russnelson.bsky.social
Juggler, bicyclist, railfan.
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What, exactly, did Putin tell you to give you this idea?
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Trump is the worst fascist ever.
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I suspect this is @tiltfive.bsky.social
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It's not "skewed". All projections from a globe onto a flat surface introduce one distortion or another in order to make the map useful. The Mercator's use is not to show the comparative size of landmasses. In the case of Mercator, the distortion is _________________ (you fill it in).
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Yeah, you shouldn't have written that. Too risky.
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You know how I found you -- the "Old Farts" channel.
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Clock with floating hands driven by two stepping motors and an RPI Pico W and NTP. Stalled deciding how to sync to midnight.
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Mmmmm, pretty sure not. I'm pretty sure, though, that bsky has a bad infestation of leftists. The new head of Trust & Safety will probably have something to say about that. Because ain't nobody want a leftist echo chamber.
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You have a bad case of Koch Derangement Syndrome. There's a pill you can take for that. It's red.
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Bye!
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Oh, good! Well, keep watching it. Eventually it will sink in.
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I can't make you believe facts. I can only cite them. True belief will only come after you have discarded childish ideas.
Although ... I've known a lot of older socialists, but they were all Quakers, and so nutcases.
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Book Banting? How does that work? You only eat books and that leads you to losing weight???
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I can only lead you to the truth. I cannot make you believe it. That will only come in time, after you have cast aside childish ideas.
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It's youtube, you silly girl.
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Working people who attempt to be self-sufficient still have to pay property taxes. If your goal is working self-sufficiency, you would be against taxes. But I'll Bet That You Are Not.
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I used to be a socialist. I grew up. It's amazing what Actually Learning How The World Works will do to the socialist mind. Or to socialist mimes.
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Burn!
https://www.yeoldetymenews.com/p/do-you-work-more-than-a-medieval
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The US assassinated every Socialist leader in Africa? [citation-needed]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5s6aZCPSg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5s6aZCPSg
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Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBtOStVmAVE&t=253s
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Africa has plenty of resources but their socialist governments are corrupt (as always) and enrich only the elites.
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The only people who believe in trickle down economics are leftists, and then only because they, like you, believe it doesn't work. Economists don't think trickle down economics works, but what do they know about economics, right?
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In theory. In practice, the retirement funds held by most workers provide the bulk of the capital used by the employers.
I suppose you didn't know that, though. Now that you do, has it changed your mind? What fact *would* change your mind? Any? None? If none, then why are we talking?
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Facts are dependent on the app you're running? I don't think so.
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Why, then, was the US South with the most slaves the poorest part of the US *and still is*? Oh, some plantation owners got rich, but I assume we're talking about societies, not individuals. Anybody can get rich by stealing.
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Then what do you wish to call the system of free markets, the rule of law, and private property? Because that eradicates poverty. Or, at least, that's what the evidence tells us. Even among the poorest nations with the least of this, the ones with the most of it do better than the others.
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Yup. I'm a juggler.
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In what society have people not had to labor in order to not die?
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If I had to guess, I'd say that you're in the room you're in, but no, there are none in my room.
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I can't convince you of facts. I can only present them to you. Exactly *which* capitalist genocides in the Americas and Africa are you talking about?
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You can't actually block people here. All you can do is mute them. :-) Secret bsky knowledge.
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WAT? No, capitalism destroys poverty. Poor people have nothing to trade, and capitalism thrives on trade.
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Silly people say silly things. It's a Pokemon Ball.
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They're very useful for pennying your dorm-mates into their room. Always have been, always will be.
You're not suggesting that we start nickling or diming them, are you?
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Yes, well, nobody else is running around censoring people. Well, okay, the leftists in Silly Valley are censoring when they can, but increasingly they can't.
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No, your avatar *definitely* looks like a Pokemon Ball.
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I think you misread what I wrote. Rich people who don't respect capitalism have a "I got mine, the heck with you" mindset.
Capitalism (free markets, rule of law, private property) is the only thing that eradicates property. We know this, because it has reduced poverty.
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You never posted to MySpace/Orkut/Facebook/Twitter? Or your own blog? Sent an email? The NSA wants you to have no secrets and will do what they can to make sure you don't.
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Why do you say that? *I* am not the one with a Pokemon Ball for an avatar.
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Why? Capitalism saves lives; socialism takes them. Do we need to review the death toll of the Holomodor? Or the Great Leap Forward? Or the, y'know, Killing Fields?
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But did you know that the opening rhythm is the Morse code for YYZ?
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Only Neal is dead. The Alex and Geddy are still performing.
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Excellent album! One of their best.
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Only if you can hum along with the tune!
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Or that you have really fucked it up this time around. I guess if you're rich you don't have to care about capitalism ("I've got mine, the heck with you"), but you can be sure that the world's poor people want more of it.
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That was pathetic. Where is the counterfactual? You want to prove that people who want to kill themselves often succeed because they have a firearm. Well, how often do people succeed when they do NOT have a firearm? Your link says nothing, which I assume means they know nothing. Nor do you.
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Most unions are for government employees. They are responsible for the unionized pension debt cliff that is facing the US.
Or do you think governments regularly promise things they cannot deliver without being coerced into it?