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Introvert | Insatiably Curious | He/Him/His | Amateur Photographer | Fair-weather hiker | E-bike and eGolf Owner | Recovering Engineer | Lifelong PNWer | #exvangelical Agnostic
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I hope you guys can hold onto Ossoff through the next midterms!
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The challenge is this kind of exegsis is rampant in a lot of American Christianity, especially in the Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Southern Baptist world. I wish this kind of stuff was the lunatic fringe, but I think it's a lot more mainstream than that.
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Wishing you a great Summer with the family!
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I understand the offshoring narrative, but I don't think the data fits your story. Finland's demand has remained pretty stable for decades, and they've demonstrably made large strides in changing their energy mix.
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I would question the assertion that pipelines are cheaper than HVDC power lines. My suspicion is that HVDC has higher CapEx, but pipelines have higher maintenance costs.
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Finland is a great case study in how this can be done.
www.weforum.org/stories/2023...
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I think the answer to that is: energy diversification and grid build-out. The great thing about electricity as an energy carrier is that there's myriad ways of making it, and you can move it long distances very efficiently.
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I love the framework of "molecules to electrons". All we ultimately need from everyday citizens is to for them to eventually replace oil and gas-burning things with things that run on electricity.
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There's no President of Christianity, so there's no way to call balls and strikes. And I think the stuff that makes some iterations of Christianity reprehensible is less "people failing to see the light", and more stuff that was arguably there from the beginning.
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some passages over others. I despise Mark Driscoll Christianity, but arguably his Jesus is in the Bible, he's just putting extra emphasis on Revelation and his interpretation of it.
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This is my thinking as well. I don't think there's an obvious "true" form of Christianity. Certainly versions that I think are "better" - more prosocial, humane, transcendent. But the more detestable versions still trace back to readings from the Bible, just building a framework that emphasizes 1/
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I was thinking the other day about how terms like "leftist" and "socialist" had very different connotations in US politics in the 70's, and why some of my aging relatives get triggered by their use in contemporary politics, even when they're describing a very different coalition.
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The biofuel myth refuses to die
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Mike Lee is surprised because he sold off his own integrity and nobody pushed back
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It definitely depends on the brand. Cheaper ones cut corners for the power circuitry and can burn out relatively fast
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A tool of enhanced interrogation against Chicago natives
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This is really interesting!
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But all that said, I really enjoyed this series and recommend it.
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Also because Mike Cosper doesn't exercise great judgment on social media. His comments on geopolitics, especially Israel, are pretty off-putting.
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I was giving this series a little side eye because CT gives me trust issues, as a guy with a lot of baggage from an Evangelical upbringing.
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Not to mention, the production quality - the sound mixing and scoring - is pretty elite.
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It's also interesting to hear it from a Christian podcaster and media source, and the introspection it invites over the abuse that was overlooked and protected while everyone was on their witch hunt.
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Satanic Panic is well-trodden ground in the podcasting world, but I appreciate how thoughtful and nuanced this take has been, especially the episodes that set the table by exploring cultural currents from the 60s and 70s.
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These chat bots for now are like a person who chronically misremembers everything, but is also acts credulous and sycophantic
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A good question to ask Christian Zionists like Cruz is: does he believe that Jews go to heaven in the afterlife?
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I think it's somehow comorbid with how the Suburbs make people more paranoid.
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I'm honestly surprised that Evangelicalism doesn't breed more lunatics like Boetler. I grew up in that world, and the rhetoric about abortion alone is pretty disturbing.
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I second this. There certainly might be some contentious protests, but I don't need to prepare for war if I'm going to wave signs in a bedroom community north of Seattle.
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I would love to see how far we could get with residential solar deployed as broadly and cheaply as possible. I have to think it would take a massive bite out of residential demand.
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I'm approaching my 2 year mark since I last visited a gas station. It's been nice for a number of reasons to not have gasoline be the thing that gets me places.