Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
Andy Lowry
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Where I live, "hacker" is slang for lumberjack.
The most elite hackers don't even bother to chop wood.
They just go for root access.
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@davidwilkins
Is that similar to the two-stroke Saab engine that used to be around?
@jdmccafferty
I hope she doesn't get any of that caramel double frappuccino on the pages. I'm surprised they'd even let her in with that.
@TheDoorOKC
Having read though as much of the document as I care to, I have to say that I had no idea that there was a group so deranged. Their Wikipedia article has even more on the topic of 09a and is surprisingly in-depth.
I'm never surprised to learn that some of us are a little nutty, but this is WAY out there.
@missy_lynn
I somehow read "piñatas" as "piña coladas," which might also be a help throughout the day.
@AmyZenunim
Ibanez is respectable stuff! I've had several Ibanez copies of big-name guitars (Gibson Les Paul, stuff like that) over the years and had no disappointments with them.
A full two octaves on the fretboard is nice. I hope you have skinny fingers so you can get all the way up the neck. 😉
Andy Lowry
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@ethanz How is this NOT a violation of HIPPA laws? And what's to stop him from demanding medical records on Jewish students ... or any others he chooses?
Andy Lowry
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@ethanz here’s a particularly sick twist: in a country that doesn’t give a damn about the health and welfare of its people, as demonstrated by any kind of baseline accessible comprehensive health care for all and a “health care industry” that is certainly the latter and not the former, any arm of the government demanding to see one’s health records Is most likely doing so for nefarious purposes.
Put another way: fuck all the way off.
Andy Lowry
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@paul I love that the justification is “SMS based 2FA is susceptible to abuse so we’re reserving it for our paying customers”.
@loganfive
Yep, that's absolutely part of it. During my first sitting intensive at a zen center in Rochester, a parade went by during our first or second session. (It was some kind of local festival, not sure what.) Nobody burst out laughing, and I'm still in awe of us for keeping it together.
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It’s Schadenfriday, so what better way to celebrate than to explore how Fox News could lose a defamation case and have to fork out a billion and a half bucks. What execs and hosts were saying privately, and how that hurts their case, in today’s piece! https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/did-fox-news-act-with-actual-malice?sd=pf
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@MaRY1Fem
I think it's "whom" when the subject of a preposition-- "with whom, to whom, for whom," et cetera.
Andy Lowry
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.
Andy Lowry
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The boss has been pestering me to attend a leadership conference so I, completely jokingly, said, "A true leader would never sit in a audience being told what to do" and now half this office is in existential crisis 😄🤷♀️
@TransitBiker @ericgoldman
Currently, yes. It's kind of like not holding cellphone providers responsible for burglars plotting a heist via cellphone.
Andy Lowry
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*shrugs*
The New York Times is neither misinformed, nor tone deaf; the simple truth is that in the high church of capitalism, the people funding the political shift to fascism, also own the media.
It's not an accident, nor is it about "shifting moods" in the populace; the rich guys who own everything like fascism - and that includes the guys who own the New York Times and outlets like CNN.
"How did it happen in Weimar Germany?"
Rather a lot like this from what I can tell...
@jeffmartins@masto.ai
And yes, your first paragraph is accurate. The little statues aren't objects of veneration, but mirrors.
@jeffmartins@masto.ai
Thanks for the kind words! I didn't expect anybody to actually READ any of that. 😉 It was just one of those random urges.😎
@jeffmartins@masto.ai
A convincing argument could be made either way as to whether Zen/Chan is a religion or not. 😉 I don't think I actually view it that way, though there are plenty who do. There isn't a required belief system or ontology to adopt, which I think of as a necessary component to qualify as a religion (nor anything supernatural, another biggie).
To get a good introduction to the basics, I"d recommend Steve Hagen's "Buddhism Plain and Simple." Hagen is a contemporary Zen teacher and founder of a Zen center in Minneapolis.
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
