myrmepropagandist

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

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2024-11-16 19:46:43

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@nprofile…hlq4
It's not the children of "wealthy east coast elites" who won't be vaccinated or who will die in back room abortions. It's not the wealthy elites who will die when the national weather service fails to communicate hurricane dangers properly. Nor will the cuts to SNAP harm them or the decaying schools.
It's ordinary people.
And I think that some people have signed up for this just because it makes a segment of the people who they perceive as elites angry.

2024-11-16 19:42:52

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@nprofile…hlq4
And behind all of this is some notion that there are all of these "others" living lives of luxury, taking advantage of them and "the system"... all while turning their nose up at them.
It's this cartoon version of a "liberal elite" that they imagine will be hurt and they have no remorse about it happening.
But to the extent that such people exist they are well insulated from the shocks, and incompetence that will tear through the country.

2024-11-16 14:47:15

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@nprofile…d8jm
I just want a bunch of little silly poems about obscure creatures. If it's worth describing and naming it's worth writing a poem about it, no?

2024-11-16 08:28:44

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@nprofile…t60v
Doing God's work.

2024-11-09 23:12:19

This fortune is cursed.
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2024-11-08 12:54:33

I try not to use the word “pundit” like a slur. Interpreting and summarizing political news is important work. So important it is a focal point for manipulation. Still, it’s just as possible that “market pressures” have perverse effects. In particular, sensational “news” sells better than sober assessments and “news” that tells you that uncertain events will go the way you want is more appealing than saying “we don’t know.”

2024-11-08 03:04:14

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@npub153s…cvd9
I want to make something up about why this can't happen but I can't think of anything.

2024-10-19 23:58:43

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@npub1czz…v0as Trilobite is by Fortey... but I had to get up and check if I was reading some less ponderous book by McPhee... they are cousins in style.

2024-10-19 23:54:46

"Trilobite: eyewitness to evolution" like "Annals of the Former World" but less daunting and metaphysical. "Annals of the Former World" is a book you get lost in, the deep past swallows you. The best way to read it is on a long train ride going out West. "Trilobite" is a book you can read in bursts on the bus, or in the tub... it's about science but feels like a magical adventure where secret worlds lurk behind bookshelves.
Like one and you will like the other for different reasons.

2024-10-19 10:56:06

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@npub1xzm…eykm
blepuary
blepuary
blarch
blepril
bleay
bleune
bleply
bleplogist
bleptember
bleptober
blepvember
blepcember

2024-10-13 01:32:09

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@npub1qs2…55gv @npub1aum…5jx0
Listen there is an old saying "never settle for the glyptodont" or maybe I just made that up, but it's a good one I think.

2024-10-12 21:32:53

Trilobites roamed the seas for 270 million years and NOT ONE of those years overlapped with my lifetime. This is one of the most tragic and unfair facts in all of space and time. WHY.
Not a single stinkin' remnant species. I never will see them scuttle... never see one with a ball of eggs.
We have to bring them back.

2024-10-12 16:51:56

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@npub1857…gk3l
The spider is somehow... cute???

2024-10-12 16:23:08

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Ants are arthropods and you can see their skeleton it's on the outside. They don't have tiny bones as much fun as that would be. I still like this drawing.

2024-10-10 23:39:40

Did you know you can do cross stitch on a circuit board?
Now you know. This person made a cool beetle and is selling it.
https://unicoherent.com/product/beetle/
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2024-10-10 21:43:18

99 internet protocols on the wall,
99 standards in code
take one down and pass it around
100 internet protocols on the wall…

2024-10-08 10:15:14

There was a recent news item about a Twitch streamer known for "pranks and flaunting his wealth" crashing his expensive sports car, injuring his cameraman and other motorists while using his phone as he was driving in the rain.
The whole thing has worked out very well for him with no one dead and national media attention, and clearly he's of the "no such thing as bad press" school of self-promotion.
I just have one question: Who are his 15 million followers?

2024-10-06 21:20:45

Every year the binomial name of one creature should be revised by general vote of the public. Anyone who has published a paper on taxonomy in a reputable journal could propose a change and these would be voted on bracket style by the general public online.
The purpose would be to clean up names that are just terrible, vanity projects, unfair, confusing, or those that have obvious better alternatives.
Also to increase public engagement.

2024-10-05 22:22:30

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@npub1xxt…d5sq
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112660744608093675

2024-10-05 16:47:03

Certainly the circle divides the plane into two regions, but which one is inside of the circle? Which one is without?
On the surface of a sphere you have a real problem. (OK call the one with smaller area "inside" done and dusted.) On an infinite plane, maybe you can say something about finite vs. infinite to make the distinction.
But this question has always made me uncomfortable.

