WesDym

Cranky armchair wonk and word nerd.

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2024-11-10 17:18:24

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@npub1shu…235l Early Gen-X queer activist. I'm going to throw out random tips as they come to me.
- Know your legal rights or liabilities in every place you are or plan to be, even just driving through.
- This means there are safe zones, caution zones, and no-go zones. The latter includes Florida and Texas, and probably also Tennessee.
- If you must enter or cross red zones, do so quickly but LEGALLY: Don't give cops an excuse to pull you over.
- Keep your car clean and generic-looking.

2024-11-09 02:41:38

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@npub1ahq…wjwd When I read these quotes in the press, I assume the people quoted are lying. It's not like I have to rely on some nameless chump from Wet Fart, Nowhere to tell me the price of eggs. I live in one of the costlier parts of the US, and I fucking KNOW what eggs cost. These claims HAVE to be lies, unless you're buying, I don't know, some kind of frou-frou boutique eggs or something.

2024-11-05 21:52:35

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 Fmr food safety mgr here. Frozen =/= uncooked. You can freeze cooked foods, and most commercially available frozen foods meant to be eaten hot are precooked. Most fast-food chicken (except in some chicken-speciality places) is precooked, for example.
Beyond that, your question is too vague to answer. The answer will be different for different examples.
Chicken breasts you buy in a store are usually UNcooked, even if frozen.

2024-11-02 04:17:51

'There is nothing more upsetting to a gender essentialist than entirely effortless and unpretentious masculinity.'
https://newrepublic.com/article/186054/tim-walz-tucker-carlson-homophobia-masculinity

2024-10-25 01:56:26

Okay, once again. Unless your family has lived in the shaded area of this map for at least the last fifty thousand years, you're an immigrant or descended from immigrants.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/365/570/364/477/981/original/7bb5c3b03b5208fb.png

2024-10-10 19:20:38

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@npub1su4…a0dw In related news, there are some folks who need to know what a steel-toed boot tastes like.

2024-10-07 19:07:42

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@npub1su4…a0dw "Taxpayers didn't obey my command that they fluff me", says World's Richest Man.
What an asshole.

2024-09-02 21:59:54

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@npub1dts…6798 Animation:
https://i.imgur.com/fleJEwZ.gif

2024-09-02 18:08:37

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@npub1qe5…8ugl That must be why half the people in France are on the edge of death.
That's some great sciencin' there.

2024-09-02 18:00:08

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@npub1tel…4v4v Unfortunately, this territory IS charted, all too well.
It's astounding to me how earnestly humans repeat the errors of history, no matter how well documented.

2024-09-02 14:49:43

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@npub1tel…4v4v Can't quite make out what the lettering says. I know the first word is 'Cyber', but the second is not 'Truck'.

2024-08-02 00:22:07

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@npub1su4…a0dw 'Planetes' live-action version getting closer.

2024-07-31 14:34:54

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@npub132h…f594 "Major Complaint: Like, EVERYTHING, apparently"

2024-07-31 13:03:19

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@npub17nm…dm57 You tell yourself whatever you need to.

2024-07-31 10:56:38

The Apple cult is weird to me. There were lots of different microcomputers around in the '70s and '80s, and I got to try most of them. There was nothing uniquely different about Apple. In fact, they almost went out, like most of them did. Jobs even left the company for awhile. From my view, some kind of creepy marketing is what's led to today's bizarre worship of this otherwise fairly ordinary (and, I feel, overpriced) brand. It's the Kardashian of personal computers.

2024-07-30 14:38:20

I'll bet that most Americans can't accurately answer the question, "Who was President when you were born?" I know I can't, and I'm a student of history. I'm sorry, I was very young at the time, and not yet politically engaged. It's like asking who was No. 1 on Billboard when I was born. I could look it up, but it still wouldn't mean anything to me.

2024-07-26 02:53:17

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@npub1ffl…tv7d Well, that'll sure slow those Russian trolls down. Just like the tollbooth in 'Blazing Saddles'.

2024-07-24 21:26:10

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@npub1ffl…tv7d Only if it ends with real, meaningful, personal consequences. No amount of scolding is any good. The Trumps are shameless and cannot be shamed. But they can be jailed.

2024-07-20 21:45:46

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@npub1typ…c8hh LOTS of songs, and it's sad because so many of them are so good. I won't live long enough that most of them will ever fresh for me again. There's a term for this, 'radio vinegar'.

2024-07-20 21:45:46

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@npub1typ…c8hh LOTS of songs, and it's sad because so many of them are so good. I won't live long enough that most of them will ever fresh for me again. There's a term for this, 'radio vinegar'.

2024-07-17 17:53:25

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@npub1su4…a0dw What a fucking child this dude is.

2024-07-08 19:48:43

To my fellow Americans: The UK and France just showed you how to save your democracy. It's up to you do DO it. VOTE.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/far-seemed-lock-frances-legislative-160630077.html

2024-07-02 13:03:41

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@npub1tel…4v4v Bold of you to assume we're going to have 'future presidents' in the wake of this ruling.

2024-07-01 15:32:06

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@npub1kuh…m595 You're not wrong, but if you don't have a constructive proposal, then this is just cynical whining that doesn't solve anything for anyone, and the world is already filled with enough unhappy noise.

