David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org
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I blog about transitions and change. Follower of music, analytical baseball, science, futurism and humor.
Joined Nov 2022
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It looks like a Trump attorney was pressuring Cassidy Hutchinson to toe the Trump line in her testimony. That could be a federal crime.
MAGA —> Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.
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This stat from @shannonosaka@twitter.com in the WaPo today is nuts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/20/clean-energy-bottleneck-transmission-lines/
"At the end of 2021, there were 8,100 projects sitting in line, waiting for permission to get connected. Together, they represent more than the combined power capacity of all U.S. electricity plants"
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People laugh at the idea that 500K a year is middle class, but as you move into higher income brackets, your needs change. It's no longer about food and shelter, it's about staging mock sea battles on your man-made lake for 20,000 guests to win the favor of the Tsar
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Good primer here of what’s good and bad in Congress’s new Year-End omnibus spending bill. One of my quirky hobbies is maintaining a gigantic retirement-forecasting spreadsheet that pulls in any personal financial & tax-code data I can find. The provisions of Secure Act 2.0 - included in the legislation & referenced in the article - do net-benefit me as an affluent guy. I’d prefer they didn’t. https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/important-investments-significant-disappointments-in-year-end-legislation
@Kathy_in_KY Worth reading!
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NEW: The January 6th Comittee has referred Reps. Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs to the House Ethics Committee for their failure to comply with subpoenas
+ recommends they "should be questioned in a public forum about their advance knowledge of and role in President Trump’s plan to prevent the peaceful transition of power."
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House January 6 panel recommends criminal charges against Donald Trump – video - The January 6 committee has referred the former US president to the justice department for criminal charges, accusing Trump of fomenting an insurrection and conspiring against the government over his attempt to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election, and the bloody... #theguardian
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The January 6 committee has released an introduction to its final report. It's a devastating indictment of Trump, citing him as the "central cause" of the 1/6 riot and depicting him as a conspirator who mounted multiple (possibly illegal) plots to overthrow the 2020 election to grab power. Here's his legacy (so far): He tried to break the American republic, and, fortunately, he failed. Please read/boost/share/like.
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@drvolts Some who have been exposed to these ideas for 15 years or more find anti-car rhetoric to be a weird fetish of misconstruing what works well in Shanghai or Europe.
The rail that urbanists demanded and built blocks from my house is a total failure, terribly designed, mostly empty and considered unsafe by those who wanted it. Thanks, non-engineers.
12 losses in a row!
With fantasy football, my teams tend to place 2nd, 3rd or 4th. I'm not a huge fan-- I am of fantasy baseball-- but pay enough attention to occasionally win a FF league.
This year? 12 losses in a row after a 2-2 start. I can't even point at a major injury to a critical player. Just lots of early exits, goose eggs and upside picks that underwhelmed.
The random terrible season in fantasy sports is a law of the universe.
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It’s an accident of history that social media came to be walled gardens while web and email services did not. Post (and sites in that model) are plantations that enrich the owners, and impart platform risk to users.
Companies and media outlets in particular should consider establishing their own Mastodon/ActivityPub instances that they can control and ultimately monetize/drive revenue with as needed.
The notion a VC backed platform has creators’ best interests at heart is specious.
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There is a wealth of peer reviewed statements on immune dysfunction from covid including my own in 2020, 2021, and 2022 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8536991/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604155095209414656
RT @LeylaDAsadi@twitter.com
@jvipondmd@twitter.com @fitterhappierAJ@twitter.com I understand that @fitterhappierAJ@twitter.com has very strong views on this question and that’s why I think it would be helpful for his assertions to be examined by other immunologists via the process of peer review.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LeylaDAsadi/status/1604149936253448193
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Okay my drawing block has been lifted and I drew this today. I’m pretty satisfied with the result. #MastoArt #DigitalArt #Wednsday
@IPEdmonton I stayed in the basement with an N95.
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@april @Dbrauer I agree this is a key point. Policy makers assume cars cost more than $2500, if we use your number.
BTW, "impoverished" is your word, not mine.
And, I would distinguish between educated young adults without much money and long-term low wage earners. We saw more of the former than the later in my UPDP term.
@april @Dbrauer I agree this is a key point. Policy makers assume cars cost more than $2500, if we use your number.
BTW, "impoverished" is your word, not mine.
And, I would distinguish between educated young adults without much money and long-term low wage earners. We saw more of the former than the later in my UPDP term.
@april @Dbrauer I'm relaying the experience of friends. Maybe, they get better deals than your experience. Maybe, I'm out of date on that factoid.
Go on hating parking. The UPDC Transportation committee is a monolith typically and you'll get no pushback there.
But, please do interact with your neighbors and the people these policies impact. If per chance, non-professional working class people show up at your meetings, please listen to them. Your peers like to think for other people.
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I blog about transitions and change. Follower of music, analytical baseball, science, futurism and humor.
Joined Nov 2022
