I debut in @firstthingsmag today writing on Brendan Eich, who ten years ago was attacked and chased out of Mozilla, a company he co-founded, for taking private civic action based upon his quiet Christian faith. It was a pivotal moment in our society and for me personally:
"I was working in New York's “Silicon Alley” when it happened, and I immediately recognized it as a major escalation in the culture war. It was a warning that the Leviathan of technocracy did not care how well I did, how hard I worked, or how well I treated others. Ideological conformity to the top-down, programmatic transformation of the country that was rapidly taking place was all that mattered. If I was unwilling to affirm the current thing dictated according to the whims of “progress,” I was an enemy of humanity and an enemy of America. And my beliefs, no matter how ancient, innocent, and valid, must bow to the will of Leviathan, or the digital swarm would descend upon me. In fact, the higher I rose, the harder opponents would hunt for an excuse to throw me, like Belteshazzar, to the lions."
Something to consider..
A lot of people genuinely don’t understand the difference between low income housing and supportive housing.
Supportive housing in theory is great, but when managed poorly like we see in Seattle it’s nothing anyone wants in their neighborhood. It’s wildly unsafe and ultimately enables unhealthy behavior/actions from people who truly need help
I say that as someone whose own brother lives in supportive housing in Seattle.
my grandparents dated in highschool (1950ish) and through most of college. My grandma was tired of my grandpa not pulling the trigger so she went to Maui for 3 months and dumped him.
When she was about to come home, he wrote her a letter recognizing how dumb he was. A week later when she landed he picked her up from SeaTac, drove her to a small lake town they used to visit (which I ended up moving to 50 years later) and they sat on the doc and planned their wedding right there.
I still have that letter.
This pretty much sums up the political left that's existed since the Naderites refused to vote for Gore and the Sanderites refused to vote for Hillary.
Stupid, meaningless, self defeating, self congratulating, political symbolic gestures that make them feel good all while participating in a self defeating political morass where important political ground is ceded to a more organized and mercenary political right.
Seriously, fuck these guys.
The blatant missed holding calls on Washington, literally lost the game. Then the unique use of holding calls against UW gave them the game. Absolutely maddening.
@bobbyfijan@thesamparr can't be anything newer than 05 if you want something reliable, fixable or tough
93 F250 7.3
bone stock or not will last forever
@seandsweeney@sweatystartup@sweatystartup is actually onto something with 3 years pre-marriage having the highest marital success rate and the longer you wait after, the more likely you are to get divorced.
@seandsweeney@sweatystartup miserable and failed marriages are *often* the result of a lack of effort in ways that count.
Been married 6 years and nearly 1/2 of that we've been in marriage counseling. We've never been better yet we still go. Why? Because a marriage worth having takes work worth doing.