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LiberalEd

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BLM; LGBTQIA+; Feminist; Atheist; Socialist; Communist (aspirational); Dog and cat lover.

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LiberalEd, to random
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NaXi Troll Succeeds

'It started when Twitter personality Yashar Ali decided to rile up his over 700,000 followers ... by posting a video purporting to show that it had suddenly become trendy on TikTok for young people to read quotes from Osama bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"
People took it seriously. Multiple news outlets rushed outraged responses.
...
the story was swiftly debunked by tech journalists who pointed out that the trend amounted to just a few trolls.'

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/21/worry-less-about-tiktok-and-bin-laden--fret-more-that-mike-johnson-shares-the-terrorists-view/

LiberalEd,
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"It says a lot about the failures of our media that a few random attention-seekers on TikTok have caused more of a freakout than this lengthy list of commonalities between bin Laden and Johnson, a man who actually has the power to put his anti-American vision into action. It's just much easier to sell a story about wayward youth than it is to explain why the nerdy-looking politician with the good hair is actually plotting our collective destruction."

GottaLaff, to tesla
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🍋 launched its own car insurance. These drivers say it's a lemon

promised cheaper, better, even “revolutionary” auto insurance after Tesla started losing sales because of high premiums. But understaffing left some customers waiting weeks or months for compensation as they continued making payments on crashed cars. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-insurance/

LiberalEd,
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@GottaLaff @iuculano

Teslas do 3 things better than most cars: accelerate, crash, and spy on their owners.

And now with his new insurance's pay-through-the-nose option, your collision claim is processed some time after you make the final payment on the car, depending on how obsequious you are to Musk on naXi.

Litzz11, to random
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Texas toddler shot in the head by grandpa who was cleaning his gun.

Just a "mishap," though. Nothing to worry about!

https://ktxs.com/news/nation-world/toddler-accidentally-shot-in-head-by-grandfather-during-gun-cleaning-mishap-shooting-range-maintenance-gun-violence-investigation-custody-law-enforcement-police-first-responders-doctors-hospital-health

LiberalEd,
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@Litzz11

Just another good, safe, responsible gun owner cleaning his loaded gun in a good, safe, responsible manner, while his grandchild was irresponsibly toddling around.

Guns don't kill toddlers.
Grandpas kill toddlers

LiberalEd,
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@Litzz11

When I was a kid, dad, who was in the Marines, still had his M1 rifle. He took us to a rifle range to teach us how to fire it. Before we went, he reviewed gun safety.

One of the most important lessons he drilled into us was to NEVER assume a gun is unloaded. Always check.
Even if someone gives you a gun and says it's unloaded, always check. Even if they say they already checked, check it yourself. When you get a gun, check it. Period.

~40 years later, that advice came in handy.

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LiberalEd,
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@Litzz11

A few notes about the prev post.

I ran out of chars or I would have said that dad HAD BEEN, not WAS, in the Marines. He was honorably discharged years before I was born. Grammarians will appreciate the difference.

Also, not to belabor the point, but, after the sentence
"Even if they say they already checked, check it yourself."
insert the sentence:
"Even if they checked it right in front of you, check it yourself."

LiberalEd,
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@RufusJCooter @Litzz11

Having a gun pointed at you is really quite a moment. I've only had it twice. Once when I walked out of my work and into what looked like a swat team standoff with an armed man.

Imagine about 10 cops 100 feet away, guns drawn and aimed at the perp, who was directly in front of you. And as you realize how close you are to death you hear the one-way door behind you lock shut.

Fortunately it was a training exercise. But those seconds seemed like days.

LiberalEd,
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@RufusJCooter @Litzz11

Late 90's. It was the back parking lot of a building by Six Flags in Arlington TX. Our software company shared the building with other tenants, including some authority. Not regular cops, but an agency I didn't associate with violence. Cannot remember which one any more. Anyway, they occasionally did exercises in that parking lot. Until then, they were unarmed exercises. I learned to park elsewhere.

nixCraft, to random
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🤡

LiberalEd,
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@nixCraft

LiberalEd, to random
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Can't give this lede enough exposure.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45822510/trump-veterans-day-speech/

edwilk, to random
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Getting ready for the holidays.

