Micah Odor

Best advice I got in high school: "For your whole life, people will be trying to label you. Don't be in a hurry to do their job for them."

To insult Cincy, Cleveland people call it Kentucky. To insult Cleveland, Cincy people call it Cleveland.

buddy, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

@JESnowden Are you familiar with the Wayback Machine? web.archive.org

Almost all of my writing has disappeared off the Internet including some interviews and features I don't have a copy of. Every site, no matter the size, is vulnerable to this. Save your work.

asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive. this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important. so: not paying that cost is telling

@CiudadBBall @NateDuncanNBA You don't trade a #5 pick for a starting center? In what universe?

@NateDuncanNBA You just can’t trade that much for sub all stars Bane and Bridges trades should have been a warning (and yes the Knicks are playing great now) They don’t even know if Haliburton will be himself. He’s got shingles for christ sakes

It was clear at the time of doing the trade that the 5th or 6th pick would probably be a point guard. So Pacers would be looking to trade it now, without as much matching salary. Would they get a better (and cheaper) player without losing part of their core than Zu? I say no.

What we lose when the Bible is only on a screen: 1. You remember where the verse lives on the page and aids memorization. 2. The page shows you much more at once. You see the context, not just a few verses at once. 3. The page keeps your notes. Years from now they will still be there, in your own hand. 4. The page cannot distract you with a notification. It only asks to be read. 5. The page is something your children watch you open and they know it’s the Bible. The screen gives much. The page gives more.

The discourse around Achilles the last week has made it clear how difficult it is to climb into a pre-Christian mind, even for non-Christians. He is strong, concerned with honor, unmatched in battle, loyal to his comrades, and driven to a fault. He relents in his anger when Priam approaches him for mercy. He is also petty and cruel. He sulks in his tent while his friends die because Agamemnon bruised his honor. His longing for personal fame and glory was elevated above everything else. To the pre-Christian mind, this made him more heroic, not less. Flaws like wrath or pettiness didn’t disqualify a hero. In fact, they were part of the package. Achilles embodies the Homeric ideal of the warrior. Christian ethics, however, elevated self-sacrifice and humility as the true marks of integrity. Christianity was a reset to the cultural moral imagination. So for many, Achilles feels quite alien. Magnificent in some ways, repellent in others. We have much to learn from him, but it isn’t all good.

@Isegoria Sturgeon's Law? (quick googling to confirm)

Ninety percent of everything is crud.

@HansFiene 6. Lutheran Satirist

Jobs I think I would be good at if I were not a pastor, in no particular order: 1. Foley artist 2. Screenwriter 3. Pro wrestling booker 4. Music producer 5. Stand up comedian

@lymanstoneky Literally drove through StL last night and saw at least a dozen sets of police lights. Their cops are busy at least.

Is there any city in America so dramatically far below its potential as St. Louis?

@TRFletcher @1776_magaman @Liathetrader How odd.

@1776_magaman @micahodor @Liathetrader Oh.

Groceries for 2 people. Will last us maybe 5 days. I don’t know how people do it. This country is becoming unbearably expensive. 2k monthly groceries Not counting if you want to go to a restaurant once a week, add another 1k.

@TRFletcher @Liathetrader Beef, yes. Still getting great deals on pork. Local store has pork sirloin roast right now at 1.99/lb.

@Liathetrader Meat has become out of reach. I’m told (by ranchers) with the bankruptcies and selling caused by tariffs, the beef prices really get crazy in 18-24 months.

@MorlockP Sailors in the 1700s were well known for their excellent diets and long lifespan of healthy years.

yes, we have accurate statistics on skin cancer rates of sailors in 1700s; this is an excellent argument

i think a solution to the historical accuracy problem for the odyssey would be to set it in the 1930s in the south and change their outfits to something like prison uniforms, and maybe cast someone like george clooney instead of matt damon

@ThomasSKidd @markdtooley I can't verify it, but I remember 20 years ago that the combined membership of all SBC churches in Texas is higher than the total population of Texas.

@markdtooley "Members lost" often means that churches are now counting actual members and no longer counting people who died, never attend, moved to another state, etc. Unfortunately, too many SBC churches added people to "membership" and then completely lost track of them.

Some good news but still nearly 400,000 members lost.

This radio station is called “classic rock” but it’s playing cool current music like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.

@rob_mcrobberson @justalexoki That was supposed to say "cured" of blindness. Stupid autocorrect. I should fire my copy editor.

@rob_mcrobberson @justalexoki One of the most disturbing short stories I've ever read was explicitly about a woman who was chief of blindness, resented the "cure" language, and so re-blinded herself in the triumphant finale. I was disturbed thinking about it for what.

besides potentially saving the health care system i think the most profound effect of ozempic has been the complete dismantling of the "body positivity" movement and the whole body type argument. they were actually just eating too much lmao

@RealSpikeCohen @WesleyLHuff Came here to say this.

@WesleyLHuff And "shear" instead of "sheer."

So apparently I’m embroiled in some sort of controversy. Let me set a few things strait: 1. I don’t know Sam Allberry personally. We've met in-person a total of once — back in January while I was in Nashville when I did the Shawn Ryan Podcast, where I ran into and took a picture with Sam. When I saw the news initially about his removal from leadership I took that picture down. I had already started to see people commenting that by keeping it up I was implicating myself in his sin. I do not think they were correct. But ironically, said comments were then replaced with ones telling me that by taking it down… I was hiding something and implicating myself in his sin. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. 2. I believe the language in the current public statements to be potentially unhelpfully vague. From my (brief though not uninformed) understanding of the details of the situation, what Sam did that disqualified him from leadership was not due to sexual or even a romantic impropriety, but what could best be described as a sinful emotional attachment. This is not to justify it or say that it wasn't disqualifying (I think it probably was). But the lack of clarity has left room for those who desire to gossip, defame, and sinfully speculate online to run wild — which they have. 3. I am genuinely saddened with the internet’s desire to tear down and jump to harsh judgements regarding another Christian’s failing. When someone falls into sin, those who are spiritually mature should work toward their restoration, approaching them with a spirit of gentleness (Gal. 6:1-2). The motivation for restoration carries spiritual weight. Bringing someone back who has wandered from truth saves their soul from death and covers a multitude of sins (James 5:19–20). This isn’t merely about correcting behaviour, it’s about spiritual rescue. The desire to gossip and breed quarrels, which is so obviously warned against in scripture (Proverbs 17:19; 26:17; 2 Timothy 2:14, 23-24; Titus 3:9-11; James 4:1-2) is, to say the least, lamentable and disappointing to see. 4. Sam Allberry is being labelled as “Side B,” this is genuinely confusing to me. To quote Sam in his own words: “Same sex attraction is not a good thing. It is... a consequence of the fall. ...This kind of attraction is not something God designed for us, and it contradicts his design” (Is God Anti Gay, 63). Sam has expressed in multiple places throughout his written work and public talks that he holds to the biblical position of marriage, that homosexual relationships are sinful, and that identifying as a “gay Christian” is incompatible with scripture. To be clear, I don't agree with Sam on all the nuances of how he discusses the issue. But I can only conclude that this attempt to make him into an LBGT advocate comes from either shear ignorance of his public work or some sort of internet-level frothing of the mouth to jump on whoever “we don’t like this week.” But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. - Heb 3:13.

Evangelicalism has had a "big name" problem since at least George Whitefield. None of us are necessary for the work of the gospel, I don't care how "well spoken" you are or how many people you have "helped". We are dispensable men serving the indispensable Gospel.