I think climate collapse will happen before 2063. But, if I can get to a plastic bag, some tubing, and a decent sized nitrogen or helium tank I won’t have to worry about it.

But, imma enjoy the global Internet as long as it lasts, first.

We’re at work, you can just call me “Big Tuna”.

Work/life separation is propaganda from the Capital class that wants Workers to each be uniform machine parts.

Some compartmentalization is fine, but don’t forget to also be holistically you sometimes, and never substitute your employer’s (or anyone else’s) judgement for your own.

No, that’s like telling the city government they can’t have cops arrest people for a law that hasn’t passed council.

That’s almost literally the opposite of what the judges actually said.

They specifically called out “the use of unfair and deceptive practices”, but ruled the FTC has to follow it’s own procedures and, in this case, did not.

Once the FTC follows it’s own processes and procedures, it can institute the same policy.

Practice. It get to Chestnut’s level, it has to be intentional.

3 popeyes sandwiches used the be a common order for me, but I try to eat less these days. Most of my practice was not with purpose of getting better, but I enjoyed the feeling of fullness even as a child and still love a buffet.

Well, maybe I’ll try again in the future but I don’t currently own a Samsung.

I guess the answer to at least one of those is no. Last time I tried a battery replacement, I broke the screen either during assembly or disassembly. I build my own desktop PCs, and have fixed laptop monitors and drives, but every time I attempt hardware repair on something phone-ish, I make it worse (even going back to when I owned an OpenMoko).

Justice can be achieved without racism.

Actually, it can’t. Since racism caused the injustice, identifying the victims and restoring their losses is impossible without using it.

The pendulum swing (post-dampening) is the only practical way to get to justice.

This is especially true since we can’t know we’ve achieved societal justice without some measurement delay.

A talented artist should combine Zohran Mamdani’s campaign photo and the movie posters for “Conan the Destroyer” and “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” to produce a “Zohran the Destroyer” meme image.

Anyone working-class that’s unhappy with the DNC should look into the Working Families Party. They are non-existent where I am, but I believe they are fairly active in NYC in particular, and on the other coast as well.

Hopefully, the DNC won’t do something stupid (e.g. support someone other than Mamdani).

Is the NYC Mayor General also ranked choice? Vote splitting is less impactful with ranked choice.

Still, it would be nice to see what a democratic socialist executive can do with NYC.

If you like DS9 and haven’t already seen “What We Left Behind”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8WTQc93yI or if that’s not free then maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3WwFMgy5A

For me, the best part of the episode was when they tried to “surrender to the rebellion” and there was a second automated system by someone further up the fascist hierarchy.

It’s like intraoffice e-mail.

That’s why Elmu wants to go to Mars.

I wish that injustice didn’t happen to you, but I believe it did. Also, it tracks with some of the “issues” with speedy trials in the U.S.

Depending on jurisdiction the clock “stops” when there’s a undecided motion in front of the court and in those jurisdictions it’s relatively easy for a prosecutor and a judge to conspire to put off a “speedy” trial arbitrarily long. I’m sure such tactics could give grounds for appeal, and might even be standing to sue the judge, prosecutor, and jurisdiction for violating your constitutional rights, but they’ll definitely work at least until the are properly and expensively challenged to establish precedent. Plus, I know sometimes constitutional rights are held to protect someone from federal action, but most criminal complains are handled by the states, and not every state has a “speedy trail” in their state constitution.

The criminal system in the U.S. is too easily abused by authority; we need real reform. I think we need do need jails and prisons and adversarial court cases, but there’s got to be some way to get by with fewer of them.

I am unconvinced of “meat” being a uniquely-suitable substrate for anything remotely like consciousness. I think the crazy amount of silly things that turn out to be Turning-complete is sufficient evidence that meat is unlikely to be unique.

Tho, certainly, I’m not ready to be the first volunteer to be digitized or whatever.

Unabridged audio books at 3x speed – ramp the speed up slowly, if you need to – and you can rip through books quite quickly. But, more reading could be good. (I know I should probably no more actual reading, too.)