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JohnLoader6

@JohnLoader6@masto.ai

Old bloke living literally on the border between Wales and England. Centre left politics, member (since age 71) of Liberal Democrat UK party. Life in telecoms and computing

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rbreich, to random
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Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or simply sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. The GOP is desperate for you to forget this. Do not.

JohnLoader6,
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@rbreich Even Native Americans came over the land bridge from Russia

countcol, to random

Supermarkets have ruthlessly hiked the prices of low-alcohol beer just in time for Dry January. Analysis by The Grocer magazine found that the average cost of nine popular booze-free brands, including Birra Moretti Zero and Guinness Draught 0.0, is up 22.3% since the start of December.

JohnLoader6,
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@countcol As someone who drinks mainly low/zero alcohol drinks for medical reasons why do beers and lagers taste like the alcoholic ones but wine doesn't?

appassionato, to palestine
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US federal employees with 22 agencies plan to walk off the job this Tuesday to protest the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza war, according to a report by US outlet Al-Monitor.

Walkouts are expected at crucial top agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Agency, the Departments of State, Defence, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs as well as US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Naval Research Laboratory.
@palestine

JohnLoader6,
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@appassionato @palestine unless Congress gets its act together they'll go anyway as they won't be paid.

rbreich, to random
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In 41 out of 50 US states, the richest 1% pay a lower tax rate than any other income group.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged for the rich.

JohnLoader6,
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@rbreich the people who make the rules are rich in most countries

evelynefoerster, to history
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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“As I approached it I said to myself: ‘My God it's solid bone’ and then ‘Oh my God it's got interlocking teeth’.”
Artist and fossil hunter Philip Jacobs found the snout of a massive pliosaur at the foot of a fossil-rich cliff in Dorset, England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2WtwsKJqGXtF2NJ17pZtJ0v/how-i-discovered-the-giant-sea-monster

JohnLoader6,
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@evelynefoerster sidelined in the programme

evelynefoerster, to history
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Why did the world’s biggest ape go extinct? 🤓
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00033-8

JohnLoader6,
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@evelynefoerster I thought he wanted to be US President - again

YakyuNightOwl, to random
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Grief is one of those things that people don't talk about when you get older.

They might mention turning into an insufferable divorced douchebag who picks up twenty-somethings in a shiny car built before their parents were born, and that's supposed to be the midlife crisis.

It isn't tho. It's waves of grief coming at you. Sometimes from all directions.

Getting the other side of the mid-40s is a parade of painful and permanent goodbyes that never seems to slow down.

Tell people you love them.

JohnLoader6,
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@YakyuNightOwl @thepoliticalcat Christmas gets sadder as the card list gets shorter

KydiaMusic, to random
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Being rude at someone for the (usually) honest mistake of failing to provide Alt Text on an image is UNNACCEPTABLE.

But someone simply requesting/reminding you to provide Alt Text is not them being rude or passive-aggressive or “performative allyship.”

JohnLoader6,
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@KydiaMusic sometimes image not that easy to ALT Text as indescribable or needs a book. Remember a picture paints a thousand words. I actually lectured Cambridge Business School lecturers on this when trying to adapt their slides for a blind student

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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It is essential to stop using Chrome.

Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.

Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable.

We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser

JohnLoader6,
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@dangillmor I run AVG secure browser - it fits on top of most browsers and adds loads more security. Will that stop Chrome's shenanigins?

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    JohnLoader6,
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    @thepoliticalcat and not joking but fish can suffer. Pond need to be deeper than 28 inches , the lower the temperature expected, the deeper the pond and make an airhole in ice cover with a bucket part filled with hot water resting on the surface

    the_etrain, to random
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    Why build rockets to blast billionaires into space when we could be building trebuchets to fling them into the ocean?

    JohnLoader6,
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    @the_etrain oddly a company now makes a slingshot type device to send satellites to high altitudes

    Sherifazuhur, to israel
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    AJE -Live page - 6 Jan recap:

    Children in Gaza are “dying in every way possible,” Tanya Haj-Hassan, a doctor with MSF, tells Al Jazeera.
    Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari says that Israeli forces have completed dismantling Hamas’s “military framework” in northern Gaza.
    Israelis attend mass protests in Tel Aviv calling for captives to be released and Netanyahu to go.
    Democratic US Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley visit a warehouse full of aid supplies rejected by Israeli authorities at the Egypt-Gaza border, including water-testing equipment and medical goods.
    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Greece and Turkey, saying Israel does not want regional escalation with Hezbollah but has the right to defend itself.
    @palestine @israel

    JohnLoader6,
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    @Sherifazuhur @palestine @israel hostages will die even if Hamas doesn't kill them. If the bombs and missiles and trigger happy murdering IDF don't do it malnutrition and disease will

    Waitnwallflower, to random
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    Oh
    Bait and switch man ... on the dating app ...

