LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
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“This state” takes ten characters; “Nevada” takes six.
This is a forward reference headline, which goes out of its way to conceal what the corresponding story says.
It’s a consequence of click-based advertising and of course it makes our information streams less useful. The practice started among clickbait junk websites but has spread to CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and others.
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@ct_bergstrom I intentionally ignore/do not click on those. It's irritating.
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Why is Social Security going broke? Income inequality.
Workers are making less than projected.
Meanwhile, the rich are getting richer — so more and more income escapes the cap on the Social Security payroll tax.
It's just one more way the super-rich don't pay their fair share.
What I did not need today: The cat tripping me and sending me injured shoulder-first into the wall before the shoulder specialist even has a chance to examine the original injury.
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Kreider again! 1-0 Rangers!
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Take My Job! I'll be retiring from Apple in two weeks and the team needs to fill my role, so come lead a great team! #apple #WWDC2023
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200475625/developer-technical-support-dts-engineering-manager?team=MKTG
Binging The Diplomat, eating popcorn too late, changing out my sweaters for t-shirts, planning a productive Sunday of farmers marketing and WWDC prep, and hoping my son is having a good time at prom (and that he makes it home safely).
When I was a kid we used to be afraid of our ball landing on the lawn of the old guy across the street because he’d come out and yell at us. Now kids get shot for that shit.
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TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes.
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“That practice of leniency began to change in 1980, with the founding of Mothers Against Drunk Driving by one determined woman, Candy Lightner, who had lost her daughter to a repeat hit-and-run driver. From Fair Oaks, California, MADD spread across the nation. Before it pressured politicians to amend laws, before it persuaded courts and police to enforce those laws, it enabled those reforms by working directly on public attitudes. MADD convinced American drivers that they were not weak or unmanly if they surrendered the car keys after drinking too much. MADD empowered the families and friends of those drivers to insist that the keys be surrendered.
That kind of cultural change beckons now. The mass gun purchases of 2020 and 2021 have put even more millions of weapons into even more hands untrained to use and store those weapons responsibly.”
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I for one am shocked – shocked! – that cramming another lane onto the 101 while getting rid of the inner shoulders didn’t work https://sf.streetsblog.org/2023/04/12/not-a-surprise-101-freeway-widening-shows-negative-results/
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White man commits mass murder
•Media: He was a star athlete!
White teen commits mass murder
•Media: He was an average kid!
White man commits rape
•Media: He was a 3X all American!
Black teen murdered
•Media: He was on drugs
White supremacy in media is alive & well. Smh.
I would love to see *all* guns banned. I would. But we can certainly start by banning the ones that can kill so very many people so very, very quickly, so a mental health crisis doesn't become a massacre.
It's probably always been the case that a few folks who set out to commit suicide by cop try to take as many others with them as possible before dying themselves... but it's only in the last few years or so that we've made it *so. fucking. easy.*
I've been thinking about her lately because [a] it probably should have been social workers/a mental health crisis team that responded, and [b] suicide by cop happens so regularly now that I bet everyone knows the term.
I've been thinking a lot about a former hockey teammate lately. She died in... 2005? It was a "suicide by cop," as someone explained to me—a term I'd never heard before. Apparently she'd locked herself in a closet with a gun, police responded, she shot through the door at them, and they fired back, killing her.
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Republicans will force a 10-year-old to carry her rapist’s baby to term, let a 6-year-old carry a gun, permit a 12-year-old to work an 8-hour shift in a meat packing plant and allow a grown man to marry a 14-year-old with a Judge’s consent, all while telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender-affirming care and books about Rosa Parks is that they want to "protect our kids."
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Instagram is so infested with crap spammy accounts. And reporting each one is a four-tap process. It’s like Meta is begging people to abandon it
Now posting @lorihc@mastodon.social. Find me there!
Joined Nov 2022
