Ian Tyrrell

@RodeoClownII I've never seen anyone change sides from Team Shorter to Team Longer in a social media discussion :P

A decent chunk of preachers would get noticeably better if they preached at 1.5x speed. (All preachers will do best if there is significant variance in speaking speed across the duration of their sermons)

@EmilyDreyfuss Depends if @patio11 is visiting or not.

who are the most interesting writers and public thinkers in SF, in your opinion?

@NotionHQ how do I stop Notion asking if I want to register my device with Intune whenever I open it? I've said "no", but it just keeps asking.

@rudiesbrother @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 Also: "Their" in the sense of either one of the couple earning twice as much as that individual previously did. Not "their" in the sense of the combined income doubling.

@RodeoClownII @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 They didn't double "their" income. One individual did. I fully understand the implications of tax splitting, I spent four years as a US income tax payer. It would cost $12b a year to roll out here. What are we cutting to do that?

If a married couple both work part-time and both earn $100k each, they pay about $45k in combined income tax for the year. If they decide to start a family and the woman stays home with the kids, and the husband goes full time so the family can still bring in $200k, they now pay around $60k in income tax as a family for the year. So now they have kids the government demands an extra $15k? Right at the time when the family needs more money, not less. This disincentivizes people having children, and caring for their own children. Same amount of income for the family, but the tax penalty is much worse if the income only comes from one parent. Why?

@rudiesbrother @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 Sure. The same gross income, considerably less nett. There's plenty of waste we could cut, but why would you think the brackets would remain the same if we changed to allow tax splitting? It's not a change to be made in isolation.

@mikey_g_lynch What you are trying to communicate probably comes in to play too. If you want people to just remember a key point: short and snappy. Aiming for a deep dive into a chunk of the Bible: maybe go a bit longer to cover more.

@mikey_g_lynch Longer sermons are absolutely fine in some contexts. Whether that context is the regular Sunday service with people who aren't used to tuning in for that long, and with (hopefully) plenty of kids milling around being distracting...? I'd suggest shorter would probably be better.

@Pro__Thought Yep. Lived in the US for a little while, their tax system is broken in other ways, but being able to split your income makes so much sense!

@RodeoClownII Ridiculous isn't it mate? Families operate financially as a family unit. Not as individuals.

@rudiesbrother @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 Instead of thinking of it as doubling their income (which does happen), just imagine what the tax implications are if each partner earned half of the current, single, income. Exactly the same tax effect, and you don't have to worry about situations you struggle to imagine.

@RodeoClownII @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 It's a completely improbable scenario designed to magnify the additional tax take of an individual doubling their income. It's disingenuous bullshit. Plenty of us are sole income earners for a household, but that's not the point.

@rudiesbrother @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 We weren't earning 100k apiece, but neither of us had a regular fulltime job (at first)

@RodeoClownII @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 So you and your wife both worked part time by choice before you had kids? Remarkable.

@rudiesbrother @Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 I am the sole breadwinner in our home with a bunch of kids. I live his scenario every day (and have done for more than 20 years).

@Pro__Thought @tellmemore11234 You used an improbable hypothetical to maximise the increased tax burden under the one income scenario. Most of the mouth breathers in the comments are too simple to realise though, so well played, I guess?

@FoolOfD I can hear it.

I wonder how irreversibly cooked our brains are as the first generation of men to have memorized the geography of non-existent spaces. I'm far from the only one who can tell you exactly where this is located.

@politicalmath I normally just wait until they reach free on Prime or Epic. I did buy Slay the Spire 2 on day one just recently though (twice, actually, so I could play with my son).

I never buy a game when it comes out. Never. Not ever. I just don't do it. I always wait a year or two for the price to drop at least 30% But, man, all this angry nonsense makes me want to go buy this game and play it until the sun comes up

I'm beginning to suspect the anti-Pragmata tweets are being secretly sponsored by Pragmata because everyone who is angry at this game makes me want to buy it

@mikey_g_lynch Yeah, he's good value. Also, if you haven't already, try and find a copy of Saving Eutychus by Gary Millar and Phil Campbell. It's good value (from a sermon-based perspective). Might have a few things that are a little dated (I think the average attention span has dropped).

@RodeoClownII Enjoying it so far! Thanks for the recommendation!!!

@The_Nutscracker @SorareRomar @xwanyex (Sorry, I thought that phrase was from the OP). I don't think those other forms of love can't be incredibly powerful. I don't think they are lesser. But they are different.

@RodeoClownII @SorareRomar @xwanyex I hate to jump back in here, but those actually were my exact words. Sorare, Ian's right: there is a new level, a categorical difference, of love that parents have for their children. It's not comparable to being a volunteer or a teacher. It's not comparable to anything.

There’s a moment that happens to new parents, probably around four in the morning, when you’ve been up all night with a sick kid, and they’ve just thrown up again, and you’re so fucking tired and frustrated, but it’s outweighed by the sympathy you feel for this helpless dependent, and most of all you just want them to feel better, and then it hits you that this is what your mom did for you, and in that moment you understand your parents in a new way, fully comprehend what they did for you — like, you really get it, way down in your stomach, not just in the abstract way that anybody can understand what parents do for children — and you realize that from now on you’re always going to see things from the perspective of the parent, not as a child, and a lot of your complaints and hangups and neuroses will melt away, never to return, and from now on the stories you’ll tell about your childhood, stories you’ve told 1000 times before, will have a slightly different character, will be based on a fuller understanding of who you are and what actually happened to you, and you’ll think, “my God, in all those years of childlessness, I’ve cheated myself of this realization, of this opportunity to understand the world as it really is and move on.” And if you’re childless and reading this, then maybe you’re thinking, “sure, but obviously I can intellectually understand this without having children of my own” and it’s just, like, no, probably not. It just doesn’t really work like that.

@SorareRomar @The_Nutscracker @xwanyex I don't see where he said that they are locked out of a higher plane of love in his post. He does say (and what I agree with), is that you literally cannot understand what your parents did for you in the same way without having been there. (He had a follow-up about bad parents.)

@RodeoClownII @The_Nutscracker @xwanyex No I do but I obviously was extremely annoyed to read the reply that confidently wrote "childless people are literally locked out of a higher plane of love"... That's untrue and dangerously denies something to those non-parents

online discourse: men don't have paternal instincts & don't love kids who are not their own me at church:

@SorareRomar @The_Nutscracker @xwanyex You don't have kids, do you? Wanye isn't suggesting that childless people can't make a huge difference and massively influence others, but it is a categorical difference that you can't understand until you're on the other side of it.

@The_Nutscracker @xwanyex Some people can never become parents and still be teachers, priests/nuns, volunteers, and public servants who fall that make a positive difference in society so you're wrong but also letting your own experience create exceptionalism. Everyone can be loving, it's not unique