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Sobieck

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I'm a caretaker for my ill wife. I used to be a programmer. Hopefully I'll be doing that again sometime.

I like computer games. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Dwarf Fortress, and Factorio are my favorites. My dog is Gidget and she is the best.

My avatar is a person who doesn't exist. I'm real though.

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On a recent episode of Behind the Bastards, the host talked about how abusers were able to infiltrate the left in Germany after the war. They were able to hijack a good movement that was antifascist. They warped it in the worst possible way.

I know a lot of the privacy violating shit in tech is just on accident. But I wonder how much of it is just shitty dudes thinking of new ways to sneak in shit to abuse their partner and kids more effectively.

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How the fuck did Democrats make the upside down flag about decorum instead of, you know, the fascist coup these fucking ghouls tried on 1/6 and will continue to try until we force them back? They sure don’t seem to be taking it seriously.

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I absolutely do not care, even a little bit, if Trump had sex with and paid off Stormy Daniels*.

I care that he led a coup attempt and stole and tried to sell classified documents.

  • I don't care about it for the reasons that I'm told to care. I care that it appears that the entire thing was coercion on the part of that rat bastard Trump and that he used his power to get sex with a porn star.
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@Adam_Cadmon1

I'm constantly bewildered about how 1/6 has been buried.

It was the most dangerous thing that has happened to our constitutional order since at least the civil war. The fact that the people involved have not been drummed out of society is extremely distressing.

It feels like I'm crazy to think this because of how nonchalant everyone is about it.

Sobieck, to Israel
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The videos of Israelis destroying food aid meant for Gaza is absolutely enraging. These are the same sadistic fucks that become cops in the US to tear down unhoused people’s tents.

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Google search is absolute garbage now. And we watched it happen in real time.

Sobieck,
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@cam @Adam_Cadmon1 But isn’t the system also being gamed by spam companies? It is an adversarial system. Like google just stopped trying to combat that shit.

Sobieck,
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@cam @Adam_Cadmon1 Ed Zitron had a good series about what he thought happened to google on his podcast. I thought it was pretty convincing. Basically they put a finance ghoul in charge of search to prioritize number of queries instead of quality.

https://pca.st/episode/575bf908-63c0-4c3c-b4da-cf1820b86dd9

Sobieck,
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@cam Yep. I think so. I really like the podcast because of his angry old man yelling at cloud energy.

Sobieck, to random
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I love how the fedi is aurora posting right now. Great photos.

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Where do you live and how do you feel about it?

Obviously, don't tell me exactly where you live, no actual addresses please! You can be as vague as you like.

I live in Central Missouri in the U.S.

Pros:

This is an absolutely beautiful place, green rolling hills, lots of rivers, lakes, ponds, and natural springs, cool caves to explore.

Lots of farming here, so great access to quality fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and dairy.

It's relatively inexpensive to live here compared with other states, because it's a "flyover".

I'm close enough to three major cities, that it's an easy day trip, and I'm about halfway to anywhere in the U.S.

We have one of the best Conservation departments in the U.S. and this is one of the few things that is a bipartisan issue. Lots of awesome nature programs that are free or cheap, state parks, conservation areas, bird watching, hunting, boating, foraging available to everyone.

Cons:

Yeah, it's a big one, it is a RED STATE, while a lot of the cities are blue, there is a large rural population, that votes red. Abortion is not legal here. People often vote against their own self interest.

While I'm not against responsible gun ownership, lots of people aren't responsible, and people have access to guns that definitely should not.

We have very few employee protections here, while the cost of living is relatively low compared with other places, it's taken years to get to a $12 minimum wage, and it's still not enough.

Sobieck,
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@RickiTarr I feel about the same you do… because we are neighbors (Columbia MO here).

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The whole health insurance business needs to be burned to the ground.

Sobieck, to random
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@khalidabuhakmeh revealed in the latest @breakpointshow that his standards for new hires went down the longer he was a manager (to give people a chance).

As someone who he hired later in his tenure, I'm glad that I met him when the world had worn him down enough to hire a train wreck like me.

I miss paid work and I miss Khalid. :(

Care giving is hard.

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The periodic table of new age woo

Sobieck,
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@skinnylatte This "loneliness
and sadness" one is really a drag.

I wish we had spaces were people could socialize without it being about commerce.

Sobieck, to random
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I’m really just dumbfounded at the decision to die on the “I will back Benjamin Netanyahu unconditionally” hill.

Honestly just baffling.

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Labeling people protesting for Palestinians as “pro Hamas” is gross and obvious newspeak.

The people protesting seem to not want their tax dollars spent to kill, starve, and maim children.

Sobieck, to random
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Way to motivate the youths to vote Dem by… banning TikTok. Genius political maneuver.

Sobieck,
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@BoydStephenSmithJr I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Biden wins in a blowout.

Polling is broken now that scammers have taken over voice calls. Only weird people pick up the phone.

And every election has been good for dems since Dobbs and people fucking hate Trump. So I’m hoping that these political fumbles won’t give us a dictatorship.

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I can see voting for Eugen Debs as a third party candidate.

I don't understand why anyone would vote for the anti-vaccine crank and all around dipshit RFK Jr.

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