Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org
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@Dennis1212 The GOP: The political party of groomers.
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I wrote a story for a friend - by @JulianGough@twitter.com https://buff.ly/3Pb5VAH The story behind the #Minecraft #EndPoem. Long, emotional, fascinating.
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When I hear about the coup attempt in Germany & the desire of these violent extremists to insert Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss as the leader after a planned execution of the German chancellor, it sounds ludicrous, laughable. But that's the thing: These people are deadly serious.
Because the plots of these anti-democratic extremists often seem so ludicrous, they can succeed because the public--& too many leaders--don't take them seriously enough. This tendency is how Trump got as far as he did.
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Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.
@McPatrick I'm governed quite easily... with a gun at my head and a boot on my neck. I just don't pretend otherwise. God... to be so damned old and cynical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander "Ask for anything you wish." "GTFO of my light."
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You know what they say; act up, be ungovernable…
@McPatrick @Oviebird00 @jeffjarvis That doesn't seem to work with me. I'm allergic to being made to shut up. I break out in a rash of noisy expression.
@McPatrick @Oviebird00 @jeffjarvis They are from the Church of Having It Both Ways.
The group intends harm to the staff. Why must the staff be compelled to serve those who clearly intend the staff harm?
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A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
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@freemo @torq I would consider supplements on the advice of my doctor for medical reasons. I found https://youtu.be/29v6rNFjlLI useful. That said, I have anemia, so I take iron, Vit D as mentioned, fish oil for heart risk, and a medication. I'm all for supplements medically indicated. Beyond that, expensive pee is expensive.
I have D supplements. Living out here in the threat Northwet doesn't provide much sunlight at the best of times. We don't tan, we rust.
I avoid taking lots of supplements as a general principle though. I hear that kind of thing is mostly good for making urine expensive. But I work indoors at a factory all day and my hobby is computer jockey, so "sunlight" is a problem. :(
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@torq I went through this just recently.. I was getting severely depressed and couldnt figure out why.
Turns out it was a combination of B12 defiency and D defiency.
I realized it because i spent a day out in the sun and felt suprisingly better.. then when i went on supplements I was cured within a week and it never came back.. it was an issue for months.
Cant hurt to take a supplement and see. I highly recommend throwing in some B12 too just to make sure.
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I had a melanoma removed from my arm a while ago.
I display common symptoms of Depression.
I usually sleep during the day.
Today, it occurred to me that my symptoms might be of a vitamin D deficiency.
That would mean that when I get Sun, it tries to kill me and when I don't get Sun, it makes me want to kill myself.
I laughed at this for a good 3 minutes straight today.
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The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.
Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.
Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.
Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.
👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.
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SIDEBAR: If you've ever taken a collection of RPG tables and then rolled some dice to create a scenario, you've played the same sort of "game" that lots of people currently play with AI art generators.
You feed some data into a system and find out what emerges. It's fun!
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Some AI Art thoughts:
1st and foremost, it's not going away. We can litigate and legislate to protect human careers, but the robo-genie is out of the magnetic bottle.
@rbanffy @PeterStefanovic Good luck with that. The point of an election is to see which liar among the candidates can pull the biggest con over the electorate. Almost invariably, the biggest charlatan wins. Almost.
Power attracts the corruptible. If you want to get rid of the kind of people attracted to power, pick the legislature from a phone book.
https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/63528387-choose-congress-from-the-phone-book
That would absolutely require an ammendment that would never pass. Until then, the point of the job of congress critter is to enjoy the perks of privilege over lessor beings and mortals.
"Lying," as such, is a symptom of the greater evils within the politician and as such is the least of your worries.
Take heart, however. There is at least one politician who's completely honest: Gil Fullbright! https://youtu.be/_kJFhc505cs
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@Romaq @PeterStefanovic This will need a majority of non-liars, or a rule to be adopted at one point that creates an advantage to liars that sets the default vote to approval.
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Joined Nov 2022
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