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To become Fire is the End of Man. We're drawn towards it inexorably. We will all burn, one way or another. Present yourself.
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Blake Blount
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Blake Blount
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Old Stock American - Georgian - Protestant
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@FredFredSanders @OldTestamentTom “I tried hiring help to co-write my research thesis and in my judgment hiring help is total slop. Not worth it”
“Did you ask a 5 year old to help in change for a lollipop?”
“Yes, I asked a 5 year old to help in exchange for a lollipop.”
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@FredFredSanders @OldTestamentTom You will never have good results with the free tier. Judging AI by the free tier is not judging it at all. You should specify this up front.
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The writing was a weird mix of (a) vague and bland and (b) blunt and overblown. On the vague side, reading it was exactly like reading workmanlike student notes taken from a lecture. The key points were there, but sort of suspended in a haze of "I'm not sure this student got it."
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@MeltonDuncan He is correct about the PCA’s demographic cliff.
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A provocative take. #PCAGA people what are your thoughts?
The Presbytery Inn@PresbyInn
A clear-headed analysis of the problems in the mainline is necessary for any kind of action moving forward. Again, as @ryanburge has shown, the PCA is going to face a massive die off in the next few decades and is going to need both people and resources. I don't think Reformed Presbyterianism survives this century unless NAPARC merges its member churches institutionally and there's some kind of integration of PCUSA churches that have been fighting (unsuccessfully) to maintain some semblance of orthodoxy in the denomination. NAPARC has the members and the mission. PCUSA has the money and, to a degree, institutional leverage. Disclaimer: I'm not suggesting NAPARC abandon doctrinal orthodoxy one bit to integrate PCUSA. I'm saying I think there needs to be a serious discussion about whether whole denominations can survive the passing of the boomer generation that have basically 0 substantial disagreements between themselves, URC, and OPC.
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@bendellwerry I want Steve Jobs to return like Arthur riding out from Avalon.
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The escalating war between Apple hardware making faster and faster systems and Apple software writing a more bloated and inefficient OS is a sight to behold.
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The public internet is rapidly becoming a middlebrow ghetto. As we converge toward AGI, the only winning strategy in the next-generation attention economy is to reject all conventional signaling and audience growth tactics in favor of uncompromisingly sophisticated work that alienates 99% of viewers, just in order to mobilize a tiny circle of elite individuals in a given domain.
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@bendellwerry Glad you dropped the nonsense about roundabouts.
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tfw you write a long post but you’re so good at thinking that you reason yourself out of your conclusion by the time you get to the end so you just delete it.
It’s a cross we bear.
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Union Pacific is literally making a Trump engine to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of America.
We just keep winning.
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@xenocosmography You should go on @Qal_Qohelet ‘s cast to talk Calvinism. It’s be a great conversation.
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Pride is the first, worst, and probably ultimate sin, but I'm already at the "I'm literally the only person on this planet who understands Calvinism" stage. No doubt going to be bad. Predestined.
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Of course all legitimate concerns and critiques are excepted from this. I tend to agree with them. But I also think the administration is a reality-respecter playing the hand it is dealt and that savvy politics requires the circuitous route more often than not.
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@OriginalA_the_P You listen to Cal’s cast on Presbies and Quakers?
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Virtue and class, Puritan and Cavalier:
Modern people think of middle class virtues when they think of virtues at all. (Civic virtues, that is: the qualities on which society is built.) Temperance, patience, frugality, productivity, returning shopping carts, paying your bills.
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Never allow your attitude to be a liability. Be positive and strong. Set your mind on winning-- and keep it there.
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The church spent 50 years ceding cultural ground because we didn't control the means of production. AI just handed us the keys to the factory and half of Christian leadership is warning people not to touch it. We don't need more caution. We need builders who understand what they've been given.
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Any time I comment on the Iran War the replies are equal parts "why are you supporting Arabs?" and "why do you support president child predator?", so I guess I found the via media on x dot com (the everything app).
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@b52gunner78 @WilliamWolfe That’s more of a fairy tale than William’s explanation. DST was an industrial/urban imposition. Farmers opposed it.
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@WilliamWolfe Just tell them the truth. Democrats almost 100 years ago used it to trick farmers into voting for them.
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Explaining Daylight Savings Time to the kids like:
“Well, the Time Goblins come and steal an hour off our clocks while we sleep but the Sun Elves grant us more light at the end of the day. Not the best system in the world, but it seems to work.”
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“Teach the truth. Credential your people.”
In his latest, @RedemTheTimes writes that the conservative movement no longer needs, or can afford to wait, for reform in higher education. hubs.li/Q045WGJW0
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