Polly is onto something here. Elon Musk has some, let’s just say, interesting friends. He is not anti-Establishment. He *is* the Establishment, and although he has a lot of solid political positions, and did *some* good things for X/Twitter, he throttles a lot of people (like me), he makes his money from giant government contracts and with regulatory help, and his statement that Americans don’t deserve their own top jobs because they’re “dumb” is quite a slap in the face.
Nice, thanks! But my original content can now only be found on SangerFeed.org. I’ll point people to replies here…but I’m not gonna reply there.
We should be owning our own platforms!
Another set of X.com replies, more random this time.
Fascinating topic:
x.com/MikeWingerii/stat…
The “unity of scripture” refers to its internal consistency:
1. It is internally consistent in terms of its meaning, so long as you interpret it according to the principle of *analogia scripturae*, which means literally “analogy of scripture” but which refers to the principle that Scripture should be used to interpret Scripture. The point is that you *can* interpret Scripture in this way.
2. It is doctrinally consistent, meaning that different parts do not express inconsistent doctrines. Again, this also depends on *analogia scripturae*.
3. It is metaphorically consistent; the principle here is intertextuality. Symbols bear the same meaning across many centuries of writing.
4. It bears up under close scrutiny. It invites questioning (assuming the one is up to the task of discerning answers!).
This is an essential part of an Argument from Revelation.
You’d think I’m the core constituency of X.com, but I and a lot of libertarians and conservatives are certainly not treated that way.
Here’s a thought. How rich are billionaires? Think of it this way. Many people think $100,000 is a substantial sum—plenty to live on for a year, unless you’re in a very overpriced city or have high career expectations. If you have saved a cool $1 million, that pays your living expenses for 10 years. Unless you invest wisely, it probably wouldn’t last a younger person the rest of his life. But if you have $1 billion, it pays living expenses for 10,000 years. I mean, if you gave yourself an insane sum of $1 million per year to live on, your billion would enable you to live that way for 1,000 years. So, yeah. It’s a lot of money. And if you were as rich as Elon Musk, you could pay living expenses for 436,000 years. Or “only” 43,600 years if you spent “only” a million per year.
Thanks, I appreciate it. Either Elon is in charge or he isn’t. Either way, things are not good.
I explained why I’m moving to my own platform here: larrysanger.org/2024/12…
Well, I am thankful people aren’t really mad at Indian immigrants in tech here today.
No, none of those labels describe me, but I am looking forward to some calmer/more measured exchanges in general here!
I am equally interested in deep politics & ‘frivolous’ things like beauty & fashion.
Thanks for the reply, Adam.
Can they coexist? Well, sure, they can, and that was my intention when first starting Minifeed (2020-21). But, well, read the post. I’m disgusted, I feel manipulated and silenced, and I’m not going to play their game anymore.
I am actually pretty sure that in the long run, LarrySanger.org + SangerFeed.org will get me a bigger impact on the world than working in a deliberately silenced backwater on some spook’s carefully controlled website.
It’s true that a new login is friction. That’s the price you pay. I’m OK with paying it. I’m done with X.
I am glad to to join!
Hello fellows. Glad to be here
Sure, Jan.
Maybe for you. Not for me.
UPDATE: Did I perhaps misunderstand you? Are you saying “hey they’re returning to the bad old days and so you should get a bump in your reach now,” or “It’s actually a good time to get out, as it’s getting even worse”?
Reply thread!
I’m going to go through replies to me made on X.com, and reply to them here. For each, I guess I’ll post a link to the reply on X. I hope you’ll make an account and continue the discussion here, at least insofar as you want to chat with me.
