wackyIdeas

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Florida and Italy - Un cittadino dell'Italia e degli Stati Uniti. Il mio italiano sta ottenendo un piccolo migliore, ma lontano da perfetto. Department of Wacky Ideas Content creator Cook Traveler Maker Musician Volunteer Utopian Past engagements: Research scientist - virtual education R&D for a statewide library consortium NISO delegate Homeland security researcher IT consultant Instructional designer and trainer Taxi driver Fishing guide

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BlakeHamiltonCA, to random
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'S SAGACIOUS QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."
― Arthur C. Clarke

br00t4c, to random
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I Am A Sex Worker. Here's Why Calling Me One Matters.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-am-a-sex-worker-heres-why-calling-me-one-matters_n_6504e6c3e4b045a142a4b972

br00t4c, to climate
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Greta Thunberg Could Face 6-Month Jail Term for Blockade of Swedish Oil Port

https://truthout.org/articles/greta-thunberg-could-face-6-month-jail-term-for-blockade-of-swedish-oil-port/

kevinmgill, to space

Your periodic reminder that rocks on Mars can be weird. This image was taken by the Curiosity Rover's MastCam on Sol 3946.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

mvario, to random
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School districts in California are now banning Pride flags

https://www.intomore.com/impact/politics/school-districts-in-california-are-now-banning-pride-flags/

jeffowski, to StarTrek
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luckytran, to random
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Threads is censoring of Covid, Long Covid, and vaccine searches.

Censorship doesn't work. Misinformation still gets circulated by code names and other platforms. Tech companies should invest in real solutions like moderation and education.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/

aram, to random
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The US government assassinated or imprisoned every leader of the Black Panther party for [checks notes] giving out free breakfasts but these wannabe Nazi terrorists actively prepare for American genocide in plain sight, with no consequences. https://wgme.com/news/local/neo-nazi-leader-establishes-training-site-in-maine-former-us-marine-christopher-pohlhaus-springfield-white-supremacists-camp-moores-road-bluttstamm-blood-tribe-physical-fitness-drills-weapons-training

BPStuart, to random
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Mehdi Hasan left Vivek Ramaswamy in pieces. It was an enjoyable watch.

dgar, to random
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beadsland, to random

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PallasRiot, to random
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Project 2025 is a "get out if you can" kind of moment. If you're a queer person in the US and you have the means, you should leave the country. It can happen here, it is happening here in fits and starts in various states, and it will only get more difficult to escape if any of this happens on a federal level which there are reasonable odds of.

In every genocide that has happened, the majority of victims were arrested in peaceful, orderly manners, even long after the genocide began. They were arrested in their homes more often than in hiding, arrested while trying to live their lives as normally as possible more often than they were caught being involved in underground resistance. Part of what makes fascist genocides so horribly successful is that people can scarcely comprehend the danger, it's nearly impossible to actually hold in your mind that things will get that bad, not in the abstract but in a direct, personal, immediate sense. People do not believe in gas chambers even when they can smell the crematoria, because the human mind buckles under the weight of that horror.

It can happen here. It has begun happening here. Powerful electoral political institutions that draft successful legislation have published public plans for it to happen here, in an orderly, legal, formal, dreadfully complete manner.

It can happen here. You, the person reading this, need to repeat that until you believe it. It needs to exist in your mind with the same sharp danger as walking into your living room and finding your curtains on fire, it needs to be real like a gun being pointed at you while your wallet is demanded. It can happen here.

PallasRiot,
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Fascist dictatorships are highly legalistic entities, they require frameworks of legitimacy to survive and they require legal systems to carry out their goals. The Nazis eventually eschewed the stochastic terror of encouraging random pogroms because pogroms invited public displeasure, and public resistance. Even virulent German antisemites often did not approve of their neighbors being firebombed, shop windows broken, and random beatings in the street; the more widespread that terror got, the more the public felt the Nazis were illegitimate thugs causing chaos. So the Nazis pursued formal, systematized means of destroying the livelihoods and eventually lives of Jewish people, they interpreted German law and built legal theories that let them arrest and concentrate their targets using law enforcement, they used doctors and lawyers and police in place of street fighters and firebrand terrorists.

The genocide carried out by the Nazis was legal, and it wasn't just legal because Nazi Germany was a dictatorship, but rather because the Nazis built from prior existing laws and expanded the power and authority already available. They took pains to act in ways that preserved that legitimacy.

Project 2025 is that.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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"A Philly woman’s (@gwensnyder) Proud Boy harasser heads to prison. Will set him free?

A 15-year-sentence for Philly's chief meant relief for a local activist targeted by harassment. Will Trump free her tormenter?"

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it.1/... https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/proud-boys-trump-pardon-20230907.html#loaded

GottaLaff,
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8/8 "These are the stakes. There is 0 chance Cornel West or Manchin or Nikki Haley will be the next pres. The only choice is between Biden — an old man who occasionally mumbles the wrong word when defending democracy or offering aid to the middle class — or Trump, a bitter, almost-as-old man who plans to unleash the pathetic hyenas known as the Proud Boys as the brownshirts of his dystopian regime. & your neighbors like Gwen Snyder are depending on you to make the right decision."

Plz read!

samlitzinger, to random
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    GatekeepKen,
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    @LaNaehForaday @samlitzinger

    LaNaehForaday,

    @samlitzinger

    I find the whole AGE thing hilarious. This man has trained for this job literally for his entire life. He keeps himself fit, spiritually in alignment and fully educated in every single subject his job requires of him. He is OVERLY QUALIFIED in a way that NOT ONE OTHER PERSON IS AT THIS TIME.

