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Aerik

Aerik@sfba.social

<p>This is awesome.</p><p>Me: programmer, surfer, father, husband, fan of decentralizing the internet.</p><p>Silicon Valley since 1986.</p><p>I believe in kindness, empathy, and decency, but I don&#39;t subscribe to the kind of wokeness that tells other people how to behave and what words are acceptable.</p>

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    Wow... https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/politics/judge-merchan-trump-biden-contribution/index.html That&amp;#39;s just like the situation with Clarence Thomas...

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    @pluralistic Why post this as a click through Twitter message instead of directly to the pluralistic article?

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    So if we are interpreting the Comstock law literally to say it prohibits mailing abortion pills, could they not just be Fedexed instead? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/19th-century-anti-law-abortion-pill-ruling-rcna78849

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    @GreenFire Ah. Makes me want to boycott FedEx. UPS? DHL? Any liberal leaning carriers?

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    @godpod That was the prize for the original escape room - sins forgiven.

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    @blakereid @neil I&amp;#39;ll have to add it to my backlog of reading material.... But I&amp;#39;m curious about &amp;quot;~static demand, ever increasing supply&amp;quot; - are you positing that there are too many creators who want to get paid for work and that is the &amp;quot;underlying economic problem&amp;quot;? Or am I missing your point?

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    @godpod did you see the John Stewart interview where he corners someone into saying restrictions on the first amendment are acceptable (to protect children from drag) but restrictions on the second amendment (to protect children from being shot) are not?

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    @wordshaper I have a nifty dimmer light switch (in my house - hardwired into the wall) that occasionally has to be rebooted. Which means turning it off at the circuit breaker. 😡

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    @wordshaper heheh. Well, AI would think that, but it&amp;#39;s not even wifi or Bluetooth. Just a fancy dimmer switch, nothing else. All I can figure is that it&amp;#39;s brain is a buggy microcontroller rather that some simpler circuitry. But still.... My Linux server ran for two years without needing a reboot, so...

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    @blakereid @neil Re: &amp;quot;The creative world is rife with competition problems but I&amp;#39;m not sure a perfectly competitive marketplace is one that makes creative careers meaningfully more sustainable in the aggregate.&amp;quot; Yes... Maybe. But, IMHO, artificial choke points have no place in pure capitalism. If creators have unencumbered access to an audience, their work can speak for itself - and they can reap the commensurate reward. If that&amp;#39;s not enough to live on, wel...

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    @sj_zero Gremlins.

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    In a dream last night, Peter Dinklage told me to read Kierkegaard...

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    I feel like we went from winter to summer in two weeks... 🤨

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    Shot her threw a closed door...how is this not murder?? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-charged-fatally-shooting-neighbor-history-harassing-children-res-rcna88138

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    Costco&amp;#39;s mango smoothie tastes like... apricots?

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    Breaking news: In-n-Out Burger to prohiibit employees from covering their mouths when they cough saying, &amp;quot;We want those smiles to always be visible to our customers, no matter the health implications!&amp;quot;