Michael Harrell

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@NateSilver538 @zerohedge What about FiveThirtyNate?

Honestly what a bunch of assholes @ABC

@bikebremerton @VietQNguyen Reducing modern Bellevue to "wealthy suburb" is simply inaccurate. Kirkland is a wealthy suburb. Bellevue is a satellite, sure, but it's a city in its own right.

@VietQNguyen Some of this is cogent argument- homeless and crime. Some is standard ‘big city vs wealthy suburb’ stuff. But budget criticism is either ignorant or dishonest. Seattle owns a large public utility: massive damns and transmission wires, which accounts for 40% of the budget.

Seattle vs. Bellevue: 20 years of data, side by side I pulled the numbers and the gap is wider than I expected. Both cities grew about the same (Seattle +40%, Bellevue +34%). But the outcomes diverged hard. Budget (ex-municipal utilities, real per-capita, 2026 dollars): • Seattle: $5,997 → $8,677 per resident (+45%) • Bellevue: $5,741 → $4,653 per resident (−19%) • Seattle now spends 1.9x more per resident than Bellevue on essentially the same menu of city services Crime (per 100,000, 2025 estimates): • Violent crime: Seattle ~542, Bellevue ~99 (5.5x gap) • Property crime: Seattle ~4,100, Bellevue ~2,200 (1.9x gap) Homelessness (King County PIT count): • 2006: ~7,900 • 2024: 16,868 (+113%) • Seattle absorbs nearly all of the visible unsheltered population. Bellevue, same county, does not. Schools (4-year graduation rate, 2024): • Seattle Public Schools: 88% • Bellevue School District: 94%, ranked #1 in Washington • SPS has lost 4,000+ students since 2019. Families with options are leaving. Median household income (2023, inflation-adjusted): • Seattle: $121,984 • Bellevue: $161,300 (+32%) Life expectancy: • East King County (Bellevue area): 84.2 years • King County overall: 81.2 years • Seattle Downtown/Belltown/First Hill: 71.6 years • 15+ year gap within the same county Where Seattle still wins: • Parks system, ranked #8 in the U.S. by Trust for Public Land • Transit (more buses, light rail, walkability) • Cultural amenities Bottom line: Seattle spends nearly twice as much per resident as Bellevue and gets worse outcomes on schools, safety, homelessness, and life expectancy. Some of that is because Bellevue is wealthier and less burdened with regional problems. But not all of it. The dollars-to-outcomes gap is the real story, and Seattle’s defenders have a hard time explaining it away.

@AvoidPerception @Ad_Crucem @matt_e_cochran > He does not command men to induce such respect. No, He commands them to love "as Christ loved the Church, giving Himself up for her," and to "nourish and cherish" their wives as their own body. Women: Submit. Men: Die. Call for repentance, and extend grace upon grace.

@Ad_Crucem @matt_e_cochran God commands women to respect their husbands. He does not command men to induce such respect. God commands men to love their wives. He does not command women to induce such love. If you infer corollary instructions, don’t stop here; tell women to earn their husbands’ love.

"Yes, God tells wives to submit to their husbands, but submission needs to be voluntary!" Imagine standing before God at the Judgment and explaining that your disobedience is fine because you know He wanted it to be voluntary and you didn't volunteer. Good luck with that.

@CoryLaflin Not sure because I can't afford their retail costs. 🙃

Well, Lutheran mufos, DOES CPH have high shipping costs? *ducks*

@bestofstarwar I am indifferent to this change.

Let’s settle this debate, are you a fan of this change? Yes or no.

@WmWeedon @DrJordanBCooper @manofsteeele It's not that we pretend there's not. It's that one faction says practical diversity doesn't matter, and one faction says all diversity must squashed in the name of "purity" and "unity," and those two sides constantly talk past each other to rally their respective troops.

@DrJordanBCooper @manofsteeele We have an unacknowledged diversity, my friend. We pretend it’s not there but it is.

The big what ifs of American Lutheranism: What if Walther had been humble enough to actually listen to Krauth? What if the General Council and Synodical Conference had found their way to each other? What if LCMS hadn’t been so darned high handed with the Synodical Conference?

@TheDonStein I don't believe anime-watching nerd and sports bro are mutually exclusive categories. I want a pastor who will watch a ballgame while talking about the moral arc of Vinland Saga's Thorfinn. My demands are small.

