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The smell of wild rice reminds me of waking up at the lake house in the summer

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My wife says she doesent want our children hanging out with vegetarians 😂

Lol AI didn't like my style. AI version: This is not a place for minors. Minors need governed access to public spaces. That is true in streets, malls, schools, shops, and it is true on the internet. Not because children belong under state control, but because children are under parental custody. An unsupervised child wandering into adult public space should be guided back under parental authority, not treated as an autonomous consumer. The confusion began before the internet. Public space entered the home through radio and television. Parents became accustomed to allowing outside voices direct access to their children. Not content filtered by father and mother. Content filtered by corporations, advertisers, entertainers, political interests, and later algorithms. That access formed appetites. It normalized rebellion, immodesty, romanticized lust, status anxiety, and emotional manipulation. Much of what earlier generations called entertainment was sexualized by innuendo long before it became explicit by image. Parents would not have intentionally purchased much of this content for their children, but broadcast media smuggled it into the household as culture. Television intensified it. The mother of the household was targeted with relationship drama, envy, sensuality, and dissatisfaction. The children were targeted with rebellion and appetite. Once the moral imagination of the home is captured, the household becomes porous. Now we have the internet. The internet is not merely a library. It is a borderless public square, marketplace, red-light district, propaganda network, gambling hall, recruitment center, classroom, church, sewer, and archive all fused into one interface. Would I let my child roam freely there? No. I was online before most people knew what online meant. Dial-up BBSs. Early internet. AX.25 packet radio. Analog cell phones. I know what children can find because I know what was available even when the network was primitive. The modern internet is infinitely more refined in its ability to seduce, addict, radicalize, sexualize, and deform attention. The government exploits the parental failure here. Parents have been trained to fear limiting access to information. They are told that boundaries are “controlling,” “overprotective,” or “sheltering.” That is false. Protecting children from adult public space is not censorship. It is parenting. The issue is not whether free speech should exist. The issue is whether children should be given unrestricted access to every adult public forum, vice market, ideology stream, pornographic lure, manipulative algorithm, and anonymous stranger on earth. They should not. Use tools like Family Link, PearGuard, router-level filtering, DNS filtering, device restrictions, and explicit website allowlists. Do not merely blacklist the worst things. Whitelist what is permitted. Delay general internet access. Supervise social media. Treat phones as tools, not rights. Teach discernment slowly, under authority, as maturity develops. Children may complain. That is not the measure. The measure is whether they were guarded while they lacked wisdom, then trained to exercise freedom once they could bear its moral weight. View quoted note →

Am I imagining things or does it seem like only one or two of more than a dozen nostr social apps are written by hardcore Christian right-wing conservatives?

Just for one sport, I literally have to monitor and navigate 6 different apps on a daily basis just to keep up with all the different ways people want to tell me a game or practice is changing, or a tournament is being added, or how to reserve a room for state championships. I'm not even a coach, just a parent trying to stay on top of it. The wife would have no chance. Each team uses a minimum of 3 apps. I have only two boys in baseball. There is no chance of consolidation into one app, because each app serves a different purpose to different roles and they each differentiate by excelling in different things. I keep thinking "dang, this could be a nostr app" but no, seriously, these apps do such a good job at this one thing. The problem comes when someone gets a bug up their ass and they want to "try out" something else, or some boomer wants to be "old school" and exclusively communicate over SMS and email scanned papers. The digital frontier truly is in youth sports.

Nostr people are the greatest

There are basically four kinds of ballgames. The first kind is: get the ball in the net. Soccer, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, handball. The mechanics change, but the deep structure is the same. Move the object through defended space and put it into the scoring aperture. Most of the rules exist to define possession, boundary, obstruction, and lawful contact. The second kind is: get the ball over the net. Tennis, volleyball, badminton, pickleball. Here the goal is not invasion but return. Keep the object alive. Send it across the boundary in such a way that the other side cannot lawfully send it back. These games are duels of angle, timing, placement, endurance, and error-forcing. Then there is football. Football is different. Football is a war game between polite societies. Each side has a territory. Each side has a command structure. Each side has formations, lines, deception, reconnaissance, specialists, reserves, and carefully measured advances. The ball is not merely an object; it is the token of lawful possession. The offense attempts to carry that claim-token into enemy ground. The defense attempts to halt the advance, recover possession, or drive the invader backward. But unlike actual war, both societies agree to honor the rules of war. There are boundaries. There are uniforms. There are officials. There are lawful and unlawful forms of contact. There are pauses between engagements. There are penalties for dishonorable conduct. Violence is permitted, but only inside a shared moral frame. Football is ritualized territorial conflict under covenant. Advance ten yards in four attempts, or surrender possession. Take ground, preserve order, cross the line. Football is not “put the ball in the net.” Football is conquest restrained by law. Then there is baseball. Baseball is not a polite line war. Baseball is guerrilla warfare. The defense owns the field. The offense sends one man at a time into hostile territory. The batter’s job is to create disruption. Strike the ball, force the defense to react, and give the runner a chance to escape into the open. The runner moves from safe house to safe house: first, second, third, home. The ball does not score. The man scores. That matters. In baseball, the offense is usually outnumbered, exposed, and hunted. A runner caught between bases is a man caught in the open. A steal is insurgency. A bunt is sabotage. A sacrifice fly is extraction under fire. A double play is a collapsed operation. The home run is the rare moment when the guerrilla fighter hits so hard that he walks the entire route uncontested. Baseball is raid, evade, hide, advance, return home. Which may make baseball the perfect game to emerge from a nation with the Second Amendment. Not because baseball is violent in the obvious sense. It is not. But because it encodes a deeper American instinct: the field may be occupied, the institutions may be organized, the opposing force may control the visible territory, but the individual still has agency. He can strike. He can move. He can find sanctuary. He can advance under pressure. He can make it home. Football imagines ordered conflict between recognized powers. Baseball imagines dispersed resistance by individuals and small cells. One is the battlefield. The other is the frontier. Both are American. But baseball may be the more specifically American myth: a man with a stick, surrounded by defenders, trying to get home.

Most sports are the same basic game: "get the ball in the net" or "get the ball over the net". They all have essentially the same rules about offisides, out-of-bounds and interference. Football and baseball are different. Baseball is "Hit the ball with a stick and run to safe." Football is "Carry the ball to the other end of the field." Not judging, but if someone explained that to me as a kid, I would have been more interested in football.

Fuck it. I'm bringing a beer to the game tonight