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aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy
Free Software fan (love #linux). Spent 20 years in Austin, TX #atx #austin. Now in #FortWorth. BSEE from #TXST, 2014. Currently ((2^5)+3) years old. I […] [bridged from https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Why am I talking about counties and towns, and not households and homesteads? Because solo preppers do not survive. Communities survive. Because community is one of the human species' evolutionary advantages. Another one is relentless stamina, by the way. We hunt by making the prey tired […]
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having been arrested during a curfew in 2020, I will say that they probably mean it and will likely start arresting as many people as possible soon. when it happened to me in richmond, they arrested so many people that they literally didn’t have room for us all, nor a means by which to process us
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I really cannot stress this enough. When I visited France, I visited a building where I read an entry in a log book where a Nazi recorded my great-grandmother's death in the camps. The name of this building was the "Musée de la Résistance et de la *Déportation*". It was not the "museum of the […]
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https://www.worldrecordcertification.com/record/record-holders/puzzle-challenges/4538/ 10 rings in less than 8 minutes. I'm cooked.
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@ELLIOTTCABLE
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[Politics, unions] SEIU 721 "We showed up in strength and unity—with our coalition partners and community—to demand the immediate release of our friends and neighbors. Among them: our union brother David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU-USWW, who […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]
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[Historical suicide] Turing's colleagues kind of knew he was gay, but they didn't say anything because they respected him. In 1951, he was convicted of homosexuality and given a choice between prison and chemical castration. He chose the latter. 71 years ago […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]
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Ok. It has promise, I suppose.
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@nathangrayson.bsky.social Y'all could also move to the fediverse, as it is a genuine alternative to VC-backed social media. Jumping from one sinking ship to another is an awful waste of energy.
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It's like that AI company that turned out to be 700 IT workers in a trenchcoat: everyone can apparently grasp and acknowledge that 700 IT workers in a trenchcoat CANNOT be considered AI, even if they successfully pretended to be for a while. Capitalism is just us pretending we can do this […]
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That means, by the way, that Capitalism never worked. Never! If a system relies on something IT CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT HAVE in order to function properly, then it's not a viable or sustainable system!
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I know I'm not saying anything y'all haven't already heard and/or lived for ages. Just rattling my cage.