Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@social.cleverlibre.org
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Retired Chem/Physics/Earth Sciences teacher. I'm interested in everything.
I like a good debate that introduces me to other perspectives. I don't waste much time with people who devolve to name-calling or insults, aside to call them out on it.
I think society performs at its best when we take care of others, especially the weakest among us. That means a strong social safety net, with "free" healthcare, education, and public transit. It's a dream, I know.
30+ years of explaining stuff to teenagers has left me with some habits... I'm not a mansplainer, but I *do* like to find ways to 'splain stuff to receptive ears 😊
I like dogs, cats, and astronomy pictures with a bias towards the shorter wavelengths (kinda leaves out all those lovely Hα pics 😄).
The first thing I look at when shopping for cars is headroom/legroom. Saves a lot of time.
Joined Nov 2022
@encthenet @conradhackett I imagine that would depend on the pool, and the patrons…
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Murder, She Wrote ran for 264 episodes, which means that lady who wrote about murder saw at least 264 murders over the course of TWELVE years, and you have to think, man, that's worse than most homicide cops see in the most fractured forsaken neighborhoods of the oldest cities, and I kind of want there to be a scene somewhere in a vault of Angela Lansbury, ravaged by PTSD and propped on a bar stacked with empties, inveighing against the cosmic worth of her species and slurring bitter regrets at a life's work of effectively being a janitor in an abattoir.
@smooheed Anatomically correct web-slinging
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@AMMO2022 Wow. Instant winter.
#qoto peeps, is it possible to edit posts on this instance, as opposed to "delete and re-draft"? I'm not seeing the edit option anywhere.
@johnefrancis Yes, I don't get it. It sounds like the leadership doesn't think they made much progress from the position that was going to put the union out on the picket line tomorrow, but they want the membership to decide. That's fine, and sends a democratic signal, but it also suggests that said leadership should be stepping down.
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2 unarmed heroes at Colorado Springs tackled the murderer and stopped him
400 heavily armed police at Uvalde twiddled their thumbs and did nothing to stop the shooter for 78 minutes
Can you right wing nut jobs stop calling gay people “too woke” and “weak” now?!
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@encthenet @conradhackett Aside from maybe some (real) oldies radio stations, I can't think of where you'd run into °F in Canada anymore. Maybe some legacy systems?
Occasionally my parents might slip into it, but they're in their 80s.
Ah! Baking, of course.
@sixfootcandy Occasionally my tech support for parents involves Thanksgiving dinner...
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LADY: My cat won't stop mewling
ME: It's okay, I'm a cat whisperer
LADY: Oh, great
ME {whispering to cat}: shut the hell up
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Did anyone ever tell those kids how to get to Sesame Street?
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Corporate profits only accounted for roughly 11% of price growth from 1979 to 2019.
Today, record corporate profits account for 53.9% of price increases.
Folks, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers asking for better wages.
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@physgal Did it switch from “Latest” to “Home” (aka the algorithm)?
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Size
- XLT
- Philosophy
- Humanist
- Politics
- Lefty-Antifa
Retired Chem/Physics/Earth Sciences teacher. I'm interested in everything.
I like a good debate that introduces me to other perspectives. I don't waste much time with people who devolve to name-calling or insults, aside to call them out on it.
I think society performs at its best when we take care of others, especially the weakest among us. That means a strong social safety net, with "free" healthcare, education, and public transit. It's a dream, I know.
30+ years of explaining stuff to teenagers has left me with some habits... I'm not a mansplainer, but I *do* like to find ways to 'splain stuff to receptive ears 😊
I like dogs, cats, and astronomy pictures with a bias towards the shorter wavelengths (kinda leaves out all those lovely Hα pics 😄).
The first thing I look at when shopping for cars is headroom/legroom. Saves a lot of time.
Joined Nov 2022
