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[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Someday soon, your scientific paper will only be trusted if it has been retracted.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

It's time to recognize that prices have essentially doubled since 2019, regardless of what the CPI says. Construct an index based on actual prices without myriad adjustments and this is what it shows. Now think about your income with a 50% loss of purchasing power.

[John Moody 🇺🇬 @resisfertile]

For most of our kids education, we have used Charlotte Mason.

But... we acknowledged that it has a tendency to produce youth who are strong in literature, history, and more... but weak in science, math, and some other subjects.

So, we addressed the weakness by using Shorman and similar supplemental resources to ensure a more balanced finished product in our kid's educations.

We realized that both classical and CM often produce soft boys, especially because both are heavily ran and taught by women... so we prioritized both hands on stuff for our sons and martial arts as non-negotiable, even over adding in learning music or an instrument.

But you can't do this if you are unwilling to hear the risks and drawbacks of the educational model you have chosen and where it might land you in a decade.

I'm grateful for the people who spoke frankly and directly to and about the weaknesses or issues with the approaches they used so others can improve on them.

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

They didn’t get quiet, busy and burned out.

During Covid they got tyrannical, condescending and unethical. Their dance routines rubbed it in our faces.

Saying they just have to take back the narrative is like a cheating spouse saying “you can trust me baby.”
https://t.co/JFmlBhQwfs

[Logan Duvall Sowing Prosperity @prospertarian]

A few weeks ago, I was with @DrJackKruse

I made the statement, “My goal is to cure cancer.”

To which he responded with, “That's easy”, and proceeded with a single statement that has been playing in my head over and over.

It's been as impactful as when he told me years ago to have my son avoid screens and get a tan on his back.

I've spent countless hours trying to understand that.

Join Dr. Kruse on Patreon and on his website to get his teaching. Or listen to the hundreds of podcasts he's done.

We have done 5. (Posted the cancer related below) They are free and masterclasses.

I'm going to share my understanding in time.

Biophysics is bigger, more complex, and more fascinating than I ever could have dreamed.

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

I don’t want to hear about my carbon footprint ever again. https://t.co/cs8t9619dx

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Patent for Flock Cameras, they're not only tracking license plates.

U.S. patent 11,416,545 B1

Patented Aug 16, 2022

By Garret Langley and Matt Fuery of FLOCK Safety, based in Atlanta GA (next tweet)

According to Figure 5A, it can detect pedestrians and bicyclists down to clothing, height/weight and color of clothing.

The system also has an auto-alert when it "detects a target" with high confidence.

Along with the most seen and known FLOCK Camera "Falcon", they now have a family of cameras called "Condor, Raven," an aerial surveillance drone "AreoDome" and its linked to a system called "Wing"

#Throwback

Here's the web page with 29 pages of the patent.

https://t.co/2yIALJzVeM

[Education Independence @EduIndependence]

School choice imagines a state that hands out money without acquiring influence. No other public funding program has worked that way. Expecting education to be the exception requires the state to behave contrary to its entire history.

[Education Independence @EduIndependence]

May brought a lot of new faces, and we are glad you are here. We are not a political action committee. We are not a lobbying firm.
We are a network of families and educators who believe education belongs to parents —> not the state. If that is why you followed, you belong here. Join the Network!
https://t.co/uqNdS4mSqP

[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

I see people quick to critize high property taxes, but who voted for them in the first place?

Next time your school district, library, police, fire, parks, and local transportation ask for more money, do some research. Too many people get caught up in the notion that more money = better services when the opposite is usually true.

While I agree that these taxes shouldn’t be tied to property, we all need to take responsibility for why property taxes have gotten so out of control.

[Erich Pratt @erichmpratt]

The ATF didn’t “accidentally” build this massive gun registry.

They built it piece by piece while politicians and bureaucrats hoped Americans wouldn’t notice.

But we did notice. And now it's time to shut it down!

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Wasting time is costly because it rarely feels dangerous while it is happening.

It usually comes quietly. A few minutes here. A distraction there. One more glance at a notification. One more hour given to something that does not matter much. It rarely feels like you are throwing life away. It feels small. Harmless. Easy to justify.

Perhaps, you tell yourself you are paying attention because you care. That this is time well spent. That while others sleep, you are staying watchful.

It feels like vigilance and preparedness. It feels like keeping informed for the sake of your family, exposing what others refuse to see, gathering knowledge that will one day prove necessary.

