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Perhaps the difference is I'm not trying to maintain my christian identity, but whatever identity I I'm taking is undoubtedly derived from it. Keep the good and reject the bad... But there is much that just comes along with it that wasn't explicitly accepted or rejected

Years ago someone used the phrase culturally Christian... And it was immediately obviously accurate and insightful... And my knee jerk reaction as someone who had rejected my religion was distaste.

This is the exact playbook Musk did at Twitter, which he obviously thinks worked well.

They would claim they are trying to root out the saboteurs that make the place so inefficient.

They are wrong, of course... And the USDS was probably already one of the most efficient anyways.

If some high school snot came in to review my work I’d tell him to go get his fucking shine box and then realize that movie is twice as old as him

The right wing ecosystem is a cinematic universe w/lore and villains that it calls back to constantly. The improv piece - influencers boosting & co-creating stories with their extremely online fans - invests the audience bc they’re part of it. But once they have a Take, the machine stays on message.

Of course, trust can be lost, and unlike say a tls cert, the chain is the name, no portability to a different anchor.

Still unsolved.

The main point is an anchor based on trust, something like senate.gov is easy, but one could create a variety of different entities that verified in different ways. They will start with low trust, but that trust can build.

I think this system allows for third parties to be the record for different reasons and with different verification.

id.me could do one, USPS.gov could do one, hell gmail.com could be one.

Or alma maters, or fraternal orgs.

no other industry calls the financiers by the name of the craft! If someone "works in food", we think they're a chef or a cook, not the person who cut a check for funding a restaurant! A person who works "in medicine" is the doctor or nurse, not a developer who built the hospital!

It's always a single account, the address is always canonicalized before being handled. It's just amazing how far people get just using the wrong email address they don't have access to all the time. A backup account I have is used by the same guy across multiple sites without ever being verified

When the concept was raised on an IETF list by one of the founding fathers of email, I thought he was joking. I was wrong.

For one, they have limited ability to know what is shared, I don't think I've used a page based share button in years. For two, they might incorporate stats from social networks or may not. For three, they could easily be curating the list.

I'm just picturing youtu.be/fLFAXvFYhsE?... as a frustrated comedian

Maybe I'm thinking too highly of the average reader. Maybe they'll fall instead for the normalization.

You won't convince any Trump supporters with an outright denunciation... but tie the boat anchors around their necks, how bad the proposals are and how they won't even do what they claim.

But including the absurd alternative, despite seeming like an attempt at normalizing it, instead feels like a Modest Proposal. It allows people to compare and contrast minor issues with a policy against the absolute ridiculousness of the other candidate.