Birger

Thoughts and opinions mostly someone else's. A little servant of an illustrious Master. Nebraska farmer. Work only when I can't find anything else to do.

[Birger @benarmsx]

Unalienable refers to something that cannot be transferred to another person, surrendered, or taken away.
Life, liberty & pursuit of happiness. Abortion, covid 19 & socialism. 2026

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@EricLDaugh If you would ignore them they'll get themselves down.

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@mrmikeMTL Pithed a frog & watched it heart beat.

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It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices (constitution) should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary
James Madison

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@bankertobuilder Wishing Google maps had an option for roundabout free routes.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For years, I raised alarms about dangerous gain-of-function research being farmed out to foreign countries, and I was told it was a conspiracy theory. Now, declassified documents show that the U.S. funded over 120 biolabs across more than 30 countries. Some of this research was conducted overseas precisely because scientists knew it would face scrutiny on American soil.

I'm calling for a presidential commission of scientists to review all gain-of-function research going forward. We're going lab by lab and pathogen by pathogen until the American people know the full truth.

https://t.co/gtv6sZ7viR

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" I went bankrupt two ways, real slow & then all at once".
The Sun Also Rises.
Earnest Hemingway

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We often mistake having an opinion for having a position. Then we mistake taking a position for having done something.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Birger @benarmsx]

Don't outsource decisions that require wisdom.
AI can only search out that which is "under-the-sun"

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Systems rewards answers. Life rewards questions.

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Chesterton's Fence is a principle stating that you should never remove or alter a law, institution, or established practice until you first understand why it was initially put in place.

Don't be the guy who was born on 3rd base and acts like he hit a triple.

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People will sell their freedom for sausage.
Erwin Lutzer

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@ChristCert The Blaise Pascal question.

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@scottwestacre Check wire planting. 😀

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@Dating_Diary2 You never find in sin what you go into sin to find.

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The modern notion of man—free and autonomous as demonstrated by his ability to transgress boundaries once considered sacred—has paradoxically reduced him to nothing. In desecrating God, man has ironically desecrated himself.

Carl Trueman

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal

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@TrevinWax @cbradedwards @JohnHoumes And the wisdom of generations is being thrown away without consideration of Chesterton's fence.

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Crowds are easy, affirmation without vulnerability, attention without sacrifice. Responsibility incurred in “belonging” to a crowd is reciprocating attention: No one joins a crowd to be challenged or constrained, only affirmed and validated. Giving only what they want to give.