The reversal of Roe v. Wade was a cataclysmic error by radical MAGA Republicans and hypocritical "conservatives" who have invaded secular politics with their religious beliefs.
Pro-life means not cutting food and cash assistance to our most vulnerable citizens. It means legislating a living wage. It means advocating for clean water and air. Pro-life is making sure that everyone has medical care and retirement benefits. And leaving people to make their own personal choices.
They said it was all about handing the choice back to the states. Since that backfired on them, they now want national restrictions put in place. If they think the backlash hurt in 2022, just wait.
Opinion Republicans are doubling down on abortion. They’ll regret it.
https://wapo.st/3K8adYO
#MastodonNews Feb 15, 2023
Pathetic.
The Guardian: Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter algorithm to boost his tweets after Super Bowl flop >>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report
Elon Musk rallied a team of roughly 80 engineers to reconfigure the platform’s algorithm so his tweets would be more widely viewed
Archive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d5Q6oyzrlfXBEhHsLI9cxltdFV_XPrZWQj1mj8Ivc7Q/edit?usp=sharing
Do yourself a favor and reserve 10 minutes today to read this eye opening Oatmeal comic on the psychological "backfire effect”.
Oh yeah. My friend had many flaws, as do I, and he knew it. Hard to get along with for some, easy for others. He was wealthy, extremely smart, arrogant, understanding, generous, a polymath, rejected the ways of his ancient powerful New England family to go do life his way.
I miss him more than anyone I've known. We worked hard on engineering projects, occasionally drank ourselves into a stupor, told stories, cracked jokes. had lots of fun. Best friend ever.
Repeating myself for new followers.
I do random PRs for #opensource. My largest is making a #rustlang scripting language embeddable. According to GH search, it unlocked dozens of uses.
https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai/pull/229
But I'm often I'm too busy/disorg to do more than small things, like writing #cicd for budding projects.
And yet, that''s my prob biggest impact: a Flash impl took off after I added bin releases w/Win MSI.
https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark/pull/357
That's #foss: little things can make a great impact.
He committed suicide shortly before going on trial for trafficking 15 kilograms of fentanyl from Mexico into America.
Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial.
Russia placed thousands of Ukrainian children in camps where they’re subjected to propaganda and forcible adoption by Russian families, a US government-backed report from Yale found https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-14/russia-put-6-000-ukrainian-kids-in-re-education-camps-yale-study-finds?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter via @bpolitics
Can't wait to read the twitter files about this direct collusion between elected officials and the CEO of twitter
“Jesus doesn’t have an image problem, but Christians & their churches do. These campaigns end up being PR for the wrong problem. Young people are savvy. They are digital natives who understand the difference between slick marketing and authenticity. One of their primary issues with evangelicalism, and the modern church in America, is the amount of money spent on itself.” #HeGetsUs
ONE BILLION DOLLARS being spent on this!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec
https://l.smartnews.com/sxaUp/J9dPj2
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣lawyers need to do a deep credit report on their sleazebag clients .
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"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump