Eric Entzel

Reupping, in honor of the Vances: Make Your Life Easier, Have At Least Four Kids. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

@lovinglyprolife Bohnanaza

what other board games should we put on our registry? this is what we have so far!!

Good morning. It is the 12th of December. We think we are just so clever. Back in November, the whole country shifted the clocks back an hour to true time. Millions upon millions of people all believing in the same lie for months just so we wouldn’t have to wake up in the dark. On November 4th, the sun rose at 7:30 where I live. On November 5th, it rose at 6:30. Ah, truly we are gods among men. How clever we are! All that begging and borrowing and shared self-deception does us little good now though! The sun rises around 7:30 again! The ragged seams bordering our tightly sewn logic are lain bare. You can beg, borrow, and steal all the time you want. Shave an hour off and slap it on to the other end but the truth is simple: the daylight will return on its own accord. Better to let it happen than anxiously skitter about patching the clock here and there. That old wheel keeps turning.

I don't see a problem with this Everyone in the EU takes public transit anyway, so this will only affect the rich elite with cars I'm fine making sure that they are focused on the road

@wrowclif Gives you someplace to start tomorrow!

Thing I thought should work isn't working and so now I am ending my work day feeling very defeated.

I mostly see the Bun and Zig situation the same way Ray described, if you'd actually like to understand it. I would differ in not mentioning TigerBeetle as a Zig flagship because their standards are so strict, and so few teams could do this, and basically no other Zig teams do (including the Zig team themselves), that the fact that they use Zig basically doesn't matter. Ghostty is probably a better flagship to talk about if one must.

@TimMcGovern18 Was slow to see this, sorry. That's neat! His time at Shepherd predates mine, but that's a cool connection :)

@eentzel I clicked on the link to your church in your profile, and discovered something we have in common - a former pastor, Timothy Winkel. He came to my church (Grace Lutheran in Muskegon, MI) from your church. He retired a few years ago after serving here for 16 years.

Sorry, I hate stuff like this. Ketanji Brown Jackson isn't supposed to be "the people's champion." She's not a politician. She's supposed to *interpret* the law, not make it. This kind of thing is why so many people misunderstand how our government works at a basic level.

America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

You say you make the philosophical case. I read the essay. There is no philosophy in it. There is arithmetic, and there is need. The one premise doing all the work is never argued: that one man's need constitutes a claim on another man's property. It doesn't. Need is not a mortgage on the life of the man who fulfilled his. You say the tax "asks" billionaires for 5%. A tax does not ask. If it asked, it would be philanthropy. It compels — and your entire moral posture depends on the reader not noticing the difference. You call it a "social contract." A contract requires consent. A decree written by Congress and imposed on 938 people who never signed it is not a contract. It is force wearing a contract's clothes. And your proudest boast is your most damning admission: Newsom taxes transactions — you tax OWNERSHIP itself. Stock never sold. Value never realized. Not "we tax what you do," but "we tax what you are." You welcomed an argument on the merits. Here it is: a man's success is not a public asset, and no number of people needing his property converts it into theirs. That is the moral test of our time. You are failing it.

Charles S. the creator of Peanuts, including Charlie Brown, Lucy, etc. Without googling was the correct spelling: Minnesota peeps, you got this. Please share as I would like to see a lot of results.

@KelseyTuoc As a homeschooled kid: well put!

My timeline is full of another round of the "are most people competent to homeschool their children (or at least as competent as public schools" discourse, so my take: Homeschooling your children from K-12 well - such that they become adults who are competent to pursue any career they're interested in, to succeed in higher education if they want it, to finish a trade program if they want that - is hard, but you can accomplish it with any of unusually motivated children, excellent choice of curricula and programs, an excellent support network or co-op, putting in an extraordinary effort, or being yourself notably good as an educator. That's a lot of different ways to do it well! If homeschooling is important to someone, they can probably figure out how to have one of those in place! There are some excellent curricula that are available completely free of charge, so in a narrow sense ensuring that one of these factors is in place is 'available' to every parent. But that observation is also very compatible with the world that Keturah wrote about, where parents did not *want* their children to be adults competent to pursue higher education, and where most of the children were accordingly educationally neglected. It's very compatible with the observation that overwhelmed parents without a support network can catastrophically fail their kids. And I don't think it's effectively answered with "on average, homeschooled kids test better than public schooled kids" because, as Keturah points out, the 'off the grid' neglected kids also aren't taking any tests and because people have wildly more information about whether they are doing right by their children than an aggregate of all homeschooled children's test scores, which is going to include many kids who are educationally neglected and many kids who are getting a better education than almost any public school can offer.

Software needs to be maintained less than hardware. It is possible to have software that operates for decades without maintenance. This is not true for hardware. The reason software appears to require "maintenance" is because software is usually acting on some other system (usually via hardware, with users). The attributes of the hardware and requirements of the user both drift over time, requiring the software to be changed. The change is not usually major enough to be an "upgrade," so it's called maintenance. There are some instances (generally rare but they exist) where a software system functions for decades because the user requirements and hardware genuinely don't change.

As a woman my very reasonable position is that I'm completely fine with any paternity test I never find out about Don't insult me by making your very poor read of the situation my problem

@wrowclif I kind of like them!

I don't know that anyone really ever looks at these or what the point is of me posting them, but I've been kind of bad about remember lately which again probably doesn't matter because there's not a lot of point to it.

Tonight's Hymns: Eliza: LSB 965 - God Bless Our Native Land Adelaide: LSB 735 - Have No Fear, Little Flock Mommy: LSB 575 - My Hope is Built on Nothing Less Me: LSB 659 - Lord of Our Life Walter: LSB 821 - Alleluia, Sing to Jesus

I'm confused. Do your grocery stores just not have a deli counter? x.com/_aboihasnoname…

the state of the market will render depressingly pricy provender; discovering that scotch costs have stayed flat: be frugal! each lunch is a bender!

"Oh bro, I would die for my wife. I would use violent force to defend my family & my home. No you don't get it bro, I would kill for my wife & kids." Cool man, anyways, how about you help out with the dishes? Start with that.

It is an utter shame that Christians have fallen under the sway of these NAR charlatans and heretics. These are the real “shepherds for sale.”