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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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catching up on reading some fantasy novel and having a moment of hope for American culture because a BYU professor can just totally chill slip in to their literature some unremarkably decent gay/nb/trans/etc characters

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ok, yay SecUnit, but also I'm hoping they make some banger little snippets of "Sanctuary Moon"

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"half price valentine's day candy on Feb 15" - but half of the Feb-13 price was decorative overpackaging :-/

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If I ever wind up in the desert on a horse with no name, I'm naming the horse Rocinante

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Ah, there it is, the straight up theft of public money and giving it to themselves (sure to be repeated meme)

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Evaluates true

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I'm rooting for the owls

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I think I would patreon more if I could do a small _annual_ amount instead of a silly tiny monthly amount

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Oh no Captain! The MacGuffin needs immediate technobabble!

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the problem of infinite f'ng monkeys: given enough base64 encoded random data, you get some vulgar f'ing strings sometimes. some of those base64 encoded strings will wind up in URLs

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#GIS nerd moment: ZIP codes can overlap because they're not areas they're based on delivery routes, if it makes sense for the USPS to have interleaving coverage of some area from different sites, they'll do that. 1/2 carto.com/blog/zip-cod...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

It's 80s night at Bluesky: Bot hunters are Blade Runner Mod team is Postbusters

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a scifi plot point was "respect the chain of command", and can't that apply now? random techbro from tech-co shows up asking to take over your government agency and the answer should just be, "No"

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Stupidest thing since Brexit. A week from now groceries will cost more. OR, Monday they'll change it before it would turn on Tuesday, just to push everyone off balance

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Some people want a bigger slice of pie, but seem to not notice/care that this year's pie is smaller than last year's pie. I think this is mediocre strategy and more often we should try to grow the pie.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The US birth rate in Miles per hour

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Nostalgia from where I grew up: the Blue Sky beverage co. They had really good root beer en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Sk...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Skimmed those I follow for full-time-professional online content creators. They have anywhere from 12k to 400k followers here. They each have their own platform elsewhere. just curious.

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www.sqlite.org/autoinc.html "The AUTOINCREMENT keyword imposes extra CPU, memory, disk space, and disk I/O overhead and should be avoided if not strictly needed." Goodness, it would be a shame if a database had to do some work being a database.

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Ok but I have long wanted to build this

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