Col Fink

Village building, mental models, farming, complex systems, consciousness, and ultimate frisbee. For politics and culture wars crap, send me to my alt @colphink

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@PrashunGRoy @BarackObama Yes, by the fossil fuel companies, to make it sound less bad.

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@lilbernadette @notcapnamerica Why not go all the way and just manage this stuff at the household level?

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@m_ashcroft @caelanhuntress Send me your address I'll post you a copy

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@m_ashcroft @caelanhuntress Hello 👋

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@xave_rg @yishan @paulg Wait, licensing isn't real?

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@nw3 @jessesingal That's a lot of democratic senators Canada is going to deliver...

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@kadavy @MikeAdvices Same. Still not convinced it wasn't.

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@_thisisthegirl_ @wanyeburkett Nice straw man.

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@MattPirkowski He didn't buy it so you'd like it. He bought it to get greater control of the government.

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@gnrosenberg @C_Kavanagh The fact that not a single one of his acolytes can ever articulate anything even vaguely resembling any of his points is proof enough that he is a rhetorician and nothing more.

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@mbacarella @AdamSinger One effect being that I have three kids, all of whom adore her.

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@mbacarella @AdamSinger My mum, about to turn 82, has already given me the majority of my inheritance (starting at 30 years of age). It dramatically changed the options in front of me and has had a profoundly positive effect on my life.

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@RKeady @SuaSponte2020 @JohnnySquawkins @jcmanke @Universe__Lover I know. But most people lived before the industrial revolution.

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@RKeady @SuaSponte2020 @JohnnySquawkins @jcmanke @Universe__Lover But we do it this way because otherwise the economy collapses when one parent has to leave the workforce.

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@RKeady @SuaSponte2020 @JohnnySquawkins @jcmanke @Universe__Lover Exactly. "Two jobs are needed to survive". This is an environment in which we MUST have industrial childcare at scale or the house of cards collapses.

I'm not convinced school is good at socialising kids. In fact, I suspect it's actively worse than how we used to raise them.

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@SuaSponte2020 @JohnnySquawkins @jcmanke @Universe__Lover It's just the default choice, the status quo, and therefore we assume it's for the best.

I suspect the design of school has more to do with the needs of the economy (which requires the parents to be working) than the needs of the kids.

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@SuaSponte2020 @JohnnySquawkins @jcmanke @Universe__Lover ... bullies and similarly incomplete people).

I'm not convinced modern school is the Gold standard (or, in fact, even a 'C grade' standard) of socialising kids to help make them capable, functional adults.

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@MattPirkowski @waitbutwhy Again, just an observation. You're obviously under no obligation to care.

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@MattPirkowski @waitbutwhy That's fine. I've enjoyed your tweets for a long time. When I saw your name, I used to think "I wonder what position Matt will use big words to arrive at", now I think "I wonder what big words Matt will use to arrive at his predictably right wing position".