@harkening Not “no nerds,” just less. Balance.

A fake quote, sure, but a true sentiment. Now for something truly spicy: the church would benefit from less nerds entering ministry and more quarterbacks and linebackers.

@WmWeedon No man may CHOOSE to celebrate, as no man should preach or administer the Sacrament except he be regularly called. If he is called by a gathered assembly in said residence, MAYBE, but you'd have to ask about the examination of greater fellowship and appointment to the role.

Question came up in Bible Class: Can a Christian, based on the royal priesthood of the Baptized, choose to celebrate the Eucharist in his private home.

@pick1oftheabove @Wanderer071189 @ZELLKLUMPEN And all of this was a failure by doctors to actually apply the carveouts specifically written into the law for this reason, not of the law itself.

@Wanderer071189 @ZELLKLUMPEN The woman in Texas died of severe preeclampsia at 20 weeks after she could not get a "life of the mother" abortion that would've normally been recommended. Forcing a delivery by that stage would functionally be an abortion

realistic version:

@___mithrandir_ @LutheranAnswers My dude, if you think being (made) ethnically German comes with a sense of humor...* *I am ethnically German; QED.

@LutheranAnswers @harkening Even if you're not ethnically German you're made spiritually German in your confirmation, which comes with the sense of humor

Purgatory is real but Adam and Eve are the only people there. This is because they were never born in the first place so they can't be born again.

@TheNicholasWolf It's not a horrible bad idea to play with in the GFFA, given the profiteering in the EU Empire (Sienar), the banking clan's alliance with the Separatists, or what was later explored in Andor with Mon Mothma. The problem is that Canto Bight is neither creative nor interesting.

The casino scene is a microcosm of what didn’t work about The Last Jedi and why I remain unconvinced that Rian Johnson has ever watched a Star Wars movie. The whole “le bad 1%” meme is thematically absent from the broader series (including the rest of the Sequel Trilogy) in any meaningful sense, and to just hamfistedly drop it into the middle of the movie pulls the audience out of the setting with the subtlety of yanking out a tooth.

@LutheranAnswers Because we're Lutheran.

@harkening Why do people hate good, clean, Christian Comedy?

Catholics don't conflate actual, historical Protestantism from modern evangelicalism Challenge level: impossible.

@JCalebJones @mattleeanderson Scripture explicitly numbers 10 "utterances" (דָּבָר, dabar) spoken by God, which is traditionally rendered English "commandments." The first utterance : I am the Lord Your God & c. is the premise from which the subsequent actual Commandments flow.

@mattleeanderson Okay. Let me give you a reason. The chiastic structure that you described is built around the idea of there only being 9 commandments, but the Bible explicitly describes them as 10 commandments.

My latest theological hot take: there are only nine commandments in Exodus 20, not ten, and they form a nearly-perfect chiasm.

@mattleeanderson This is a lukewarm take, TBH.

@MarloweMic78463 @WmWeedon @siehaybay If the Concord in total is "too big" and "complex," the Epitome isn't. The Confession isn't. The Catechism isn't. Smalkald aren't.

@WmWeedon @siehaybay The BOC is far too big, complex and context-specific to serve as a symbol in any practical way. Only historical theologians can bear to read it. That's why the Brief Statement was developed.

If you think that later theological documents of the LCMS are equal to the Symbols, you are holding a quite unLutheran position. Period. The end. Repent. The Symbols are the Symbols, and we don’t need any new ones.

@KGBBooks Here to take the bait.

I wouldn’t call them evil. The Emperor kept his space wizardry a secret. As far as the average imperial officer knew, he was serving the legitimate successor government to the Old Republic. A man of Veers’s age and rank no doubt fought in the Clone Wars. Just a competent man doing his job. Plus Disney had to throw away the old EU because the Empire was the good guys. When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy, the New Republic sure could have used a planet destroying super weapon.

@BitcoinBoiiii @OliLondonTV The cutoff for the top percentile of wealth in the US is about $14m. Paulson would be definitionally 1% with a moderately successful movie or TV show. Paulson is globally the 0.5%.

@OliLondonTV FYI 12 million dollars is not that rich at all in today's economy. That buys you a house, a car, pays the bills and sets you up nice for retirement. Certainty doesn't guarantee your children generational wealth or afford you 5 star hotels and first class flights....

Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’ The actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.