sashibashi.bsky.social
Recovering computer geek, still learning to understand people. Bassist and Bass VI convert who also makes nasty noises on guitars and keyboards. A cyborg from Scotland in Dublin, with an accent somewhere out in the Mid-Atlantic. #LambdaMale.
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The Mayflower pilgrims went to the New World to seek freedom ... to practice strict, bigoted religious beliefs. The Founding Fathers sought independence from Britain ... partly so they could continue slavery. The South wanted freedom from the proposed anti-slavery laws of the North. See a pattern?
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Surprising to think that this book would be recommended to Christian children, considering its paganistic / animistic / rebellion themes. It directly contradicts the idea of "heaven", for example. I read it as a teenager and it made the standard theistic religions appear limited and boring.
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It sounds like a concept that will not age well … hopefully. I think we’d all prefer the White House to look more like it did on The West Wing!
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That’s @aiatkings.bsky.social
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Jimmy Carr: "A lot of people quote the fact that only 10% of Americans have passports ... they say that like it's a bad thing!"
Since 2007, Americans need a passport to travel to neighbouring countries, so these days it's more like 50%. UK a little higher than that, Ireland 85%.
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Do you Americans even get that there is a whole world out there that is not America? This article takes something global and shoehorns American politics in to it. The rest of the world is watching the USA tear itself apart, with one eye on Russia and China. Who cares what hacks like MTG say?
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SNL is on the case: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1G...
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Springtime! (Boing.)
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This is not the first time Vitamin D has been mentioned in this context: I actually tried larger (but not megadose) supplements years ago. While I can't be certain that it resulted in a kidney stone, it's a likely suspect. (Vitamin D increases Calcium uptake in the blood.)
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In a Capitalist system, you can make money merely by having money. You don’t have to do any actual work for your wealth to accumulate. You can invest it, or secure an asset and sit on it, extracting wealth (rentier economics). Don’t tell me that someone making 100x my salary is working 100x as hard.
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I swiped, but I didn’t get any dates. That’s fine, I prefer prunes.
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I was at the Dublin gig, a lot of laughs and a lot of thinking. Getting up there and joking about your experiences took some cojón.
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I’m literally in a Greggs as I read this, in #Belfast after a train up from Dublin this morning. Steak Bake successfully onboarded.
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“Neville” Trump? That is an egregious slur on Neville Chamberlain, who genuinely sought peace in his time. He was not a traitor against his nation.
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Airports a.k.a. the First Circle of Hell. Horrid, and only getting worse.
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Oh no you don’t! The good old days … were bloody awful.
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There are some who think that we all need to go vagetarian, but I don't think it's for everyone.
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Actually ... the combination of Hibernation and FastStartup can cause misleading uptimes: forums.tomshardware.com/threads/pc-s...