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jackcole

@jackcole@mstdn.social

Retired US Army scientist (cyber security research), father of 4, pilot. #fedi22 #cybersecurity #AI #ML #flying #music #photography #languages #chemistry #electronics

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Brandi_Buchman, to random
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Hi everyone who is new: high functioning depressed person with PTSD here.
I don't hide this.
I just got tired of pretending.

jackcole,
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@Brandi_Buchman People don't pretend to be depressed. They pretend to be ok. Grappling with depression isn't easy, but the trite expression that recognizing the problem is the first and most important step on the way out of depression. You're on your way.

Brandi_Buchman, to random
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I don't feel like getting yelled at on X but I just want to say: I'm glad the economy seems to be doing well for so many but I am drowning out here and every person I know is holding onto their pennies because everything is so expensive and they are afraid it will get worse. But if you say that, you're against Joe Biden or democracy.
Just quietly suffering fucking sucks.
And I know I'm not alone!!!!

jackcole,
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@Brandi_Buchman Thoreau: "The mass of men [of people generally] lead lives of quiet desperation."

Strandjunker, to random
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MEMORIAL DAY 2024

Obama: “We honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. We owe them so much.”

Biden: “We honor the fallen heroes who sacrificed for our freedom. We must never forget the price that was paid to protect our democracy.”

Trump: “HUMAN SCUM!”

jackcole,
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@Strandjunker Just projection, again.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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That makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

jackcole,
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@lowqualityfacts Same for jam, preserves, marmalade fishes?

stux, to random
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⚠️ I am aware there are still issues with mstdn.social and I'm still working on fixing it all❤️

Everything should work as intended except sometimes things could be a little slow :sad_cat:

I've been in talks with the devs for some days to try and solve this issue and we'll keep going until it's fixed

All I ask is a little understanding and patience :cat_hug_triangle: I'll be posting less since I'm working on this from the moment I wake up until I go to sleep again but do know I'm working on it!

jackcole,
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@stux thanks

maxkennerly, to random
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Among the advice I've picked up as a plaintiff's lawyer: don't get into a helicopter unless you have to.

In the U.S., the 2020-2024 accident rate is 3.81 per 100K hours flown. Fatal accident rate is 0.65. Every three weeks or so, there's another fatal accident.

https://rotormedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/USHST-Safety-Report-5-2024-1.pdf

jackcole,
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@maxkennerly The cause of fatalities in helicopter accidents is well known: civilian helicopters have fuel tanks overhead that rupture on impact and douse occupants who are then incinerated. The fix? Rupture-proof tanks as the military uses. But FAA will not force industry to do it. Yes, stay out of civilian helicopters.

maxkennerly, to random
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More clowning from the TechnoClownKing at Tesla as he inevitably rehires some of the Supercharger people he fired without any sort of plan to replace them. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-rehires-some-supercharger-workers-weeks-after-musk-s-culling?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTYzNDMzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzE2MjM5MTMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTREVRQjJUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI4NzU5NDI1Q0VFODg0NjVCOUVDOUY4Nzg4MkRCMDlFNSJ9.IggoaMVNlCIq-oFeNI2OPnea50DPwth_80Ewnu5uTt0

jackcole,
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@maxkennerly
These employees may take the path suggested in this old ditty:

"First I was hired,
Then I was fired,
Then By Golly, I Quit."

lowqualityfacts, to random
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It's one of life's greatest mysteries.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

jackcole,
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@lowqualityfacts I prefer "Fire Plug" over "Fire Hydrant" since the device helps stop fires and is not a source of them.

maxkennerly, to random
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So much of Musk's "visionary leadership" is classic mismanagement. He's not just nuking the one area in which he Tesla can lock-in market dominance (the EV chargers), he's doing it in the most chaotic manner possible, without any plan for going forward. https://electrek.co/2024/05/03/read-the-wild-email-tesla-is-sending-to-suppliers-amid-supercharger-chaos/

jackcole,
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@maxkennerly And the Tesla staff are just along for the wild ride as were Twitter staff. A rich boy with his toys.

TonyStark, to random
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More than 100,000 immigrants from the DACA program will soon become eligible to receive federal health care coverage for the first time since DACA was implemented over a decade ago.

DACA beneficiaries had been barred from federally funded health insurance despite contributing billions in federal taxes to the nation’s federal health insurance system for years. Excellent news.

DACA recipients will be eligible for federal health care coverage under new Biden rule-
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/biden-daca-healthcare-coverage-new-rule-rcna150473

jackcole,
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@TonyStark Great news!

LindaCollins11, to random
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Sorry Kristi & Mitt guess you're not crossing 🤣

jackcole,
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@LindaCollins11
"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

-Mark Twain

ColinTheMathmo, to random
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The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words -- Anon

jackcole,
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@ColinTheMathmo

And etiology distinguished from etymology.