2024-10-04 09:53:47

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Like we can't even measure things right...

2024-09-27 07:49:48

Liminal spaces are culture specific. What would a liminal space look like for a guy from 1900? What about for early humans? Did they find certain seasons, and clearings in the woods liminal?

2024-09-23 22:02:50

Replacing every search engine with a 30s paper boy who doesn't really listen to what you ask for, runs off to get it before you get done explaining, and always gets waylaid by flimflam men who pay him a Nickel to bring back something other than what you asked for along the way.
"Bugsey said yous might like to read this paper better miss, aw wontcha least take a look miss??"

2024-09-20 18:50:35

I’m making a 13.7 billion year long timeline with 5th graders mostly to teach them the difference in scale between billions and millions— but also to get them curious (I hope) about the way things bunch up and cluster together. I need more ideas for “significant events in the history of the universe/earth”
Nothing too technical.

2024-09-20 09:00:05

Everyone wants to use "playing 4D chess" as a sarcastic insult, but no one wants to really talk about the actual game of 4D chess which exists. (And suffers from a density problem IMO)

2024-09-19 23:21:21

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@npub1g6j…puw4
Deeply invested in this person with good taste in notebooks. Not that one I use, but if I worked outside this kind of notebook would be top of my list. Very classy and practical. I admire them already.

2024-09-16 14:29:31

When it comes to selecting a calculus textbook my most petty complaint is that most books are simply to large and bloated. Giving these to schoolchildren is some kind of OSHA violation. In a way because books are often now digital packages the “text” could be distilled from the problem sets, extra examples, sus math history, dated “hello kids” photos etc. can all go online …
The book itself can be a slim little number. It’s not like there is all that much to it! come on!

2024-09-14 19:04:54

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Today she supervised the third bean harvest, and was didn't want to pose for a photo.
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2024-09-14 18:59:51

You may kiss the paw. #caturday #picaTheCat
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2024-09-13 21:17:54

In order to be useful one must be (pardon the anachronism) an idiot. That's why someone like Tim Pool ends up working for Putin. But, why limit yourself to silly podcasters? Wouldn't it be better to have someone who could vote on bills? Are there any people in congress with Pool-like intellects?
There are!
Tommy Tuberville. For one. I suspect he may be in over his head, and with much higher stakes if caught.

2024-09-13 11:16:47

Contemporary car design is so ugly. Every car looks like an old man who got too much plastic surgery with angry anime eyes. The forms are neither geometric and pure, nor are the taken from nature— it’s just a pointless collision of swooshes like the Nike logo and swerves that gesture at aerodynamics without being functional or beautiful to behold. The colors are aggressively frumpy— the textures plastic so that even when brand new they do not shine.

2024-09-12 14:11:42

A pick and place machine that’s just a bunch of highly motivated ants.

2024-09-11 16:47:47

I was reading a blurb on Math history with my students and the following sentence gave me a queasy feeling. “Euclid’s system of geometry dominated mathematics until the 19th century.” This is … OK. Yes, no one really defined alternate geometries until then, but, people had to work on surfaces of spheres for practical reasons— and the refined edifice we call “Euclidean Geometry”goes a way beyond what Euclid the Greek man had in mind. It feels a little “just so” to me. Like much of math history.

2024-09-11 09:56:12

I checked on the trending topics a few times on X over the evening including after the Taylor Swift endorsement and "Taylor Swift" was not trending. Even after an hour or so the only Taylor related tag was "Tay Tay" and it wasn't in the top five.
It could be that there are simply no women on X anymore.
But, I can't shake the feeling a billionaire messed with his algorithm.
Of course I can't prove this. But it's reasonable, right?

2024-09-10 20:59:06

I took an Uber for the first time in a long time and just so you know their app now has ads *with sound* it will pause your damn audiobook or music!
Beyond rude.
#neveruber #adssuck #uber #enshittification

2024-09-10 11:49:34

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@npub107n…xyrj Realty TV is a cancer on the matrix of facts that make up our shared reality.

2024-09-10 11:31:15

A conversation I think of often.
“His business ventures failed. They went bankrupt. He’s not a great businessman.”
“Not his fault. He gave people a chance. It’s not his fault if they couldn’t make it.”
“—he gave people a chance??”
“On the show! Let ‘em shoot their shot. And you all say ‘oh he went bankrupt a million times’ like it was all his fault. I’m not stupid. You can’t pin something from the show on him like that.”
“…” 🤦🏾‍♀️

2024-09-09 22:47:56

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Some people believe in big-foot. I believe in slender long bodied cave ants... fragile seeming and glassy, swift in rare moments between many days of stillness.. hunting in an endless night...

