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Bruce McTague

@brucemctague2024.bsky.social

call me annoyingly curious, but almost everything interests me (not really concerned with asparagus). i have an opinion on everything and dislike purposeful ignorance.

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"Pessimism is Old World and reactionary." Upwingers: A Futurist Manifesto - FM Esfandiary, 1973

i loved the book Abundance. kind of a rehash of Upwingers & some older books (oddly Small is Beautiful by Schumacher). that said. read it. but read Chokepoints & When More is not Better at same time.

06.06.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah. i kinda feel better is, well, good. positive.

if you have a shitty objective, progress toward that objective (where progress is a verb, not a noun), isn't "better" but rather 'movement toward the objective.' things haven't become 'better', just closer to a shitty objective.

06.06.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah. progress is always "better today than it was yesterday." its growth (often confused/conflated with progress) that can either be positive or negative.

05.06.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"everything has to do with everything else"

17.03.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i sort of agree with this.

how about try this. if you feel like a book is becoming a slog, skip to the last chapter and read it. if the last chapter opens up some possibility you didn't envision, the book is worth restarting.

17.03.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that means we seek efficacy.

a word i am relatively sure DOGE has never heard of.

17.03.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"we're offering them something better"

every democrat should write this on a notecard and carry it with them everywhere they go. if what they are saying, or doing, is not offering anything to make someone's life better, scrap it.

13.03.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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truth

13.03.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

he's correct. this is also a secret businesses know, well, at least the ones who don't believe business is war .........

13.03.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The tariffs will continue until morale improves.

11.03.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 367    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7

this is actually a chapter in Moneyland by Oliver Bullough

11.03.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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USA
@mcuban.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social

11.03.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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hmmmmmmmmmmm ... prices up for those seeking to buy aluminum. so, once again, the buyer pays for tariffs.

11.03.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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america today
@crooked.com

28.02.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this

28.02.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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governed by a ship of fools ...

28.02.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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with all due respect to the hype cycle, this is reality ....

27.02.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to run a business.

any CEO of any viable business would be fired if this was their mantra, well, unless that CEO was the wealthiest man in the world (or the president).

i do not understand how any experienced business person could support either of these clowns.

27.02.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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it sure seems like most of confirmed Trump cabinet members lied a lot in confirmation meetings (and they aren't even one month in).
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com

27.02.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

am i the only one who remembers that stable genius, master negotiator, cut Afghanistan out of negotiations and dealt directly with the Taliban?
@mcuban.bsky.social @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social

27.02.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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society 2025

27.02.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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memories ....

27.02.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

actually, with all due respect, but it kinda makes one wonder if God is paying attention ...

27.02.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the question everyone should ask every time they read about something DOGE/Trump has "cut" is "does this make my life better?" 'cause i'm fairly sure even if you voted for Trump you didn't want to "make life worse again".

20.02.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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