JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@social.cleverlibre.org
BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.
Joined Nov 2022
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America 👏 does 👏 not 👏 have 👏 a 👏 far-left 👏 movement.
- Our far-right are explicit, open fascists.
- Our center-right are extremist nationalists.
- Our center-left are classical conservatives.
- Our far-left are moral centrist capitalist moderates.
Any objective political compass would place politicians like Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Elizabeth Warren barely left of center.
A true far-left movement would be advocating for forced property seizure by the working class. Instead, our "far-left" is like "let's don't do a genocide on trans people today please I haven't even had brunch".
Twanger. The anger that former twitter users bring to a platform, expecting the people to be like those they interacted with on the bird app.
"She was full of twanger when she discovered that Bob voted for Bernie."
The view limit on the bird app doesn't matter if you don't use it. About twice a week, I accidentally will hit a link for there, and spend a good 15 seconds scrolling. I will probably see 200 posts a month.
For a moment, when I typed a "t" into chrome, I didn't even get the bird app as a suggestion. That was lovely. It is very rare to get hate on mastodon, aside from those servers that are openly bad actors.
Saturday morning, I got hate. I assume they were new arrivals, and still have the bird mentality. I will never know, as we blocked each other.
Please, if you ran here because it got bad there, don't try to make here into there. None of us need that.
People don't seem to be mentioning this, but I find it to be as bad, if not worse, than accepting plane rides and fishing trips, or a house for your mother. The dollar amounts sure are higher:
"2 Supreme Court justices failed to recuse themselves from cases involving their publisher after receiving large amounts in book advances and royalties"
A 3rd, Jackson, has accepted a million or more bucks, but hasn't had a case come before her yet. But I think just getting a million like this with the incredible potential of a case coming to your court is problematic.
In a choice between trump and Hillary, both are pushing us on a slow slide to Hell in my opinion. Hillary was a slower push, but still the wrong direction. I don't want us to be bombing Libya. or selling weapons to the Saudis, or staying in Afghanistan. I don't want Goldman Sachs to benefit from my vote, I want us to benefit. I won't vote for the Senator from MBNA.
I'm curious... I ran into a pack of zealots yesterday... we ended up blocking each other. But I have a simple question: How bad can a candidate be before you accept not voting for them, when they are running against a trump? For me, if they are a bad candidate, at any level, they are not going to get my vote. For some people it seems they have to be worse than trump to not get that vote. To me that just guarantees that evil wins elections, that there is no reason for any party to present a good candidate. If I have a choice between Stalin or Hitler, I am writing in Batman. If I have a choice between tween trump and a candidate who was openly vocally against marriage equality, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR EITHER, and for cause. Why is this hard to understand?
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I have a new business building one-page wedding web sites. If you are a same sex couple, the service is free. This is not a joke.
I just discovered I am raw-dogging reality.
I need to improve.
Some say Reddit is done, stick a fork in it. But as long as there are posts like this, Reddit will live on:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/14khb05/tifu_by_eating_a_cheese_burger/
, 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...
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....
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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.
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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
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Here me out, Temptation Island: Best Friend Edition. You and your best friend go to Temptation Island, where you have to spend time with other good buddies. You have to resist falling into a bromance.
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Charlie Tennenbaum has been jailed for >7 weeks over flyers notifying a state trooper's neighbors that he's tied to the killing of a #StopCopCity activist.
“I think it’s protected by the First Amendment... I have the right to raise awareness about this."
Alluring Arctic Sailing, on youtube. I really enjoy watching people sail around the world. My favorite is Sailing Uma, but Alluring is my close second. He sails and climbs mountains and skies down them... He looks like someone who used to get beaten up a lot in high school, but each bully tried ONCE, and ended up in the hospital. Because this guy is a badass.
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Still trying to find my people on Mastodon. Please boost if you:
-Like pizza.
-Enjoy watching movies.
-Have recurring dreams that you are a frog.
-Feel distraught when you wake up and realize that you are in fact not a frog.
-Spend your days studying ancient texts in search of a forbidden incantation that transforms humans into amphibians.
BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.
Joined Nov 2022
