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agtmadcat.bsky.social@agtmadcat.bsky.social |
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He/him British Californian Nazis are bad Climate change is real COVID isn't over 🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸
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Brooke Binkowski
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Anecdotal observation from local grocery stores: after a year in lockup, the deodorant and baby food is quietly being freed and everyone is pretending they didn't just fall for some lobbyist dipshit's made-up numbers. Hope they all go out of business and are replaced by actual ethical companies tbh
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Apparently the Soviets would have invaded them in roughly 1945, so that would have either finished them off or given them something to fight and unify around, or maybe even gain international support... There's a lot of ways it could have played out, many of them terrible.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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But US armaments are also what's stopping Russian missiles from blowing up apartment buildings in Kyiv, which is an unalloyed good. Seeing what butchers the Russians are means, for me, that there's a moral imperative to do the "arsenal of democracy" bit, but to fix our bad policies re: IL, SA, etc.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Most of my strongest criticisms of US arms manufacturers are around governmental capture, lobbying, and so on. Just like many other major industries they push the government to make bad decisions that benefit them, but that's just capitalism generally, something I want to see overhauled and reduced.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Yes actually, I have a more nuanced position on the US arms industry than it seems most people in this thread do. I'm not blind to the bad things armaments get used for (committing genocides etc), but I also can't deny that they serve a protective role as well (preventing genocides etc.).
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Yeah it was a sad day when they went under, Pebble was the best! Fitbit bought their IP, but it's just not the same. I've also been going through fitbits faster than I'd like, but at least they're not as expensive as the high end smart watches!
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Fascinating. For the sake of conversation what are people's general objections to the industry? Clearly with that sort of conviction, people aren't objecting to fiscal issues. Are there specific moral objections to these companies beyond "armaments are bad"? Is the theory that the MIC drives policy?
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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My Pebble went damn near two weeks when it was new a decade ago, finding out that my buddy's fancy new Apple watch only lasted like 12 hours was a real shock.
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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How the hell do you “not look at COVID from a public health perspective”? If you can keep the mass death away from the forefront of your mind in that situation, you might be a Nazi www.reuters.com/investigates...
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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And the first generations had a battery life of less than a day! How did people look at that and say "this is a reasonable length of time for a watch to function"?!
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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They're also apparently legitimately great places to work if you're LGBTQIA+, all those federal contracts make those anti-discrimination rules have teeth. If a trans person looking for a medical transition wants Lockheed to pay for it I'm not going to tell them they're wrong to work there!
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Nah that's why decisions should be final. Anything stamped certified remains that way, and anyone else with that combination of parts is kosher. But yeah I'm not bothered by California's weird rules, they work well enough for their purpose.
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Micah
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the early days of file sharing were an adventure “is this my file? is this seventeen minutes of Swiss goat yodeling? is this going to cause 47 porn popups a minute the second one of my parents sits down at the computer?” “how to unfuck my machine” is a skill we don’t often need anymore
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Ferraris make a very good noise! And they're shiny and red and very beautiful to look at.
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Willow
@rockshrimp.bsky.social
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Rich people hate the internet because it lets people they always told themselves envy them tell them what they really think about them.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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No, only triangle.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Here's what you do: You write general guidelines, and then you have a special panel of judges determine where each make and model falls to clear up any ambiguities, and their decision is final. Nothing pattern matches like a human brain!
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Stormcarver
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This, dammit! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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This announcement is provided by the US Quarterly Self-Employed Tax Payments Warning System: It is Saturday, 15 June. Your second quarter estimated tax payments are probably due on Monday, 17 June. Do them right now so you don't forget them!
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Yeah I should, you can get them a little cheaper at Costco but I haven't got my act together to make it happen before I travel! 😬
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Doh - got mixed up! Thanks for the correction. Having it end before this years boosters are out it's terrible, though.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Not 200k *for* housing, 200k *houses*. So a goal that would actually have an impact!
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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Left Coalition now has platform. Includes:
—rollback Macron retirement reform & cuts to unemployment benefits
—↑ min wage
—↑ daycare spots
—repeal Macron immigration restrictions
—bring back wealth tax & exit tax
—carbon neutrality plan
—200K public housing/year
more: www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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A legend
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Lord Businessman II
@lordbusinessman.bsky.social
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You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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According to that link it ended in August, I'm afraid!
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Sword-seared panfish
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Ah yeah I think the government stopped paying for them recently? I don't remember the details, but something like that.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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And does insurance have to pay for it? Or can they still cover just the one?
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️🌈
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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This will cover 75% of the USA population of approximately 330 million.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
We are not prepared for what we have set in motion and keep fueling.
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Ben Wolfe
@benwolfevision.bsky.social
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Always a great visual for this problem. I use it to teach Human Factors to Psychology undergraduates.
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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me: i need to be normal also me: if their teeth work like straws and we assume a fully developed laminar flow, assume the twin straw teeth have a diameter of 2mm and the victim had 1.5 gallons of blood, with bp at 140/90+, we can begin to calculate the flow rate of vampi
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Please do not contribute to the fucking suck of Aaron's job by falling into the trap of believing that he is the sole person who sets the policy he is executing or that failure to act on an issue yet means that the issue will never be decided.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Okay. I am probably going to regret wading into this again, but The Discourse about child protection issues on Bluesky has escalated to the point where people are making extremely serious accusations against the head of Bluesky T&S, and y'all need to stop. It is unhinged QAnon batshittery.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
@pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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General Dynamics doesn't make the barrels, they just build the chassis and the turret. The barrels are made alongside artillery barrels etc. at the Watervliet Arsenal in upstate New York. There should be a good amount of skills transfer between military vehicles and transportation vehicles.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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I hope you survive another workday with your mind and body intact!
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sarah zedig
@hmsnofun.bsky.social
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it is just the truth that the biden administration did one historically good push for vaccines, wiped its hands cleans of any further responsibility, and then systematically dismantled the entire public health apparatus to the point where it's WORSE THAN IT WAS BEFORE
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Straight to jail.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Fire drills* Edit button when? 🙄
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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No I meant just ordering the tank builders to make buses but paying them a spiff to keep the extra square footage to store the military tooling and keep some workers trained on it. Although I do also think that the army should have more of its own armories again, that's a different problem.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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We run for drills for a reason, hopefully this is a fire drill for a democracy and not an actual fire!
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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The factories are mostly private businesses these days but I'm generally strongly in favor of unions in either the public or the private sector so sure let's do it. =)
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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The "burdens" are the point, though? That's the whole point of vice taxes? Or is there some other non-financial burden you're talking about?
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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I think there's a solid slice of "genuine" centrists who really thought they were negotiating in good faith with the enemy party to actually improve Americans lives. The ones who can admit they were wrong are unfortunately only a modest slice of them.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Thinking about it even more, from a defense economics point of view, we wouldn't even be losing the military production capacity if they just shove all of that tooling off to the side in case we ever actually need it. You'd still have the reserve capacity, which would otherwise be a counterargument.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Remember that one of the main goals of the US military being so well equipped is as a massive jobs program. So we'd have to convert e.g. the factory building tanks that the army doesn't want into a bus factory. I think it's workable.
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Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈
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"Expand public transit and make it free? And who's gonna pay for that?" Me you fucking goofy bastard. I pay taxes. give me healthcare instead of buying another 700,000 tear gas canisters for the police to spray on my friends.
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Suzan Palumbo the yard goth.
@sillysyntax.bsky.social
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Flawless.
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@agtmadcat.bsky.social
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Wait Wait I've got a way! Run it cash only. People mail in their payments in hard currency. Truly a scalable and practical solution!
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