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Ran product management and UX. Now I write a blog and attempt fiction. I try not to be a jerk. #WFWA, Princeton Comp Lit/Columbia MBA, happily married. If you repost my comments to incite a dogpile, or DM me without acquaintance, I block you.
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Bags of almonds in my case, and yeah, total sunscreen;)
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IMMACULATE!
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Am normie. Am not discouraged.
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Yes, you stay home. It's our turn to stand up.
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Hiking boots, baby!
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I'm in;)
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What people need to hear is how much fun these things can be. It is good and nourishing to be around other people all being righteously pissed off in this moment. I'm jaded from the Iraq war marches and stuff, but man, filling up the streets with American flags and what not? It feels good!
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My sister and I, 65 and 68, were talking about it. If shoving happens, which might lead us to broken bones, we'll just leave. But we've been alive too long and taken care of too many people not to show up.
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Tilly hats, baby, Tilly hats!!!
And Ray-Bans. And REI hiking pants.
The old white ladies will be showing up. We cannot BELIEVE this sh*t!
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It's like the exhaust from automobiles, say
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Sounds perfect LOL
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H-P was known for that:)
I worked for Sun Microsystems, 1997-2000. Not known for doing good, but the culture was so focused on the tech talent, and then on the sales people, that as a then-product manager I found it incredibly fun and creative and not harmful.
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WOW WOW WOW
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The kind of bad mom we've all been
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Which is why I wind up with Elizabeth Warren, in wanting a well-regulated capitalism. Constrain CEO pay and stock buybacks, I think might us much closer to a human society.
My perspective is biased because some of my corporate jobs were wonderful. Depended on the people, and the industry.
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I am inclined to start with human nature
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The thing is, I don't think that capitalism per se "got us here." Human greed and drive to power got us here. Capitalism is one of the machines greed and power can ride in on, but they can get just as far riding Marxism.
And as for Scandinavian socialism, well, show me it scaling
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Agreed
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Coming back to say, this is exactly the discussion we need to have, and thank you @joshuaerlich.bsky.social Because to me, and I'm pretty sure it's generational, insisting on Marxism pushes someone into the far left. Beyond Marxism, IMO, you're into a) destruction or b) unrealistic utopias
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This is empirically untrue.
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CONCUR!!! Thank you for asking!
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I think I AM on the left. I believe in a strong safety net, including UBI, reasonable affordable healthcare and shelter for alll, as well as equal rights for women, people of color, LBGQT people & immigrants. UBI is not the center.
Republicans don't get to claim the flag, must you claim the Left?
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Yes to 2 and 3, nope to 1. If you wanted an understanding that extreme concentration of wealth is bad for society, sure. But don't insist that I, a child of the 60s and the Cold War, belly up to the bar and agree that if not for capitalism everyone would be nice to each other.
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Why watch then? Timothy Dalton, Harrison Ford, Julia Schlaepfer.
Helen Mirren.
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I'm going. Had a planning call this morning with my sister, so we could agree on our risk tolerance, strategies, and stuff to bring with us.
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Who will run things when Hegseth is in this condition?
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How? I see them all speechifying in those paneled wood chambers, and I can imagine why they love the job so much. At least the senators. House seems a little grittier
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OF COURSE! OF COURSE!
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Ah, that makes sense!
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For example: bsky.app/profile/rado...
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Peter Dinklage is winning this project
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Three, because you look fun!
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People don't want "insurance," that's the thing. They want a healthcare subscription. Pay a certain amount according to need, get services that are deemed by experts to be what we reasonably need to live our lives in reasonable health.
Oh wait I mean Medicare
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Noem is lying. It's wild. "I'm so sick of the politics." EXCUSE ME?
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HA! Let's show them! I just have to hope my weight training class with other old white people will have enabled me to carry an American flag on a pole from Dolores Park to the Civic Center;)
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that phrase is so 2009
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Concur:) Meaning is not a straight line between two points
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OMG! Seriously, the more Dinklage out and about the better
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Yeah, Etsy