Okay, I don't know how effective DEI ever was... BUT the idea that it was bad for merit misses that it was always about cronyism before DEI anyway. And now we are getting back to cronyism. That getting rid of DEI will improve merit based hiring is absolutely laughable.

The people who don't believe they have a say in our democracy or that their vote matters will always tend to vote towards a dictatorship. It is a case of self-fullfilling prophesies. I have seen that helpless victim mentality in a hundred conversations.

The way the Trump team was offended that a foreign leader was not wearing their kind of suit, and yet has no problem with Elon Musk not wearing a suit, shows that they see the foreign leader as their subjugate, but Elon as their superior.

When Christians decide not to suffer for the good news of grace, compassion, and love, they invariably become oppressors, causing the "least of these" to suffer instead. When your beliefs are too shallow for self-sacrifice from yourself, you sacrifice on others.

I went and cast my vote today in early voting. Kept hearing that every early voting location had long lines. But no lines at my location. In and out in 5 minutes. 🇨🇦 🍁

Some of the biggest obstacles to learning new things, aren't the difficulty of the new, but the difficulty unlearning the old.

I get the temptation to use the dirty tactics the other side is using. But I don't think the Gavin Newsom strategy of gerrymandering because Republicans are gerrymandering will make the Democrats stronger. It makes me wonder why I should care at all.

So far there is nothing that has been so effective at breaking my social media addiction as AI generated content. It is artificial enough to cause disconnection for me. Which is very interesting to me.