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hankg

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Software developer and (sometimes) blogger trying to figure out secret to living a healthy and content life into his 100's. #fedi22 #developer #biohacker #flutter #dartlang #kotlin #python #astronomy #engineering #science #food #baking #foodhistory #history #YeastMasters #fediverse #friendica #uspoli #lgbt

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hankg , to random
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I wholeheartedly approve of this message. Until we make progress on unfucking the Republican judiciary fuckery of the last 20 years, made orders of magnitude worse today. No more bringing knives to gun fights.

hankg , to random
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All of this "Democrats should worry about tit for tat" is beyond hypocritical. Democrats did not do tit-for-tat against GWB after the ginned up Clinton Impeachment. Democrats didn't do it to Trump after GOP tried the same thing with Obama nor when they refused to support legislation they normally would under Obama. Trump already tried to make the US AG and DOJ his personal law firm. He directly interfered with investigations against cronies and his family. Meanwhile Democratic congressional members and the Biden's own son are under active investigation and criminal cases for stuff that was shady as fuck, in the case of Menedez, or wouldn't normally have gone this far in the case of some of Hunter's charges. Republicans were already going to use these things without the pretense they are presenting here because one of their own was finally held to account. #uspoli #rant

parismarx , to random
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The United States is protecting is uncompetitive automakers addicted to expensive SUVs and trucks from facing a real challenge that would force them to innovate and could accelerate the EV transition by making cheaper models much more accessible.

https://www.ft.com/content/9b79b340-50e0-4813-8ed2-42a30e544e58

hankg ,
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@parismarx Yeah, when I was reading that review of the Beijing auto show I was astounded by how good the production cars looked compared to the concept/pre-release cars US automakers were putting out there. It reminds me very much of how complacency in the US auto industry in the 1970s led to the Japanese cars becoming preferred options. I imagine we did protectionist stuff like this too.

jackwilliambell , to random
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Just read @pluralistic's latest and now I'm angry all over again about how I can no longer call myself a Realist or a Rationalist because assholes have appropriated those terms to justify their bigotry and greed.

> Ostromizing democracy. https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

FWIW? A true Realist believes in full equality and rights for all without favor – because, realistically, any alternative system might get applied to YOU. It's irrational to think you are special.

#economics #democracy #philosophy

hankg ,
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@jackwilliambell @pluralistic Why do we as a society keep letting them ruin generally used terms so they can do some fun house mirror black is white usage of it and this ruin it?

JenLucPiquant , to random
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Boeing Admits That Its Employees Falsified Aircraft Records for 787 Dreamliner https://gizmodo.com/boeing-admits-employees-falsified-aircraft-records-1851459132

hankg ,
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@JenLucPiquant @carpetbomberz I get tense with any launch, especially a crewed launch, and most definitely one built by Boeing at this point.

hankg , to random
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In @parismarx latest Disconnect update he highlights Chris Person's two questions people should be asking everytime the Silicon Valely techbro people churn out the latest "greatest" thing, like that shiteous video stuff: " how much energy is used to churn out this sludge (my words) and what dataset is the model trained on" #ai #SiliconValley

hankg , to random
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Thanks to that Mike Masnick @mmasnick link I just shared on the #fediverse (sorry Bluesky people it won't propagate over the #friendica bridge but this will) I learned that Hamish McKenzie, Substack co-founder, was integral to lining people up to sign the "anti-Substackers-Against-Nazis" letter. As Mike stated so well, "McKenzie literally organized the 'we support Substack supporting Nazis' letter signing campaign. Which, again, he’s totally allowed to do, but it calls into question his claimed neutrality in all of this. He’s not setting up a 'neutral' site to host speech. He’s created a site that hosts some speech and doesn’t host other speech. It promotes some speech, and doesn’t promote other speech. Those are all choices, and they have nothing to do with supporting free speech."
Substack Realizes Maybe It Doesn’t Want To Help Literal Nazis Make Money After All (But Only Literal Nazis)

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