Dan Trantham

Industrial Construction Fort Worth 🇺🇸 / Church Development Mombasa 🇰🇪

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

Your education point is valid, but it misses the core lesson from Kibera’s upgrade projects. The idea that “build housing, expect automatic stability” isn’t a solution. Root causes must be addressed. In Nairobi it’s likely education and skill development, in LA it may be drug abuse or just good old-fashioned laziness. Honestly I don’t know the data. Either way, providing no endless dependency without encouraging incentives of self-sufficiency is a bottomless bucket.

The only people profiting from the housing route, as you may know if you’re familiar with the situation in country, are the contractors closest aligned to the government leadership…which in that measure we can certainly compare California to Kenya.

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

@newstart_2024 Read: The Necessity of Chivalry.
~ C.S. Lewis (circ. 1940) from the Present Concerns collection of his essays (pub. 1986). But it originated from his Time and Tide essays, vol. XXI.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

Great reads, all of your posts. I’m enjoying everything I’ve read from you since the Hormuz Hypothesis. But this article is clearly AI generated. You cleaned up some stuff…some contractions, some run-ons, and added some personality. But the sentence structure and multitude of facts are clearly AI output.

You’re a great writer. But this post betrays your gift. Just saying: “Mirroring.”, would have spoken volumes.

That being said. The Europe rant was probably AI too. But it was hilariously spot on in its entirety and specifics. I travel The Continent and the UK often, and they truly are a paper tiger with cool buildings.

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

Exactly. And what happens when the executive clarity is not fit for global distribution yet? For example, if the board of directors is seeking to acquire a competitor or intending to directly fight a competing brand, and that mission planning can only be disseminated through a limited number of layers of coordinators to retain strategic positioning?

The various layers can act as “all warfare is based on deception”. Even to the point of deceiving your own foot soldiers as to effectively deceive your competitors.

Not saying I’m a fan of internal deception, but it is a reality.

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

@elonmusk Well, maybe build another one. Maybe three will prove you can really do it.

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

To fully grasp what Schaeffer says throughout his works, read an easier book on the same by Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth. The playing field wasn’t taken from us…we walked off the field..the fields of science, law, medicine, everything…we softened a head knowledge religion to a heart knowledge religion. We disengaged when other intellectual worldviews were seeking to expand.

Christ is King over all…we should go about our unique lives and various vocations with that confidence.

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

I responded a thread a couple years ago where someone asked, “how far would you drive to find the right church?” Some replies mentioned a drive of over an hour to “connect” to the right preacher. I never understood that logic.

On one hand, I appreciate the grit of a believer sacrificing that about of time and energy to be fed. On the other hand, how can a pastor shepherd his flock from the next county over?

In Kenya, the rule of thumb, since most people walk to the church building, is that they worship with other believers/attendees in a four-mile from their abode. The community is created by their physical proximity.

Since vehicles, highways, and even virtual streaming have made time and distance shrink, when do we make a conscious effort to ensure our brothers and sisters are ministered to “in-person” while amid their day-to-day needs, joys, and sorrows? When do pastors tend to the tender needs of their flock?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

@ToddBurkh21222 @BiblicalBeauty Is it possible that what offends our biblical creation worldview is less what Darwin actually wrote in Origin of Species and more what later, anti‑Christian thinkers built on top of it?

[CBS Sports @CBSSports]

WATCH THIS SEQUENCE BY ARKANSAS

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

@GTP8878 😂

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

.@POTUS, this is Mayorkas 2.0.

I was the Dem lead on the Laken Riley bill.

I want a secure border.

You’re accomplishing that.

Double down on deporting criminal migrants.

It’s what any reasonable citizen wants and voted for.

[sim 🇧🇷🇲🇽🇸🇳🇫🇷🇭🇹 @simscircuit]

🚨| Sir Lewis Hamilton: "I think (Africa) is the most beautiful part of the world and I don't like that the rest of the world owns so much of it and takes so much from it and no one speaks about it. And I'm really looking forward to and hoping that the people that are running those different countries all unite and come together and take Africa back."

"That's what I want to see. Take it back from the French. Take it back from the Spanish. Take it back from Portuguese and the British."

"It's so, so important for the future of that country and for that continent. I mean, they have all the resources to be the greatest and most powerful place in the world and that's probably why they are being controlled the way they are."

[F1 2026 Australia Press Conference]

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: US CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper announces 50,000 TROOPS, 200 fighters, 2 aircraft carriers and bombers are currently participating in the military campaign against Iran

He says Iran is NOTICEABLY becoming weaker!

- Nearly 2,000 THOUSAND Iranian targets struck
- Iranian air defense is being decimated
- B-2 and B-1 bombers are executing uncontested surgical strikes against missile facilities DEEP inside Iran
- Iranian Navy is being SUNK en masse, 17 ships sunk

"And MORE capability is on the way."

HUGE victory coming. 🇺🇸

"Having said this, we are seeing Iran's ability to hit us and our partners is declining, while our combat power, on the other hand, is building."

"And my overall operational assessment is that we are ahead of our game plan. Along the way, every single branch of our military is achieving unprecedented success."

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

@shanaka86 @grok, how many toilets? Enough for 5,000 shipmates?

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

@HuffPost Shut up.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

You’re welcome.

[Dan Trantham @dan_trantham]

@megbasham @DavidAFrench TDS. The answer you’re looking for is: TDS.