9/27/2025 Saturday
Replace PostgreSQL with Git for database. Interesting idea.
9/26/2025 Friday
After meeting with Rob at Panera Bread in Bridgewater today for lunch, as it matters the state of the church and Nadia and my view of it vs. Crossroad PCA church. I emailed the elder this:
Thanks again for the talk and the lunch!
I was listening to this podcast driving back and I was amazed how it matches what I was trying to communicate. The message of the entire episode is exactly what I was saying our church is lacking/weak at: the complacency of just attending church as a checklist in Christian living). To sum it up, I love this (perhaps controversial to some) quote of this pastor Todd Wagner (I don't know him) that was being interviewed in the video:
"There's fewer people doing great works for God that aren't saved than there are people who think they're saved because of what they believe who do nothing more than attend churches."
I can predict already that the common response (controversial take) to this quote would be: "Well, nobody knows who's saved or who's not, only God knows", but if that's how someone responds, I would say, that that someone is likely not listening it well.
I customed the link below to go to the second where he spoke of this quote:
But feel free to watch the entirety of the 1 hour long episode, it's so good. Allie Beth Stuckey's podcasts are 50% mediocre to me, but this one is like the top 10 for me.
I am saving this Podcast episode. It's golden.
If Rob replies back, I will add this to my email response: You asked me to define "anti-intellectual", due to the evolution of the Christian anti-intellectuals/fundamentalists over the years (especially since the 1930s: lookup The Fundamentalist–modernist controversy, from which ironically the fundamentalists took the win to be the more biblical ones), this is how I define it for these folks today: It applies to those who are bad at science, but in denial of it due to pride and jealousy, thus they mask their incompetence of the rationality with spiritual things (i.e. "I don't use science to understanding these, I use the Bible, I use faith, because I rely on God. And if you think you can reason it better than I can, you are NOT using faith, you are not biblical, you are not relying on God").
Came across this, thought it's worth a save since it's from the main Charlie Kirk's official Youtube Channel: The 2 Billion View Video: Charlie Kirk's Most Viewed Clips of 2024
This is explained well: The Battle of Shanghai = 淞滬會戰. Where ROC (led by Chiang Kai-Shek 蔣介石, a Christian) had to fend off not only Japan, but also the rising communist party as well as internal rivalries. Without help the expected from foreign nations, despite Shanghai being known as the Paris of the East. Japan was winning due not to man count, but superior war technology in greater number as well, until being stopped by 1945. It is no wonder ROC would lose to the communist party after that. I'm saving this video.
9/24/2025 Wednesday
The right hate evil, thus assigning evil to the left in order to give themselves permission to hate the left; The left hate hate, thus assigning hate to the right in order to give themselves permission to hate the right. ~Phil Vischer (VeggieTales creator) of the Holy Post Media.
9/23/2025 Tuesday
The Business founder seen as Prophet & Priest. Interesting article that clearly shows the writer, Jeff Huber, has enough Christian knowledge to write this. Prophet = who sees what others don't. Priest = sacrifice their time and energy for the future success. Babel = thousand languages = so many startups today that confuses people, and probably without a true goal. He said more in his article about temple, kairos and chronos, and such.
China's solar power project as a nation is remarkable according to this chart:
The U.S. is awkwardly behind on this. Perplexity AI gave these reasons: China's solar power project is far ahead of the U.S. due to several major factors, including policy, scale, cost, industrial strategy, and state investment. U.S. political policy shifts and fossil fuels reliance pulled themselves back.
This Tiktok deal is interesting. I think it's stupid to "Americanize" tiktok, not to mention licensing it from China. Tiktok is a global thing. You cannot contain it. You can only compete against it. But it would be fun to watch, because this concerns "intellectual property", which is why the U.S. considers licensing it from China, which probably would not care about IP, which to me is a made up moral code by the West. Would Americans use the American Tiktok? China could easily create a new direction for the American population, circumventing the need for American Tiktok.
A ticket at my SPG work that requested for a deleted Youtube Video. So I came across these solutions that suggested two great sites dealing with deleted videos/pages online:
By google AI "how to find any information on deleted youtube video": https://web.archive.org": If you have the url of the deleted site (i.e. Youtube video), this site not only records when Wayback Machine crawled the site with a nice calendar of it, it also archived the video/page itself that you can play it!!! I wonder how long these archives would stay up.
By reddit: https://www.recovermy.video: A free account that tracks Youtube playlists, etc. such that it remembers for you the video info when the video on the playlist is deleted.
9/22/2025 Monday
Toxic Empathy: Nobody's allowed to criticize or say negatively of the other. Only say nice things, silencing anyone who disagrees, which is not loving, not empathic:
TYT (The Young Turks) shows Charlie Kirk's only time to go against Israel. And probably the only time he did so, before becoming more pro-Israel: