Mike Hunter

I rented a car today (long story). Y’all have probably seen or heard about the anti-Elon stickers in the Bay Area…I decided to join in for the day, with a twist 😞 😝

As many of you know, one of the major advancements I think we need is having a larger number of viable political parties. It is with great pleasure that I hereby announce the creation of the No Residential Trash Pickup Before 8:30AM Party. NRTPB83P!

My daughter just invented the Canadiano: espresso plus cold water.

Oh I thought it was “gate” like Watergate.

Good morning, trusting developer.

One of the silver linings of being single is that your fashion sense is free to drift towards its true, uninhibited frequency. Which, in my case, is obscure unix humor!

Wouldn’t it be cool if we had always had trade policies that reward counties who recognize the human rights of their citizens?

I would like for them to have given users choice for disputed locations (maybe all locations)?

What shows up for me:

On the one hand, all science funding in the US is being destroyed, guaranteeing that the US will be a lesser power for the rest of the century. On the other hand, maybe I won’t have to finish those NSF reports?

Anybody else feeling weird for jumping here without really knowing who is behind BlueSky? It’d probably take 90 seconds of research to figure it out, but why do that when I can just post this instead and generate engagement?!

My brain cells agree it’s a FPTP problem, but I hate to admit that part of it is humans wanting to belong to sects and ideologies (I can’t say I’m personally immune either). I’ll just give my usual summary: UGH.

When somebody says they really care about X, do they care enough to unbundle it or fight against bundle culture, or even better, do they care enough to try to influence the other side? Our political system translates “I care about X” to “let’s add X to the bundle.”

…when you make the decision to prioritize gun stuff along with healthcare, you massively handicap your healthcare ambitions because you alienate a big demographic that you need. So can you really say healthcare is a big priority?…

I’ve been thinking about this. It’s true that the buttons we have available don’t include “fix healthcare”…but somebody somewhere is in charge of bundling, right? Let’s just randomly pick healthcare and guns (and pretend the left could figure out healthcare)…

I feel like focusing on the evil dude or the evil industry is counterproductive razzle dazzle stuff. Our citizens continuously elect governments that are content with a gnarly healthcare incentive structure, that’s the story.

Not trying to troll, but for a single victim killed at close range, is this really a gun policy debate? Couldn’t the guy have cut him in half with a sword?

According to ChatGPT, today is the four year anniversary of President Trump telling the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” 11,780 votes. President Trump not even being charged over doing that — let alone convicted — is something worthy of feeling ashamed of as a citizen.

Aside from the CEO assassination support being yucky, it also bothers me that people use this as a catharthis for frustration over the US healthcare system. Figure out what you’d support and then throw up on your ballot instead!

I know it’s more complicated than this, but when I see statues of a dictator being town down and people celebrating in the streets, I feel happy. Good luck Syria! 🇸🇾 🙏

Is it just me or does BlueSky feel like too much of a direct Twitter ripoff? I see the irony of wanting a drop-in Twitter replacement but somehow being bothered, but 🤷

Honored to have been named one of Avogadro’s 6.02*10^23 under 6.02*10^23.

Wish new social media platforms had search results for obscure 90s lyrics. Pesky copyright stuff ugh.

Howdy!