@12thRITS @TidalFlats @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @keithmorrisnm

LiberalEd,
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@edwilk @12thRITS @TidalFlats @glasspusher @AlterNewt @Biff52 @keithmorrisnm

Did Melania start a new line of Christmas lights?

LiberalEd,
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@edwilk @glasspusher @12thRITS @TidalFlats @AlterNewt @Biff52 @keithmorrisnm

Don't tease. Dish!

LiberalEd,
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@thepoliticalcat @edwilk @glasspusher @12thRITS @TidalFlats @AlterNewt @Biff52 @keithmorrisnm

Can you imagine the reaction if he asked her for sex now?

It would be like that apocryphal story about Neil Armstrong's boyhood, when his neighbor's wife yelled at her husband:

Sex! I'll give you sex, when that Armstrong kid walks on the moon!

skykiss, (edited ) to random
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2nd failure of starship

Gulping > 40,000 pounds of methane & liquid oxygen per second, 397-foot-tall, 11-million-pound rocket.

The upper stage continued to climb, nearly at the end of its burn when contact lost 8 mins after liftoff, indicating Starship wasn’t flying as planned. A camera view tracking the Starship booster shows an explosion that suggested the vehicle failed at that time. The rocket's altitude was 91 miles, 148 km.

Starship’s self-destruct system fired destroying it, failing to reach target 150 mile

The engine failure led to > than minute-long tumble, which kicked off just after the rocket’s Starship upper stage & Super Heavy booster failed to separate.

Was the flight’s explosion result of aerodynamic forces shearing the vehicle apart or the FTS?

Flight termination systems are explosives built into key areas of rockets, triggered by hardware failure detected. A safety & licensing requirement if a rocket veers off course.

This after 63 failures noted by FAA on the last launch.

No trust.

LiberalEd,
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@skykiss

Yet NYT and WaPo Headlines still call it a success. Are they just doing PR / steno for Musk?

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luckytran, to random
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New polls again show white people are far less likely to take COVID precautions.

Percentage who say they are wearing a mask:
Black 59%
Hispanic 47%
White 17%

Percentage who say they are taking any precautions:
Black 72%
Hispanic 68%
White 39%

Source: https://kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/vaccine-monitor-november-2023-with-covid-concerns-lagging-most-people-have-not-gotten-latest-vaccine/

LiberalEd,
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@Bossito @luckytran

Yet the virus is mutating constantly, and there is no guarantee it won't mutate to affect whites preferentially or more severely.

Whites act like if the fire is 2 houses upwind, their house will be fine.

LiberalEd,
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@Bossito
Agreed. The term 'risk group' is not appropriate with AIDS. 'At-risk behavior' is appropriate, because the issue was how AIDS was acquired (needles, unprotected sex, etc), not your race or even sexual orientation.

The issue with COVID is how hard it affects various demographics when acquired, since there is no way to avoid exposure. Thus if whites are being less harmed now, that doesn't mean they won't be more harmed by a newer strain later. Everyone knows COVID mutates continually.

flexghost, to random
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Tesla getting owned by Swedish workers isn’t the story.

The story is that 90% of the Swedish workers belong to a union

And only around 11% of American workers belong to a union

The story is the message

What the Swedes have done by blocking delivery of Teslas will reverberate worldwide with workers showing the power of collective action.

LiberalEd,
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@flexghost

If I were captain, I'd set a course back to wherever they came from.

And if a "storm" were to wash the Teslas overboard, I'm sure full self-driving mode would get them back home.

LiberalEd, to random
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"not teach our children values that we object to"

Values like treating all people with respect? Values like teaching that all people have equal dignity?

Probably everyone you pass on the street is in some way objectionable to your morality. Isn't your job as a Christian to love them regardless? Or is that what you say to take the high ground?

