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Michigander. Doomer Optimist.

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Joe Rogan says he gave Harris campaign ‘open invitation’ to sit down anytime: ‘I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up’ The mega-popular podcaster on Wednesday defended his decision to reject the interview based on the ground rules that the Democratic presidential candidate tried to impose — including limiting the t…

Ok, I guess they couldn’t come to terms on schedule and location. nypost.com/2024/10/31/u...

26.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I wonder how many, like Harris, he invited and they declined.

26.01.2025 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There are people that actually care what’s in the document and are worried about it, and there are people who just want to stir up outrage. I am careful to make sure when I make claims about a document that I have screenshots or reporting to back it up. It doesn’t take a lot of bandwidth.

26.01.2025 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Read a 900 page document to find something that somebody just made up? No thanks

26.01.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I guess not.

26.01.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires? During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier.

Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?

"During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat... waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier."

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-priv...

26.01.2025 01:44 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

He’s trolling.

25.01.2025 23:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All of my parents cutlery is family made and easily into its second century of daily usage.

25.01.2025 12:11 — 👍 71    🔁 3    💬 9    📌 0
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DEI Is a Failure Because the Civil Rights Movement Wasn’t About Elite Diversity The tide is turning against modern diversity bureaucracies. But that's not necessarily bad news for progressives, at least if they believe in the goals of the civil rights movement.

“DEI was a failure. It was a failure not because it wasn't implemented properly or because we didn't try hard enough.

It was a failure because the civil rights movement wasn't about elite diversity in the first place -- it was about lifting up the poor.” www.theamericansaga.com/p/dei-is-a-f...

25.01.2025 02:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe an age limit while we’re at it

24.01.2025 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like anything, context matters. Find common ground on the right stuff.

24.01.2025 04:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“This has got to be a society-wide cultural shift that we have to stop looking at this vital force of nature as something we can conquer or control, and learn how to live with it” 🔥

24.01.2025 00:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dating from the 1050s, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, this is Britain’s oldest door, made from oak, in a passage leading to the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey
www.westminster-abbey.org/history/expl...

23.01.2025 06:21 — 👍 252    🔁 46    💬 13    📌 0

+ for advocating for adaptation and resilience
- for using the term “mindbomb”

24.01.2025 00:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Seems like he’d be pro illegal immigration if he wanted cheap labor and workers with no rights

23.01.2025 23:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

“Project 2025 requires all 18-30 yo serve 1-2 years working on farms as community service”

Do you have a source for this?

23.01.2025 23:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
THE TRUE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE
BY PHILOSOPHER KARL POPPER*
YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE POPPER PARADOX
THANKS TO THIS?
I NEVER SAID THAT!
(PICTOLINE.COM)
POPPER ARGUED THAT SOCIETY VIA ITS INSTITUTIONS, SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO PROHIBIT THOSE WHO ARE INTOLERANT
FOR POPPER, ON WHAT GROUNDS MAY SOCIETY SUPPRESS THE INTOLERANT ?
When they
"are not prepared to meet on the level of rational argument"
"they forbid their followers to listen to rational argument...
& teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols"
THE ARGUMENT OF THE INTOLERABLY INTOLERANT IS
FORCE & VIOLENCE
"LINLIMITED
TOLERANCE MUST LEAD TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TOLERANCE"
WE MISCONSTRUE THIS PARADOX AT OUR PERIL...
...TO THE EXTENT THAT ONE GROUP COULD DECLARE ANOTHER GROUP 'INTOLERANT, JUST TO PROHIBIT THEIR IDEAS, SPEECH
& OTHER FREEDOMS
*Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl R. Popper
Muchas gracias a @lokijustice y asivaespana.com

THE TRUE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE BY PHILOSOPHER KARL POPPER* YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE POPPER PARADOX THANKS TO THIS? I NEVER SAID THAT! (PICTOLINE.COM) POPPER ARGUED THAT SOCIETY VIA ITS INSTITUTIONS, SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO PROHIBIT THOSE WHO ARE INTOLERANT FOR POPPER, ON WHAT GROUNDS MAY SOCIETY SUPPRESS THE INTOLERANT ? When they "are not prepared to meet on the level of rational argument" "they forbid their followers to listen to rational argument... & teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols" THE ARGUMENT OF THE INTOLERABLY INTOLERANT IS FORCE & VIOLENCE "LINLIMITED TOLERANCE MUST LEAD TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TOLERANCE" WE MISCONSTRUE THIS PARADOX AT OUR PERIL... ...TO THE EXTENT THAT ONE GROUP COULD DECLARE ANOTHER GROUP 'INTOLERANT, JUST TO PROHIBIT THEIR IDEAS, SPEECH & OTHER FREEDOMS *Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl R. Popper Muchas gracias a @lokijustice y asivaespana.com

Another famous poster:

23.01.2025 13:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They shouldn’t have to work in these conditions. Masks or no masks

23.01.2025 05:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Theory of Enchantment

Just this kind: www.theoryofenchantment.com

23.01.2025 02:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sam Knowlton (@samdknowlton) on Twitter:
"The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens.
If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."
- Bill Mollison

Sam Knowlton (@samdknowlton) on Twitter: "The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter." - Bill Mollison

22.01.2025 22:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hope it goes well

22.01.2025 02:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Perhaps a silly question but are you dressing warm enough?

20.01.2025 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Said goodbye to the sweetest chinchilla yesterday.

20.01.2025 19:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“They” in this case meaning people who say they want people in red states to suffer?

I think it’s worth pushing back on but if the pushback is merely limiting the desire for suffering to red voters I want no part of it.

19.01.2025 23:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trying to figure out whether “actual people” refers to everyone in red states or just those that vote blue.

19.01.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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'Thuya Burl Tripartite' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Thuya burl, Serviceberry and Ebony with Holly spacers.

The bowl is Serviceberry wood... a favorite! An understory tree that is native to Canada and every U.S. state except Hawaii.

#spoon #spoontaneous #art #craft #design #woodworking #carving 🥄

17.01.2025 12:34 — 👍 65    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

You know that screenshot is very old because Google is still showing the best result at the top.

17.01.2025 01:42 — 👍 209    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
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Progress on the timber framing elements for our current project.

#timberframing #architecture #design #home #vermont

11.01.2025 04:19 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder how Arthur Schopenhauer (1766-1860) conceived of health. Probably very different than we do today

11.01.2025 00:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bureaucratic Statistics A few thoughts about a reframing of statistical methodology

“Social science and medicine are not interested in discovering causation. They are looking for evidence to justify policies that will impact populations of people. And statistics has been one of the most powerful methods for population-level, bureaucratic assessment” www.argmin.net/p/bureaucrat...

09.01.2025 05:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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