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CartyBoston

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Boston, East. Knows from software, social justice is applied love, fixing healthcare with an inclusive team.

#PublicHealth, #HealthCareAccess, #FHIR, #ActivityPub, #Boston #MaPoli #BosPoli

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polotek , to Random stuff
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Questions for software engineers about estimates. Feel free to answer any of these in any order.

Have you ever had an explicit conversation about how to estimate projects? How did you learn?

If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines?

On average, how confident are you in your own estimates? How do you measure success?

CartyBoston ,
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@polotek

I think sometimes enthusiasm for agile masked that "I can't possibly estimate" really means "we don't have an adequate notion of what we need to do."

CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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Yes , the workplace is no place for "politics".

Or for principles. Or for protest. Or for awareness. Or for empathy. Or for decency. Or for soul.

Certainly not for love.

dankennedy_nu , to Media Industry Discussions
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New at Media Nation

Local News round-up: Disturbing revelations in NH, plus pink slime and Google's thuggish tactics.

https://dankennedy.net/2024/04/13/local-news-round-up-disturbing-revelations-in-nh-plus-pink-slime-and-googles-thuggish-tactics/

CartyBoston ,
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@dankennedy_nu

is just awful, I wish the media in general would better understand them and better write about them.

CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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@dansup

I think some of the anti-threads passion is supported by not well understanding what federation is and how protocols like work.

I'd suggest we need to help people better understand, but we also need to focus and work now with those who already do.

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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Exclusive: Tesla scraps long-promised low-cost car plans that investors have been counting on to drive its growth into a mass-market automaker ..amid fierce Chinese EV competition

Entry-level Tesla car won’t be built, three sources tell Reuters
• Tesla to focus on self-driving taxis instead, sources said
• Strategy shift comes as Tesla faces competition from China EV makers including BYD

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-scraps-low-cost-car-plans-amid-fierce-chinese-ev-competition-2024-04-05/

CartyBoston ,
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@GottaLaff That should totally work Lord knows everyone is asking for "self-driving taxis".

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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Rocket Report: Blue Origin to resume human flights; progress for Polaris Dawn

"The pacing item in our supply chain is the BE-4."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/rocket-report-blue-origin-to-resume-human-flights-progress-for-polaris-dawn/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

CartyBoston ,
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@arstechnica

I feel sorry for you guys stuck on the billionaire beat.

GottaLaff , to Tesla
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Would-be buyers snub company as 's reputation dips

“The ranks of would-be Tesla buyers in the United States are shrinking, according to a survey by market intelligence firm Caliber, which attributed the drop in part to CEO Elon Musk's polarizing persona.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/would-be-tesla-buyers-snub-company-musks-reputation-dips-2024-04-01/

CartyBoston ,
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@GottaLaff

I wonder if at Reuters when they type "polarizing" "persona" they hate themselves a little.

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    @samlitzinger It's really well done, it's written at like a 5th grade reading comprehension level, that is not easy to do with complex topics.

    dankennedy_nu , to Media Industry Discussions
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    Oh, dear God. "Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities" https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/news-media-filter-bubble-different-realities

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dankennedy_nu

    hosford42 , to neurodivergence group
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    Requirements to put in a job description to discourage or filter out autistic people:

    • Comfortable with ambiguity
    • Strong people skills
    • Good culture fit
    • Multitasking
    • A fast-paced dynamic environment
    • Bachelor's degree or better

    I see these things and think you don't want my >30 years of programming and machine learning experience, or my problem-solving skills and comprehensive knowledge that had people mistaking me for one of the team's PhDs, or my solutions that have proven patent-worthy. Your loss.


    @actuallyautistic
    @neurodivergence

    CartyBoston ,
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    @argv_minus_one @hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

    Yes, and people use "moderate" when they mean "could not care less"

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    I won’t post the rant post, but…

    Via Pagliery:

    is fuming about losing his properties to the NY AG--potentially as soon as today--just before he heads to court on his separate criminal case against the Manhattan DA.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @GottaLaff

    I am worried that any seizing is going to be very slow and people are going to think nothing is happening.

    macrumors , to Random stuff
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    Lionel Messi Offering One Free Month of Apple's MLS Season Pass https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/22/one-month-free-trial-apple-mls-season-pass/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    CartyBoston ,
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    @macrumors

    Please be careful with posts that resemble ads here.