2024-09-09 22:46:05

There are no white translucent troglobite cave ants that we know of as of now, but that doesn't mean that there were never were white translucent troglobite cave ants... with no eyes and extra long antennae ... feeling around in the dark in the past... or perhaps even now in some cave system long ago cut off from the surface, their trails memorialized in geodes, their dead queens sleeping in still glassy pools of crystal water lost in darkness...

2024-09-07 23:11:54

Look at this cool keyboard.
I don't have much else to add. It's called "keyball61" can be built from a kit.
https://twitter.com/inkOne/status/1506544145019686913
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2024-09-07 13:57:14

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@npub1es2…gwlk
It was better for his business too.

2024-09-07 13:52:48

I don't know, Elon if "women and low T men" are so "malleable" you'd think you'd have been more successful at getting them to fall for your nonsense.
The drop of truth in that tweet is that brute force manufactured consensus works, it can work on anyone, but it works better on those who think they are immune to persuasion do to some innate trait such as ... having more a a particular hormone. (Also why does every trans man I know hate him then? Anyways.)

2024-09-07 12:12:44

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@npub12pu…9dr5
Yeah I think 5th grade is about as young as I'll go.

2024-09-06 00:24:51

OMG. This is pure comedy gold.
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2024-09-05 00:18:42

is there a camp for cat where they will learn modesty and how to be more ... demure, less... "for the streets"

2024-09-04 00:37:34

“OK, clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological period when it was possible, And I live in a 1,200 sq ft apartment in New York and I pay $5,000 a month for it. But I’m really better than these other people. What I’m going to do is project my, like, racial and gender sensitivities on the rest of them … even though the way that I think has made me a miserable person.” -JD Vance

2024-09-02 18:12:51

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Granted I don't think I could explain exactly what a "jumper" is, but I think it's supposed to have suspenders or straps or something and both a top and a bottom fused together. You know... for snow or "romping"

2024-09-02 18:10:20

The way people from the UK call sweatshirts, long sleeved tops and sweaters "jumpers" and I always get disappointed when it's not more like a onesie or a baggy unitard.

2024-09-02 00:09:25

"You know, I do the weave. You know the weave? I'll talk about like nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together. And it's like, friends of mine that are like English professors, they say it's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. But the fake news, they say, he rambled. It’s not rambling."
-The Former President

2024-09-01 18:05:43

(If Pica asks you to buy NFT cat food ... please just find a way to change the subject. There is no such thing, it will NOT "go up in value forever" and there is no such thing as a "Digital kibble club" Just... FYI)

2024-08-31 18:00:16

OK... hear me out... a standard rice cooker... BUT when it's done and it plays the little "rice is ready" tune it also has a feature so when you open the lid it emits a golden light and angelic voices sing "AH! AH!" like it's a treasure chest.
Don't judge too quickly.
Really THINK about it!

2024-08-31 17:35:16

We've entered the "I'll do anything just vote for me" stage of the presidential campaign.
Trump mutters stuff about "free IVF."
Amazing as his plan to get everyone healthcare and infrastructure week! This is such a fabulous extravagant lie I can only hope it costs him more Evangelical votes than it gains with people who just don't pay much attention to politics.
I wonder what else he'll promise? Will he promise to pass out free thanksgiving turkeys too?

2024-08-31 11:59:16

Art people! There are these new "acrylic markers" they seem to contain an opaque paint-like ink that can be used on many surfaces like acrylic paint. Has anyone tried them? I'm worried they will dry out quickly and not last very long. Has anyone tried using these new markers? How do you like them?
They are packaged a lot like COPIC design markers, with many shades... but part of what makes COPIC good is they almost never dry out.

2024-08-31 09:51:13

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Personally I'd go for the audiobook, ideally with an e-ink display that showed the text as it played, volume knob, headphone jack AND bluetooth...

2024-08-31 09:48:51

If you could have one app magically tuned into a retrofuturistic device with excellent design which app would you pick?
For example:
* Fitness app would become a dedicated sports watch with VFD and buttons.
* Audio book app becomes dedicated player with excellent indexing for books (unlike most stand alone MP3 players) & volume knob.
* Mapping app, becomes delightful GPS device.
You get to keep all features of the app as if the device was never software'd out of existence.

2024-08-31 09:24:41

In my day we had buttons.
We had switches! Sliders!
And what do we have now? Glass rounded rectangles of various sizes.
"We can make it do haptic feedback."
No just put me out of my misery. Send me to the farm upstate. Your haptic feedback is a mockery of the elegance of the latching switches and potentiometers I have known.
Robotics is hard. Mechanical engineering is hard. The glass rounded rectangles are magical, yes, and lovely, but they also prisons for the imagination.

