Jamie Tenacity 🇬🇧 🔮

Payer of bills. Occasional private chauffeur.

[Jamie Tenacity 🇬🇧 🔮 @JamieTenacity]

Humans live in a physical world that we did not invent and cannot yet fully avoid. Within the boundaries of that world, humans have the concept of rights.

A right is a thing a group of humans agree that one or more humans should be able to expect from other humans, such the right to do a specific thing without obstruction from others.

There can always be humans who choose to ignore the agreed boundaries defined by a right. Therefore, force must be used to maintain a right.

A right does not require divine, reasoned, moral, philosophical, logical, or any other kind of truth to exist. It requires agreement, and either sufficient belief in the existence of force, or actual force, to prevent, dissuade, and punish transgressions of the agreement.

Neither rights nor violence are inherently good or bad, any more than is the physics they both depend upon.

[Jamie Tenacity 🇬🇧 🔮 @JamieTenacity]

@newstart_2024 Breakfast: French pressed coffee, blended with MCT oil and Kerrygold. Multivitamin + D.

Lunch: Mature cheddar. Another coffee.

Dinner: 3-egg omelette fried in Kerrygold, a pan full of mixed vegetables fried in EVO or avocado oil. Add sauerkraut or kimchi.

365-days.

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There are many obtainable powers, such as money, or official position.

The power of the people is different. There is no single lever of control. Many must take the same action, and voluntarily.

For good or bad, everything published is an attempt to harness by persuasion.

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Given the number of days in which I realise I’ve made a significant mistake, I think it’s best to assume that the difference on the other days is only that I didn’t notice.

The compounding effect would be a much better explanation of where I am today than any theory of bad luck.

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I was reminded today that our children attend state schools ‘for free’.

But somebody pays. And whoever pays is the customer.

Which means that the customer is neither the student, nor their parents.

So, what is the student, and what is the service, or product provided?

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I told my kids we’re meeting family tomorrow, in a pub.

One asked, “For lunch?”, and when I said “No” I was met with a blank stare. Then, “So what are we going to do?”

It felt strange to explain, “You get a drink, then talk.”

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Everywhere I look there are convincing truth claims in support of both sides of a debate.

I don’t have the time to fact check, even if I constrain myself to only one subject.

My solution is to be content with not knowing. I’m emotionally attached to my kids, not to sides.

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@TRobinsonNewEra I don’t understand.

How does Iran have a women’s national team of any kind in the first place?

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

https://t.co/rRRx6lG5zC

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As I’ve grown older I’ve learned to appreciate many things in the same way that I appreciate latte art.

It’s nice to see the design, and recognise both the desire to make it and the effort taken to learn how.

I appreciate it.

But if it’s not there? It’s just not there.

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I need a plan.

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Great in theory, but problematic when the global police align their activities to ideology such as the Open Society. Manipulation of other country’s democratic processes is not policing, is it @MikeBenzCyber ?

These long years of peace that are now over did enable good things, but apparently only for some and at the expense of others.

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Dr. John Campbell raises urgent concerns about the UK government’s planned sun dimming experimentation, warning it could sabotage agricultural yields, trigger famine on "a biblical scale", and destabilise weather systems—all without public consent.

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What we need is more and better UK farming, to the point where nobody would bother importing.

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We’re told that Jesus sacrificed himself for us.

I’ve never understood that, but I just heard the interpretation that his choice was actually a refusal to sacrifice others, even though to do so he had to die.

So, rather than focus on making sacrifices as a way of simultaneously making our future and the future of others better, should we instead focus on doing what’s best for all and accepting that in order to do so we must make sacrifices?

Has this approach worked for you?

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On top of everything else, parents need to be paediatric psychologists.

Is there anything else so equally difficult and necessary as being married with kids?

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Voluntary suffering reduces involuntary suffering.

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@VieuxBonhomme @LozzaFox Apparently, the wine in Islamic heaven will have no ill effects and is mentioned in Surah An-Naba because the overall promise is pleasure without any negative consequences.

Profoundly worrying.

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Humans love a story, but narrative is not always the best way to teach.

Stories make ideas memorable, but action is what makes action memorable.

Instruction for action must provide a rapid bridge between reading and doing. It must deliver clarity while trying to barely exist.