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In a college networking class like 15 years ago my prof said "Imagine a binary communication medium that's almost perfect, flips one in a billion bits. How often does that happen? About once per second"

Bluesky has seemed particularly prone to rewarding conflict, and that's lead to so much looking for reasons to be mad at someone

If the goal is to actually change someone's mind, you have to meet them where they're at. that usually means tolerating some speech you're tempted to explain issues with

The picture of him has haunted me, and every time I think of it I cry at least a little. I made this in grief and anger.

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - American Skin (41 Shots) (Live in New York City)

Some of you may be too young to have appreciated Bruce's 41 shots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMq... - if yes, you should listen to it. And you should know that the NYPD and NJ cops pitched a MAJOR FIT over it.

I have bad news

Image being replied to edits the quoted post to "Comrades...don't swallow" with "Everybody can reply." This one further trims it to "comrades...do swallow" with "Everybody can"

My state (Oregon) does offer that service, but my income is too high to qualify for any state disability aid. (that income is entirely federal disability insurance)

WHAT

Pretty sure he's hated us Danes for a while now over Greenland

This is the kind of disposition I like.

A Budget Is A Statement Of Values

The judge has released an addendum saying that he should do it again and provided a helpful list

I had a post go more viral here with this new acct and like 50 followers than I ever had when I had like 5000, and it probably would have been better if I'd installed the app from the get-go

With the danger of presentation rising and access to HRT falling thanks to their fellow fascists, it wouldn't surprise me if there's a marked rise in detransitions. Just like past "studies," they won't ask *why* they detransitioned.

I'm disabled and use apps way more than I'd like. It's absolutely one of my biggest $$ sinks.

Is that a "double tap" in the specific sense she's using? I didn't see/hear anything about a here strike targeting emergency response once they were on the scene, at least in this article

I love the transition from talking somberly about privilege directly into mourning the truly oppressed: cishet white men

i'm glad that comicbasics dot com is here to grieve with him, the poor guy needs our support until he can find another minor to groom 😢

Of all the words to not understand, and to use as a name for something that cannot understand anything, I cannot think of one worse than "grok"

Not saying I'm a fan of his or how the Dems are handling this generally, just that the article is misleading.

I think this article is a bit misleading about what his focus was and his tone talking about the ban on deportations. Here's the relevant bit of the press conference:

www.c-span.org/clip/news-co...

I went to dig up what he actually said and couldn't find a transcript, but here's the relevant bit. I think this article is kinda twisting things because his focus was on banning detainment, and the bit on deportation was him answering a question he thought was dumb. Not a fan of his, but ehhh

Stickers. "A system is not defined by rules, but by how they are enforced" in a gear around a crossed gavel and nightstick

In the words of Stafford Beer,

i feel like Dems are the reply guys, always trying to not upset people whose attention they want and never leading the conversation

I would seriously think about buying a second car for way longer than that. I don't know that I could stop thinking.

I've seen them in action delivering food and supplies to homeless folks here, they're amazing.

None, but I don't think the idea is that point-to-point should not exist but that our goal should be to minimize it rather than support its handling of trips that transit could accommodate.

It's utopian like universal healthcare and free education: treated as only the stuff of dreams here while it's been in place for decades in so many other countries.

I think a lot of the Schoolhouse Rock kinda messaging around voting in the longer term US culture has encouraged people to want a moral bond with someone they're voting for, and see a vote as a moral endorsement. Not saying it explains everything, but it does seem to have been a major factor in 2024

it is not the butlerian jihad that i wanted