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
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    It's possible that Meta/Threads will interoperate with the Fediverse to expand people's access to each other in purely cooperative ways, for everyone's benefit.

    But history tells us that it's vastly, vastly, vastly more likely that the Meta will, borg-like, follow Big Tech's normal pattern of "embrace, extend, extinguish" -- because there's no history of giant platforms doing anything else.

    So we all need to prepare, right now, for what we do about it -- and not wait until it happens.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dangillmor

    The same distributed architecture that makes apps difficult for some to learn are what protect us from "invaders", maybe trust the community bit more.

    We can take care of ourselves.

    gbhnews , (edited ) to News from fediverse
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    🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 30F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

    Finders keepers? A Swedish court ruled that a man could keep a 31 pound meteorite that fell on his land. ☄️

    Shares of Reddit will begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange.

    A Massachusetts man has received the first transplant using a gene-edited pig kidney.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @gbhnews "red beans and rice" is code for a massive amount of pork, right?

    CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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    At first I was a little miffed that Intel got $8.5B to build chips but then I remembered: I don't know how to build chips.

    shoq , to Random stuff
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    Has anybody read Frank McCourt’s book? Is his “Decentralized Social Networking Protocol” aspirational, or is he renaming ActivityPub, or something? He sure sounds like an ally in our fight, but is there a stealth agenda here?

    https://ourbiggestfight.com/

    CartyBoston ,
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    @shoq

    screen cap with "blockchain" highlighted: "This sounds far-off, when will users benefit from DSNP? People are already benefiting from DSNP. Next-gen social network MeWe has used DSNP over a blockchain known as Frequency to effortlessly migrate their social media users from a centralized model to a decentralized social web model while offering future options for choice and for governance. In addition, a number of other organizations are working with DSNP to offer decentralized functionality, choice and governance in the near future."
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    • GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    Bibi is Israel’s Trump. ‘Nuff said.

    🚨 's has said he will defy Joe ’s "red line" and invade Rafah -Politico

    CartyBoston ,
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    @skydog @GottaLaff

    Yes, the pier is a huge deal, showing operational independence from Israel (or any other state) makes this American much happier with Biden.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @figstick @skydog @GottaLaff

    We are already moving aid through Cypress, it's an extremely complex operation perhaps not best measured with a completion date.

    What's huge is operating largely independently of Israel.

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    @samlitzinger

    What a cool story, it'd be nice not to have had to depend on an independent individual but we'll take what we can get.

    faab64 , to Non Political Twitter

    Just to understand the BS of Biden about a port in Gaza, remember that there are these land entries into Gaza available RIGHT now.

    It's truly sickening to read and listen to all the nonsense about Biden using American Navy to set up a port of "entry" into Gaza while ignorijg the fact that there are 7 points of entry to the besieged Gaza, with over 130 trailer trucks waiting to be approved by IDF in Rafah and 100s of Jewish extremists blocking the passage of trucks via Karam Abu Salem border crossing.

    The goal is not to help palestinians, it is to set-up military access and a way to deport Palestinians from Gaza in the name of humanitarian intervention.


    @palestine
    @israel

    CartyBoston ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel

    Those points of entry are all in sovereign states and we see the results, people are starving.

    The port is not a panacea but belatedly provides tons of flexibility the US would otherwise never have.

    CartyBoston ,
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    We can do more than one thing.

    I get that you feel very strongly about the dead, injured, and suffering in Gaza, so do I.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @faab64 @palestine @israel

    "disgusting", aww, I'll be OK.

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    At least three wire services have issued kill alerts to their clients regarding this family photo Kensington Palace said Prince William had recently taken that was the first public image of Catherine, Princess of Wales, since her abdominal surgery. AP’s notice said the picture had been “manipulated.”

    image/png

    CartyBoston ,
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    @w7voa the amateur edited the angle of her daughter's hand? It makes no sense still.