2024-08-30 23:50:08

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Someday she will be brave enough to go all the way to the top!
The roof is scary! But so interesting.
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/113/053/647/979/620/063/original/bc2413f9045978e6.png

2024-08-30 22:37:52

It's a little disturbing that Pica clearly knows what doorknobs are for, and it's only her small size and furry little paws that keep her from turning them and going wherever she wants. She has been pawing at the door handle for some time now... I guess she does observe how we open the door-- she keeps looking to me to come and fix it.

2024-08-30 14:26:27

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I think I could modify an old Sony Sports Walkman to have a rechargeable battery... but I don't know if I could make it look good.
I even think I could add the bluetooth... but it would end up being one of my gadget projects that always gets me flagged when I go through airport security and my husband said I need to stop doing that.

2024-08-30 14:01:43

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I want a walkman that has *all* of the best old features AND a modern rechargeable battery, Bluetooth for my earbuds... and give me a little VFD display ...
But especially auto-reverse... that was the most magical aspect of tape players.
And I have all these tapes that were designed so you could "flip" them at certain points so the songs lined up in fun ways... Let me recapture the magic...

2024-08-30 12:17:18

Needlessly gendered products but for non-binary people ONLY.
NOT for men.
NOT for women.

2024-08-30 12:00:07

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Thank you for reminding me to harvest the green beans Pica.
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2024-08-30 11:58:19

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2024-08-30 11:57:25

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The best part about the stairs is to STARE him in his eyes. 👀
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2024-08-30 11:55:23

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She would like an explanation for why it is so WET.
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2024-08-30 11:53:00

Pica has an adventure.
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2024-08-30 01:41:50

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@npub1psy…pasy
What is this prancy whimsical pose?

2024-08-30 00:01:13

When Pica won't come when I call her to come in with me off the roof the most effective thing is to suddenly look past her with alarm like I see something horrible then run quickly to the door. (she follows... poor thing)
But if I just call her it can take like 8 min for her to decide to "be done" sniffing the grass.

2024-08-29 22:32:31

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@npub1jxc…qug0
But. BUT the Jaekelopterus has large naturals1!!

2024-08-29 18:03:01

This queen ant is so cute. She’s very shy and has only one daughter (so far)
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/113/046/619/498/987/528/original/5c8b916e7c991e30.mp4

2024-08-29 16:03:21

Someone made a fursona of Dunkleosteus but I can forgive it just a little because she has braces which is *objectively* hilarious.
https://www.tumblr.com/7clubs/175013713709/whats-up-my-gay-ass-made-some-character-designs?source=share

2024-08-29 15:05:12

Is there a name for content that is gross, strange, attention grabbing, hypnotic, alarming and that generally is *designed* to push people's buttons above all else?
For example those videos of people using too many cleaning products, or making food wrong.
I always think of it as "Attention Exploitation" content. And there is something manipulative about it that seems destructive in some way that escapes most definitions of worthless content...
It only exists to try to keep you watching it.

2024-08-29 10:27:10

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To overthink it a bit I never totally bought in to the "you don't hate mondays you hate capitalism" line since at least part of the "problem with mondays" isn't all about having a job that's exploitative and meaningless... it's about having layers of responsibility to others and that will always exist.

2024-08-29 10:23:15

MONDAYS:CAPITALISM::SOCIAL MEDIA:PEOPLE

2024-08-29 09:49:58

BIG BRAIN: Making fun of conservatives who quit Signal for Telegram because "Signal is too woke" ... but doing it on BlueSky after quitting Twitter/X.

2024-08-29 09:38:25

OK but what if they mute BOTH of the mics for the whole debate? Has anyone considered that?

2024-08-28 02:36:12

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What did you expect?
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2024-08-28 02:31:35

I may be from the USA, but the flag that stirs my heart most is the flag of San Francisco, Antioquia, Colombia... they must be the most remarkable wise people to have such a perfect flag.

2024-08-27 23:15:53

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Yeah they sell trees there. I'm as shocked as anyone.

2024-08-27 23:03:57

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He's always so glad to see me. But that kid took years off of my life.

2024-08-27 23:03:32

When I was in my first year teaching we took the 9th graders on a field trip, on our way we cut through a posh little garden store and my two most troublesome student were gawking and joking about how expensive the "trees in pots" were. (like $300) "I can get a tree" one of them said. I didn't realize how ominous this was.
The next day they cut school, dug up a sapling in the neglected park near the school. Somehow they got caught and it was a whole thing.
One of them works at Home Depot now.

