Ben Smart

Follower of Jesus. Husband. Father. Campus ministry worker. Lifelong learner. Perpetually injured runner.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

I'll be completely honest. When I first heard I was gonna be doing walk-up evangelism, I was pretty sceptical. But after giving it a shot, it wasn't anything like what I expected.

Here are three things I learned from a semester of walk-up evangelism.

https://t.co/W0EPDIKmwg

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

New footage has shown a Russia air defence missile is misfired and causes an Moscow oil refinery tank roof to fly in the air.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@Aarchimandrita @TeslaZoa Because the software is not ready to run robotaxis without remote monitoring and intervention, which is a big bottleneck.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@MPuckeridge @Keg767 Incorrect. Interest is treated as income and the $5k is well under the tax-free threshold, so no tax payable.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@Ben_Davison1 @TMFScottP @MayneReport There are many, many people in this situation. One example is a mums who work part time (or fully SAHM) and invest. I know a bunch in this situation, and they're gonna get smashed by this new tax rule.

[Ben Davison @Ben_Davison1]

@TMFScottP @MayneReport The justification for a minimum CGT tax rate of 30% is that that’s the bracket for people essentially earning between minimum wage and the average wage +35%
Who is an investor yet earning less than $45,000 a year in total?

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

⚡️The legendary civilian Ukrainian An-28, modified into a “Shahed hunter” with over 150 confirmed kills, has now been adapted to launch interceptor drones in flight.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@scotte0507 @rabbriansamuel Acts 4:27-28 couldn't be clearer - it was both Jews and Gentiles who conspired together. Simply saying "Jews killed Jesus" is reductionist and unbiblical.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@aveer30 @Chiefs_SpaceX @TSLAFanMtl I think you're significantly underestimating the difference between Waymo and Tesla in terms of what "scale" actually looks like.

Waymo is expanding nicely (I'm a big fan) but it's slow, extremely expensive, unprofitable, etc. Tesla FSD is a totally different story.

[No Context County Cricket @NoContextCounty]

Ball 1: England fielding
Ball 2: Australia fielding

[Spacetime 🌌 @spacetime_btc]

Tesla FSD 13.2.9 Down under saved my ass today from an illegal U turn in a school zone dropoff area. No other car would have stopped in time @3AW693 @TeslaAUNZ @ryanjaycowan

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@JustinEric89986 @BLKMDL3 @Tesla_AI I'd be curious as well. I'm super impressed with FSD 98% of the time, but the biggest question for me is around intervention frequency (until that's cracked, we can't have proper autonomy).

[Faraz Pervaiz @FarazPervaiz3]

Nigeria: Her Christian husband and two children, aged 3 years and 10 months, were slaughtered by Islamists right in front of her.

She and her only surviving child, aged 7, were left for dead, and her hand was chopped off.

The Persecuted Church in Nigeria needs all of us.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

This is why I’m all in on Tesla.

Tesla FSD 14 is the start of something really exciting.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@Ahead_of_Curve @Takemura89 I know someone with that glitch and it got fixed today!

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The fact that this issue hasn't gained public attention is amazing.

[Ben Smart @therealbensmart]

@hyojun_at How often (if ever) are you seeing interventions?

[Lyle Shelton @LyleShelton]

Big news folks. This email released just now from Andrew Hastie. The tectonic plates in Australian politics are shifting. It is yet to be determined whether the @LiberalAus will have a future. But this is a big development.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

AOC called Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric ignorant, while making an ignorant statement.

She also misrepresented what Charlie said about the Civil Rights Act.

We can’t keep doing this - it’s putting people in danger.

[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

@EricLDaugh @realdukedenman