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rob

@rob@skol.social

Born and raised in Wisconsin, escaped and living in Minnesota

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StillIRise1963, to random
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No African Americans have ever lived on this soil feeling safe.

rob,
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@StillIRise1963
I'm sad to see a post like this. But I also wonder of it is a true statement.

Are you telling me Barack Obama didn't feel safe ever? Michelle Obama? I've worked with many African Americans who felt pretty safe.

This kind of hyperbolic statement is not helpful in a larger conversation. Where is it coming from? It seems to be an outlier to the posts you usually make. Did something happen?

rob,
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@StillIRise1963
You don't think it's wrong to pretend to know the hearts of millions of people dead and alive and yet born?

rob,
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@StillIRise1963
I would never pretend to know how you feel. And I accept that you feel unsafe for legitimate reasons.

But to say no one ever? I challenge that.

mekkaokereke, to random
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There are only ~40 million Black people in the US. Population similar to Lagos state in Nigeria (the tiny red part).

There are ~250 million US white folk (~220 non-Hispanic white + ~30 million Hispanic white).

So Biden's "missing" 10% of Black men, is fewer than 2 million. Or less than 1% of white US population.🤡

White voters don't face the massive systemic voter suppression that Black voters do. So increasing white dem turnout is much easier.

So if your boy doesn't win, blame yourselves.

rob,
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@mekkaokereke
Let me start by saying I am a white person who will not be voting for . (Look at my posts.) I highly doubt that "most of my family" will be voting for him. Why would you assume that about anyone?

You accuse others of stereotyping, then paint with the broadest possible brush. That alone undermines the power of your posts on this topic.

Are you responding to something specific - like a news article - or is this just some angry posting sent out into the world?

rob,
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@mekkaokereke

Here's what you said to white people:

"Most of y'all know what that most of your family will be voting for him."

I can just read just fine.

rob,
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@mekkaokereke
Why do you think all my family members are white?

rob,
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@mekkaokereke
I am struggling with the initial statement that "most of my family" will vote for . Which just isn't a true statement.

I think we both want the same outcome. I guess I hope people who want the same thing as me woud want to persuade others.

This post? Not persuasive to a lot of people. You don't have to believe me, but it isn't.

rob,
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@mekkaokereke And I'll say one more thing - your confrontational approach is very offputting.

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@mekkaokereke you don’t know the degrees I have. You don’t know where I went to school. You don’t know how many math courses I’ve taken. You don’t know anything about my family.

And yet in this chain, you’ve said that I have trouble with reading comprehension and implied I don’t understand statistics.

How do you know anything about me?

randahl, to random
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UN human rights experts horrified: Seven mass graves found in northern Gaza with 520 Palestinian bodies. Some beheaded, some showing signs of torture.

The Israeli government can scream "anti-semitism" as much as they want — The International Criminal Court is coming for Benjamin Netanyahu, and the world will never forget what his government did.

Never again.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4652018-reports-mount-of-mass-graves-at-gaza-hospitals-some-without-heads/amp/

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@clintruin @darnell @randahl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_Fund

The Palestinian Authority set up a fund to pay the parents of suicide bombers and the people who kill Israeli soldiers. The fund has paid out over $300 million to date. This fund is supported by over 90% of Palestinians.

People who do not want their children to die would not set up such a fund.

It’s sad that children are dying. Really sad. But this cartoon is offensive and wrong.

rob,
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@clintruin @darnell @randahl

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67629181

Whatever you have to tell yourself to believe Hamas (which controls the news) or get behind rape as a tool of war. Where were your cartoons on October 8?

I’m not sure I am the one lying to myself. If Palestinians cared about their kids they #1: wouldn’t have started the war, #2: wouldn’t have established a fund for blowing up their own children.

You do not dispute the facts. And I think your support is misguided and sad.

craiggrannell, to random
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Interesting to see how furiously angry people are with the new Apple iPad Pro ad. So many have responded to it as an ad that’s destroying creativity and replacing it with digital. My take is that it’s about how Apple has crammed possibilities into an ‘impossibly thin’ device. But the execution of said ad leaves a lot to be desired.

Here’s hoping Ken Segall has something to say about it. (And I’m sure he must. Whether he’ll share it, mind.)

rob,
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@craiggrannell
I thought the ad was cringey like so much of Apple’s recent advertising.

Apple’s sound design and musical choices are so awful and these choice permeate down to their television shows.

But get upset? This is a tempest in a teacup. The ad makes an effective point: all this creative mishmash will come out of your iPad.

Can you actually make something with the iPad? No. If you try, it’ll just be garbage.