DrALJONES, to random
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    jackcole,
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    @DrALJONES Mike doesn't care that the university or its students dislike him. He cares that his Republican supporters will see him as a tough guy willing to say this to their faces, to tell the woke what they have to hear. It is a performance for Mike to bolster his supporters.

    maxkennerly, to random
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    Netanyahu has all the time in the world to meddle in U.S. domestic politics and compare us to Nazis but no time for anything unimportant like Israeli hostages or Gazan humanitarian aid.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/netanyahu-israel-us-college-protests.html

    jackcole,
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    @maxkennerly Invade NYC to put a stop to these terrorists! Destroy every building, every hospital! Starve them and force them to do without drinking water! That seems like a minimalist approach to preserve our way of ... life?

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Wow, that's a lot of salt.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    jackcole,
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    @lowqualityfacts

    The toil of all that be
    Helps not the primal fault:
    It rains into the sea
    And still the sea is salt.

    A.E. Housman

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    I've always suspected as much.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    jackcole,
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    @lowqualityfacts
    1928 — Charles Adler Jr. developed a sonically actuated traffic light. To operate it, drivers pulled up to a red light and honked their horns to make the light change. Installed in Baltimore, it was the first actuated traffic signal in the United States and served as the basis for modern traffic signals.
    https://magazine.wsu.edu/web-extra/traffic-signals-a-brief-history/

    maxkennerly, to random
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    Sharing this gift link on rising car insurance prices. Insurance companies are evil (I've sued plenty!), but this is a larger problem than that, and the only solutions require we stop focusing our transportation policy around cars. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/cheap-auto-insurance-is-a-thing-of-the-past-here-are-5-reasons?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxMzAxNTMxOCwiZXhwIjoxNzEzNjIwMTE4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQlNPSFFUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI4NzU5NDI1Q0VFODg0NjVCOUVDOUY4Nzg4MkRCMDlFNSJ9.Buzn4YcpMVG47M-6XbpzoWBZkTUvEz8o201s9Tone8I

    jackcole,
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    @maxkennerly This gift link isn't the same as for NYT or WaPo. Bloomberg requires registration of the reader, even if free. Having not read the B article, it is easy to see why auto insurance is and will be higher: body shops are already past their limits as are insurance adjusters. People buy vehicles with the name "Gladiator" (a Jeep model) not because they want simple economic transportation. If Romans took out insurance on real Gladiators, but it would not have been cheap.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    From my stash:

    jackcole,
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    @GottaLaff

    maxkennerly, to random
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    One neat trick to fight inflation is to stop having such car-centric policies.

    Feb-Mar inflation / year-over-year inflation
    Motor vehicle repair 3.1% / 11.6%
    Motor vehicle insurance 2.6% / 22.2%
    Intracity mass transit 0.0% / 2.0%

    https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm

    jackcole,
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    @maxkennerly

    maxkennerly, to random
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    One telling aspect of the targeted drone strike on World Central Kitchen is how, as Israel approaches its 200th kill of a humanitarian worker, neither Netanyahu nor the IDF even pretends there will be consequences for the soldiers or changes in policy.

    Because it is the policy.

    jackcole,
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    @maxkennerly If the IDF has any command and control, coordination with IDF would have prevented the attack on WCK. This says either it is policy to attack aid workers or IDF has no command and control. Either is unacceptable.

    maxkennerly, to random
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    Like the three unarmed hostages waving a white flag and countless other incidents, it's impossible to reconcile this with any reasonable rules of engagement. These were branded vehicles traveling in a deconflicted zone and they had coordinated their movements with the IDF.
    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/02/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.hU0.3Lrc.NBkegEqR4dEK&smid=url-share

    jackcole,
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    @maxkennerly By killing these 7 World Central Kitchen workers, has killed himself. No one will go any further with him.

    maxkennerly, to random
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    He's right. "Originalism" is about stringing together a collection of words to support a predetermined outcome. There's no need for fidelity to facts, reliable description of source material, nor even logical consistency. It's one of the few tasks large language models could do.
    https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/conservative-us-judge-says-ai-could-strengthen-originalist-movement-2024-04-01/

    jackcole,
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    @maxkennerly And you're certain LLMs aren't doing it now?

    jrconlin, to random
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    jackcole,
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    @jrconlin It doesn't show everything with a stamp if you include franked envelopes. USPS started scanning during the anthrax scare(s), so they do not scan trusted mail from U.S. Government, and some other mail. And some attackers will sign up for Informed Delivery for your address using a name that does or might have received mail there. In addition to you signing up, others at your address should, too. Despite that. it is useful.

    maxkennerly, to random
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    Ah ha! It seems the SEC is capable of going after insider trading, so long as it's former minor league baseball players, not billionaires and banks and hedge funds.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/minor-league-baseball-players-insider-traded-del-taco-sec-says

    jackcole,
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    @maxkennerly

    Laws are like spiders' webs,
    which stand firm when any light, yielding object falls upon them,
    while a larger thing breaks through them and escapes.

    • Solon (ca. 600 B.C.)
    GottaLaff, to random
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    To clarify. Via Rupar:

    Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for like this.

    Eric Columbus:

    Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the opposite of just talking about cars.

    Me: Here's the thread:

    jackcole,
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    @GottaLaff

    Trump and followers have used the same pattern to diminish what was said:

    he didn't say that.

    and if he did, he didn't mean that.

    and if he did, you didn't understand that.

    and if you did, it's not a big deal.

    and if it is, others have said worse.

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