If you can use your religion to justify targeting them for their sexuality, what's to prevent them from doing the same to you?
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/11/fox-and-friends-says-macys-thanksgiving

Brandi_Buchman, to random
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As the posts continue to circulate mentioning Trumps vermin remarks and I see so many people upset that the media isn't covering it correctly, I remind you, I, a reporter who has covered Trump from 2016 and Jan. 6 unceasingly since 2021, got laid off this February on the premise that "Trump didn't matter anymore" among other bullshittery.

LiberalEd,
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@Brandi_Buchman

I just keep wondering: what is the media's plan? Do they really think they will survive a Trump second term with any remaining reputation intact?

If so, do they think Trump will overlook their current tame criticism?

Or do they think that once Trump is in power they will convert to total subservience and flattery, and that will soothe him?

Or is it just: maximize profits until we die?

TonyStark, to random
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People who have participated in local school affairs for years have seen what this right-wing group that is masquerading as “for liberty" is really up to and they're not fooled. And they have seen enough, hence the results we saw Tuesday.

Banning books is not "liberty" in any sense of the word nor is trying to erase the existence of LGBTQ people, Black history, or Jewish history, no matter how many times that group says so.

Voters Tell 'Moms For Liberty' To Eat Shit:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/voters-tell-moms-for-liberty-to-eat

LiberalEd,
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@TonyStark

Whenever a group puts words like 'Liberty' in its name, its mission is probably to oppose liberty. It's even more likely when they put 'Mom' in there too. 'Mom' makes it sound ridiculous to most people, but it's sweet music to conservatives. They just love names with Orwellian right-wing dog whistles. They rarely contain words like 'equality' or 'fraternity'.

augieray, to random
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takes a decade from your brain. This study found "a significant decline in cognitive throughput following COVID-19, after adjustment for pre-COVID-19 functioning, demographics, and medical factors. The effect sizes were large; the observed changes in throughput were equivalent to 10.6 years of normal aging and a 59.8% increase in the burden of mild cognitive impairment."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.06.23298101v1

LiberalEd,
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@EllieK @hembrow @augieray

"Cognitive decline worsened with coronavirus disease 2019 severity and was concentrated in participants reporting post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2"

I'd say yes. They seem to have included people with the full range of COVID severities and found the worst declines went with the worst severity.

Another Q. Is "post-acute sequelae" just their way of saying 'long COVID', or is it any adverse symptom following the acute phase.

twipped, to random
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I think anyone senior level and above knows all this already, but it’s still good to read https://www.mensurdurakovic.com/hard-to-swallow-truths-they-wont-tell-you-about-software-engineer-job/

LiberalEd,
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@twipped

I agree with all of it but the overly dismissive attitude towards clean code.

It's one thing to overdo it, but another to deliberately ignore it. Find a happy medium.

Also, develop hygienic coding habits, so clean coding comes naturally. Also, do a good cleanup after main coding is complete.

I used to tell my junior programmers that they should code as though they were going to have to debug it a year after they forgot it. Because they probably will.

LiberalEd, to random
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@GottaLaff

Prosecution: And were you married to Jared Kushner at the time?

Defense: Objection. Spousal privilege.

Judge: Overruled.

Ivanka: I can't recall.

Prosecution: Here's a contemporaneous email where you remind Jared it's your 5 year anniversary.

Ivanka: It happened so long ago I don't remember.

josephcox, to random

Attendees of Bored Ape conference said they “couldn’t see anymore,” woke up with searing eye pain, vision loss. Looks like they were burned with UV light from the stage
https://www.404media.co/bored-ape-yacht-club-conference-eye-pain-vision-loss-yuga-labs/

LiberalEd,
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@josephcox

Solution: start new Burnt Ape NFT

RickiTarr, to random
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Not paying your workers well doesn't even make sense financially, what do they think people do with extra money? Corporations shoot themselves in the foot, and then ask all of us to stop the bleeding.

LiberalEd,
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@veirling @RickiTarr @jamieannmason

Then you'll really love this term.

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