen so many Indians. Why are there so many over here?!

@moultano @ded_ruckus @kitten_beloved But large parts of the inflation reduction act seem to give more power to communists? Green banks, environmental justice, and even Justice40 aligned goals.

@ded_ruckus @kitten_beloved The inflation reduction act is the most significant piece of climate policy the federal government has passed, and I don't think it has resulted in giving power to communists.

Problem is the left has no answer to climate change except for energy poverty, "abundance liberalism" is an absurd dream, almost a contradiction in terms given what the coalition actually believes This dynamic makes denying the problem a rational choice

@kitten_beloved The solutions that the left offers makes it hard to believe that they are sincere.

@MetalRhino42 @Prot_Mallard The issue, at least for me, is no one is arguing that Narnia aught to be canonical. The stakes of evaluating it are far lower.

@PolyesterMather @Prot_Mallard I mean, narnia is beautiful religious fiction

Without getting in canonicity, Luther is right when he says that 1 Maccabees is good and helpful for understanding Scripture.