So you tell yourself.

When you are young, this is especially easy because time feels endless. You spend it freely because you assume there will always be more. More time to get serious. More time to become disciplined. More time to repair what was neglected. More time to become the husband, father, worker, or man you know you ought to be.

But time does not wait for us to get serious.

It keeps moving.

Tick.
Tick.
Tick.

And as the years pass, life has a way of waking you up to what was lost.

The child you were too distracted to notice becomes the grown son who no longer thinks to call when he is in town.

The wife whose attempts at connection were often pushed aside stops trying as much.

The discipline you meant to develop tomorrow hardens over years of weak habits.

The opportunities to build, teach, shape, save, and prepare slowly pass by.

And one of the hardest lessons a man learns is that some things cannot simply be made up later.

You can repent. You can change. You can be forgiven. But forgiveness does not always remove the earthly consequences of wasted years.

This is what makes wasting time such a costly illness. It steals slowly. Quietly. Almost invisibly. Often you do not realize what it has taken until you look up and see what could have been.

What a tragedy to become deeply informed about things far away while neglecting the people sitting across from you in your own living room.

What a tragedy to model for your children a life ruled by distant distractions instead of faithful attention to what is nearest.

The most important work most men will ever do is not flashy.

It is the ordinary work of daily faithfulness. Listening well. Praying consistently. Teaching patiently. Working hard. Paying attention. Being fully present where God has placed you.

That kind of life is built slowly.

And so is its opposite.

Tick.
Tick.
Tick.

Do not waste your time.

Spend it on what will still matter when the noise fades, and all that remains is what you built in the lives of those God gave you to love.

[bendell werry 🌲 @bendellwerry]

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

Mikhaila Fuller interviewed me on her podcast a year ago.

She wanted to know how we reversed 2 dementia residents in 3 years.

The 8 things I told her about our nutrition protocols, the assisted living industry and my residents:

1) Average resident in my home is on 25-30 meds

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Uriesou Brito @uribrito]

Never forget that a dispensationalist set an example of bravery when some Reformed hid behind public pietism.

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

There are some even within the Christian nationalism camp who want preachers to stick to "spiritual" themes and not meddle in politics. Pastoring is complicated enough, the argument goes, and pastors are not political experts, so pastors should just stay in their lane.

Set aside how unReformed this is, compared to traditional Protestant practice, and how unAmerican it is, compared to our nation's founding era. Set aside the fact that much of the Bible deals with political and economic issues. Set aside the fact that our supposed "expert class" and "ruling class" have completely failed us in most areas and obviously can't fix what's wrong.

Here's my question: How is the ordinary Christian laymen supposed to get his political theology? From reading 400 page books in all his spare time? From watching Fox News after he puts the kids to bed, or overhearing CNN while waiting in the airport to catch a flight for his next business trip? Is he supposed to listen to podcasts while running the kids to Little League practice and piano lessons?

Practically speaking, if Christians are going to be informed and grounded politically, they absolutely must hear from their pastors on these topics. The pulpit is still the prow that guides the culture. Christian people instinctively look to their pastors for guidance is many areas of life. True, some pastors are wolves in sheep's clothing. Some are lacking in wisdom. Some are sincere but poorly informed themselves. All the more reason to insist on a trained and qualified pastorate. But pastors, for better or worse, are going to continue to be leaders for Christians in general. I would argue one reason we are in the mess we are in is precisely because America's conservative/traditional pastors went politically silent for most of the 20th century.

If pastors refuse to do political discipleship, the world will be glad to fill that void. And that's what has happened to large segments of evangelicalism.

[Sloan Rachmuth @SloanRachmuth]

🚨 WTF?

North Carolina taxpayers were told Social Emotional Learning (SEL) would improve discipline, grades, and student outcomes.

Instead:

📉 Graduation rates dropped
📚 Test scores didn’t “exponentially improve”
👊 School violence keeps rising
💰 Taxpayers are funding MORE psychologists and SEL staff

Here's the thing: REPUBLICANS were telling us this, and it's bull 💩. Republicans need to stop acting like DEMOCRATS and cut spending on education bloat ASAP!

[Bradley Pierce @bradleypierce]

The worst part about the mifepristone case the Supreme Court preliminarily ruled on today is how much of the pro-life movement's attention, energy, and money is being spent on it instead of supporting equal protection to actually abolish abortion. 🧵