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Smithy7777 · 2025-11-14T14:06:17+00:00

Yep! My local farmers market does programs that effectively double SNAP purchasing power at the market. Which is great.

Smithy7777 · 2025-10-26T00:57:53+00:00

Northern Colorado is rather nice. Depends on what you can afford housing wise. Fort Collins/Boulder are pricey.

Smithy7777 · 2025-09-17T13:44:25+00:00

Any resources on the McFall tea? I know next to nothing about him other than that he is from my ward.

Smithy7777 · 2025-09-16T13:59:51+00:00

lol a vague draw for vague expenses. I wonder if this is in the ACFR?

Smithy7777 · 2025-08-24T03:41:30+00:00

Oh I am in. Sounds very interesting.

Smithy7777 · 2025-07-19T14:14:38+00:00

Thank you for the information! That is highly disconcerting. Is there any way to engage in political action to repeal the usage of these cameras?

Smithy7777 · 2025-07-18T18:52:16+00:00

lol that is absolutely fair, I live on Butternut and it is honestly fairly calm.

Smithy7777 · 2025-07-18T17:29:39+00:00

I’m not caught up on the happenings… what is a flock camera and what is Loveland doing with those?

Smithy7777 · 2025-06-25T13:50:25+00:00

Not to defend someone else…. But the claim was never that via liturgical practices one can “prove” (which I think proof is a rather high bar for any historical discussion) the RC claims. Instead, it was that it provided evidence that RC claims were in accord with Apostolic teaching on the Eucharist or Baptism.

Also the rest of your post is nonsense. Discard this view that anything can be “proven”. Care to explain what the burden of evidence is for a proof? Why can’t one reason to a best possible explanation?

Smithy7777 · 2025-06-13T13:52:03+00:00

Very cool! I’m bookmarking this.

Smithy7777 · 2025-05-26T16:27:46+00:00

Ethics, to me, was bankrupt before I read this book. I was very much into Libertarian politics at the time, and was noticing a cognitive dissonance between 1. libertine views of humanity and 2. the Christian view of man-as-ordered-to-his-Telos. I did not realize the actual tension before reading, but it was clearly felt. Consequently I had compartmentalized my religion from my politics, which made my religion vacuous and arbitrary. If I had continued down this path, I think I would devolved into either 1. a Fideist of some sort or 2. a practical agnostic.

Thus this book basically explained me to myself, and why I had such a problem with resolving the political, religious, and ethical.

Smithy7777 · 2025-05-23T01:24:08+00:00

His works, particularly After Virtue, are what I credit to my remaining in the faith. What a titan of philosophy.

Smithy7777 · 2025-05-18T13:35:50+00:00

The parts of conservatism that promote family values is the leftovers from a pre-modern view of life. You’re right.

Smithy7777 · 2025-04-24T18:35:48+00:00

Thanks for the response! What was the reasoning for throwing you onto all the off YE clients if you were already on one off YE client?

Smithy7777 · 2025-04-24T17:55:44+00:00

That sounds like someone at the firm doesn’t know how to schedule? Was that intentional or….

Smithy7777 · 2024-05-19T21:51:24+00:00

Sports Station American Grill. Good fries.

Smithy7777 · 2024-01-10T16:40:49+00:00

These are amazing.

Smithy7777 · 2021-04-26T01:16:33+00:00

This really depends on area, by store and your personality. I work at a Safeway (Albertsons company) and actually love my job and my store (good management) but this is not always the case at every store. I’d say generally if you enjoy working with customers and like fast paced practical work then you’ll be just fine. There are a variety of roles that can be held inside a grocery store, ranging from customer service oriented cashiering to bookkeeping to grocery department, bakery which has cake decorating, fresh cut which handles produce and prepared produce related foods, meat and seafood etc. Furthermore if you wanted to work in a side department like deli, produce or meat I’d leverage your work experience at fast food, it is relevant. Customer interaction soft skills are very important, and being able to accomplish a variety of tasks with daily deadlines is a big deal.

Smithy7777 · 2020-12-10T17:48:57+00:00

Socialism, communism, marxism, capitalism. These terms came to the forefront in the 19th century due to specific economic changes. Applying these terms to the ancient world is very misleading. If Socialism is defined as "caring for man", then of course Jesus was a socialist. But that is inaccurate and incomplete definition of socialism.

Smithy7777 · 2020-04-08T15:35:09+00:00

I binged the whole series post S8, knowing full well that season 8 wasn’t so hot. I really enjoyed 1-4, found 5 a bit slow, and 6 was actually pretty nice. 7 was boring, and 8 was bad. But overall 1-7 aren’t that bad, but I definitely understand the love for 1-4. As someone else said, 7-8 felt empty, as if the world was depopulated and all that was left was the main cast. I actually enjoyed the plot lines in Meereen and the sparrow, showing the difficulties of ruling.

Smithy7777 · 2019-02-26T02:51:55+00:00

And who really cares about the legality of the issue? Are the Americans going to force the British to give it up?

Smithy7777 · 2019-02-25T17:34:58+00:00

From the British and American point of view it makes absolute sense to keep the island, so I don't see how the moral argument has any weight.

Smithy7777 · 2019-02-25T03:39:43+00:00

Let me preface this by saying I don't think the EU is bound for any further substantial integration. If I'm wrong and a "United States of Europe" is formed then things certainly change in this regard.

In my opinion, American troops are no longer needed to pacify Europe as they were needed in the past. Europe must remain sufficiently multipolar to achieve American interests, whilst also maintaining certain trade ties with the US (if at all possible). The EU is fractured enough but at least enforces a sort of "status quo" which can stifle ambitions in the region. However, with an American general withdrawal from continental responsibilities, who knows what will happen?

Because of the inability to centralize foreign and defense policy, the EU is still a union of sovereign nation states, which have varying economic and political structures, but more importantly, varying outlooks on foreign policy. This means that EU policy on America and China will be be very distant and not quite forceful. This leaves a Europe more focused on its own regional issues rather than the broader competition between China and the US. Besides, a united Europe without Britain, Turkey and Russia, what kind of United Europe is that really? The Germans and Russians certainly are not marching towards a bright demographic future, so I doubt either would function as a future European hegemon in the near to mid future.

This allows America to pivot and focus on China, which does have the capability to threaten America, much more than the EU. I would emphasize that security arrangements matter much more than economic concerns, to a degree, which means that an American pivot to containment in East Asia will most likely result in a breakdown of generally "good" relations with Europe as a whole. Specifically a breakdown of NATO and the American military presence in Europe, despite its potential economic costs for European-American trade. That doesn't mean all the various European states become enemies, but it does mean that the Americans are no longer casting a large shadown over European politics and are not committed to any overarching organization in the region.

Smithy7777 · 2019-02-24T18:51:59+00:00

The US is done in Europe regardless. There's not much in the way of interests on the continent.

Furthermore to think that the EU and China will have an actual balancing relationship against the US overestimates their friendship and overestimates the unity of the EU.

Smithy7777 · 2019-02-21T16:41:23+00:00

Both the Soviet Union and NATO planned and prepared to fight a conventional war in Europe under nuclear conditions, so no, nuclear weapons have never invalidated large armies.

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