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
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    One of the least-covered, but most remarkable, elements of the State of the Union speech was the Republican Party's cowardice -- or, more likely, demonstration of contempt for civility -- in its non-reaction to MT Greene's flouting of the rules.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dangillmor

    She's a real problem, I suspect, in attracting exactly who the GOP needs: class-conscious white suburban women.

    Let's keep her.

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    CartyBoston ,
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    @samlitzinger

    a) I dislike her intensely
    b) it was brilliantly played because there is no other possible response to "Tell us about Jewish space lasers."

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    CartyBoston ,
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    @samlitzinger I think that's good news, he confuses galvanizing his knuckle-dragger base with attracting "independents" who will not warm to his hateful views.

    HonDuMuc , to Random stuff
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    Break time.

    An evening photo of a young woman sitting in a tailoring shop. She is perched on a blue plastic stool, leaning back against a work table with her feet up on a second table in front of her. She is barefoot in all black (trousers and a sweater) with her dark hair pulled back. She is watching a TV just out of frame. Bolts of fabric hang on the wall behind her. A sewing machine is directly on the table in front of her feet. In the foreground left, we see piles of clothing, presumably waiting for repairs or alterations, draped over a rack of some sort.
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    • CartyBoston ,
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    @HonDuMuc I love your photography, it's awesome that you post your work on Mastodon.

    I post links to your work on Facebook to encourage my friends to get identities.

    CartyBoston , to Non Political Twitter
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    "I am not moving off until meets all of my requirements."

    is very

    "I am not voting for Joe until he meets all of my requirements."

    You are entitled to both positions and neither makes any sense.

    dankennedy_nu , to Media Industry Discussions
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    New at Media Nation: Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr calls for the return of the public editor. (I'm quoted.) https://dankennedy.net/2024/02/29/globe-columnist-kimberly-atkins-stohr-calls-for-the-return-of-the-public-editor/

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dankennedy_nu

    OMG NYT and WaPo too please.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    It turns out that Odysseus landed on the Moon without any altimetry data

    "Hours after we got off the launch pad, we almost lost the spacecraft."

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/it-turns-out-that-odysseus-landed-on-the-moon-without-any-altimetry-data/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    CartyBoston ,
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    @arstechnica

    It's simply not true that "the mission was [, in his words,] an absolute success."

    This is cheerleading, not reporting.

    DrOinFLA , to Random stuff
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    If I go to the convenience store and they are out of Reese's Cups (my favorite), and I have to choose between a Snickers bar or an Almond Joy, I wouldn't just not buy candy.

    You may not fully approve of Joe Biden, but the alternative is way, way worse, people. This is not a time to vote the issues; it's time to vote your conscience. It's time to slow the right wing's erosion of democracy and fight for the rights our forebears fought tooth and nail for.


    CartyBoston ,
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    @DrOinFLA

    Refusing to vote for Biden is not about issues, refusing to vote for Biden is about indulging in one's self-centeredness.

    There is not a single issue for which Trump provides relief from Biden.

    chargrille , to Random stuff
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    For an active duty member of the US armed forces to take up the most intense form of protest available - self-immolation - against the genocide in Gaza is an enormous rebuke to the Commander-in-Chief and to the US government as a whole.

    This is unheard of (to me, perhaps someone else is better informed). I know of a couple of veterans who have taken this action, but not active duty.

    "I will no longer be complicit in genocide."

    https://www.businessinsider.com/us-airman-aaron-bushnell-israeli-embassy-protest-2024-2

    An active duty US Airman on Sunday died after he lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, in an act of protest against the war in Gaza. Aaron Bushnell said in a live-streamed video on Twitch that his decision was to "protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people," according to a censored clip of the stream that was posted on X by independent journalist Talia Jane. In the clip, Bushnell introduces himself as "an active duty member of the US Air Force," saying: "I will no longer be complicit in genocide." The US isn't taking part in the fighting in Israel's invasion of Gaza, but is a strong ally to Israel and recently vetoed a United Nations motion calling for a cease-fire.
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    • CartyBoston ,
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    @chargrille Oh he is listening plenty, he's politically terrified to move against Israel, the problem is bigger than Biden.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    What I do to clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 23H2 and Edge

    Tips and tricks for making Microsoft leave you alone while you use your PC.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    CartyBoston ,
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    @arstechnica Look at how hard we work to keep in our lives, why bother?

