johnuftring.bsky.social
Human who enjoys my pets, family, friends; cars and sports car racing, reading, music, movies, political cartoons, anime, science, and science fiction. Also Laser Engraving - 10600, 1064, 450, 355 - for those who know, you know.
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Saw Porcelain War at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and thought it was wonderful. Truly amazing people.
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Yes, please.
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I'm also USAF vet, voted blue on everything.
So now I guess n=2.
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Sorry about that. Wish there was a better way to search these types of lists, and fewer scammers. :/
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@taborwells.bsky.social got another for you:
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Ahhh, I see the problem. The dude tried to mix dollars and metric. Everyone knows Euros and metric can math.
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"Just say no" to dope(s)
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Absolutely @fpwellman.bsky.social . Spent several with friends when I was stationed in England in the mid 80s. Gathered with friends, cooked food, watched American football. Yep, good memories.
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Nice! One of my favorite pods is "Curious Creatures" w/Budgie and Lol Tolhurst. Seems they stopped earlier this year, but I still have most of them left to listen to since I just found the pod.
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Thanks @fpwellman.bsky.social your article stated exactly what I've been thinking for quite some time now. Mainstream/legacy media was shamed/guilted into their behavior by a movement that has no shame and feels no guilt.
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Voters believed, or wanted to believe, the GOP lies about how they would lower prices overall. Why? Because they didn't really understand, but it sounded good, so hey, why not try?
The Democrats barely acknowledged the impact of higher prices when telling how good the economy "really" was.
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I liked Kamala, but would any of the other options floated been better? I don't think that it really mattered who the Democrats picked.
To use a phrase associated with Steve Jobs, the Democrats were firmly ensconced in a reality distortion field.
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Here's another pretender:
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@taborwells.bsky.social got another one for you:
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Tariffs poll well because people by and large do not really understand them. They will understand once their wallets are empty because the cost of everything they buy has skyrocketed. However, at that point, it's too late.
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Hah, please. Like the details matter on Fox.
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1. Fresh from my oven 5-apple apple crisp
2. Freshly baked pecan pie
3. Freshly baked apple pie
ngl, though, nanna puddin' is da bomb. I'm a Yankee transplant to the south, and the first time I had legit nanna puddin' I was in love...
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Amazingly well engineered and built; resilient as heck, too.
#science #engineering #space #nasa
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A president(-elect) can nominate anyone they choose. It's up to the Senate to approve or not. But, I believe the incoming Senate will rubber-stamp the nominations, after being lied to about what they'll get in return. And let us not forget the Senate approval loophole known as "recess appointments."
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For a big enough donation to the latest dark money pac...
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X-ray specs! Yeah, they see through nothing, but those spiral "lenses" are so cool.
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I learned cursive writing at home before I started in school. In 1st grade I was "forced" to use/learn non-cursive writing.
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Yeah, but they wouldn't get the joke...
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Huh, guess trickledown economics still doesn't work.
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Used to be called getting "Borked."
Can we make "Merricked" a thing.
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As long as we have choices and are not being forced to drink raw milk, I'm OK with RFK, Jr. expressing his opinion. Personally, I will not drink raw milk.
We just have to make sure that we trumpet loudly and frequently the foolishness of, and the fallout from, the recommendations that he makes.
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I already sold my soul, what else do I have to give?
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Silver Convention, 1975
NGL, I didn't know the band or the year before I looked it up, but I did remember hearing the song on the radio "back in the day."
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But we have to believe that there will be an appetite to prosecute at the end of the term. I'm not convinced that appetite will be there whenever the "end of the term" happens to fall.
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Agreed. If it's within my sphere of influence, I do what I need to do. If it's beyond that sphere, I observe.
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President Elonia!
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For some weird reason M's "Pop Musik" just happened to play in my mind when I saw this. Yeah, that song goes back a ways...
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Need more servers...
Not saying that "the cloud" is absolutely the answer, but reactive/predictive load management could be a boon here.
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I like several local bookstores:
Dolly's in Park City, UT
Bunch of Grapes in Vineyard Haven, MA
Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC
Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
I know it's not "local" but I buy $50 gift cards to Barnes&Noble for all of my nieces and nephews to encourage them to read.
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But @jojofromjerz.bsky.social Joe Rogan is making money spreading Russian propaganda, and isn't that the American Dream™? You know, making lots and lots of money.
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Yeah, the will to prosecute after his term ends, assuming that it actually ends (looking at you Russia, China, Turkey, Hungary), is desirable, but...
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George Santos lies. And he's jealous of all the attentions she's getting.
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imo, the likelihood that the charges will be re-raised is virtually nil. It's not zero, but so close to zero that for all practical purposes it might as well be zero.
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Wow! I'm genuinely surprised./s
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Hey Tabor, please add this new Mavis one to your list:
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sigh So much for the legal system being able to contain Trump. Didn't really expect that it would, though, especially not the DOJ.
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Dafuq? Supply-side Price inflation is a thing, even if demand doesn't follow, but yeah, let's use a super narrow gauge of inflation. Doing without is an option that certain consumption-based economists can't seem to wrap their heads around.
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Yeah. This and all the Powerball/Megaball/whatever lottery winners giving away their winnings. Uh, no.
One last night asked what I'd do with $5000 deposited to my cash app.
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It cost Russia next to nothing, but will cost us everything.
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It wasn't called the "red scare" for nothing. There is a reason for the color preferred by the GOP and especially MAGA.
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Man, there are many, so maybe list authors...
Robert A. Heinlein
Larry Niven (Ringworld books)
Arthur C. Clark
Isaac Asimov
Kurt Vonnegut
Aldous Huxley
Mercedes Lackey
Favorite high school class was "Satire and Science Fiction"
(Now I have to find the moving boxes with my old paperbacks.)
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When someone you don't know tells you the truth, which flies in the face of what you believe you know, what do you do? Embrace them and tell them, "Thank you"? Nope. You're sure that they are lying, and fall back to your comfort zone of the lies that you and your friends have embraced as your truth.
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It goes back much, much farther than just 10 years ago. MAGA is only the latest manifestation.
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I grew up watching Sesame Street among other CPB/PBS shows. It'll be a sad time if/when it happens. :-(
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Hi. Enjoy the day wherever it may lead you. :-)