nickt1023.bsky.social
Since: 11/15/24
Retired IT Professional (from Data Center Ops to Project Management) after 43 years
Blues/Jazz/R&R Guitarist and Bassist
Amateur Photographer and Philosopher
Left leaning Centrist
Lifelong learner
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Elon Musketamine needs to be thrown down a flight of stairs like he was when he was a kid, spend a month in the hospital, like he had & have his father berate him like he berated him all those years ago. Elon’s a sissy punk & needs to be reminded of that several times a day…daily (365 days/year).
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Isn’t Trump a Ginger?
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O.K., I’ll bite!
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That was probably not to be disclosed by Noem. When Trump finds out & understands what she did, she’ll be on his chopping block. It’s 2017 all over again.
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I’ve experienced that as a scout leader & a Sunday school teacher.
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I disagree with her point that Musk is approaching this like an engineer. He’s approaching it like a hacker. An engineer, especially in physics, knows about the measure of work input & work output. His claims are conclusive, not supported by any evidence.
His ROI is very low & his IRR is very long.
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I’m concerned about Trump’s tariffs being charged for the Canadian imported meds. @amyklobuchar.com how does your legislation address that?
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#FuckWheelchairWillie
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According to Wikipedia, he’s Afro-Cuban ethnicity.
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Hey Enrique! I understand Guantanamo Bay is nice this time of year. If you want I can get you a waterboard kit autographed by Dick Cheney. Let me know!
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Planes dropping out of the sky? That sounds more like a Y2K issue. 😉
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It seems like your company is more on the ball regarding recognizing the information security threat of such things.
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I worked at HP about 2 years ago & retired last year. We were working with a third party software OEM that had data centers in the Ukraine/Russia area. Our marketing team was not savvy at all when I expressed my concerns re: PII & I told my mgr about my concerns.
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Eight of these thirteen lies have either an impact or interest of international proportions.
In simpler terms, the rest of the world gets to see the lunacy we have to deal with.
On another note, 13 lies in 31 days-that’s 7 lies on 3 days.
Is this a world record?
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unaware of background checks.
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No basis for his authorization whatsoever. Even private sector employees, of large corporations that are subject to industry regulation & are publicly traded on the stock market, get criminal background checks.
The Trump Organization is not industry regulated or publicly traded, so Trump is
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They all thought that “Draining the Swamp” was going after the Blue States. The Blue States gave FELON47 too much of a challenge, so he went after the unprepared, gullible Red States.
Now MAGA Nation feels that they’ve been sucker punched.
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Yes. Next question.
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They can work a little harder & do the research, which means not depending on FoxNews, The New York Post & NewsMax for starters. If that’s there ONLY source of news, then their only voting on the Transgender, Abortion & Illegal Immigrant Issues. They WANT the illegal immigrants to pick their crops.
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I understand. I found this very encouraging, especially the end where Glenn tells us what we can do, without paying money! We can write letters &/or volunteer.
open.substack.com/pub/glennkir...
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I’d agree with your husband on this. In 2026, all House seats are up for reelection. Also in 2026, about 1/3 of all Senate seats are up for reelection.
I’m believing that both houses will tip Blue. If the Senate, loses all Red Seats to Blue Seats, a full impeachment (including removal) is possible.
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If you think about it & play it through, the RNC’s “behavior” can result in them being legally dissolved & we go to a 1-party or no party system like it was over 200 years ago.
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Well then that’s another point. If the GOP/RNC fails to properly vet out candidates, then the FEC is authorized to audit the policies & procedures of the GOP/RNC &, if violations are found, then the GOP/RNC is fined. The same penalties & process would apply to the DNC.
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That’s why the Federal Election Commission needs to have its scope & authority expanded to included criminal & global political background checks instead of just just investigating campaign finance violations.
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Why didn’t the RNC vet him out this go around? The DNC vetted out Tulsi Gabbard in 2016, that’s why she jumped ship & joined the GOP.
You can’t even get a job in a chain store like Target if you’ve been indicted for a crime, but the GOP has no problems with an indicted candidate.
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This isn’t fraud at all. In all walks of life, not just IT, we tend not to worry about things that will occur after the current phase of life that we’re in has passed. So the attitude is “who cares? We’ll be retired or dead by then.”
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The difference between 1874 (which I calculated) & 1875 (which this meme states) is negligible as it’s only 1 year.
The average lifespan of Americans didn’t reach 65 until 1950, 15 years after SSA was established. This gave SSA, & future programming staff, 15 years to “forget” about it.
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§ 1960 - the year that the SSA most likely implemented COBOL as the standard computer programming language for their computer systems. (70 years old - average American lifespan, birth year: 1890)
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§ 1954 - FORTRAN, the computer language, first became commercially available & was most probably used in these SSA computer systems.
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§ 1935 - SSA first established. Retirement age established was 65 years old - birth year: 1870. (61 years old - average American lifespan - birth year: 1874)
§ 1955 - First year the SSA used computers to store SSN information. (69 years old - average American lifespan, birth year: 1886)
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Somehow, knowing organizational structure based on my own work experience, Patel will be the first of Trump’s Cabinet Secretaries to experience a coup. Patel will collapse like a deck of cards, because his direct reports & their staffs are smarter & more strategic than he is.
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I can’t stand to listen to Musk or RFKjr speak. Their voices are irritating.
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…and know the truth about their father. His financial empire may continue, but his family of 12(?) children will be divided as far as respecting him & that parent-children relationship will implode.
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@marcelias.bsky.social - thank you for sharing this letter to Elon Musk. Sharing such emotions with 1 person is not easy, but to share it as an open letter requires an inordinate amount of courage on your part.
As many have commented here, Elon won’t read this. But his kids will read this…
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Well Jethro can no longer afford four egg omelettes, so maybe he’ll rethink his… naw, forget it, I don’t know what I was thinking.
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I’ve worked in the private sector for all of my 43 year career & have dealt with arrogant consultants in banking who tried to bully me. I’ve had no problem in telling them, PUBLICLY, to “Fuck Off!” Everyone, co-workers & other contractors, were appalled, but the arrogant contractors resigned!
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The second prong is to THOROUGHLY train federal employees the same way that private sector employees have been trained to identify illegal & unauthorized people/emails & instant messages instructing employees to do something that would hurt the company, its reputation & its customers.
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Liberals don’t just talk about states rights, we know how to live it…unlike MAGA, who is all talk & no action.