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bouriquet

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“You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you!” Part time escapee to La Isla Nena. Realist, nearly-retired with respect for the Earth. He/him. Sometimes a bit of my impatient attitude with the world is apparent as sarcasm. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 “If you want to change the future, start living as if you’re already there” -Lynn Conway “In a world of chaos, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists” - Eric Hoffer

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flexghost, to random
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Hey look who it is everybody!

Guess which deadeyed Trump-appointed judge is overseeing Trumps indictments?

It’s Aileen Cannon!

The same ho who obstructed Justice with her antics to save trump from the FBI raid on mar-a-Lago

There were calls to impeach her after the appeals court overturned her order appointing a special master

In fact, the appellate judges said Cannon doesn’t have “the judiciary licence to interfere in an ongoing investigation"

What do you think is gonna happen this time?

bouriquet,
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@Sh4d0w_H34rt @flexghost That does tickle the conspiracy brain cells in my head

BruceMirken, to internet
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Remember 's much-ballyhooed ? They were just debunked by -- wait for it -- .

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/

bouriquet,
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@adamjcook @BruceMirken The price of any stock is manipulated witchcraft and bears no relationship to real value to humanity. It’s a gambling toy for the 1%.

bouriquet,
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@adamjcook @BruceMirken I’d really like to know how many people at Tesla have any background in safety-critical systems, software integrity or hardware redundancy.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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The “homeless problem” isn’t getting bad, the wealth hoarding problem is getting bad.

bouriquet,
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@ryanhoulihan @fcktheworld587 Owning a home comes with not only responsibility to maintain it but also many headaches to maintain it safely, heat it, pay water and sewer bills, massive property taxes, roof repair, painting, property insurance, etc. Not all landlords are irresponsible profit-seeking slumlords. True, some are. One even made it to somehow become a tenant in The Peoples House and almost had to be evicted.

bouriquet,
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@hosford42 @ryanhoulihan @fcktheworld587 Fair rent that reflects actual costs for housing is only fair.
Price gouging, providing no services or repairs and using supply and demand to justify high rents is not only unfair, it’s dishonest. Some basic necessities like housing, energy and food need to be regulated, but not by greedy politicians.

bouriquet,
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@ryanhoulihan @hosford42 @fcktheworld587 It’s called rampant capitalism. Not exactly the best out there. But we seem to be stuck with it for a while. Otherwise, things would get quite messy-for everyone. Solving that problem violently doesn’t create anything fair for most: it’s like looting. What do you do to survive peacefully when all the craziness stops?
Just go look at history: violent solutions resulted in dictators, greed and poor distribution of anything.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Me when I see an old computer

bouriquet,
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@thomasfuchs So let me get this straight..if you type something in there, there’s something inside that remembers ALL of it? No matter what? Even if you try to delete it, then it’s saved somewhere else too? Hmm, ok thanks very much Mr. Trump. I may see you again tomorrow.

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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The loss of access to Twitter data under the new pricing plan was a dire blow to our research at the UW-CIP.

Now being forced to delete the data that dozens of people spent years collecting, curating, and studying—outrageous. It’s like burning lab notebooks, an attack on science for the sake of pure malice.

(UPDATE: it appears that the deletion mandates may not apply to us given our data use, but they are still devastating to the groups affected.)

https://inews.co.uk/news/twitter-researchers-delete-data-unless-pay-2364535

bouriquet,
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@ct_bergstrom Give this impotent arrogant despot the same treatment his kind usually use as a weapon: lawsuits, appeals ad infinitum.

samlitzinger, to random
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Biden’s decision to negotiate spending cuts in exchange for a debt ceiling bill pretty much ensures that we will go through this every year (or so) until the fall of America.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/20/dems-debt-limit-biden-00097925

bouriquet,
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@samlitzinger Right. Negotiations with the GOP always means reducing what prior Democratic administrations achieved.
Why not take a hard line with the GOP and bring them to the brink.
Big business will probably choke more in a default than anything.

flexghost, to random
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What’s funnier than a 36 year-old grandma Republican Christian zealot?

A DIVORCED 36 year-old grandma Republican Christian zealot

Good luck on your next nonce, Lauren Boebert.

We’re all counting on you.

bouriquet,
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@scottytrees @flexghost What’s next? Arranged or forced marriages? For a dowry?

mattblaze, (edited ) to random
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If this is true, that prime-time Trump infomercial was an even more shameful act of journalistic malpractice on CNN's part than was previously understood.

