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Sobieck

@Sobieck@hachyderm.io

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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Sobieck, to random
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You dumb motherfucking antivaxxers.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/measles-could-once-again-become-endemic-in-the-us-the-cdc-warns/

Sobieck, to random
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I’m not going to say antivaxers are the worst people around. But they are in competition.

Sobieck, to random
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I despise RFK Jr. His antivax bullshit alone makes him a villain with a huge body count. Now he is repeating Russian propaganda about Ukraine. Maybe he will start shilling crypto and LLMs to just complete the villainy.

Fucking dipshit fail son.

IzabelaKaramia, to random
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strange apocalyptic labyrinth nightmare

awake, I return to work in 30 minutes after vacation time that wasn't vacation really

Ginza is happy and I'm happy she's happy

Sobieck,
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@IzabelaKaramia When you said that you had extra expenses I was terrified that Ginza wouldn’t get her cat tree. I’m so excited for her.

Sobieck, to Israel
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I don’t see Israel recovering from this war. They’ve burned all of the good will they had after the 7th. They don’t control the narrative anymore.

I will never forget the interview I listened to of Refaat Alareer on Popular Front. His kids screaming in the background as bombs exploded in the neighborhood. I remember thinking “this man is a dead man” and he just seemed like a decent man trying to live his life. He died soon after.

I think many people have had moments like that.

Sobieck, to random
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I have a bunch of alcoholics in my family. I’ve never shown a propensity for it, but I’m still wary of it.

So I’ve avoided alcohol, especially at home, since I started care giving full time. Life is too depressing and stressful that I’m afraid that I’d lean on alcohol for an escape. Which wouldn’t be good given the fact that I’m the only thing keeping us going.

Recently I’ve been drinking Guiness’s nonalcoholic beer with some meals and it has been delightful. Beer just enhances meals.

Sobieck, to random
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This is the dumbest idea of all time.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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Dog ownership dream: “They’ll keep me warm on those cold days with snuggles”
Dog ownership reality: “They’ll drag me into chilled hell for a walk, and drag my frozen corpse back for the lulz”

Sobieck,
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@khalidabuhakmeh It sounds like you want Gidget for a pup. She needs to cuddle at all times and will not go outside if it is cold or rainy.

Sobieck, to random
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I wish we had politicians that were more ambitious in their program. I don’t just want Roe codified*, I want us to all have bodily autonomy.

Give people the ability to do what they want with their own bodies. This means aid in dying, free healthcare for all, trans rights, legalization of sex work, the destruction of the prison industrial complex, etc.

  • I don’t think that the Supreme Court will let it stand either way, defang the fucking Court.

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Albert Einstein’s first wife Mileva (Mitza) Marić was also a brilliant physicist. They met at the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich, where she had fought for special permissions to attend and where she received higher marks than Albert. Mitza put in as much if not more work on their theories but wasn’t credited because Albert told her their works wouldn’t get published with a woman’s name on them. Many of his lecture notes are in Mitza’s handwriting, and Albert was once heard at a party saying, “I need my wife, she helps solve all of my mathematical problems.” 80% of Einstein’s famous works were published during this marriage, referred to as his “magic years.” Those magic years ended abruptly after they divorced due to his infidelity and abandonment.

Happy

Sobieck,
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@Lana Basically, if you are cishet dude be a Pierre Curie (noted wife guy) and not a Albert Einstein.

Sobieck, to random
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I just remembered that I got a bad score for an AP lit essay in high school because the teacher told us to write an essay about a AP level book. I wrote about Dune because its themes seemed pretty fucking advanced and I’d read it about twenty times as a teen. She said Dune wasn’t AP enough and gave me a C or something.

sidereal, to random
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In theory I like the IWW more than SEIU, but in practice no one in SEIU has ever called me an SJW or complained about pronoun checks. So.

Sobieck,
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@sidereal I just know of the IWW from a historical background and the idea of them having a hierarchy that calls the shots is just really weird to me.

