Markku Koponen

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@simpatico771 We don't know if China wants the hostilities to remain at the current level, in order to waste NATO resources. Any Russian who doesn't acknowledge that China is the big dog here, is either strategically inept, or posturing to be a rebel leader of a purity spiral.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@simpatico771 Even though people often mistakenly use "indefinitely" to mean "infinitely", it just means the end is not defined. The blockade could end tomorrow and it would still have been true, as long as the decision to end it is spontaneous.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@simpatico771 It's TACO Tuesday, huh.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@SanchezWoppo @simpatico771 I think China has told Russia not to do anything that would consume huge amounts of military resources, because China wants Taiwan to surrender without a fight first. And for that, they need to have everything available to invade if they refuse. Afterwards, it's free for all.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@hugh1057 @ShinarSquirrel I don't mind though. It's two hours of intense cardio to make the hole, and an opportunity to go ice swimming once it's made. Since the previous baptism got cancelled due to sickness, this hole got quite a bit of mileage from the two times it was open.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@hugh1057 @ShinarSquirrel I'm a deacon at Grace Baptist Church, and I can assure you we offered the option of warm water in a pool like we do to everyone. But people just always go for the ice.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@Chad_McV @NahumOBrien The trick is just to cannonball into the water, and get the cold shock effect everywhere at once. Then you minimize the total discomfort, even though you get the maximum discomfort for that one second.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@Chad_McV @NahumOBrien It may seem paradoxical, but it feels colder to baptize in late autumn, than what you see there. There's a thing called "cold shock proteins". There is an intense flash of pain for maybe like a second, and then all ability to feel temperature disappears.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@RickTheTank @T2Rantor Being in a gun control country, I'll start a chainsaw. The sound has a strong demoralising effect on an intruder.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@sarahsalviander It might be that the impossibility of a second Fall after the Second Coming is not a simple removal of a feature of humanity, namely ability to choose some things. It's because we were allowed to experience the outcome so viscerally. And this level of evil is required.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@budlight https://t.co/aILvFprMQo See, tastewise, your product was always just vile, and everyone knew it and accepted it. The thing you had going for you was a particular kind of image. The kind you now call "fratty". So, with that gone, there's no reason to purchase your product.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@budlight This is as sad as someone putting a robotic skeleton inside grandpa to make him wave at everyone from the casket at his funeral. The brand is dead. Just put it six feet under.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@budlight You're not winning us back, especially not with transparent condescension. Just shut down the brand and start something new.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

https://t.co/Km8MEjzxsc Let's see if I can get myself permabanned.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@Spacebunnyday UPDATE: It just went straight through the grill and on the coals, where it immediately burned to ash. I shoulda trusted Rocky, not randos on the internet.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@Spacebunnyday You can COOK eggs? Ima try that right now!

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@BWDTBS @NahumOBrien @miskaw We HAVE a baptismal. But the historical way is to do it outside, because baptism is also a testimony to the world. And that is what she requested. At this time of year, this is really the only way to do "outside".

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@ymmotrojam @NahumOBrien @miskaw No, they just were black to make sure they won't get transparent when wet. But ordinary clothes. This is not anywhere near as bad as it looks. On both times, when we made the hole and then opened it up, we had at least one person jump in for fun.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@jandrusk @NahumOBrien @miskaw I was responsible for that. I had a mylar blanket as inner layer and Mountainhill military blanket as outer layer waiting.

[Markku Koponen @MarkkuKoponen]

@DrOakley1689 The arrested pastor Tommi Matikka is not on Twitter, but my pastor from the associated congregation, @miskaw (who is probably by now tired with me starting half my sentences with "As James White says"), can connect you two, should you want to invite him on Dividing Line.