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I just discovered I am raw-dogging reality.

I need to improve.

@GottaLaff @atrupar I think the real worry is that he is polling lower now than he was in the 1st months of his administration. Last time I checked, he had dropped 15 points. His polling before he was the nominee isn't really relevant.

@Chron , does anyone know if they are still using the facility on Devon Island in Canada? @75D 26M N, 89D 51M 50S W

Some say Reddit is done, stick a fork in it. But as long as there are posts like this, Reddit will live on:

reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/14k

@flexghost @Hey_Beth , To me, she is a far bigger threat than a trump. A reasonable face of fascism. theocracy, or oppression. A smooth talking con artist. Standing by our side when a clown like trump is the obvious face of the party.

@Hey_Beth @noondlyt @flexghost @enoch , yep, and you did a MUCH better job of putting that concept into a short set of words than I did. :)

@noondlyt @Hey_Beth @flexghost @enoch , ya, but little BS. No one calling for cheers for the best POTUS ever, be that Biden or trump. No one taking offence when you point out something bad some politician did. I picked a STEM server here, so those on this server don't get too bent out of shape over politics, and we can discus rationally whatever we wish, without partisans going nuts screaming. Post is like that, but more news cycle driven. I like that dry feeling.

@Hey_Beth @noondlyt @flexghost @enoch , I kinda like Post. The BS level is low, due to the site just not being used as an echo chamber. There are some who try, but most of the big accounts are showing real news, and not spin.

@enoch @Hey_Beth , some of the servers are foul, nothing but hate groups. But you can see lists of those, and pre-emptively block those servers, if you want, or just wait until some of the bigots target you and then block them. That freedom is a good thing... I expect bluesky to become an echo chamber, much like Tribel is becoming.

, at this point, he understands I was trying to help him, but the fundraising page still says he has only made a prototype, and that he is far from shipping. Reality is those who paid for air freight have already gotten they carts... But I will be damned if I try to explain to him anymore! God only knows how much business this will cost him...

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Dealing with people on the spectrum is exhausting. I have a guy who I am buying a cart from, who apparently thinks everything is a personal attack. His latest outrage is that I have been suggesting others buy one of his carts, and suggested he post that he is manufacturing them right now, that you can order one right now! He is FURIOUS. His reasoning? I must be an idiot that I don't know that he is in production....

@randahl , I think I am going to go knock over a liquor store, 'for the people.'

I don’t mind being just me. Average. Medium. Not always everyone’s taste. Quiet. In the corner. Spouting what I believed is eloquence. Occasionally opinionated and a little prickly. Gently honest. Doing what I can to spread what I believe is kindness.

It’s me. That’s ok. Only took 40 years to get there. Can’t imagine what I’ll have learned about myself by 80.

In 1952, the British government prosecuted Turing for what it termed "gross indecency."

He was gay, which to them was a crime. To avoid prison he was forced to submit to chemical castration. A few years later he took his own life by ingesting cyanide.

Turing’s codebreaking work at Bletchley Park during WWII had been critical to the war effort and saved tens of thousands of lives, maybe more. The British government repaid him with demonization and persecution.

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now that we know they work we'll need a fleet of those subs

@SNerd @dump_stack , on a side note, these principles are NOT endorsed by the current Libertarian Party. The party has been subverted, over a span of several decades, by republicans. They tend to support government at all levels, even if they talk like libertarians. This point is not important to this conversation though, as billionaires are not Libertarian Party supporters either.

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