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- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
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- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
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- I fix broken stuff
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@GottaLaff @bufalo1973@xarxa.cloud @DrGeraintLLannfrancheta most on-the-nose thing Stewart said was in reference to all Bidens close advisors saying how sharp he is. "Is there film?" Thus hole thing goes away if Biden just gets in front of the camera and acts as sharp as everyone sais he is.
@OkayKay@ottawa.place @Lana If Biden makes it to January 6, 2025 and gets confirmed as the winner of the 2024 election, then I don't care if if lives a day longer. In fact I think it would be great if Harris would bring some of the fire she had in the Senate to the White House. However, if he dies before the election is certified it is a near certainty that Trump will be sworn in on Jan 20 and that is what scares the be-jesus out of me.
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@brokenix the answer is in the first line of the documentation, "Pointful version of Language.Haskell.Meta.QQ.Idiom."
Jon Stewart sums up every though and feeling I have about the upcoming election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ
@danwentzel if Biden makes it to Jan 6, 2025, I will shut up about his age. Until then, if he has a health emergency or the worst happens, we likely end up not with a black woman but an orange shit gibbon, and there might not be another election after that.
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Is it just me or has the level of engagement gone down on #Mastodon? Not hugely, but noticeable.
Looking like another nail in the light duty (i.e. passenger cars) #FCEV market. Shell is pulling out. https://insideevs.com/news/708156/shell-closes-california-hydrogen-stations/
@iuculano I I were Biden, I would make sure to be on TV doing interviews about the economic successes of the Inflation Reduction Act, and stable Foreign Policy virtually every day for the next 2 weeks. This is an easy win. All he has to do is show up and talk about what he's accomplished. Maybe jab at the GOP for the border thing a little. Basically look and sound coherent in public. Easy right?
I bet in reality the White House drops the ball again and lets this story keep spiraling out of control and we don't see or here from the president outside of carefully scripted events until the convention.
@KimPerales I agree with the former Obama adviser who wrote that Biden needs to get out in front of this. He should be calling up every sympathetic journalist he knows and offering interviews. The president should be talking candidly to the the American people about what he has done and what he will do if reelected, and in this moment he needs to be doing it live and unscripted.
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Oh my God! Oh f*ck! I wake up to this big news and all I can say is f*ck! I went to bed having read something about Philip K Dick Awards (I can't even remember what I read about it!) and I wake up to learn that my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, has been nominated for this and its a big deal to me and all I can day is f*ck! What a way to start the year!
https://www.norwescon.org/2024/01/09/2024-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced/
@DopeGhoti And if my party was the Republican Party? Is your advice to me the same?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU Rowan Atkinson (who plays Mr. Bean) talks about the importance of free expression.
@Lazarou business services (74,000), health care (70,000), retail trade (45,000), government (36,000), social assistance (30,000) and manufacturing (23,000).
@anti_disease Interesting, I was under the impression that the choice not to wear masks was a social preference not an economic issue. Is there really a funding component to health care workers choosing not to wear masks?
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During World War I, the Ottoman Empire collectively blamed the millions of Armenians in their territory for attacks by Armenian resistance fighters. Around 1M non-combatants were killed by the Ottoman military — in many cases, by forced marches through the Syrian desert without food and water.
Denouncing this genocide doesn’t make you an Armenian resistance fighter or an advocate for their views. It just means you’re against genocide.
In 1994, in the wake of the Rwandan civil war, the president of Rwanda was killed. Military and government officials suspected the Tutsi-aligned Rwandan Patriotic Front and blamed the Tutsi and Twa people collectively. They organized the mass killing of Tutsi people; between 500,000 and 1M people were killed in the following three months.
Abhoring this murder doesn’t make you a partisan of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. It just means you’re a human, opposed to the systematic slaughter of humans.
On October 7 2023, Hamas’s military wing attacked and killed about 550 Israeli soldiers and as many Israeli civilians. They kidnapped, tortured and raped hundreds more. In response, Israel has denied food, water and medical supplies to the 2.3M people of Gaza, driven them from their homes to a tiny sliver of land near the Egyptian border, destroyed half of all residential buildings, killed 30,000 people and seriously injured 60,000 more. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has called this action a plausible genocide.
Wanting this genocide to end with an immediate ceasefire doesn’t mean you support Hamas or want Israel to be destroyed. It means you’re opposed to mass killing and expulsion of people from their homeland.
Is it exactly the same as these other examples? Absolutely not. Genocide never is. But you can be on the side of humanity against the destruction of the people of Gaza and it doesn’t make you an advocate for the views or actions of Hamas.
@ladyteruki it takes a long time. How long after the AIDS epidemic was it before there was an HIV positive character on TV?
@angiebaby It happens. Currencies can and do collapse often along with the governments that back them. Seen any Confederate dollars recently?
"If either candidate were to withdraw after their party’s convention, members of the national committees would almost certainly be given responsibility for finding the replacement.
Hopefully no such event will occur this year since our system is ill-equipped to handle it. If it does, we may come perilously close to chaos at this summer’s conventions.
At the very least, the parties should take this year as a warning. This would be a good time for both parties to develop new guidelines for the selection of presidential candidates that allow the public to play a role in the nominating process — but keep it open well into the calendar year of the election."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/31/primary-elections-frontloading-voters-00138616
#USPOL #Trump #Biden #elections #primariesMatter #primaries #president
@ukuku That first barrier is intended to keep you from going off a cliff or crossing the median of an interstate. The cement blocks are standard protection for highway crews. The Rivian driver may be intact, but in the situations where these barriers are deployed, he may be at the bottom of a 1000 ft cliff.
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