Allowing audience members to applaud - but not boo or express disapproval - doesn't report the story, it materially alters it. It creates the false impression that Trump and his odious policies and behavior are more popular than they are.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republican-at-trump-town-hall-says-many-in-audience-were-disgusted-or-bewildered-by-ex-president/

(HT @lauren)

bouriquet,
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@mattblaze @lauren But its the laughter at his statements where he’s trying to “entertain” that are the worst.
Those just empower him to think that folks think he’s one of them, which he’s definitely not. It’s a narcissist trick to not appear like a narcissist in public #.

lauren, to random
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Airlines Ditch Customer Support on Twitter, Blaming Verified Checkmark Chaos - https://gizmodo.com/twitter-airlines-air-france-klm-air-travel-1850418687

bouriquet,
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@lauren Basically Twitter has no commercial value anymore due to a lack of trust and integrity in the information or its source.

rysiek, to random
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Hanlon's razor — "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" — is very relevant to the apocalypticist BS.

It's not some future "superintelligent" AI maliciously killing people that we should worry about.

It's the poorly trained, not sufficiently understood, impossible to audit "AIs" already killing people (or otherwise fscking lives up) we need to tackle.

Get A Tesla If You Want To See AI That’s “Trying To Kill You”: Steve Wozniak
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/technology/get-a-tesla-if-you-want-to-see-ai-thats-%E2%80%9Ctrying-to-kill-you%E2%80%9D-steve-wozniak/ar-AA1aIXKu

bouriquet,
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@rysiek If this were an airplane, it wouldn’t be considered safe and airworthy, thus not permitted in the air while carrying the public.
Who let this junk be sold to the public? Let the buyer beware isn’t enough. There are people out there who don’t trust mRNA vaccines but would get in a Tesla. Why? The man is a PT Barnum.

rbreich, to random
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This is the graph everyone needs to see for International Workers' Day.

bouriquet,
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@rbreich Two parameters missing from the chart:

  1. Product quality, or at least perceived product quality.
  2. Skilled Manufacturing jobs exported to countries with lower labor costs.
dancinyogi, to random
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Like Biden or don't, but he will be the Dem nominee. The alternative is anything the GOP puts out there, likely Trump.

We are a two-party system right now. That's just how it is. Your choice will be Biden v. Trump or someone as bad or worst than him. So, your choice will be Biden or full-on fascism with the possibility of a GOP president actually pulling off a coup next time.

Don't like Biden? Fine. But don't pretend both candidates are equally bad. That's how we got Trump in the first place.

bouriquet,
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@dancinyogi Biden or not, the Democratic Party needs to start finding and grooming a future successor. Sure it might be VP Harris, it might be someone else. 4 years, 8 years etc. But we need more than one person in the line of succession. Choice is good. No choice is stagnation, status quo.
We need more.
We demand more.
For the future.

rbreich, to random
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Why is Social Security going broke? Income inequality.

Workers are making less than projected.

Meanwhile, the rich are getting richer — so more and more income escapes the cap on the Social Security payroll tax.

It's just one more way the super-rich don't pay their fair share.

bouriquet,
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@rbreich But is it also because people are living longer than they did in 1930?
Data from Social Security website

bouriquet, to random
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Today is the day you meant last evening when you hoped tomorrow would be a better day.

GossiTheDog, to random
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The web browser is 30 years old today - NCSA Mosaic 1.0 released April 22, 1993

bouriquet,
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@GossiTheDog I remember using Mosaic on a Sun SPARC2 in my cube in the 90s. My first browsing on the web.

Lowie, to random

In support of

“The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment—the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world.” ― Sebastian Marincolo

“Legalizing marijuana would make a lot of sense, I don’t think there’s a single case of marijuana overdose on record and tens of millions of users. It’s much less dangerous than alcohol, for example.” — Noam Chomsky

bouriquet,
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@shoogle @Lowie Just think of the strong lobbying power of beer brewing companies and alcohol distributors

liztai, to Malaysia
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My friend just told me that she paid RM5 (about US$1.50) to get two teeth fillings at the government dentist.

I really love 's .

Yet ... on Twitter (yes, of course there), my friend who was really happy & grateful about it, got nasty responses, saying that universal healthcare needs to be abolished, or they need to charge more.

Hello. One thing I'm absolutely grateful for is that the poor in my country can still access healthcare. Shaddup.

bouriquet,
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@liztai Is Universal Healthcare affordable or even possible there because malpractice insurance is affordable due to a lack of ridiculous lawsuits?

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