2024-08-27 13:25:20

I want to discuss this. I notice so many telling things:
* Erased a woman.Turned a female Secret Service officer into a man.
* Statue next to photo since photorealism is the only way tell it's "good art"
* Thinks there are SO MANY George Floyd statues? I only know of one.
* Second thought-- they *do* need the photo side by side. Couldn't tell who this was otherwise.
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2024-08-27 10:40:09

If someone took a poll of journalists and asked "Is social media important?" and "Can social media be useful?"
What percentage would answer "no" to one or both questions? My guess is it's not an insignificant number.
As the makers of news media to what extent do journalists view social media as part of the media they create?

2024-08-26 23:21:17

Pica Takes New York
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2024-08-26 11:34:29

It'd be neat to try to promote a film by making it seem like lost media. Put clips of the film on DVD or VHS in thrift shops and have someone upload parts of it.
Drop hints about the film being from an altered reality by having parts of ads from companies that don't exist and mentions of events that never happened in the commentary.

2024-08-26 00:12:10

"This interview will mean Harris facing some of the tough questions about immigration and her role at the border and the positions she had in the primary 4 years ago."
Cool. This is fine. But, just as a little benchmark, you know, for fun, what are the "tough questions" for the other guy? Like ... which one would you even start with?

2024-08-25 19:31:27

I just explained how the fediverse works to my mom and she thinks I'm some kind of dark web cyber criminal now I think.

2024-08-24 20:05:56

Can you tell male cats from female by looking at their faces?
Here is how you can test it. Go to https://24petconnect.com/ and look at the cats, you can scroll slowly so you see the photos first then the sex of the cats.
I looked at 21 cats and was correct 18 times.
But, I couldn't explain the difference, female cats have ... smaller faces? Rounder heads?
Vets I know say they can't tell with kittens, but often can somewhat with adult cats.

2024-08-24 12:47:19

Wiggling ribbons will not be tolerated!
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2024-08-20 10:10:26

In American politics "communist" is used as an insult. A dirty word, an accusation that, should it stick to you, could get you blacklisted (basically no one will hire you or work with you)
But, communism is so poorly understood I wonder if it has much meaning to the average voter.
It's a word that evokes people in identical jumpers walking in lines, the old Soviet Union. Democrats are terrified of being called communist but does anyone under 40 even understand this argument?

2024-08-20 09:47:37

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@npub192v…tx58
All innovation in compass design stopped in 1990. And rotring was the last one standing in some ways.

2024-08-20 01:38:14

You may think the DNC is in IL, but there are those who say it's really in CT.
I really think we need to keep an eye on them. Look at all the ambitions, and notions this little state has had over the years. I know people from this state and they have not forgotten...
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2024-08-20 00:10:16

She won’t listen! She won’t come down!
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2024-08-18 11:43:32

So it's like Neapolitan ice-cream, but three kinds of vanilla.
NGL kinda excited about this.
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2024-08-16 10:53:22

Never knew designing a stove could be so complex. We were griping about touch controls yesterday... but a lot of people pointed out advantages of touch controls mainly:
* easier to clean
* can be easier to press under some circumstances and for some users.
At the same time blind people, me, and tactile feedback enjoyers hate them.
I think at least part of my dislike of touch controls comes from experiences with poorly calibrated sensors with bad debouncing and keypress software.

2024-08-15 23:04:28

Oh no the right wing HOG owners are shooting their bikes with machine guns again...this country is making me so TIRED.
(They mad about electric bikes existing, that there is a DEI page on the Harley website and moving some of their factories to Thailand)
I mean the last one is a little annoying but did you need to shoot the bike?

2024-08-15 22:28:12

It makes me SO MAD that the USDA permits for shipping live ants have to say "Permit to Move Plant Pests, Noxious Weeds, Soil and Bees"
It *should* say "Permit to Move Plant Pests, Noxious Weeds, Soil, Bees and Charming Ants"
Because otherwise it implies that ants are what??? "plant pests" Most ants don't do anything to plants! This is so insulting and BIASED.
*furious*

2024-08-15 15:03:17

I can send you back in time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPdowP_aBXY

2024-08-15 10:22:45

Can I just say that the option to mute people on here for 24 hours to 7 days, rather than either muting them forever or blocking them is a wonderful feature that I wish more social media had? It was designed for muting people if they are doing something like livecasting some show you don't care about... but it works well for suspected trolls too. It allows you to become non-responsive with little effort without alerting the target that you got mad and blocked them.

2024-08-15 01:03:53

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@npub1st2…w3kw
I will keep you posted.
LOL