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@craiggrannell

Sure you do. There are people who have stood on the moon too. I’m not sure the number of people doing significant work today justifying the cost of that ad. Those people are very rare.

I’m fairly technical and willing to jump through hoops to make it work. I have a love/hate relationship with my own iPad. I just can’t find a way to make it approach a laptop. And I think I’m in the overwhelming majority.

StillIRise1963, to random
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R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

Hmmmm.🤔

Gift Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.ePrS.vkY8gTh-Vdvs&smid=url-share

rob,
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@StillIRise1963

That might explain some of the craziness.

I definitely don’t want a president who has or has had brain worms.

gedeonm, to random
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What I’d like from today’s Apple iPad event:

  • Camera on the long side of the iPad (where it belongs)
  • Longer battery life
  • Faster processor (duh)
  • To not have Sherlocked 🙏
rob,
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@gedeonm
I noticed the guy in the video just cast about under the clutter on his desk. No other device used.

Does that means the new pencil has ESP-powered Find My, powered by the new iPad?

I’d just settle for a light to help me find it in my backpack.

jon, (edited ) to Vivaldi
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I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?

Feel free to share your story!

rob,
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@jon I believe I even used Opera on my Nokia E-series phone back in the day.

I wish Vivaldi was available at work. That is honestly the only thing keeping me from using it on all my devices.

I am in the 2% that want AI in my browser, by the way.

rob,
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@jon The very large bank where I currently work is not bringing Vivaldi any time soon (I’m afraid).

Great tip on the web panel. I will give it a try on my personal machines.

rob,
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@jon We get Edge, Chrome or Firefox. I once installed Brave on my work machine (I have admin rights), but then I looked at a dark web site (The Verge news reporting site) using their TOR function and got pulled over by the network police.

Since then, no more “non-standard” browsers for me.

I believe it’s simply a matter of software support. Only so many browsers can be made available. 😔 And no one can argue I don’t have choice.

alexandra, to random
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I’m inconsolable at the moment, as it seems most of the third party apps on my iPhone 4 have stopped working or, at least, they’re not opening and I don’t know why. I mean come on …

I’m especially bummed because I can’t access my faithful app, Pocket Money, which I use to keep track of day to day expenditure. It’s so frustrating. It worked perfectly last weekend and now?

Any suggestions anyone?

rob,
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@alexandra

I am sending this from a iPhone, so I’m not an Apple hater. But the way they make their devices “obsolete” (disposable) is one of the reasons I likely won’t be buying an Apple computer any time soon.

If you expect a device to last more than 5 years, don’t buy Apple. Their environmental claims are pure fantasy in my opinion.

atomicpoet, to random
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Thing is, purity tests don’t create social change—especially with software.

I remember a time in which certain desktop Linux advocates bemoaned anyone using proprietary drivers or codecs. If you did that, you were an enemy of free software—no different from Microsoft.

Meanwhile, most people moving to Linux wanted to listen to music, watch movies, and play video games. So what did they do?

They used Linux distros that provided the proprietary drivers and codecs. The purists moaned and complained. But the likes of Ubuntu and Mint gained popularity because of it.

Well, we’re seeing the same thing with the Fediverse now. The purists decry anything that disturbs them. Meanwhile, regular folks just want to follow and interact with people they like.

rob,
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@atomicpoet The purists don't control anything, so why even give it a second thought?

rob,
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@atomicpoet The puritanism of techhub.social pushed me over the edge. I had to leave because of their nonsensical filtering/blocking policies. At the same time, I recognize they were running a big "community" as volunteers.

There's no perfect solution. The best I can do right now for me is to pay for my own service and be the captain of my own ship. Then every benefit accrues to me and I own every mistake as well.

jeffjarvis, (edited ) to random
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Works every time. sells. This is the corruption of the attention economy. It is as old as the steam-powered press and mass media.

rob,
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@futurebird @bjc @jeffjarvis

In addition to being elected to the Louisiana house, this a**-clown was frequently on television when I was a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_David_Duke

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@futurebird @bjc @jeffjarvis
If you’re Gen X like me, then you’re probably asking yourself, “How did we go from DYI generation to the fragile generation?”

My wife tells me that the blame lays partially on technology and partially on hovering parents (I am not without blame).

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@futurebird @bjc @jeffjarvis

That makes me feel better. I think I misinterpreted your list as why kids are fragile rather than as a semi-sarcastic list of why people in general feel anxious.

Good thing I went on my rant. 😜

hotdogsladies, to random
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When my wife asks me to help her with something in Drupal.

rob,
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@hotdogsladies @tvaziri Oh my goodness, that is so very cool.

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