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
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    Fine analysis of how Musk is using the deadbird site for information warfare -- against decency, truth, and democracy: https://www.theframelab.org/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses

    Journalists who continue to actively post there are Musk's collaborators. They think they have no choice. But in their hearts, they know better.

    I hope they'll stop supporting his evil business. I'm certain they'll feel better about themselves when they do.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dangillmor
    Yes!

    Who are the journalists who think they are just crushing their careers on Twitter? It makes no sense to me.

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    CartyBoston ,
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    @samlitzinger

    Agreed.

    "The first thing I would say is that I care less about someone subscribing to the Times than I care about them subscribing to a news organisation worthy of their trust."

    That's great news A. G. because this subscriber is super disappointed in the NYT, I have been reading for more than 50 years.

    You can shove your obsessive "Biden old" "reporting" e.g.

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
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    Biden wasn't my first choice in 2020, and his administration has made some egregious mistakes.

    But he has been a far, far better president than I could have imagined. His administration's achievements have been extraordinary in all kinds of ways.

    Now the nation is confronted by the Republicans' plain-as-day goal: undo all progressive policies and institute what amounts to fascism.

    If I ran a news organization, we would have one primary agenda: being activists to save democracy.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dangillmor Biden's sin is that he is not entertaining, Americans demand entertainment like powerless little Roman emperors.

    dangillmor , to Random stuff
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    Remember when journalists promised they wouldn't turn 2024 political coverage into just another version of the horse-race obsession of the past?

    As you see, it's business as usual.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dangillmor

    Yes, one would think the rise of a modern American fascism would get some column inches.

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    CartyBoston ,
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    @samlitzinger

    She will do "surprisingly well" in NH which will add fuel to the media delusional fire.

    dankennedy_nu , to Random stuff
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    Last night I walked from Northeastern to Coolidge Corner. I was struck by the hordes of other pedestrians, and then I realized it was because the Green Line was out of service. Maybe someday we’ll live in a world-class city.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @dankennedy_nu Dan it's 1890's technology, we need to be patient as the T comes up to speed.

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    CartyBoston ,
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    @samlitzinger both the content and the sheer volume of such news is oppressive

    CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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    "We don't discuss politics here at TechBroCorp"

    Quick question. Sir. Killing 20,000 people in , is that "politics"?

    Maybe don't work at TechBroCorp?

    CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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    I am so upset about .

    I can feel how strongly we Americans are conditioned to be OK with murderous violence as "policy".

    I refuse, I refuse to be OK with it, I am not OK.

    I am ashamed at how my nation is behaving. I deeply mourn the loss of children in Gaza, I will not forget them.

    Focus. Commitment. Empathy. Strength.

    CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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    Hey any people or orgs I can follow that would alert me to "don't kill anymore people in " demonstrations in ?

    Your help, as always, is appreciated.

    CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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    I wish I could just enjoy what's going on with space exploration but without Elon .

    CartyBoston , to Random stuff
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    Old people are gross, I'm voting for someone else.

    JoshuaHolland , to Random stuff
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    Just take note of how little national coverage thousands of Jews shutting down Grand Central Station to demand a ceasefire gets tomorrow.

    CartyBoston ,
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    @JoshuaHolland Teddy Kennedy voted against the invasion, and was ignored. Hillary voted for it.

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    If, like I, you are an American it's a simple fact that you are supplying armaments Israelis are using to kill children in Gaza today.

    You can (please) unfollow, still true.

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    Trump leading Biden in several swing states. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/trump-leads-biden-in-key-us-states-as-voters-worry-about-economy-poll

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    @w7voa

    Perhaps better to focus on how useless such polls are?

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