2024-06-30 22:43:29

"Unlike Google..."
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

2024-06-29 22:27:50

:: sad trombone ::
https://patch.com/new-jersey/baskingridge/nj-does-not-renew-trumps-liquor-licenses-2-golf-clubs

2024-06-27 16:01:43

In today's book-hating climate, remember that Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' is not about an oppressive government. It's not about censorship. It's about something much worse. It's about a democratic society that of its own volition elected to turn away from knowledge and literature, to wallow in ignorance, to avoid the emotional and intellectual challenge that books present. That's us, right now. We're living in that story's prologue.

2024-06-22 23:58:16

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@npub1dgz…4q3g Grow up already.

2024-06-22 22:03:49

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@npub1dgz…4q3g Or maybe they're just catering to customer demand. Could be either or both, I guess.

2024-06-16 17:59:38

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@npub16hv…sz5u The boy has four pips on his collar, making him a Captain. Riker, a Commander, has three.

2024-06-05 03:35:58

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@npub1typ…c8hh Joro toxin is not dangerous to humans, and they are not aggressive. And they go for brown marmorated stink bugs, which most spiders won't.

2024-05-17 17:54:45

Fun US facts: Four US States use the term 'Commonwealth' instead of 'State'. Legally and functionally, this makes no difference. But many people in those states believe it does. They are mistaken. They might 'correct' you if you say 'state', and they're correct as far as official names go, but that's it. The Commonwealths of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky are all states just like the other 46.

2024-03-27 15:07:01

Now just over 20 years ago, I was involved in a push against media consolidation in the US. In the course of that debate, then-Commissioner Michael Copps of the FCC explained why it mattered: "Unique among all industries, media manufactures democracy itself." When media stumbles or declines, democracy does, too.
https://factkeepers.com/cleanup-on-aisle-three-at-30-rock/

2024-03-25 17:13:21

71% in poll say that government should not interfere in trans youth care. Okay, but this poll was done in the ultra-liberal bastion of.. uh, South Carolina.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/71-of-people-say-government-should

2024-02-17 14:10:39

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 History is filled with examples like this. Rich arseholes love rare stuff BECAUSE it's rare. I've had caviar. The 'good' stuff, too. There's nothing special about it. It's just exotic and costly, and that's all there is to it.
Black pepper was once treasured by rich arseholes, too, until it became common. It's never been about the thing itself. It's about feeling special because you're rich. It's the most childish, primitive motive.

2024-02-04 19:57:57

Russia's new (2018), supposedly 'unstoppable' hyper-missile can be shot down by Patriot missiles, which were developed in 1969. Putin is reacting to this more or less as Stalin would.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-goes-after-scientists-behind-unique-hypersonic-missiles/ar-BB1hIn2e

2024-01-24 15:59:36

A CONTRONYM or JANUS WORD is a word with at least two contradictory definitions. Examples include SANCTION (approve, boycott), CLEAVE (separate, join), SCAN (peruse, glance), SCREEN (show, hide), SANGUINE (cheerful, vicious), and more. Some are homographs: different words that look alike. Some are the same word taking different paths. Some are words changing meaning over time. And some are just common misuse.

2024-01-04 23:20:33

Calendars from the past you can use for 2024: 1996, 1968, 1940. The reason so few is that this is a leap year. You can use unused 2023 calendars again in: 2034, 2045, 2051, 2062, 2073, 2079, and 2090. Unless we adopt a saner calendar before then.

2023-10-25 16:37:17

There's a long-running mythology, especially in the US, associating money with intelligence. This mythology is false. Many rich people are stupid. Some of them VERY stupid. Proof:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-says-ll-wikipedia-222531368.html

2023-06-12 23:27:12

This needs to be repeated occasionally: Alcohol is a disinhibitor. It does not change your personality. It degrades the self-control you use to conceal your real personality.
WHO YOU ARE WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK IS WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
Someone who's "only a jerk when they're drunk" is a jerk ALL THE TIME. They're just able to control it when they're sober.
Alcohol is NEVER to blame for anyone's conduct.

2023-05-22 22:39:34

English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').

2023-04-21 02:00:17

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#[0] Yeah, I always found it ironic that the people who call other people NPCs are all eerily similar to each other, and seem to have paper-thin personalities and off-the-shelf lives.

2023-04-21 01:59:12

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#[0] Yeah, it's bad. Starting today, Twitter is starting its final plunge.
For all his bluster, Elon Musk is a phenomenally stupid shithead who makes galactically stupid mistakes, and paid-check is possibly his stupidest ever. (Which is really saying something, because he's made MANY very stupid mistakes.
Most of the actual value of Twitter was in the original verified ID. With that gone, it's no more relevant now for grown-up discourse than 4chan.

2023-04-20 19:42:52

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#[0] Looks like someone's looking for the most painful lesson possible in vexatious litigation. But he's probably just full of shit, as usual. He doesn't have the balls to sue.

2023-04-20 12:25:47

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#[0] Cynicism has never solved any human problem, and never can. Drop the crass cynicism from your statement, and I'll be interested in hearing it.