Eric Hammes

@mikesalguero I get it now. I wonder if this loophole is being considered in the country-by-country renegotiations happening during the 90 day pause. Wild times.

@eric_hammes No. Other way! Text me and we can talk!

Hearing from a few companies that the tariff on raw materials is causing them to move manufacturing OUT of the US. Easier to bring from china to other country, assemble, and then pay smaller tariff. Sounds disastrous. Gut small biz and manufacturing!

@mikesalguero Oh, I see, this is for US exports to bypass/minimize the tariffs that China levied on the US. I was thinking the other way around.

@eric_hammes Or they have less tariffs. So sell into Mexico or country B, assemble there (or do whatever was done in US) and then pay the smaller tariff. If the component parts are a big enough piece of the price, that would make sense.

@mazemoore Source video: obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/50773 Idk why original posters don’t cite their references.

OMG this is not AI, it's real. It's a must watch. 2011. Obama announces a DOGE department and puts Joe Biden in charge of it! 😂 "Nobody messes with Joe." 🤣

@NeilShenvi True, if we strive and fall to the idol of politics (or religion). But don’t we participate by a higher way?

I've said this before and Alinsky's book reminded me: Christians should never be as "good" at politics as non-Christians because we are constrained by commands like "thou shalt not bear false witness" and "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

@mikesalguero I can no longer ski for that very reason. :(

Why has no one invented ski boots and bindings that don’t crush your toes. Worth billions!

@mikesalguero I thought this was a deep fake. 😂

I'm thrilled to see this change. Feels like we are healing as a country, his point about US censorship emboldening other countries was interesting; we need to again be a beacon of free speech in the world.

@johnrushx New to all this. Right now I’m doing a lot of copy pasting out and into various AI tools with VS Code. Do any of these integrate with VS Code? I’m not really looking to abandon it yet.

Absolutely nobody predicted this: AI Code is the new NoCode. Honestly, I like talking to AI more than to human developers when building small apps. It understands me better, even with half-baked specs. I've literally tested all AI builders I could find 😑 1/20 🧵 :

@mikesalguero 👆 this

Or you could put them on grass where available, let them regenerate the soil, and build a negative net carbon cycle. This is why we talk about “back to nature”, meat is not the villain, it’s the answer!

@bensmithlive Would have been better to flip the axes. Money goes up and duration goes right. Amazing to see in visual form.

America has the highest health expenditure, but the lowest life expectancy in the entire world. Meanwhile, Big Pharma is a $1.5 TRILLION business. And is booming every year. Let that sink in.

The world’s richest man built the entire healthcare system to keep you sick. He transformed healing into a profit-driven machine—and buried natural medicine in the process. This man is John D. Rockefeller. And here is the dark story of how he did it: 🧵

@Tobydeaux91 @darwintojesus In the sperm analogy, there are literally millions of other sperm and only 1 won. For that analogy to apply, there would need to be trillions (more) or other failed universes. My understanding is that there is little to no scientific evidence for this.

@darwintojesus If a different sperm had fertilized my mom’s egg, then I wouldn’t be here. That’s what these fine-tuning arguments always sound like to me. It’s like, so what? Then something else would be here.

Christopher Hitchens was once asked for the best argument for God. His answer? Fine-tuning. Our universe is balanced on a razor’s edge; even a tiny change in constants would make life impossible. Let’s examine 𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 and see just how absurd atheism really is🧵

@RobertKennedyJr @realDonaldTrump Hopefully you do it by removing subsidies and government-enabled corporate influence, not with more government control and regulation.

One of the first things I will do once we get @realDonaldTrump back in the White House and me to D.C. is to get ultra-processed foods out of school lunches.

@BanjoAtheist @chrisjcolby @NancyRPearcey I did not know that. When & where?

@BanjoAtheist @chrisjcolby @NancyRPearcey The question is “what kind of belief system causes societies to abolish slavery and what kinds oppressed people?” Which I think brings us back to @NancyRPearcey’s original post.

A few years ago, CNN published an article titled “Why I Raise My Children without God.” Instantly it went viral. The author, a young mother named Deborah Mitchell, listed several reasons why she shielded her children from learning about God—most of them variations on the problem of evil. Mitchell argued that a loving God would not allow “murders, child abuse, wars, brutal beatings, torture and millions of heinous acts to be committed throughout the history of mankind.” But this argument fails logically. If my argument against God is that the world has too much injustice and cruelty, that presumes a moral standard by which we can identify injustice. But a purely material universe does not generate moral standards. It tells us only what is, not what ought to be. Therefore materialism does not give a basis for saying the world is unjust. Of course, if humans are nothing but complex biochemical machines, then to call their actions evil makes no sense. Machines do not have the capacity to choose good or evil, nor do we hold them accountable for their actions. (From Finding Truth)

@chrisjcolby @NancyRPearcey She’s saying that a standard isn’t much of a standard if it can change from one society to the next. A “standard” that evolved as a utility to help a civilization advance can simply be discarded in favor of a new, more useful, “standard”.

@eric_hammes @NancyRPearcey Agreed. So, what's your point? The person I replied to didn't specify objective or subjective. She just tried to claim that "moral standards" can't form in a material world. I demonstrated the opposite.

@chrisjcolby @NancyRPearcey But those moral standards are “generated” by that society and therefore have no universal standard.

@NancyRPearcey A purely material world where societies that cooperate have an evolutionary advantage actually do generate moral standards.

@Edwardo_Andrade @NancyRPearcey I want to learn more. Where can I read about this early dating?

The New Testament was written w/i 100 yrs. of the events it describes--some books 40 yrs. People were still alive who could point out the fraud, if there was one. Plato & Aristotle--earliest copies are 1400 yrs. later. Caesar--1000 yrs. But no one denies that they are authentic

@Chrbarkley @NancyRPearcey @EpektasisJohn But couldn’t evolution have created a different set of values? In fact, doesn’t each societal group create different sets of values? And if every society can have different values, Dawkins cannot condemn another set of values, except that he doesn’t like it personally.

@NancyRPearcey @EpektasisJohn His protest makes sense from his worldview because he still cares about those values. He just thinks the reason he cares is due to evolution It is also valid for him to point out the contradiction in the Biblical worldview: that God is loving but also vindictive

Richard Dawkins's self contradiction: "On the one hand, his naturalism dictates that morality is just a relativistic trick of evolution to get our selfish genes into the next generation. On the other hand, he rails against the God of the Old Testament as a vindictive, bloodthirsty, homophobic, racist, genocidal, sadomasochistic, malevolent bully." Do you see the problem? That’s his commonsense moral realism talking, but his protest makes no sense in his worldview." str.org/w/naturalism-b…

@NancyRPearcey Which 2 Disney shows?

America has the highest rate of single parent homes in the world. And it's partly the consequence of the way fatherhood is mocked and ridiculed. One study analyzed 24 episodes of the Disney Channel’s two most popular tween shows featuring families and found that every 3.24 minutes, the TV dad acted like a buffoon. About half the time, the child characters reacted to him with expressions of contempt: rolling their eyes, making fun of him, criticizing him, or turning and walking away. (From Toxic War on Masculinity)