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People are people are people.

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ai6yr, to random

Hooray, someone actually put "TEST MESSAGE" only in an alert.

weilawei,
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@ai6yr Mostly rhetorical questions from engineer brain: Why does a test message contain information that might be subject to a panicky human interpretating it? I understand code paths and testing issues around changing the message, but it does already say test message. Couldn't they use dummy text of equal length if this is going to get broadcast?

br00t4c, to Arizona
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LOCKED UP: Man pleads guilty to bomb threat against AZ Gov. Katie Hobbs

https://occupydemocrats.com/2023/08/14/man-pleads-guilty-to-bomb-threat-against-az-gov-katie-hobbs/

weilawei,
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Ugh. The fascists are in MA too.

stux, to random
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Should be common sense

weilawei,
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@stux Fortunately as we all know, in America, trains are a myth: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/110820912720627355

/jk, mostly

DamienMarieAtHope, to random
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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch.

https://www.businessinsider.com/massachusetts-millionaire-tax-gets-kids-free-school-lunches-2023-8

weilawei,
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@Montag @DamienMarieAtHope There are over 180,000 businesses in MA, and the mean household income is $89k, as of 2021 census data. There are over 138,000 employer firms. That means it's likely to be between $5,560 and $7,250 per business, per year, because it's primarily the business owner class who makes that money. It ain't engineers, generally, lemme tell ya.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Allowing Black people to entertain white people, either through song or athletics, is not equality.

weilawei,
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@rato @StillIRise1963 It's very very real, and is entirely decoupled from your personal qualities. Boss is having a bad day? Odds are, they're going to take it out on the nearest non-white person. I've seen time after time the best workers get fired for having the wrong skin color. For absolutely any interaction the default treatment I get is positive or neutral, whereas I watch people with different skin color get nice words to their face, and the instant you're in the break room, it's slurs.

Alice, to random
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Click to pre-order my kids book about Mastodon titled Everyone Toots.

weilawei,
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@Alice Clicked, cannot find book. Plz take 💸. 😉

weilawei, to random
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Imagine being stuck in a human-shaped box.

StillIRise1963, to random
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RACISM is a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT.

weilawei,
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@StillIRise1963 Abso-fscking-lutely agree 💯 If you can't trust the person to your left and right, you're pretty shafted. Racism and divisiveness are the opposite of solidarity and cohesion.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Putin manipulated the United States using RACISM. What does that suggest to you?

weilawei,
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@StillIRise1963 That it's deeply ingrained in our culture and every genocidal maniac since James Monroe cited us as the textbook?

StillIRise1963, to random
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They've sold everyone a bill of goods about how things have to be. They can be any way we want them to be. We don't have to be ruled over.

weilawei,
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@StillIRise1963 We could all strike tomorrow. 250 million Indians did.

https://jacobin.com/2020/12/general-strike-india-modi-bjp-cpm-bihar

StillIRise1963, to random
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We are NOT SUBJECTS. We are CITIZENS.

weilawei,
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@StillIRise1963 Absolutely. I pay for this crap in my taxes, meaning I'm the employer and the employees are misbehaving.

Yes, even the billionaires are my employees, because they take government handouts left and right.

Time for the thieving employees to get fired and put in prison.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Never forget SCOTUS took away human rights from American citizens. HUMAN RIGHTS.

weilawei,
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@StillIRise1963 Checks out, system working as designed. 😑

GW, to workersrights
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CNBC Anchor Accuses UAW Leader of 'Class Warfare' for Fighting for Workers

"Record profits mean record contracts," said United Auto Workers Shawn Fain. "They've been competitive on our backs and it's time they pay up."

Labor advocates said Thursday that United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is clearly "doing something right" after CNBC anchor Jim Cramer unleashed a diatribe targeting the labor leader over his ambitious demands for a new contract

https://www.commondreams.org/news/uaw-contract

weilawei,
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About time someone did.

aral, to random
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When it comes to anything a corporation says or does – as with politicians – it’s PR unless proven otherwise.

weilawei,
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@aral And even then, it's still PR. If corporations are people, then they're psychopaths and we have a serious problem with them having purchased the politicians.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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The "They voted for Trump but learned their mistake" stories will always grind my fucking gears.

weilawei,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Liars and psychopaths, the lot of them. They cry crocodile tears when they're caught, profess ignorance, and then double down on the same bigoted rhetoric and actions.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Get it together. Stop marching to other people's drummers and TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR SHIT.

weilawei,
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All you working class daughters and upper class sons:
It's hard to save a dollar the way the world runs.
We're the target market of a corporate hoax.
Our generation is a fucking joke.

larsmb, to random
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I like the BSL, but calling releasing something under the BSL as "Open Source"?

