@freemo My favourite was when the European Space Agency rolled their own security questions on a new satellite data portal a while back. The questions were a mix of changeable answers ("When did you last water your plants?") and yes/no answers. The minimum field length was three characters.
#Biden's military seaport can't come in time to prevent #Gaza children from starving. https://www.commondreams.org/news/starving-children-us-port
@freemo Yeah, one thing I was struck by was the constant talk of himself and what he (supposedly) did, instead of what we did, or what the government did, etc. Humility would be nice, but at least he should realize that it wasn’t a moment to talk about himself.
The big problem with the #Biden State of the Union speech was that instead of speaking to the whole country about the whole country, it focused on speaking to his own choir about himself and his reelection.
That’s why people are criticizing it as a campaign speech.
If you’re a Biden supporter, realize that the speech did not invite non-supporters, including independents, to join in his efforts. It appealed only to those already on board, which is not productive in terms of actually getting those efforts done.
In other words, if you’re in favor of what Biden was calling for, you too should be critical that this #SOTU won’t help get those things done.
The speech seemed focused on helping nobody… except Joe Biden’s personal reelection.
For comparison here is moon dust side by side with similar dust/sand particles from various places on earth.
Well I offered to be an ozempic guinea pig and start a daily dose of 1/7th the weekly dose today and see how it goes... this should be interesting.
QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/112058645160018161
Woot, my #Freemason initiation ritual is in a little over a week!
Seems our load balancer is a little under powered and its stalling momentarily from time to time. Most of you probably didnt even notice it but some of you may have.
I am going to upgrade that today to the next level. May result in up to 5 minutes down time (the new architecture will have multiple load balancers).
Back in 2015 I was notified of a vacancy by Jobserve. The vacancy fitted me to an absolute T, but after reading the job spec a couple of times, I realised that it was the job spec that I had written myself to recruit my replacement as I was retiring!
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
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Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
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Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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