Jim Vernon / is on Nostr

.NET developer, JS dabbler, and dad in Central Oregon.

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2024-06-21 17:40:28

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Telling that Hacker News doesn't attribute a particular writer for their articles. It just says "Newsroom".

2024-05-03 01:52:56

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@npub19lt…qfjk Another reason to ignore calls from people who aren't in my contact list.

2024-04-05 17:35:30

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@npub1jwz…d2ah Need to get into business making and installing Rapture Hatches.
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2024-02-11 22:33:33

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@npub1483…lv2w I thought some day I would wake up and feel "grown up". I've told my kid that I don't feel any different than when I was his age, just a little more achy and the things I care about are different.

2024-01-02 17:40:47

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@npub1ckc…atlq @npub1k4q…3lsq It's not really helping things that Israel is doing the military equivalent of swatting at flies with a sledge hammer. It's also not helping things that people on the far-right in Israel are saying the quiet part out loud by literally stating that the goal is to depopulate Gaza through violence-induced emigration.
Honestly, this looks like it was planned by Netanyahu and company. Sure they didn't force Hamas to do anything, but it sure looks like they paved the way for Hamas to attack.

2024-01-02 17:31:54

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Obviously a lot of Israelis did survive the Holocaust to bomb people because it's been happening for various reasons (some justified, some not) since shortly after WWII ended and Israel was created.
It's probably being too charitable toward humans in general to assume that going through something like the Holocaust would automatically make someone a pacifist. I could see quite the opposite happening where many such folk would feel the need to be overzealous in defending themselves to make sure they don't fall victim again.

2023-12-29 03:59:36

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1l3t…cal9 @npub1nqz…838y I doubt you'd actually think it's a huge difference if you found out that you weren't considered the worst person, just one of the worst people. Either way, you're still the worst, you just have company in the latter situation.

2023-12-28 23:00:47

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1l3t…cal9 @npub1nqz…838y You did say those words. I scrolled back up and those words appear verbatim in your preceding post. The "one of the" phrase does not make the huge difference that you're wanting us to believe that it does.

2023-10-28 23:26:58

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@npub178r…qekt Got the Moderna booster a few weeks ago and was down for a day and a half with a fever and general bleh-ness. Barely felt anything when I had the prior doses.

2023-10-21 01:34:28

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@npub1uw8…88kr Have they? That's one satellite per 150,000 square miles.

2023-10-21 01:01:55

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@npub1uw8…88kr I don't think "control of space" is determined by the number of internet satellites you have up.

2023-10-02 00:00:11

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@npub15l7…aang And Google Podcasts and apparently the FitBit app (not killed, but might as well be with the changes they've made).

2023-08-31 04:42:18

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@npub1f5d…9ugu @npub135d…tg9k @npub1483…lv2w The CDC has recommendations for masking and isolating based on hospitalization numbers (which most public health agencies should have information about), and that seems like a pretty good indicator of community spread of covid and the potential severity of the disease caused by the prevalent covid variant.

2023-08-06 18:42:10

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@npub1c9e…zhes Why are all these far-right turds such turds about literally everything? You'd think they'd learn when things blow up in their face every time they get what they think they want.

2023-08-05 21:22:14

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn But if automation gets rid of the need for a lot of labor, as you said, why then should people be expected to have jobs at all? Seems like we should welcome the day when people can simply live and enjoy life without spending most of their waking hours laboring, especially laboring to put a few extra dollars in someone else's bank account.

2023-08-05 20:53:55

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn It's a weird take that low income people should be paid even less because of what boils down to the greed of the owner class.