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The World Still Needs Heroes

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jerry, to random

It appears that Rudy has roundly entered the “find out” phase

tstrike78,
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@jerry

We can but hope.

jerry, to random

Why do we still need lawyers and doctors and researchers that spend years and hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education when we can just spend a few hours a week reading Facebook memes from the people we went to high school with 40 years ago?

tstrike78,
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@jerry I didn't like most of the people I went to high school with 30 years ago, and judging by their Facebook activity I like them even less now.

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@KentuckyConjurer

Is it weird that I like this idea because it means I would only be available after sunset three nights a month? This whole "being available at all times" thing is for the birds.

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@KentuckyConjurer

I wish I could do that. It's not even my boss's fault, really. He would very much like to restrict everything to business hours, too, but the nature of where we work won't allow for it. Problems come up when they come up and usually have to be dealt with immediately.

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@KentuckyConjurer

I used to have a boss who once called me at 5:00 in the morning in a panic because he had gone in early to get some work done and his computer wasn't working, so he was dead in the water.

Fortunately, I only lived a short distance away. I walked in (still in my pajamas), looked down, plugged his computer into the wall, and walked out. I never said a word and we never spoke of it again but based on the look on his face I must have looked like I was ready to murder someone.

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@KentuckyConjurer

It's a learned behavior, I'm quite certain. Some people learn to depend on others to solve their problems for them for the sake of convenience or status or whatever, and others of us learn to be as self-sufficient as possible and only ask for help after we've exhausted all possibilities (within reason) of doing it ourselves. I tend to be one of the latter, but he was one of the former.

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    @marcelias

    He doesn't care because his real plan is to be elected Diktator for Lyfe before he has to face any consequences. His lawyers only have to (in his mind) delay the process long enough for that to happen.

    stefan, to Babylon5
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    Wow. End of season 4 is wild. they really thought they were getting cancelled. How does the show pick up from this? Lol

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    @stefan

    Admittedly, the first part of Season 5 feels kind of slow because the original outline called for Season 4 to end on the cliffhanger of Sheridan being captured by Earth, and the first part of Season 5 was supposed to be the conclusion of the Earth Civil War. What ended up being "Endgame" was, I believe, intended to be a two-part episode near the beginning of the season, followed by "Rising Star". There's also a telepath thread at the beginning of Season 5 that . . .

    reginagrogan, to privacy
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    Ask me once, and if i say no, never bother me again.

    Thats my manifesto, manifesto, manifesto and manifesto rolled into one.

    Dont bother me.

    tstrike78,
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    @reginagrogan

    Co-signed.

    georgetakei, to random

    Oh heavens, Mark Meadows decided to waive the Fifth and testify in a hearing today on his request to remove the case to federal court down in Atlanta. He must not be very bright, or his lawyers must not be good at talking him out of a bad idea. Already he has said some things that will come back to bite him. Here’s one:

    tstrike78,
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    @georgetakei

    "Toby, you're smiling."

    "I just figured out who you are."

    [to everyone] "He's going to say Satan."

    "No, you're the guy that runs into Seven-Eleven to get Satan a pack of cigarettes."

    reginagrogan, to opensource
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    Asking questions is a big part of my principles of

    However, culture is trying to discredit someone in any way, including: hair, clothes, weight, other unrelated.

    Not attacking the central premise with any kind of ethos, logos, pathos etc.

    My generation is numb. If the point is to hurt, it doesn’t work.

    In order to change my opinion i need args that make sense.

    Its about for me. pwn culture is really uninteresting.