Hmmm, someone should run a linter on that

weilawei,
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@wonka @larsmb I think he is referring to the MariaDB Business Software License which is not OSI recognized. Also looks like it's awful.

stux, to random
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If there are more guns than people in a country there is clearly something wrong.

Take an example from the Dutch, we have more bicycles than people.

weilawei,
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@nuncio @stux @Spellbind0127 MA labor laws are terrible. The state is pretty nice, but don't overhype it.

At will employment, fire for any reason; they walked back how many hours they have to pay you for dragging you in from 4 to 3; health care is virtually impossible to get at times if your employer doesn't offer it, and sometimes still impossible if the paperwork gets lost outside the window for applying (why is there a window?!); and on, and on.

Things are going the wrong direction here.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Apply this golden rule to everything

weilawei,
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@Radical_EgoCom billionaire logic is, "well we don't have enough superyachts for everyone to have two, so we'll kill off enough people to make that possible or nobody will want to oppose me anymore."

ai6yr, to italy

Ah, just noticed this. (US Navy, Naval Air Station Sigonella) activated its Emergency Operations Center () due to on two days ago. "DoD/NATO personnel and their dependents are advised to relocate if their power is out, they have no running water, or if their homes are near any fires." https://cnreurafcent.cnic.navy.mil/News/News-Detail/Article/3472626/nas-sigonella-provides-shelter-to-personnel-during-extreme-heat-fires-and-power/

weilawei,
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@ai6yr America is only allowed to do socialism with guns. Unless it's for billionaires and then we buy them whatever they tell us to.

helenczerski, to climate
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Heatwaves involve a chunk of extra energy arriving where it's not wanted/expected. But it is energy. Is anyone talking about extracting and using that energy to feed into the grid (and perhaps cool the surroundings down a bit)? Obviously it's technically "only" a few degrees so hard to run a heat engine off it, but has anyone heard of any actual work to turn it into electricity?

weilawei,
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@helenczerski Concentrate and reflect it into space? I thought of laser cooling, which might be impractical at scale, but the wiki article had a bit on anti-Stokes cooling in CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling#Anti-Stokes_cooling

weilawei,
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@helenczerski "The active cooling does not depend on the coherent nature of the radiation, which enables the usage of incoherent solar radiation as the active cooling input power source. The cooling technology of the invention is suitable for small and large scales and practically for any object with surface on which the layer substance can be applied or overlaid, e.g., roof, wall, car, ship, tent, clothing, etc."

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190154316A1/en

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Tesla's Dieselgate; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/

#Pluralistic

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weilawei,
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@HistoPol @pluralistic This kind of excrement is why every worker, every engineer, every person with any kind of agency needs to put their foot down when this kind of corruption happens in their wheelhouse. You often don't have to go far to do good.

And yeah, it's usually a pretty knock-down, drag-out streetfight, because the thieves and fraudsters would rather work harder to cheat than trade fairly.

qurlyjoe, to random
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Apparently, the Bible verses about a talking snake are literal, but the part about forgiving everyone's debt is just a metaphor.

weilawei,
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@Litzz11 @AlexanderVI @qurlyjoe This is part of the conservative theocratic strategy. To the poor, the imprisoned and enslaved, they'll be all, "turn the other cheek, cool stuff in the next life for you while I beat you in this life", and then preach King David's rape as morally justified by God because he's powerful so that's how it's supposed to work.

The one piece they never mention is Jesus revoking the old covenant.

The Family Foundation and prison bible studies are two examples.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to aliens
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If the US government really had alien bodies, then the US president would know about it.

If the US president knew about it, then Trump would know about it.

If Trump knew about it, he would have told everyone, bragged about it, kept boxes of documents about it at Mar-A-Lago, etc. There would be a ketchup stained original photograph of an alien autopsy on the floor of his bathroom.

Since we haven't heard him brag about having seen a photo of an alien, we know that he hasn't seen one.

weilawei,
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@mekkaokereke irrefutable logic.

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