QotD September 1st, 2021
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I lament the state of current alternate social media sites.
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A review of Control, probably my favorite single player game of the last few years.
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A quick review and an image gallery of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
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A fourth of july quote from a founding father.
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Snagged from a social media site. “Scientifically speaking, a distinct human life exists from conception onward. Life, because it meets the biological criteria for life; human, because it contains the human genome and is at the beginning of a human lifecycle; distinct, because its genome is different from the mother’s and (barring accidents, disease, or malice) it will continue to exist even after its mother’s death. Suggesting that natural miscarriage is the same as abortion is like suggesting that no-fault accidental deaths are the same as murder. Suggesting that contraception is the same as abortion is like suggesting that parts of something are equal to the whole of something: Give…
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An update on what's going on in my life.
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A photo collection of my second day hiking the Colorado National Monument. This time, along Monument Canyon Trail.
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I hiked through the Colorado National Monument. This recounts the first day and contains a picture gallery.
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I ran across a couple of posts on reddit I felt needed to be combined and shared. The post was discussing what constitutes ‘success’ in a socialized system like healthcare, and the article was this one. “Success is determined by the existence of the system. Some post hoc measure can be found later as a justification. If it wasn’t access, they would find something else. Cost or satisfaction (in that one poll twenty years ago) or jobs provided or… it doesn’t really matter. To people who support them, it is self-evident that government programs are good. And those who benefit from the system sink their tendrils in very deep. As…
