When it comes to #politics I’m more of a mourning person.
Denmark seeks to legally prevent burnings of Quran or other religious scriptures
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Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
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Legislation from fear is the death spiral of freedom.
#politics #philosophy #opinion
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker’s 2023 commencement speech at Northwestern hits the mark.
The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. When we see someone who doesn’t look like us, or sound like us, or act like us, or love like us, or live like us — the first thought that crosses almost everyone’s brain is rooted in either fear or judgment or both. That’s evolution. We survived as a species by being suspicious of things we aren’t familiar with.
In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway. Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges. I’m here to tell you that when someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so, their thinking and problem-solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades.
Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
Apparently #Erdogan finally agreed to allow Sweden into #NATO after remaining members agree to pronounce #Turkey “Ter-kee-ah”.
With regard to popular culture, the word woke is the new gourmet. Semantic bleaching renders words meaningless.
"Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." — Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles, 1765
The current political climate in the United States is certainly stress testing this axiom.
Another amazing life observation by The Oatmeal. Please get this in front of everyone you know.
You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal
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One prerequisite for passing gun reform must be answering “yes” to the question: would this legislation have prevented any of the last five mass shootings?
I wonder if @RBReich is a third generation Robert Reich but he doesn’t tell people because of all the Third Reich jokes.
The 2nd Amendment gives a well-regulated militia the right to bear arms. What we have today is neither well-regulated nor a militia. It’s long past the time to properly regulate gun ownership.
I wrote a program to use Benford's Law to analyze the 2016 Presidential vote counts by county and got these results.
What does it mean? Based on the proximity of the values it appears that the votes counts are legitimate. We had a good election.
Voting in NJ was a great experience. Ballot was mailed to us automatically. Clear directions. No postage required. Signature verification. Dropped off at ballot box (could have mailed too). If every state did this the voting participation would be off the charts.
We need all of our reps in congress to be this prepared, accurate, terse, and working for us not re-election.
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If social media platforms just added a pay tier with no ads we’d be rid of most of the political interference and other genuine fake news.
We should simply judge words and deeds without attaching ourselves to people or parties. It’s liberating to be critical of leadership without the umbilical relationship they so desperately want us to have.
We’ve had voting by mail since the Civil War, and in the last 2 Federal elections 1 in 4 people voted by mail. Five states have universal all mail voting with ballots sent to every eligible voter. In 29 states you can request an absentee ballot for any reason.
It’s funny how people are afraid to vote for Bernie Sanders because he’s a democratic socialist, but they’ll happily take money from the government during a pandemic.
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About Non Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs is the personal blog of Michael Argentini.
I'm a software developer and Managing Partner for Fynydd and Blue Sequoyah Technologies, the project lead for Coursabi, and Āthepedia founder. I also have several nerdy open source projects on Github.
I'd describe myself as an Oxford comma advocate, autodidact, aspiring polymath, and boffin, with a mechanical keyboard addiction. You can also find me on Mastodon.
