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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I grew up in tech. My Dad was an engineer in the HCF era, and I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid and they had ashtrays next to the dumb terminals in what would now be called “data centers.” I got my first job in tech in 1999 and spent the next 25 years at 5 companies. I left tech 18 months ago for a lot of reasons. I was running towards something more than running away from anything, and I would go back if I needed to, but from one old veteran to another, the ride is over. We had a hell of a run, though.
  2. Not related to politics exactly but Nissan needs to bring back the Xterra and launch a barebones Mini truck to compete with the Maverick.
  3. And a woman who’s a little plump, scotch girl, and a daughter who‘s thirteen.
  4. You try feeding that with a little 12oz roll. It ain’t gonna work.
  5. Agreed, we are not talking about the same thing. I understand your point. My point is that Christians have been spent the last 500 years beating each other up over your point, and should not do that.
  6. Ok, fine - BUT that line is for Christ to draw and for you to think about. If the church can and in fact does acknowledge that those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience may achieve salvation, SURELY those who think of themselves as Christians can acknowledge the same thing about other Christians, or at least spend more time consider the great beam in their own eye.
  7. And that’s something to meditate on, not a division bell. It is not for Christians to decide who is and is not saved.
  8. We are a department store and
  9. The left is getting better at growing beards and it’s making righties nervous.
  10. Again, this is academic and strikes me as the sort of thing that Jesus scolded the Pharisees and lawyers for obsessing over. I’m not saying it’s unimportant, but it’s a koan more than it is workable doctrine. This is what I mean about Christians screwing this up. Buddhists think about the question of one hand clapping and try to arrive at inner clarity. Christians take the question of faith vs works and burn cities to the ground.
  11. Yeah I meant to screwed it up. Mine is 4, 2, 3, 5, 1
  12. Ok, but so what? Mercy, love, being the neighbor are non-negotiable moral obligations.
  13. Ok, but that’s an academic question that millions died over and has driven more people away from the gospel than it brought to The Church (and vice-versa). How do you supposed Jesus would feel about that? You say Jesus “condemned Pharisees to hell” for works without faith, but does he? Or does he condemn them for following the law while neglecting their neighbor and a lack of faithfulness? Does grace drive the faithful to slaughter each other over the question of chickens and eggs, or would that be works alone?
  14. Respectfully, Jesus doesn’t say anything about how to be a Christian. He says a number of things about how to be.
  15. It doesn’t have to be that one either. I really like this one: Or for the Catholics and Catholic-adjacent: Watts on Chesterton
  16. Make your time
  17. You should listen to that lecture on Hinduism I posted. And for that matter read the pope’s essays. Being happy can be your religion. Looking at the stars and being a good person can be your religion. Tat tvam asi, my brother.
  18. How about this: “Republicans are destroying your country and making you poor. vote for us if you want more and safe streets”
  19. Yup. I hate that branding, “moderate”. As if what we needed was compromise between competing elite factions instead of smashing them. It stinks like fear and pee. And while I like a lot about that book and what him and Derek Thompson are doing, San Francisco is just a terrible example, because it’s so sui generis. Every other big city with the same problems looks like it has shit together when you compare it to San Francisco- hell Ezra Klein praises Austin on housing, which is utter nonsense until the last 2 years. He’s just looking at MSA data, and what that is really telling him is not that Austin is doing a great job, but that it has sprawling suburbs in places where San Francisco has seawater.
  20. Close but that’s not moderate. The moderate position is to placate progressive maxis with carveouts and set asides and limitations and covenants until they buy in, which makes the housing less abundant and solves less of the problem, which is a shortage of housing. What you described as moderate is closer to the liberal position, which is: “we should allow the market to respond to the demand for housing. Fuck tankies and their bullshit. Their daddies pay their rent.”
  21. I celebrate a grab bag of good ideas and abhor a grab bag of bad ones. The problem with ideologues is that their ideas are systematic, and they are very concerned with why you have them and what other views you are allowed to have, and what boxes have to be checked along the way and so on. And Ideological maximalists generally don’t like the idea of getting anything they want unless they get everything they want. You see this with housing in big cities all the time- everyone agrees we have a shortage but progressive left maxis will actively oppose allowing any because developers will make money and they don’t want the housing without fixing the systemic inequities of capitalism.
  22. No offense meant, but have you considered that you might be an ideologue? Maybe that’s why it doesn’t make sense. No. Progressivism is absolutely a very real and coherent belief system. And there’s nothing inherently wrong or offensive about it, it’s just not useful for winning popularity quadrennial or biennial national popularity contests.
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