George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org
Father, Boyfriend, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
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Going to try to rededicate to this site because birdsite sucks.
Have a lot of thoughts about that, might post about them later.
In the meantime, as penance for my inactivity, I have dog pictures.
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Periodic reminder:
Marginalized people don't owe you shit.
Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.
Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.
Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.
Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.
Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.
Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.
We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.
If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.
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@Dwalrus @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social
I think I’m mostly reacting to your use of the word “worth” (and probably even more viscerally to the word “deserve” in your original posts). I feel like your average paramedic has more worth to society than your average CEO but that’s a statement of my values and is completely subjective and I’m absolutely willing to believe that I’m misunderstanding your use of the word.
Is there a pharma CEO that contributes more to the well being of society than the worlds best paramedic? Probably. Does capitalism generally raise the world’s standard of living? I’d say so. Does that mean that Jeff Bezos “deserves” to be billionaire while running a company that treats its delivery and warehouse workers like disposable cogs? I don’t think so
As a volunteer EMT I feel like I’m making more of a contribution society for free than I do in my day job as a programmer where I’m well paid.
Apparently it’s for terminating a MICC cable (which I’ve never heard of, learn something new everyday)
@Dwalrus @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social
You’re earning what someone can get away with paying you.
It isn’t about what you “deserve” or about what you’re “worth”, it’s an exercise in maximizing the amount of money that flows up to the top.
There’s no way that you’re average CEO contributes more to society than your (to pick some random professions) average paramedic or nurse does.
You could argue that unfettered capitalism is the least worst system we know of but I’d say even in that framework there’s a hell of a lot of room for improvement.
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"I am guessing she was on stage for 1.5-2 hours a night. If you've seen her live performances you'll note that she is dancing and singing and PLAYING THE FLUTE in all of these songs.
I, deemed average BMI by Science, can barely dance through one Lizzo song, let alone keep it up for multiple hours. And I run 3 miles three times a week. So the next time you hear someone opine that Lizzo is normalizing obesity, know that this is simply more fat-phobia disguised as health concerns.” #lizzo #health
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I absolutely adore the whimsical #art of 3D sidewalk chalk artist David Zinn. https://zinnart.com
Zinn creates delightful “works of ephemeral pareidolic anamorphosis” inspired by weeds, sewer covers, traffic cones & nearly everything he encounters around his Ann Arbor community.
Congratulations and much happiness!
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This is the only Juneteenth article you need today. Also happy Juneteenth to all who accept and promote accurate American history. To everyone else: happy Monday. 😬 https://thegrio.com/2023/06/19/what-to-white-people-is-the-19th-of-june/
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RIP #DanielEllsberg. This account of how #poet Gary Snyder inspired the Pentagon Papers whistleblower is one of the most fascinating and least-known literary anecdotes of all time. Via #BeatGeneration scholar Randy Roark.
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Anyone lambasting self driving cars for not moving for emergency vehicles has never spent time on emergency calls. People do amazingly stupid things in front of our ambulances all the time. I see people pull into intersections, panic, and stop in front of the rig. I see them just plain ignore the siren. I see them try to tailgate the ambulance through traffic. I see folks park right up against the bumper on scene. I’m not defending self driving tech, but people are unpredictable and stupid too.
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24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth
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🔥East Coast friends: if the #Wildfire smoke is thick in your area, build a Corsi-Rosenthal box filter. These are inexpensive to build and very effective, and they filter and exchange the air in your house very efficiently. We use them extensively here in the western US when the fire smoke is bad. See this resource for how to build one:
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“Twice this week, I have watched an elderly individual, fade into the busy life in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the shop assistant simply said it’s in aisle ‘6’. But he struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I watched him go in the wrong direction, I left all my groceries and took him where he needed to go.
Today, I watched an elderly man struggle in the heat, who had obviously had a fall with a huge scrape and blood on his leg. He walked past people in the cafe, while he slowly made his way to his car. Not one person stopped. Or looked. Or acknowledged him. I took him to his car and checked he was ok. He told me he had a fall and wasn’t sure how the air con worked in his car so he just didn’t use it. I sat with him, until his air con kicked in and heard him talk about the old frail body that he is in, that fails him now, every single day.
When you see an elderly person walking down the street, searching in the supermarket or struggling to their car, take a minute out of your busy schedule and ask them if they need a hand. Think about your grand parents and your parents and how pissed you would be if someone didn’t stop to help them. But more, think of them as you.
Once upon a time they were you. They were busy, they had work, they had children, they were able.... Today, they are just in an older body that is not going as fast as it used to and this busy life is confusing. They deserve our utmost respect and consideration. One day it will be you, it will be us. I wish more people gave a sh*t about them and acknowledged them for their admirable existence and geez I hope someday, not that far away, someone does it for me.”
Credit: Adele Barbaro
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Dear fellow #IT people. I know we all hate it when users give us vague error reports like "it's not working!".
But how often do you go out of your way to thank them when they get it right and send you an error message with a screenshot and reproduction steps?
If you don't do this already, I highly recommend starting ASAP. Even for the most technical users, it's helpful to perform this simple action as *positive reinforcement* for doing things right. Training users to be better at their jobs makes all of *our* jobs easier as a result.
But, as an added bonus, people seem to like being thanked! So, it also makes them like you more as a side effect ("oh, (s)he's not one of those grouchy IT people!").
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I am very sorry to report that I have reached the end of my ability to live.
I will be compassionately let go on #Caturday #cats #love #animals #peace
I have had a very long, very very good life. I have had the best humans a cat could ask for. I had the best pal I could have asked for.
I will say a bit more on Saturday, but for now.... I snuggle.
Father, Boyfriend, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
