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@sparseMatrix@kbin.social

Amateur Radio Guy (General Class Ticket), Python Programmer, UX implementor, Father, Husband of 25 years, Brewer, Technologist, Home Chef, Linux/Unix Whitebeard, Buddhist, Artist, Maker, Guitarist, Sailor, Generally Pervy Old Bastard.

Champion of Reason, Logic, and Philosophy.
Antifascist Punk.

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@Arotrios

Jail isn't good enough for them. They are pushers and murderers on an unbelievable scale. They should face the same penalties as any other junk pusher who has been caught.

We aren't talking about Little Joey down on the corner selling dime bags of kind bud; we're talking about a family who got together and gamed the system, lied through their teeth, and created more fucking junkies than the Vietnam war.

Firing squad or Gas Chamber is where I'm at.

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@IHeartBadCode

It's really the thing that drives a lot of wars. It's a worldwide problem, not just an American one. The subhuman assholes are just the shiny enriched face of it in America.

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@Tolstoshev

@OsrsNeedsF2P

He's likely to end up with the vacation of his life xD

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So, I've been using mastodon a long time, several years in fact, and I never really understood all the folks complaining that it was too complicated; I mean, it was just always intuitive to me. Now maybe that's because I never really did the tweeter.

What I have done is a lot of reddit, and I gotta say, why the hell is this so complicated? :P

I'm only half kidding.

One thing that should always taken into consideration by software peeps is that when making a 'replacement' like this (dont tell me it's not a replacement for reddit, there's too much signal in the noise of this mag about 'reddit migration'), is that users that are relocating their operations will need extra handholding and assistance.

Unlike a lot of us, these peeps aren't casually learning how to do a new cool thing, they're typically perceiving some real and or imagined (Hey, both can cause a lot of stress and anxiety!), they're fleeing something, and trying to settle into a new, safer place; or so they hope.

I may sound like I'm 'asking for a friend', and I am, but that friend is me :D

Please, we need some kind of FAQ that says 'this is the reddit thing you want to do' and 'here's how to do it on kbin'. We need the next section to say, 'You can do these things on reddit, and not on kbin' and one more section in the FAQ that says 'These are cool things kbin does that reddit doesn't'.

A HUGE ask would be user style sheets to make it look and act more or less like reddit; really, as far as I can tell, there's only really a couple of big differences. Hell, it might suffice if we just had a FAQ that pointed out the substantive differences.

The biggest problem is, y'all just kinda 'sprung' the whole microblog/People/Threads on us; those single word descriptors are really only useful if you're 'in the know' already.

I've been posting off and on at kbin now for several months, hoping I'd eventually just soak it up; but it hasn't happened. I still keep screwing some things up here and there; just yesterday I was off to the races posting about some things, and managed to editorialize a title when I thought I was using post body to introduce the link. It's been sent to the ether, now.

I'm not in desperation about anything. I'm not a 'migrator' or refugee, or any of that. I do have a couple projects on reddit I'd like to bring here, I think this is the future of social media, and I think I will get a higher quality engagement here. I also have some projects already here that I'd like to get supercharged, and I can't really do stuff until I know the ropes..

So yeah, it would be great if the devs would drop some smooth pdfs or single page html or damn just if they'd 'own' a markdown document that could be loaded off any kbin page or something, that would be bad ass.

In the absence of that though (or something like it) what do y'all have out there, in userland?

Thanks for readin' muh screed.

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I understand that his presence was excused. That's my whole complaint.

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@downpunxx

I've not editorialized the headline, nor have I modified it's original text. What I have done, is added an introductory comment. That you don't care for the content of my comment is just not a 'me' problem.

[Opinion] ‘Might have to give those millions back’: Legal experts say Jack Smith could seize Trump's fundraising cash (www.rawstory.com)

Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s investigation appears to include the reportedly millions of dollars Donald Trump‘s PAC raised – and spent – after the 2020 election, with legal experts suggesting if the massive amounts of money raised were based off fraudulent claims, the federal government might “seize” those funds or...

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@Arotrios

I gotta say, this puts a smile on my face

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Nah, I meant exactly what I said.

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A quick peek says it all. It is essentially a polite summons, the literal language of which is a 'notice to appear', in which the Court sets forth four dates as options for a time when the parties to the case would meet and confer.

OP where I first read of this had quoted the first paragraph; I misunderstood him to be suggesting that 'probably this what will happen'.

But no, the Defense actually responded that none of the dates provided by the Court would work, because Trump's lawyers are all busy litigating other cases on his behalf on those dates.

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@Heresy_generator

Yeah, they also said that Trump wouldn't appear, and gave no explanation. His ass needs to be standing there sheepish and red-faced and staring down at the floor, just like last time.

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@dd97843

She needs to demand Trump appear as well. This isn't a jaywalking case, and the OrangeShitGibbon needs to have it registered clearly in his mind that this is not an opportunity for publicity, this is his just deserts coming, and that they unstoppable, that it is just a matter of time.

Honestly, I think everyone, and I do mean everyone, already knows that.

We're at the point where the gamesmanship needs to be exposed as a central thesis and problem, and addressed accordingly. A problem. This is all about putting paid to the problem; not appearances to the effect. In my mind, Trump's lawyers are not being charged; are not the ones making threats on Truth.Social, Trump is.

His ass needs to be toeing that line before the Judges desk.

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@kelvin0mql

There's no denying that some are really far gone, nor that that element hasn't been here all along, hiding in the back. The litmus test for many of them will end up being whether or not they surrender.

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@Ganondorf

I completely agree that the Joe on the street, and jean as well, are the regular targets of manipulation. I'm not sure if we'd agree on how or by whom.

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@CMLVI

@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe

Unfortunately you're probably correct about this.

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@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe

One huge problem for the SouthWest is that Nestle is out in the West pumping out fossil water that will take an eon to replace. If it can ever be replaced.

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@Gargleblaster

It's even worse for them than that. There's is a whole lot of overlap among those groups.

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@Nougat

@girlfreddy @CoffeeAddict @Madison_rogue @andyburke

Judge Chutkan's handling of previous Jan 6 related cases suggests that she is well aware of this. I hope she has the courage to put that awareness into appropriately firm action.

She has not failed to disappoint with the other crooks.

Schumer, Rounds Introduce New Legislation To Declassify Government Records Related To Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena & UFOs – Modeled After JFK Assassination Records Collection Act – As An Amendment To NDAA | Senate Democratic Leadership (www.democrats.senate.gov)

My understanding is, that a very slightly tweaked version of this is now law, as of the 27th of Jul 2023....

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