cppilgram.bsky.social
He/Him. Social Media Account Connoisseur.
Broadcast Engineer in the American Midwest.
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She's starting an HMO
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Oh nice! Never deployed myself, I had a mission-critical job that involved sitting in windowless rooms monitoring satellite telemetry for 12 hours at a time. At least the windowless room was near Ramstein AB.
I also don't understand the ducks, but they're hard to miss. I'll have to ask sometime.
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I'd suggest he start by calling women "women" and maybe see if that helps.
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Good news! It's possible for everyone to be that brave, within their capabilities! There are an infinite number of ways to thwart fascism, and the number one way is refusing to stay silent when you see it rear its ugly head.
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Lemme guess, you're driving a Jeep Wrangler?
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scran
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I also don't see the GOP as the types to just sit on that info as ammo for future conflicts. If they had anything on anyone, it would've been used to discredit them before an election. The only difference between them and Dems is the scandals don't bother GOP voters, so they just tank the bad PR.
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I think we're on the bleeding edge of that mentality becoming widespread, that what you do doesn't matter as much as never having said you believed otherwise, that as long as you're not hypocritical, anything is game. It leads to dark places, but I also think it's obviously a philosophical dead-end.
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So several decades ago I read Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson and one part really stuck with me: a character discussing the evolution of politics into Earth's future, and the eventual turn from "good vs evil" to hypocrisy as the determiner of moral superiority, and you summed it up quite nicely.
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I'm always befuddled when they express shock that yes, in fact I do want to know when politicians are being corrupt, and their party affiliation is immaterial. There's no such thing as "good corruption"!
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"you can't be better than someone by acting worse" continues its undefeated run, but there will always be challengers
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I mean the Army is turning 250, I would definitely expect grandiosity, but when I was actually *in* the Army I figured it would take the form of a week of celebrations and remembrances, and not a 45m vanity parade that happens to coincide with dear leader's bday.
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TTRPGs are undefeated for mind-blowing drama
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I guess my point being that, when it comes to statutory rape, extenuating circumstances not only WON'T help you, they CAN'T help you.
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My wife's cousin met a woman at a bar (she was there with her mother), he saw her ID (it was fake) as did the staff at the bar. The mother was aware that they were leaving the bar together. Even the judge told him he wished there was something he could do to change the proscribed sentence.
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I think he blocked me, his account won't come up in searches and I haven't seen anything from him in a long time.
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When it comes to teaching, one of the best ideas I've seen is for the instructor to *require* that students use AI to accomplish a task, then go back and interpret/correct what the AI did. People thought calculators would kill arithmetic, but at the end of the day, it's just a sophisticated tool.
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They're not going after the people who will fight back, they're waiting outside courtrooms and schools.
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Speaking of trips in the Wayback Machine...
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See, that walk is the penance for the second donut. If you put in the work, and #2 is still there when you get back to the break room, well that makes it all the sweeter, having been earned.
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The world's stupidest divorce proceedings. Elon and Trump on their knees in a court of law, divvying up their Beanie Babies.
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In the case of that last one, NO ONE had the "right" opinion, and so we end up with oppositional defiance disorder about the whole democratic project. But people will ignore good sense when their pet cause is involved, and with 2 candidates, there aren't a wide range of possibilities to choose from.
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Especially when you get people to look at a wide range of issues. Often times they find one that's near and dear to their heart, so near and so dear that they'll vote for a candidate who will do bad things because they held the right belief about a single issue. Immigration. Inflation.
Gaza.
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It'd be unusable without them, I'd be forced to listen to the ceaseless whining of children not getting their way. They all think their alt-left views are the median view and it doesn't help they stew their brains in nothing but Bluesky echo chambers all day. Literally could not imagine a normie.
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DJ Oblivion - Taps (Live In Glasgow 2017 - EXTENDED EDM REMIX)
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That dude's brain is cooked, not worth trying to convince him anyone could possibly believe anything other than what he believes.
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pretty sure the AMA would accept this as clear signs of mental decline.
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Ok, I misread it then, it sounded like you were saying Elon had a good point. My bad.
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Run-on* sentence. Sorry, should I have just let that one go?
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The problem is, context matters. Two doctors can say they want to eliminate cancer, but you're probably not gonna support the one who tries to accomplish that by killing cancer patients instead of curing cancer.
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We have a rack of bovine COVID vaccines in our fridge, and I've never been tempted. Shocker, they're for the cows. I've never met a real farmer that hasn't laughed at the idea of using animal medical/health products on themselves, and I'm not even a real farmer (my wife is).
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You chose to condition your vote against fascism on whether the non-fascist candidate would sabotage an active and ongoing negotiation by her administration to score points with leftists (while alienating 10x more normie dem voters). And it backfired horrifically. Maybe next time, be more useful.
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Since I don't want to be hypocritical, I'll answer those questions. Badly, because the left advocated for Trump by doing everything they could to suppress votes for Harris. And no, it's definitely not paying off. Which is what we told you when you made the asinine choice to step aside for fascism.
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You just keep getting more unpleasant under the guise of being some sort of rational neutral question-asker. How's the Gaza thing going by the way? Did your strategy pay off for Palestinians?
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This is peak AIM away-message drama
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At no point in this administration has its leadership considered how people would react to their actions, they are not concerned with fulfilling campaign promises, this is just pure vitriol dressed up as NatSec, and the people they truly care about were already onboard.
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With your interpersonal skills, it's tough to see why your movement didn't have the broad appeal you claim it did...
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Again with the endless return questions. You're incredibly tiresome. And you're wrong, it's a run-on sentence.
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Yeah imagine his confusion when someone keeps talking about a strip club playing in the locker room because he's never heard of the song.