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mhanson101

@mhanson101@union.place

He/Him

Unable to escape the oscillation between a disdainful disconnect due to the awfulness in the world, and an engaged optimism that it can be better.

Currently marooned in Texas.

My current amusement is enteracting with sarcastic posts as if i don't understand them to be sarcastic. I also enjoy explaining bad jokes. (You see because the black box is what is recovered, so if the entire plane was...)

Back in my day CO2 levels were below 370ppm.

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luckytran, to random
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Kaiser Permanente in California becomes the latest healthcare system to reinstate their mask mandate due to a rise in number of patients with . https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/kaiser-permanente-reinstates-covid-19-mask-mandate-amid-spike-in-cases-but/

mhanson101,
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@loshmi @mloxton @abucci @luckytran I think that is a good point, but most of those issues could be addressed through better implementation instead of complete elimination of spread control measures.

Adapting to more outdoor interactions and increasing air filtration in more open spaces would allow for personal interactions, as well as smaller groups would most likely allow for less overwhelming stimulus for those with MH issues.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater so to speak.

mhanson101,
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@loshmi @mloxton @abucci @luckytran I thought that is what I was doing? You don't feel that there are any ways that spread measures can be implemented without threatening those with mental health, full stop?

mhanson101,
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@mloxton @loshmi @abucci @luckytran so you feel that we can't implement control measures that also take into account other health concerns?

mhanson101,
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@loshmi @mloxton @abucci @luckytran and my apologies for the incorrect terminology. That's just due to ignorance on my part, not malice

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Seems a valid question

mhanson101,
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@Radical_EgoCom Everything in real estate? The realtor for the seller has an interest in maximizing sale price, the realtor for the buyer has an interest in maximizing sale price, the bank that holds the loan has an interest in maximizing sale price, the local government has an interest in maximizing sale price, and that's just the purchase aspect. There is literally no one with the ability to, who is actually trying to make real estate affordable, but everyone wants you to think they're trying.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Capitalism Facts

video/mp4

mhanson101,
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@Radical_EgoCom that made me lol

tzimmer_history, to random
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Moralizing Nostalgia Leads to Bad History – and Helps the Anti-Democratic Right

David Brooks’ “How America Got Mean” offers an ahistorical tale that obscures rather than illuminates – and provides fertile ground for a politics of reaction.

A thread, based on my new piece: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/moralizing-nostalgia-leads-to-bad

mhanson101,
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@Robert_R_Freitag_II @tzimmer_history this seems like a complete non-sequitur. Where was the part that said you had to be a leftist in order to accurately interpret history and not frame it in a moralistically reactionary fairy tale?

mhanson101,
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@Robert_R_Freitag_II @tzimmer_history ok, but that's an opinion, that again, doesn't seem to apply to this thread. Seems like you're angry with leftists and are applying that disagreement to tangential targets because they've critiqued someone, whom i'm assuming, you're a fan of.

One can definitely critique a work without defining their own morality and which political beliefs spring forth from them. The critique can be accurate regardless of the critic's own outlook.

mhanson101,
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@Robert_R_Freitag_II @GhostOnTheHalfShell @tzimmer_history you certainly know how to utilize misinformation tactics.

Try this. There are things that happened, and ignoring the full context of the events surrounding those things is the main critique of this piece. So whether or not the full extent of "reality" is explained, the fact that Brooks ignored key events in order to present a flawed, and ahistorical account, is a valid criticism.

mhanson101,
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@Robert_R_Freitag_II @GhostOnTheHalfShell @tzimmer_history right, and if you ignore facts in order to get to a conclusion, that is a deceptive conclusion. One which, in this case, furthers a hostile political movement.

mhanson101,
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@Robert_R_Freitag_II @GhostOnTheHalfShell @tzimmer_history you claimed that "leftists" were without a moral basis for their positions and that is an explanation of how that's not the case

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@Robert_R_Freitag_II @GhostOnTheHalfShell @tzimmer_history oh my goodness, the literal argument of this critique is that the full context of factual events were ignored in order to develop a spurious conclusion that is damaging to democracy

mhanson101,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Robert_R_Freitag_II @tzimmer_history this dude is never going to engage with what you're saying in good faith.

mhanson101,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Robert_R_Freitag_II @tzimmer_history exactly my point early on. He came into this looking for "the left" and threw his practiced criticisms out even when they didn't apply.

mhanson101,
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@Robert_R_Freitag_II @GhostOnTheHalfShell @tzimmer_history You probably tell everyone you're a centrist, and the longer this goes on, the fash will become more and more apparent I suspect.

wendysiegelman, to Florida
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NEW: Financials and donors of PragerU – the nonprofit behind controversial right-wing propaganda videos recently approved by the DeSantis admin for Florida K-12 schools.

