mikeabbott.bsky.social
Retired code monkey
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seeding the empire with a McKinsey infestation was the rebellion's version of the death star.
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It's like a recipe versus a recipe website.
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Our Canadian grocery oligopoly doesn't compete with innovative ideas, they use backroom deals to conspire on everything from store territory to pricing.
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cuteness overdose
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That was a great run, the underwater scenes were always so much fun to look at.
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Campaign for what you believe in and you can influence people, campaign based on focus group consultant bullshit and you will always be chasing a public where your opposition is leading them.
Triangulation bullshit is stupid as well as amoral.
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This shareholder agrees. Fuck Emera.
I invest in our Canadian oligopolies and monopolies because they can get away with serving me so poorly as a customer, but I still hate them.
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Even if China isn't on the nationality label of any complex manufactured good there is a good bet Chinese suppliers are vital to its parts list.
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It's fiberglassing rusted out floors and gas tanks that I miss the most.
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second to last ;)
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no tether ball or pledge for this Canadian, but the rest were near universal here for my generation.
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I play about a dozen games for a brief time to find a game I want to play for a long time.
I suspect this is a common pattern.
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It's annoying that the shitty parts of the 50s, like white supremacy and institutional misogyny, and are being brought back but none of the style.
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Andor made the rebellion more than just a backdrop for a bunch of wizard and magic sword stories for me.
That really added a lot to my Rogue One rewatch.
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fraudulent turtles all the way down
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The sentient slave aspect makes my skin crawl when I think about it.
Star Wars technology seems analog/magical compared to our own so I don't dismiss droid personalities as chatGPT type faking.
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That was Typhoid Mary in disguise wasn't it?
So any discrepancies in things like hair length were clever clues left by the artist to indicate this.
(I loved that run and will not stand for any slander against it.)
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The presidency is a test of character not ability.
A president has their pick from a vast slate of brilliant people to run things and just need to pick from them with good intent.
The Trump regime's current slate of dumb fuck racist morons is the big difference making the US fail so badly now.
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Catered by William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Ironically Luddites were a group containing many skilled craftspeople threatened by the inferior but cheaper products.
They weren't the ignorant fools propaganda turned the word into, they just saw their future clearly.
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Partagaz shot last.
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I'm not thinking about the voting process but rather if more ambitious policies could excite none voters enough to make them voters.
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Wolfe might have appreciated it.
It reminds me of the fake books in Peace that Louis Gold makes and his lengthy defense of them ".. to myself I am an artist, shaping the past instead of the future ..."
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The biggest bloc up for grabs is "doesn't vote"
Trump got a lot of new voters with RFK's nutjob alliance.
There are far more people that need a reason to vote, good or bad, then there are people movable by focus group triangulation.
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It's not for me, I'm a stone thrower.
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Mostly jokes based on the novelty of having horrible people as protagonists.
I don't remember much beyond that.
Unlike horrible protagonist exemplar "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" which has had a ton of memorable stuff.
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It feels like excellent science fiction, not the sanctified blood lines with magic swords fantasy I'm used to getting from Star Wars.
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and left for us to find because there were no survivors among the people who hid it away
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The license being granted is granted by a supine, compliant, and gleefully dishonest media. Like this example.
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If the batteries can be made useful independent of the truck then you could reuse those and still have an ugly symbol of entitled ineptitude to destroy in some entertaining fashion.
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There is a reason science fiction has always been about dogs, e.g. the classic Spacetime for Springer Spaniels.
This cat madness is doomed.
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The last time I was this interested in Star Wars was 1977.
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America falling is a big deal to the whole world.
We've seen obvious and dramatic changes in national politics in various countries in response to America's failure.
So it seems at least plausible the same world wide process of recoiling in disgust has affected the conclave.
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The new Pope can't possibly be as good as the worst people on earth are claiming he is, but their whining and sniveling is still comforting to hear.
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Tesla is the poster child for "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
I still wouldn't short it because the supply of idiots seems inexhaustible.
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That such a flimsy disguise for business as usual wasn't laughed out of existence already is a tribute to how bad our billionaire sociopath owned media and "journalism" is.
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For me that time was 1963.
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His addiction to pointless arguing is too much of a time waster to follow him directly.
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I live off of my investments and yet carnage in my portfolio seems like a minor issue compared to the destruction of democracy and the end of civil rights in America.
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At least 70s stagflation came from oil shocks to an oil intensive economy, not from sheer idiocy.
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They've been guilty for 90 years but now admitting that guilt is useful because fascists are finally seen as a bigger threat than socialists.
Trump has shown that fascism is bad for business.
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Trump takes bribes from a few corrupt businesses but leaves most of the damage he's caused to America in place.
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Financially they'll settle for the insider trading and other corruption parachutes available as the plane crashes.
Emotionally "This is what America wanted" is a lie they'll comfort themselves with as they profit from everyone else's suffering.
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Issuing Papal Well Actuallys.
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eleven long hat friends of Jesus ...
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Like Bats and Guy Gardner, with the Justice League cheering it on.
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It was brutal and inhumane, but by god you can get a vindaloo in London now.
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I'm surprised such an interesting phenomena hasn't become a science fiction cliche already.
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all time? maybe
last year? maybe not
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Me too, but horses are way too valuable to waste on Orcs.