    I see you.

    That's not actually cool.

    You used to be so good-looking until you just stopped...

    Yes, I guess "stopped" is where that should stop (what happened to you, dear?)
    👀 how 😕🤯

    JohnLoader6,
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    @tantramar @Waitnwallflower what were they hoping for?

    pennine, to Rejoin

    asleep at the wheel, I don't think he even knows where the wheel is. This incompetent Tory hypocrite presides over heart breaking floods, yet supports Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill adding to global warming. https://rb.gy/wpxubk

    JohnLoader6,
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    @Wen @pennine water supply becoming an issue there with climate change

    senanthic, to random
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    i don't want smart appliances, smart cars, smart anything. I want items that are durable and can be repaired for a long time, products with lots of OPTIONS I can choose for accessibility, and products that don't dump features for shareholder greed. products that can be used by novices and products which can also be hacked by experts. modular, scalable, repairable, adjustable, human products.

    JohnLoader6,
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    @senanthic so no modern mobile phone? No router so no broadband.. How did you post here?

    vagina_museum, to random
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    Our cafe, brought to you by Kween Kream, is serving cunt on Wednesdays-Sundays. Get your fingers on some feminist fancies and enjoy some cervix with a smile when you're visiting the Vagina Museum!

    JohnLoader6,
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    @vagina_museum worried about flavour

    Miro_Collas, to Palestine
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    The Impossibility of Reporting the Story of Gaza | The Nation
    https://www.thenation.com/article/world/the-challenge-of-reporting-in-gaza/

    "... Meta censors content related to Palestine and that it also monitors Arabic content more excessively than it does Hebrew content. Last week, Human Rights Watch found that Meta systematically censors Palestinian content around the world."

    Yet people continue to use Meta platforms - convenience matters more than morals or ethics.

    JohnLoader6,
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    @Miro_Collas My Palestinian relative still getting stuff out on Facebook probably because she doesn't get it sent to her via Meta and she's in Australia. Some of it I just can't watch it is so horrific. Nobody in the IDF can be a normal human being

    glynmoody, to random
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    Miracle at Haneda: how cabin crew pulled off great escape from Japan plane fire - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/japan-plane-crash-haneda-airport-japan-airlines-what-happened-cabin-crew-safety-survivors "Pilot who halted blazing plane safely, crew who stuck to the drill and passengers who left their luggage behind delivered a textbook evacuation" how to do it

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    @glynmoody I wonder how passengers will manage without luggage. No phone, no money, no cards

    JohnLoader6,
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    @glynmoody women don’t usually have pockets

    JohnLoader6,
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    @glynmoody most people don’t think their plane will catch fire

    JohnLoader6,
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    @glynmoody wear a life jacket in case plane, car, bus, train fall into water . I use a neck purse but only when in an area I might not feel safe in

    christineburns, to random
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    Maybe it’s a sign of the times but when I drove past the local (downmarket) used car lot yesterday there was a Tesla in the yard.

    JohnLoader6,
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    @christineburns There used to be an old saying "We had one but the wheels fell off"

    GottaLaff, to random
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    And not getting in the car is a tacit “R”…

    Via Angry Staffer:

    New Year’s Reminder:

    Voting is like driving — select “D” to go forward; select “R” to go backwards

    JohnLoader6,
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    @GottaLaff N?

    steviesyerda, to politics
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    @bbcnews

    Still no mention from you that yesterday the israeli Finance Minister said this:

    ""If we strategically execute our plans, there will be emigration, and we will reside in the Gaza Strip."

    This is a government minister stating that the goal is ethnic cleansing of Gaza. You not reporting it is the most heinious bias by ommision and the BBC cannot ever be taken as a fair and honest news source

    Dear god how you've fallen in recent years




    JohnLoader6,
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    @IndyRichard @steviesyerda @bbcnews the BBC report and let intelligent viewers make their own decisions as you obviously have. So it works

    vagina_museum, to random
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    If a medieval French vagina could speak, what would it say?

    We actually have the answer to this. Allow us to tell you the tale of The Knight Who Could Make Cunts Speak.

    JohnLoader6,
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    @vagina_museum the Speaker of the House of Commons often has trouble making them be quiet

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