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MylesRyden

@MylesRyden@vivaldi.net

An old techie who occasionally uses new tech. Teacher by trade. Psychology and Critical Thinking are my subjects, YMMV.

I don't give a flying fig who you have relationships with, what you do in your bedroom or what you do in your church, as long as you don't expect me or anyone else to think, do or believe as you do.

I used to say that all my cultural references are 20+ years old, but that is now out of date. All my cultural references are from the previous century.

Addicted to #MST3K

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    MylesRyden,
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    @dnc Six?

    w7voa, to random
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    Republican senators request the US education secretary investigate "Chinese Communist Party influence in American K-12 schools." https://www.scott.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/senscottcolleaguesdemandbidenadministrationinvestigatechinesecommunistpartyinfluenceinamericank12schools.pdf

    MylesRyden,
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    @w7voa Be much better to investigate Republican influence on schools. It's much, much worse.

    kbeninato, to random
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    Every time cameras show someone frolicking in floodwaters I think of what a neighbor said post-Ida: "What's out there now is everybody's shitwater. You wanna walk in somebody's shitwater?"

    No. No, I did not.

    MylesRyden,
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    @kbeninato Besides...

    Media before the hurricane: "Everybody run!!!"

    Media after the hurricane: Yet another interview with someone who "rode out the storm."

    MylesRyden,
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    @kbeninato Literally on the CBS news tonight, "We go now to someone who rode out the storm..."

    MylesRyden, to random
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    Seems to me that the biggest flaw in our modern political system is that the person running for President has to REALLY WANT to be President.

    Formula for getting a demoguoge.

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    Some of y'all really care to hear what DeSantis has to say in the wake of a terrorist attack against Black people in Florida? Really?

    I mean, you do you I guess.🤷🏿‍♂️

    Couldn't be me. I don't have to be told twice to know what's up. I hear it clearly the first time.

    MylesRyden,
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    @AccordionBruce @mekkaokereke Easier and more accurate to say the shooter was standing on DeSantis's platform.

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    MylesRyden,
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    @dnc More sodium than I can eat in a week. 😉

    w7voa, to random
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    The candidates’ debate getting underway. The media on site for the Fox News/RNC event is restricted to watching from the Fiserv Forum players’ parking garage.

    MylesRyden,
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    @w7voa That would assume anyone, other than you, is actually watching.

    MylesRyden,
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    @w7voa I love how no one knows what the schools actually teach. All three high schools in our town have full blown tech ed departments with very high tech metal and woodworking equipment. And yes, the schools DO teach civics.

    MylesRyden,
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    @w7voa Here I am hoping someone will get hit with lightning. Is that mean?

    MylesRyden,
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    @w7voa How about if we actually partner with Central American people to reduce violence and increase economic activity? I have nothing against immigrants, but isn't it easier to put up some money to improve the living situations there. I am sure if conditions were better people would much rather stay where they are.

    MylesRyden,
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    @w7voa So, Day One: Invasion of a foreign country. Day Two?

    MylesRyden,
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    @w7voa Yet another GOP candidate building a bridge to the 19th Century.

    TexasObserver, to Texas
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    “We do what we can with the courts but the true power is always in our community and the way we take care of each other. We’re going to need to save each other, and ourselves.”

    As the ACLU of begins their latest lawsuit—this time against Senate Bill 12, the so-called 'drag ban'—the + community must fight for survival, reports Digital Editor Kit @oconnell: https://www.texasobserver.org/drag-ban-sb-12-aclu-lawsuit/

    MylesRyden,
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    @TexasObserver @oconnell Should be a slam dunk on First Amendment grounds.Are they going to ban reruns of Monty Python and Milton Burl?

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    MylesRyden,
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    @dnc $2.50 more at the retail level, no additional production costs. 😉

    georgetakei, to random

    Well played, sir.

    https://secondnexus.com/geoff-duncan-trump-witness-tampering?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MylesRyden,
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    @georgetakei c/o Fulton County Jail. You're welcome.

    TheConversationUS, to random
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    The in the state of Georgia is a reminder of why the founders favored federalism: states’ independent power is a check on tyranny.
    A law professor looks at how, ironically, this has been a Republican Party aim since Ronald Reagan. https://theconversation.com/georgias-indictment-of-trump-is-a-confirmation-of-states-rights-a-favorite-cause-of-republicans-since-reagan-210610

    MylesRyden,
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    @TheConversationUS But of course that was back when most of the Federal government was controlled by Democrats. Once the GOP controls the central government, the don't give a FF about local control. Same thing happened in Wisconsin. Here the GOP state legislature passes laws all the time that deny/shut down local control.

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    MylesRyden,
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    @marcelias This would be big. I hope Wisconsin is listening.

    QasimRashid, to random
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    The people who want you to believe that unelected Hunter Biden working with an energy company is an unforgivable ethics scandal for Joe Biden—also want you to ignore the $2B MBS gave to the former guy's daughter & the 4 billionaires lavishing undisclosed gifts on Justice Thomas.

    Rules for thee but not for me is the right wing mantra. Don't fall for it. Organize. Activate. Vote them out.

    MylesRyden,
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    @QasimRashid Let's not even talk about Jared and Ivanka...how much money did he get from the Saudis?

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    Drug user cannot be barred from owning guns, US court rules | Reuters

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/drug-user-cannot-be-barred-owning-guns-us-court-rules-2023-08-10/

    MylesRyden,
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    @mvario "Serial killer cannot be barred from owning guns, say SCOTUS." Reuters, someday.

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    Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Justice to Luxury Travel

    The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

    MylesRyden,
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    @ProPublica The man obviously has not the slightest shred of conscience.

    Sophoife, to random
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    Hoho yes I'll do a for the women's elite ITT tonight 😈

    There are 23 U23 riders in the field.

    What will the time gap be between the fastest elite rider and the fastest U23 rider?

    The startlist tissottiming.com/2023/crdwch/en… has * marking all the U23s.

    The entry deadline for for tonight's women's ITT will be when Aurélie Halbwachs starts, i.e. 11:47pm AEST.

    MylesRyden,
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    @Sophoife OK, I'll bite...what they heck is and ???

    revengeday, to random
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    I'm a little late to the party, but I was shocked to discover that DuckDuckGo now delivers much better search results than Google.

    MylesRyden,
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    @revengeday I started using DGD but was not impressed with the results. But the bigger, weirder problem is that I work in schools (I am a sub teacher) and the school wifi blocks search engines other than google. I presume the wifi filter they use can work with google to filter results to keep out NSFW (and students) results. I'll have to try GDG again to see if it works better for me now.

    MylesRyden,
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    @revengeday The list of things that are blocked is totally weird. For example, anything with "blog" in it is blocked. So if National Geographic has a "blog" it will be blocked. But a flat earth "website" is perfectly fine. So much for education. 😉

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    BREAKING: Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 1 tonight.

    So to recap:
    •Red KS—Citizens vote to protect access
    •Red MT—Citizens vote to protect access
    •Red KY—Citizens vote to protect access
    •Red WI—Citizens vote to protect access
    •Red OH—Citizens vote to protect access

    72%+ Americans SUPPORT access. GOP runs on culture wars because they can't win on ideas. Vote Republicans out permanently.

    MylesRyden,
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    @QasimRashid Just one minor quibble. Wisconsin is not really red any more. Yes, our congressional delegation and state legislature are so gerrymandered that they are Republican, but Republicans hold no statewide offices (other than Ron Johnson), the last two Supreme Court Justices have come from the left, Biden won here and the only R who wants to run against Tammy Baldwin is a student at UW. Can't say we are Blue yet, but we are no longer red.

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