paulgunning.bsky.social
Burning bridges to light my way.
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"I stare into my phone, where they store the horrors" the stand out line in a remarkable piece.
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I saw it on the internet, so I don't know if it's true, but it's being claimed that he's hiring a crowd. The other niggle is that no-one's ever driven 20 tanks down these roads, and there's less than complete certainty that they're not going to break through the surface and into the drains below.
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My rule of thumb was always no I’m not generating a new document just for you but yes I’m happy to try to get you an answer. I did once have to resort to expense when I was asked for all records for ten years relating to an active war zone.
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But on the other hand a record like this would exist because it’s exactly the kind of stat which civil servants report internally to justify their continuing existence. So I can’t see any ground to withhold the information
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I’m baffled. On the one hand under my jurisdictions law the request would have been disallowed since it didn’t seek an existing record.
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I'm not saying that I'm smarter than everyone else, only that I'm differently stupid.
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Beat me to it
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You can reassure them that the proud boys are working flat out to get violence against citizens back to peak levels.
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Yes in this area at least he stands above the crowd.
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It’s also a pain in the neck to be subject to direction from someone who has fewer qualifications for his role than you do. And yes it’s usually his role.
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This was 2016 when we were working out what the second US civil war would look like.
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I stopped thinking anything in the USA was normal back when I started calling it trumpmeristan.
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I keep forgetting what an omnishambles Trump has conjured.
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I just want to know who the four taller politicians are.
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Well you know what they say. If you like breaking eggs you’ve gotta tell everyone you love making omelettes.
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That does seem closer to the republican way, sadly.
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I was just cutting out the apparent middleman. Peace through strength. Kraft durch freude. Skip the strength but completely and everyone’s happy.
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Did they workshop peace through joy at all?
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Villains are not actually interesting. We think they are because interesting villains make for better stories.
But stories require suspension of disbelief.
Real villains are usually boring as hell, because they're basic as hell: selfishness and cruelty don't require depth.
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Or into flagrant abuse of power.
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Scythe
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*grift. Fixed that for you.
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That's no way to talk about Melania
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Wait till people see the TV show. That will get them bringing.
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I see I'm not the only one...
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50% of a solution.
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That adverb choice has me speculating wildly on the other ways a person could be ejected from a bookshop, and what you did to deserve that - because clearly that must have happened, or why else would you have added the qualifier?
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I was mulling that but it was better done than any fumbling notion I’d come up with.
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Seems a bit oversized for the task.
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That’s Jeff’s paper. You’d think his greed to get his own rocket as the best would have overcome any impulse towards billionaire solidarity.
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More or less guaranteed not to overlap with anyone else's. If they had a concept of common good, they wouldn't be sitting on more money than one person could ever use.
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If a billionaire announces that something should be done for the common good, we have to look at that in the context that people get to be billionaires by taking money off as many people as they can and keeping it for themselves.
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It seems that the SpaceX plan may be simply to make Earth so uninhabitable that Mars starts to look good.
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There are almost as many ways to be discontented as there are to be wrong, but when a money-obsessed solipsist announces what's wrong with the world, it's safe to assume that fighting that idea will be good for all of us.