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Computers, coffee, comedy. Basically, C-words. Host of Sound Bytes for over 30 years. Yes, I'm old.
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. ~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

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The real president always keeps watch over his puppet

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Decrypting a BitLocker drive. Been sitting at about 80% for four hours. Is it working, or is it frozen? Who knows - it's Windows!

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~ Charles de Gaulle

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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. ~ Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

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Sign of the day…

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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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Every single person with 'rational' and 'critical' and 'logical' in their youtube names have video titles like "woke video game designer's meltdown when game flops, DEI ruins another studio" remixed over and over.

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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now. ~ Paulo Coelho

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Heroin addict and steroid abuser wants the rest of us to to make as smart decisions about our health as he has.

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Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. ~ Rumi

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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. ~ William Faulkner

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Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

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Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ~ Mother Teresa

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One and God make a majority. ~ Frederick Douglass

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. ~ Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dictionary'

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My attitude is a result of your actions. If you don't like my attitude, blame yourself. ~ Vivien Leigh

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. ~ Chuck Close

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The only limits you have are the limits you believe. ~ Wayne Dyer

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Keep your eyes open. Listen. Follow your curiosity. Ask questions. Sniff around. Remain open. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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Yesterday on Truth Social, Trump posted about his Daytona 500 trip 14 times. He had 0 posts about the flooding in multiple states.

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Gear Up For The Fight Of Your Life!!

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Oh my fucking God.

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Build the wall! Around DOGE!

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If you are a gifted person, it doesn't mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back. ~ Carl Jung

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The incompetent engineers at SpaceX who create aircraft that explode after takeoff are going to take control of the FAA to make aviation safer. Nothing to see. Everything is fine. GIRL, TAKE GREYHOUND!!!

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ~ Samuel Butler

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After years of cheering on Trump’s war against “government workers,” his own diehard supporters are now realizing that means them too.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ~ Perlis's Programming Proverb 58

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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. ~ Wayne Gretzky

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This is the way.

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~ Philip K. Dick

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Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it. ~ Aubrey De Graf

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How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time. ~ Morgan Freeman

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There is no more evil thing on earth than race prejudice, none at all. I write deliberately - it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. ~ H.G. Wells

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I love this

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