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Michael Gruar@mgruar.bsky.social |
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Independent Game Developer, Software Engineer, Littleton MA Bike/Ped Advisory Committee, Father of 3, among other things.
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cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw
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haaretz confirms that an unknown but extremely significant number of the israelis that died on october 7 and whose deaths were subsequently laid at hamas’ feet were killed by friendly fire on israeli military orders
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Michael Gruar
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Seriously, how is the whole "debate" about whether or not you reuse the "barf bowl", and not why the fuck are you using a bowl for it in the first place?
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Michael Gruar
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Same! And in my case, it was because my oldest son brought it home from kindergarten on his first day, kind of tough to not catch COVID once it's in the house.
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Michael Gruar
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Makes sense unfortunately, and I totally understand that panicking doesn't help. I guess I just take issue with calling it "idiotic and hyperbolic" when some form of collapse (or crumbling) is not completely outside the realm of possibility
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Michael Gruar
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would think it's at least justified panic?
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Michael Gruar
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...United States is one election away from collapse; indeed that sort of idiotic hyperbolic panic..." I guess I'm wondering, why is this "idiotic hyperbolic panic"? With how the Supreme Court is acting, the lack of significant institutional pushback, and the additional factor of global warming, I
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Michael Gruar
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So I read through this blog, it was really interesting to see the historical context of liberalism and really put things into perspective - said as someone who feels weird being called a liberal (in modern US contexts) sometimes. I do have a question about this though: "I do not think that the...
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Paris Marx
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Brandi
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Re: the Gaiman allegations. Even consensual sexual contact within HOURS of first meeting YOUR EMPLOYEE who is caring for YOUR CHILDREN is fucked, man.
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Zach Lipton
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this is amazing "The car industry has identified a few places on earth that do not know THE FREEDOM OF CAR DEPENDENCY. So they hired you to increase car sales and oil consumption. How? By building the greatest car parks ever! Turn neighborhoods into car parks"
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Michael Gruar
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Lol, it's pretty rare that I have any pride in being British nowadays, but this tradition is one of those few times
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Michael Gruar
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If that happened, we could actually get some legitimate third parties too - much less of a hurdle to snag a seat or two
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Michael Gruar
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14% is less terrible than I thought, given how many seats they managed to win for Labour while getting even bigger numbers. Still, *if* the Tories and "Reform" manage to actually work together next time, then that's hella dangerous.
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Michael Gruar
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Not to mention that it's coming from all the same people who were basically like, suck it up, he's running again and he's your only choice. Like, no shit he's really old! We knew! We could've sorted this out in the primaries, but noooo
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Michael Gruar
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It's only July 🥲
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Jonn Elledge
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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.
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Lux Alptraum לקס אלפטראום
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The prosecutors said they were fine with a delay but they also said the arguments were without merit and it doesn't seem like the judge has that much desire to do a solid for Donny T
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Michael Gruar
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"authoritarianism we spent much of the 20th century... combatting overseas", just uh, don't ask about what we've been up to in South & Central America and the Caribbean...
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Michael Gruar
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The real "oh, fuck" moment for me personally in 2016 wasn't when Trump appeared to get enough electoral votes, it was when Clinton conceded so quickly. When it became clear none of the establishment politicians actually meant what they were saying about the existential threat, that was it.
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Michael Gruar
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It's been awhile, but even the US has done this before! But apparently we just pretend the Articles of Confederation never happened.
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Max Berger
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American democracy is a good idea. We should absolutely try it one day.
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Michael Gruar
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Right? As far as American elections go, it wasn't *that* close either, it was a ~3 million vote margin. Trump was never a legitimate president, and it's been surreal for people to act like he was.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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Anna O Law
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I wrote a book on the 19th century Supreme Court and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Roger Taney who infamously wrote in Dred Scott v Sanford that enslaved & free Black people had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." I agree with Bouie that Roberts is comparably bad.
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Michael Gruar
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I mean, this actually seems like a reasonable idea. It's a lot better than my first idea, which involves Biden using his new "official powers" on SCOTUS.
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Colin Dickey
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If the Supreme Court decides in favor of Trump’s claim that a sitting president has immunity from prosecution, the logical and legal thing for Biden to do would be to simply assassinate him before the election
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Michael Gruar
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So uh... Happy Canada Day everyone!
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Michael Gruar
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Ugh, yeah everything would be so much more sensible if we didn't insist on having such a hard border to the north
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Michael Gruar
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Apart from border politics, how difficult would it be to just go through Maine like they used to?
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Michael Gruar
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Not even Legoland is safe 🙃
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toilet sloth
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truly a melting pot of weirdos (complimentary) and psychopaths (derogatory)
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Michael Gruar
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This has been bouncing around my head ever since reading it - I'm not sure I've ever seen a better description of the "tech industry" and why it is the way it is.
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Michael Gruar
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I guess I don't quite understand, can't Labour just rehire them in a week?
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Michael Gruar
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So I'm going to have to be annoyingly pedantic here - not voting counts as half a vote for Trump, not a full vote. In the example above, a 12-8 Trump win means he wins by 4, not 2. Not voting may effectively be a vote for Trump, but it's not *quite* the same.
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Eniko Fox
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hello, little #GameDev pro tip: always put a version number in any file your game saves externally. this includes save files but it also comes in real handy in config files since if you change the way your game's configuration work you can use it to invalidate or upgrade a user's previous config!
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Crystal Frasier
@amazonchique.bsky.social
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I know I say the every Supreme Court decision, but once again: Why are we at all pretending this Supreme Court is legitimate?
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Michael Gruar
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So uh, if I understand it right they basically overturned the federal government as we know it? So now the question is will they just roll over and take it, or actually put up a fight?
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Joe Katz
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Holy shit the Supreme Court overturned Chevron
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Michael Gruar
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Ugh, sorry for the whiplash - you deserve to be able to truly enjoy the fall of the Tories, honestly happy for you
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cₑₐₛₑfᵢᵣₑ ₙₒw
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i'm in a state of overwhelming dread at the moment
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CNN
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JUST IN: The former Uvalde school police chief and an officer are indicted in the first criminal charges filed over the failed response to the 2022 mass shooting
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Michael Gruar
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Ooof, it's really that bad? That's fucking grim. Totally understand if you do decide to bail - is there a good feed elsewhere to follow your work? (I unfortunately can't bring myself to go back on Twitter, though I suppose WTYP episodes aren't the worst way to keep up...)
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Michael Gruar
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Yeah, like if the US could do open borders the way California does their "border control", that would be perfect
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Michael Gruar
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Lol, the store is *still* up
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Michael Gruar
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Will I regret asking for context?
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Michael Gruar
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Technically yes, but with this Supreme Court? Lol.
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Pete Fraser
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Tories taking a huge hit from the cumulative scandals, particularly the betting thing I think. Labour levelling off as a result, Farage absolutely cleaning up. If the Sunak campaign isn’t careful this could really tip reform over the tipping point to getting a significant result.
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Michael Gruar
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Maybe I'm wrong, but that sounds exactly like something an "actual programmer" would do, lol
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