My image of them is a multicultural group of self organizing hobos that come to town riding the rails and do rad shit to make life better for people while getting everyone else in the town to unionize.

Sobieck, to random
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Airdropping provisions to gaza has to be the dumbest thing I've ever read.

Why? The Israelis are wholly dependent on American support. Tell them that they need to let in supplies and stop their genocide or we pull our support. This isn't hard.

Netanyahu is not your BFF Joe. He is a fascist thug. And he is going to get his fascist buddy Trump elected if you keep on supporting the fucker.

Sobieck, to Ukraine
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I hope Speaker Johnson and his MAGA friends roast in hell for what they’ve done to Ukraine.

kcarruthers, (edited ) to random
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I’ve been re-reading all my history books about the Nazis. One thing that strikes me is how hard it was to fight back against Nazism from inside. The normative culture is so strong and everybody is just going along. Ordinary folks, with denouncing their neighbours to the Gestapo. The Gestapo was tiny only 32k. It was the ordinary people that were informing on their neighbours. Ordinary people enabled Nazism.

Sobieck,
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@alemppu @kcarruthers They Thought They Were Free is very good.

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I think my wife may have gotten me sick…

Sobieck,
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@khalidabuhakmeh :( Get well soon.

Sobieck, to random
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Hachyderm must be really great... I see all sort of people complaining about spam but I haven't seen a single post and I'm on here all the time.

hannu_ikonen, to random
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I will do everything in my power to elect as far as left judges (WI) and state & district level representatives as possible.

The MI/MN trifectas are an unapologetic exemplar of what could be.

But the national establishment neolibs really apparently want me to shutup and stay home.

Sobieck,
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@Miro_Collas

Yeah, I think a better comparison would be what the US did to Native Americans. Force them off their land into reservations, when the dispossessed people object the full might of the army annihilates them.

Needless to say, evil and not good.

Sobieck, to random
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I don't get the love for Willis.

She did something incredibly stupid and jeopardized a case about overthrowing the government by the former President.

It just smacks of extreme arrogance and foolishness. It doesn't matter if it is legal or ethical. Even the appearance of impropriety is something you want to avoid in this situation because the stakes are so high.

Sobieck, to random
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The cop emptying his clip into his car because an acorn dropped on it has to be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

Sobieck,
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@CorvidCrone https://twitter.com/Ugarles/status/1757558217226277320

Sobieck,
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@sidereal @CorvidCrone I don’t know. I think that is what is so comical to me (all while being horrified). The dude thought he was storming Iwo Jima.

lauren, to random
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I'm not a cartoonist, but if I were, I'd draw one of a bunch of far left folks being marched into Trump Concentration Camp #934 in chains, with one remarking to the other, "At least I didn't vote for Biden!"

Sobieck,
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@kkeller @lauren I’m very far left. I’m extremely displeased with Biden on several fronts, but I’m voting for the man despite it being very hard for me to vote in a state where it won’t matter (MO).

The coup plotters and their cheerleaders need to be repudiated. Fuck those fascists.

Sobieck, to random
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/some-calif-cops-still-sharing-license-plate-info-with-anti-abortion-states/

ACAB

StillIRise1963, to random
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My parents BOTH got pacemakers. My mother had a stroke & spent a month in the hospital doing rehab. My mom had a Watchman implanted because she couldn't tolerate blood thinners. My father fell down, was in ICU for 4 days, then, went to a nursing rehab for a month. 2 therapists and a nurse came to his house for 1 month. They both have Medicare and a supp. insurance. THEY PAID NOTHING FOR ANY OF THESE INCIDENTS. So, don't ever tell me MEDICARE isn't a good thing. It can be better, sure. But, WTF.

Sobieck,
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@Joe_Hill @StillIRise1963 I think people are upset about Medicare Advantage which is a replacement for government run Medicare.

My wife also has Medicare + Supplemental insurance and we love it. I’d never go to an Advantage plan.

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