Hyperbolaman

Just trying to leave this campsite we call earth a little better than it was when I got here. No porn; No DM, DM's usually get unfollowed - Veritas Caritas Pax

[Hyperbolaman @Hyperbolaman]

I Have A Dream
"when all of God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last."
MLK Jr 8/28/1963

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Part of the guitar solo to that rare metal find sung by kids
"I don't Wanna Go to Bed"

[Keep Rock Alive 🤘 @_KeepRockAlive_]

Welcome To The Weekend Rockers 🤘

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The story behind the hymn

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

🧵Hymn Histories: The Beautiful Story of “Be Thou My Vision”

Few songs are still sung after 1,200 years. “Be Thou My Vision” is one of them. I love it deeply, but so have Christians from medieval Ireland to modern churches worldwide. Here’s why and where it came from. 🧵👇🏼

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Who knew Black Sabbath's song "Children of the Grave" was about GenX?
"Tell the world that love is still alive
You must be brave
Or the children of today are
Children of the grave"

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@darwintojesus One has to directly address the moral argument to refute it.
For that reason, offering a counter-argument is not a refutation. Instead, a counter-argument is a different argument altogether.

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@darwintojesus There are people who have run across the idea that a strawman is a fallacy, but have never learned what it is.
So they accuse any consequent and every conclusion they disagree with of being a "strawman".

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Plácido Domingo
I got to sit in the middle, directly in front of him, three rows from the stage.

[Amy @20th_Centurygal]

Out of all the concerts you've been to, who was the best vocalist?

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@DaytimePubSmell @darwintojesus Not distinguishing between "those" would be false equivocation or a fallacy of sense. Not a strawman.

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@PhilosopherJoeC Well, it is Cher after all.
So maybe a little bit of both all mixed together until it becomes the question itself?

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@EveKeneinan The OT Bible addresses that very issue.

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@DaytimePubSmell @darwintojesus The conclusion of the argument (no morality and no free-will) could then be valid but unsound.
But being unsound is not being a strawman.
If one knows that difference, it would be dishonest to propose there is none.

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@DaytimePubSmell @darwintojesus Regarding the argument's use of conditional propositions, that would make the consequent of the second premise (no morals) unsound, which is okay to argue.
But neither the first premise (if atheism, then no god) or the antecedent of the second (no god) is a strawman.

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@Marie3228781589 @barbjimsdottir @DemsAbroadCan SCOTUS decides legal definitions and meanings as they apply to constitutional law.
SCOTUS can decide what the terms 'man' and 'woman' refers to.
Montana must adhere to the Constitution.

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@i_danieall Sunburst strats are a fav

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An issue that is overlooked far too often.

[Among the Wildflowers @deaflibertarian]

Dear Federal Education and Civil Rights Leaders,

As responsibility for programs serving Deaf and Hard of Hearing students is reassigned within the federal government, I urge your agency to recognize that Deaf education is not simply a special education issue. It is fundamentally a civil rights issue involving language, communication, and equal access to education.

For many Deaf children, the greatest barrier is not hearing loss itself, but the lack of full access to language and communication. Hearing children acquire language naturally through constant exposure in their homes, schools, and communities. Many Deaf children do not receive that same access, particularly when educational programs prioritize speech development without ensuring that a child has a fully accessible language.

American Sign Language (ASL) is the natural language of the American Deaf community and is the only fully accessible language available to many Deaf children. While various signed systems exist to represent English, they are not languages in their own right and often depend upon proficiency in spoken English. For many Deaf students, ASL provides the direct, complete, and accessible language foundation necessary for cognitive, social, emotional, and academic development.
Federal policy should recognize that language access means access to a complete language, not merely access to communication supports or manually coded versions of English.

I also urge your agency to recognize the important role of residential schools for the Deaf. Too often, residential placements are viewed as restrictive simply because they are separate from neighborhood schools. However, for many Deaf students, residential schools provide the least restrictive environment because they offer direct access to language, peers, teachers, role models, extracurricular activities, and school life without the constant communication barriers present in many mainstream settings.
A Deaf child who spends the school day relying on interpreters, struggling to follow group discussions, eating lunch alone, and lacking meaningful communication with peers may be physically included but educationally and socially isolated. In contrast, a residential school for the Deaf may provide direct communication throughout the day, opportunities for leadership, social belonging, and full participation in academic and extracurricular activities.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires that placement decisions consider a child's language and communication needs. For Deaf students, this analysis should include:
• Access to a fully accessible language.
• Opportunities for direct communication with peers and staff. 
• Social and emotional well-being.
• Academic achievement and language development.
• The student's ability to participate fully in school life.

Residential schools for the Deaf should not be treated as placements of last resort. For many students, they are the most appropriate educational environment and the setting most capable of providing meaningful access to education.

As federal responsibilities are transferred, I respectfully request that your agency:
1. Recognize language access as a civil right.
2. Protect the right of Deaf children to acquire and use American Sign Language when appropriate.
3. Ensure that educational programs are evaluated based on actual access and outcomes rather than placement labels.
4. Preserve strong enforcement of communication access requirements.
5. Support a full continuum of placement options, including residential schools for the Deaf.
6. Consider language deprivation and communication isolation as significant educational concerns.
7. Ensure that Deaf students have opportunities for direct communication, not merely mediated communication through interpreters or technology. (Cont.)

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@RattlesnakeMeat @SamaHoole Colorado's uses doesn't help any.

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@DaytimePubSmell @darwintojesus Implications and inferences result from a claim.
A strawman misrepresents the claim.
The atheist claim is 'there is no god'.
Whatever conditional that can arguably be said to result from that claim is not a strawman.

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As Paul Harvey used to say:
"And now you know the rest of the story." 🇺🇸

[U.S. Interior Press @interiorpress47]

The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening—most infamously Obama's reopening—since 1922.

The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool—just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

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A net worth mostly comprised of illiquid assets and unrealized capital gains cannot be easily distributed without selling off entire companies, etc.
But go ahead and keep sounding like the inflating-head lawyer imagined by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Adam Schiff released a video fantasizing about what “we” could pay for “by the wealth of our first trillionaire."

"$1 trillion, if we decided to distribute that equally among American households, your household would get $7,500..."

Sounds downright utopian, Adam.

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@FiatLuxGenesis Paul Harvey was insightful.

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@KoskowithaK @FiatLuxGenesis 🙏