    No Republican nor Democrat has stepped up the the plate at this time to show that they are at least Joe's EQUAL.

    Just his equal. That is all I want. I want a person EQUAL to JOE BIDEN IN EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND COMPASSION.

    Who is it? Where are they? Because to choose someone that is not at least EQUAL to Joe Biden is choosing the LESSER OF TWO.

    So Joe is OLD. He is so so old. He did NOT want to come back but HEARD THE CALL OF DEMOCRACY and gave up his twilight years TO SAVE US.

    And now a whole bunch of IGNORANT people are labeling this AMERICAN HERO as too old.

    Fuck your ageism.

    WE WILL BE LUCKY TO HAVE HIM FOR AS LONG AS HIS BODY ALLOWS US.

    No one else is as qualified.

    Eddiethebulldog,

    @LaNaehForaday @samlitzinger and the argument just ignores that Trump is only 3 years younger, shows more current cognitive impairment than Biden and WILL BE BIDEN’S CURRENT AGE WHILE HE SERVES … if he is elected.
    It’s a big pile of contrived shite.
    I DO feel for younger generations and the fact that old people (hello, Senator) are making laws for them.
    Show up and outvote the older generation. Then you get a younger candidate.

    Gustodon, to random
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    American insurance companies, the greatest scammers in Earth's history, spend hundreds of millions of dollars on clever advertising, forgetting that this signals nothing but the success of their extraordinary grift.

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    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Insurrectionists, who followed a diaper wearing conman, are complaining about prison food.

    Frances_Larina,
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    @TCatInReality @MHowell @StillIRise1963

    His buffoonery would have flopped on the first day if journalists had done their job instead of translating for him. On the 2016 campaign trail, he'd spew random, wandering verbal vomit and they'd recraft it so it more or less matched up with standard GOP party platform statements. Comparing his actual words to what they printed was a shocking eye opener, but nobody picked up on that story.

    Heidi, to random
    rephlex00, to random
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    The best version of yourself is always the one that says fuck it and does whatever ya want.

    Louisa, to random
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    I know he was already 76 but if there's anyone who had the kind of "scrappy old guy who lives to 100 on hamburgers and weed" energy, it was Jimmy Buffett

    JulieB, to random
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    I do the accounting for an insurance agency owned by a man about my age. We have an easy-going relationship - lots of laughter as we sort through a month's worth of WTH actually happened because this is what the softwares say and it is not what the bank statement shows.

    Yesterday was an especially grueling day: four hours of struggling through transactions and stories and even one 'well, we walked down the primrose path of folly on this one' - his words, not mine.

    I apologized at one point for being so challenging because it had been a morning, and he said,

    "No, no, no. We need what you have. We need to know the fallout of our mistakes so we can do better next time, so we can account accurately, and never be afraid of the Insurance Auditor (standard procedure when dealing with insurance trust funds). We'd love for every transaction to be simple and routine but some of them just plain aren't. And that's where you help us."

    We need more humans like him, when confronted with mistakes, they welcome correction, they want to learn, they want to get it right. They don't see correction as an edict of their worthlessness as a human being, getting defensive, claiming a fake powerlessness (I can't help it!) or blame-shifting and badmouthing another, but instead as an opportunity to be assisted toward being more and doing better.

    It helps that there isn't a mean bone in my body. It helps that I bring no condemnation and lots of curiosity. It also helps that I respect the nine million transactions they get right month after month as we wrestle through the handful of oddities.

    But still. Be like Don. Know that you too occasionally walk down the primrose path of folly. Welcome correction from safe people. Learn from it. Do better.

    siderea, to random

    This is a true story.

    In 2014, I happened to be on site at a software development company, where I wound up being a proverbial fly on the wall during a notable conversation.

    I was being shown around by the head of technical documentation, and had just been introduced to the head of engineering. Maybe he was a VP, I don't recall. Anyways, he decided that was the occasion, with me, random contractor standing in front of him, to engage the head of technical documentation in a conversation about how there might be layoffs coming, and he was of the opinion that they should probably lay off his division's techwriters, and make the software developers write their own documentation, to save money.

    The head of technical documentation was, of course, flabbergasted and appalled, but substantially outranked, and she had to be diplomatic in her response, tying her hands - and her tongue. Also she was caught somewhat by surprise by this fascinating proposal.

    1/?

    siderea,

    Unbeknownst to me, while this conversation was happening & I was supposed to be being onboarded, my contract was in the process of falling through, because the disorganization of this organization was so high, the parties who had extended me the offer were unaware the organization had put a stop order on retaining new contractors.

    And to this day I lament that I did not know that fact, because I was being on my best behavior, and in retrospect I really wish I hadn't been. Because what I was biting my tongue rather than say was,

    "Actually, tech writers are much cheaper than software developers, so it would be more cost effective to just lay off software developers and teach tech writers to write code."

    He, presumably, would have sputtered indignantly and insisted that programming is something not just everyone can do, something that takes a lot of training and practice, at least if you're going to be any good at it.

    And I would have responded: "And tech writing isn't?"

    2/?

    realTuckFrumper, to random
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    Canada warns LGBTQ travelers of visiting the United States https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/08/29/canada-warns-lgbtq-travelers-visiting-united-states/2791693357224/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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