    Thoughts?

    tstrike78,
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    @reginagrogan

    Just that's you're absolutely right. pwn culture (I've never heard that term before, but I like it) was boring even when I was in high school.

    dangillmor, to random
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    Will Bunch is probably the best currently working Big Journalism commentator on where we are headed as a nation. In this must-read piece, he expresses the contempt for his contemporaries -- who are utterly refusing to do their jobs in the face of incipient American fascism -- that they so richly deserve.

    https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html

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    @rouxdoo @dangillmor @willbunch

    Aaron Sorkin once wrote a great line about this in "The Newsroom":

    "'Bias Toward Fairness' means that if the entire House Republican caucus were to walk onto the floor one day and say ‘The Earth is flat,’ the headline in the New York Times the next day would read ‘Democrats and Republicans Can’t Agree on Shape of Earth.’”

    ElleGray, to random
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    I met Ray Bradbury when I was seven. He said I was a little weird and he told me to go out and get weirder.

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    @ElleGray

    I am pleased to see you followed his advice. Well played.

    Chrishallbeck, to random
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    @Chrishallbeck

    mrcompletely, (edited ) to random
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    😘🤌
    #film #kubrick #madness #mugshot

    tstrike78,
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    @mrcompletely

    Which reminds me of the "Gibbs stare", which is essentially the reverse of this. Mark Harmon, on , will frequently stare at a suspect with a backward tilt of the head to convey a calm, unrelenting firmness. They're both interesting tricks.

    Tweetfiction, to random

    You know what sucks? The universe is random and absurd, and nothing has any meaning whatsoever.

    You know what's GREAT? Same thing. 😆

    tstrike78,
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    @Tweetfiction

    "I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

    heidilifeldman, (edited ) to random
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    The press still normalizes the Republican Party, covering last night’s debate as if it were a contest among contenders for the presidential nomination of an institution committed to U.S. Constitutional democracy. So we get headlines about who “won” or “broke through”. This is both silly and dangerous. The important news is that the Republican National Committee, sponsor of the debate, remains committed to Trump if he wins the Republican primaries.1/

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    @heidilifeldman

    I imagine it looked a lot like this.

    flexghost, to random
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    I’m so excited.

    And I just can’t hide it.

    tstrike78,
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    @flexghost

    Somebody cue the Pointer Sisters. I need a music video of them intercut with footage of this orange moron being booked.

    reginagrogan, to Cybersecurity
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    @reginagrogan Definitely good karma. Give 'em enough rope to either swing or hang themselves.

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    @ElleGray Is it haunted? Because I would totally buy it if it was haunted.

    Chrishallbeck, to comics
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    Pain.

    tstrike78,
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    @Chrishallbeck This was me in 1999 or so when I was a news junkie until my now-ex pointed out that watching Fox News was only giving me anger issues.

    It was probably the only thing she ever did that actually helped me.

    pbump, to random
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    On a wide range of health-related issues including covid and vaccines, Republicans are much more likely to believe false things than Democrats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/22/republicans-vaccines-polls/

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    @pbump

    It's simple. It's because they are the party that has looked down on education and knowledge and complex ideas for decades. They are the party that adopted "My ignorance is just as good as your college-learning" as a way to make themselves feel better about themselves. They are the party that takes pride in reducing everything to the simplest, most selfishly absurd terms possible.

    That's why.

    reginagrogan, to Autism
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    I have and among other things

    at uber final interview
    Interview panel: if you had one person you could have dinner with, alive or dead, who would you pick?

    Me panics

    Me: my mom cause she died last year and i miss her starts crying

    5 minutes of extremely awkward silence

    Panel: ok.

    Yeah i didnt get the

    tstrike78,
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    @reginagrogan I don't really see how that's a relevant question at an interview for a tech job in the first place, but I'd have given you the job just for giving a genuine answer.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    To put this in perspective, my grandmother is 92, and she is widely considered to be very old.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    tstrike78,
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    @lowqualityfacts

    That's better than 6,000 years old, but I'm pretty sure the average voter's brain turns to mush when it comes to the difference between "million" and "billion".

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Sounds about right.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    tstrike78,
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    @lowqualityfacts This doesn't actually feel like a Low-Quality Fact. 0/10

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