SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
@arossp thank you! This was on my list of Books I Had to Return to the Library Unfinished.
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Turns out that if you have an Audible membership, you can listen to Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue for free, which is pretty cool. https://www.audible.com/pd/After-Virtue-Third-Edition-Audiobook/B07B7C7K9D
@levisan wall mounted hand crank coffee grinder, the noise of which 95 year old grandpa used to wake up to as a child. I'm guessing over 100 years old.
@stsmith so they have to release UFO information after this, right?
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@robert @RichardChristy yes, I'd think the generation tray raised those who would become bad parents carry the larger share of responsibility... But then one must ask about the generation that raised them.
As to whether things were better in the past, that's too broad... By many objective measures the world is better today than at any point in history. I think we're not in a worse place, but teetering in the brink of throwing away a lot of good. I don't think we've reached the tipping point, but we'll likely only know in hindsight.
@RichardChristy I don't know....one generation produced the other, right?
@MountainJay I'm up for publishing this for purchase there if you want to send me the high res image
@MountainJay a few ideas of how this could look... Uploaded to Zazzle to try it out on face masks.
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@MountainJay you did it! Looks like I missed (or will miss) a local meet up at that wine bistro. Broke my leg out running last week. Not going anywhere.
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Good ol' Biden, making the world hate us once again. Say what you will about Trump but it was nice having 1/3 the usual military deployed and engaging in peace talks with the enemies way better strategy than a policy of "we refuse to come to the negotiating table" and then bomb them instead.
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Declare a year-long war on law and order to weaken the Bad Orange Man in an election year and this is what you get.
Keep reminding 'em.
Murder rate jumps back to 1990s levels, data show
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/murder-rate-jumps-back-1990s-levels-fbi-data
@realcaseyrollins shoot. Just realized that my broken leg last week.... Was my Spring Break.
Having broken one leg last week, I'm often feeling like a dufflepud
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Why you do software testing: so you can go "oops I forgot I only implemented half of it and then got distracted" without customers knowing.
@ParkerTechGuy I always know when mine is plugged in, with this hourly reminder : "I'm listening to you at all times and storing audio 24/7 for big tech"
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I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