Many stories report fracking billionaire Wilks brothers gave $6.5 million to launch PragerU and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a big donor

I found the Marcus Foundation (of Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus) gave $6.5 million since 2018

https://newstracs.com/financial-highlights-of-prageru-the-nonprofit-behind-controversial-right-wing-propaganda-videos-recently-approved-for-florida-schools/2023/08/21/

mhanson101,
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@wendysiegelman so straight up indoctrination for Florida kids. This is appallingly bad.

The standardized tests will be purity based very soon it seems like.

GottaLaff, to climate
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👀 "New design: commonly avail polymers that can manip light..that allows for only cert wavelengths to be reflected, absorbed or transmitted. The materials will help in regulating temp & energy transfer in indoor & open spaces.

Roof design will combine w interior radiative cooling syst that manage exch of heat b/w humans & surfaces in a rm...will unite concepts of radiative heat transfer & optical design to create new vision of roofs for sustainable envir" https://research.princeton.edu/news/project-reimagines-roofs-warming-world-selected-receive-dean-research-sustainability-our

mhanson101,
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@GottaLaff excellent news for the very wealthy and their offspring!

mhanson101,
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@GottaLaff it's very cool yes, but I am much less optimistic that a highly technical and, only an assumption on my part, expensive process, will be widely dispersed as to have a real effect on warming of the planet. It seems more likely to be used as a way to show that we'll invent our way out of any repercussions and allow a continuation of business as usual.

mhanson101,
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@GottaLaff I can understand that outlook. Perspective, access, and goals are everything.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

The Archbishop of Kampala Diocese, Paul Ssemogerere has called on Christians "to work hard and break free from poverty if they are to see heaven in the afterlife." The Archbishop added, "God will say I created you with eyes, the brain, and gave you life, and you die poor?!. You will perish in hell."

mhanson101,
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@Radical_EgoCom it's cool when people make it very easy to know you shouldn't listen to them. Much less effort on the listener's part.

theintercept, to random
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The Intercept obtained a leaked Pakistani document showing the U.S. threatened severe consequences if Imran Khan were to stay on as prime minister because of his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cypher-ukraine-russia/

mhanson101,
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@theintercept excellent, good work state department. No force used but succeeded in furthering our interests, and cool to see behind the scenes on these kinds of diplomatic negotiations.

melissabeartrix, to random
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Only the best customers at this cafe ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

mhanson101,
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@melissabeartrix is that a giant eye, or deception through feathers?!

futurebird, to random
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To be a predator of a social species such as ants or humans you must not raise alarm. A hoverfly, tricks ants into keeping their larvae. It grows to a monstrous size, discretely feeding on ant larvae. The ants are unable to see it as a threat. Larvae simply disappear.

With our excellent vision the deception is obvious. But, what is also obvious is that the creatures that take advantage of humans would be just as invisible.

Sometimes... people just go missing? Right?

mhanson101,
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@futurebird I think you've got a hit scifi premise on your hands! That is a very cool concept and a great framing of the understanding of it.

mhanson101,
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@albertcardona @futurebird so has the passenger car but there's more than one of those

drewharwell, to random
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"Lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in which every adult user of the internet could soon find themself entangled" https://www.platformer.news/p/how-the-kids-online-safety-act-puts @caseynewton

mhanson101,
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@drewharwell @caseynewton this strategy needs to be addressed in some way or its going to be a shredding of individual rights.

As a non-legal mind I don't see how allowing any individual the right to curtail free speech through monetary intimidation is more constitutional than the government restricting it in similar ways. It's like being eaten alive by ants rather than a lion.

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