I have espoused views in my life I’m not proud of, but I think the same can be said of anyone.

Part of my journey was a search for intellectual consistency. Their are people of faith who are able to do that, I am not one of them. When it comes to politics, there are two contemporary thinkers (Ken White and Radley Balko) who forced me to re-evaluate my beliefs.

I believe there are many Conservative thinkers who hold their positions in good faith. Sometimes they are even correct! I believe there are also many Liberal thinkers who hold their positions in good faith, sometimes they are right also.

So to answer your question, I don’t think my values were bad, some of my thinking about how to implement those values definitely was though.

As with most people we morph over time.

I’m an old guy. I started my life as a right-wing Conservative Christian. I’m now. Both an atheist and an anarchist. So yes people change. My journey has been six decades long.

That is an absolutely hilarious bit. Great application for The Hardly Boys.

Another quality effort.

I’m a Slack guy, when forced to use Teams it just always tried to get in the way of anything I wanted to do and Slack would get out of the way.

Sadly Slack are busy trying to make Slack as obnoxious as Teams.

For a counterpoint, my wife loves Teams. She uses it all day every day, and only has good things to say about it.

Lucu in the Sky with Diamonds.

Why should any human being be treated poorly?

Not a smoker, but I believe smokers are treated poorly, as are businesses that cater to smokers.

But my beliefs are really put to the test everytime I see a smoker throw their butt on the ground.

I laughed at this one.

Franklin W. Dixon was young me’s favorite author.

I remember the first time I read a WHOLE book in a single day. I thought I was something special.

61 here

What I wanna know is who are all these people claiming that Santa Claus is not fucking real!?

Of course he’s real.

I’m an AnCap everyone hates me at least 50% of the time (except on Lemmy where it’s closer to 90/10).

It’s often not worth the grief.

But it IS how we see prices. If there weren’t science behind it, they wouldn’t be doing it.

Not progressive, and I roll my eyes at many things California does. That said I 100% applaud this. I wish more states used their power as individual states to reign in the Federal government.

Remember The Constitution says any rights not specifically granted to the Feds are the States.

Good for California.

You can try The Free Press their coverage starts at 7pm Eastern tomorrow.

https://youtu.be/u3Seqsx7I_A?si=vvLkp6KPhJlzJ3Yr

This sounds like exactly my response to a ”Christian” movie. They are so ridiculously bad because to earn the label “Christian” they have to be preachy.

11-22-63 by myself and The Hail Mary Project with my wife.

I just finished listening to all 14 Honor Harrington novels.

EA used to be amazing. My first two games were Archon and Seven Cities of Gold in the Amiga 1000.

They were great games. EA didn’t start to really suck until the era of the Internet.

Love love love these books.