Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
@dougiec3 That’s (17 shots) what you call human or insane? You might ask are humans responsible enough to carry lethal power? Some are, some aren’t, but it’s irresponsible to allow the wrong people to be armed and clearly being an adult citizen is not nearly enough of a qualifier to grant the possession of lethal power with a trigger squeeze. A remake of the 2A is long overdue.🤔 🇺🇸
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New Mexico in Top 10! Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions: New Mexico had 479 gun deaths in 2020. Of those, 63% were suicides, 31% homicides and 6% other.
In a recent road rage incident, someone in a pickup truck fired 17 shots at the car of a family leaving a minor league baseball game. They killed an 11 year old and seriously wounded his 23 year old aunt. Gun right advocates will tell you that if that family had been armed it could have defended itself from that hail of bullets.
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Since the word ‘socialism’ is apparently so terrifying, let me be clear: Every advanced country on planet earth pools resources for the common good.
This is how a society functions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq02yuY4wDQ&ab_channel=RobertReich
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More figures on how parental income influenced where #students go to #college. Top income kids go to top colleges—no surprise, thanks to #legacy #admissions. Public #schools seem to be more fair. My college looks a bit better in this study—since it didn’t look so good in the economic diversity study over the weekend. #highereducation https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/11/upshot/college-income-lookup.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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@Huntn00 LOVED my Xr. I kept it for about four years but it was starting to develop some bugs, and the release of the yellow 14 in the spring cinched it for me.
@lauren I’m happy I took typing in high school circa 1970. It has served me well over the decades.
@maxleibman I have an XR a 2016 MBP and an ancient iPad. I may update my iPad around Black Friday or Cyber Monday. 🤔
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I happened to be writing an assessment of the evidentiary bases for the Nixon, Clinton and Trump impeachment inquiries when McCarthy made his announcement.
Suffice it to say, this inquiry compares unfavorably.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/12/biden-impeachment-inquiry-mccarthy/
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A spacecraft malfunction that left him stranded in space for everal days inadvertently helped NASA astronaut Frank Rubo set the U.S. record for the longest space mission.
https://www.chron.com/news/space/article/nasa-astronaut-longest-space-mission-18361644.php
@SecularJeffrey I wonder how many rentals they score at $25? I’m looking for a $6 home rental. 🙂
@jeffjarvis News Organizations are always in the business of”selling” news as to what they think is most $marketable$. But some have better judgement, integrity than others and there is always which alfalfa the sheep prefer to consume. 🤔
@arstechnica That X, I take it this was created as Musk’s inspiration without any public relations or marketing input. Probably what he considers it another stroke of his unbalanced “genius”… Why am I reminded of a modern age of tech swastica? 🥸
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US government slams Musk in court filing describing “chaotic environment” at X
US says FTC probe uncovered privacy risks caused by Musk's drastic changes.
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McCarthy Completely Flip Flops On Need For Vote to Launch Impeachment Inquiry https://www.mediaite.com/politics/mccarthy-completely-flip-flops-on-need-for-vote-to-launch-impeachment-inquiry/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@realTuckFrumper No joking matter but I can see both Religion and the Environmental realists with all the extreme weather shit going on, calling this the End Times, but for starkly different reasons. One based on religious fantasy and the other based on the stark reality, ironic that both end up in the same place? 🤔
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More than 2,300 dead, thousands missing as floods devastate eastern Libya https://www.rawstory.com/more-than-2300-thousands-missing-as-floods-devastate-eastern-libya/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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occurs to me that as we continue to destroy ecosystem services we used to get for free, much of technological "progress" is just us trying to fill those gaps before they kill us, a sort of perpetual Red Queen's race against extinction
anyway happy tuesday!
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#HIV #activists #arrested for #occupying #KevinMcCarthy’s #office in #protest.
The #Protesters were likely #motivated by recent #Republican #efforts to #defund the #US President’s #Emergency #Plan for #Aids #Relief (#PEPFAR).
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Health #HIV #AIDS #Politics #Conservatives #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/hiv-activists-arrested-kevin-mccarthy-office/
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I just wrote about KOSA: A Nationwide Anti-Trans/LGBTQ+ Bill in All but Name. It has everything you need to know + how to contact your congressppl about it. 4min read, no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so others see it!
https://juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-nationwide-anti-trans-lgbtq-bill-in-all-but-name-d6d9f8b8ec6c?sk=0bfad95c1ed6da0a82cd67bef8659ce1
#trans #transgender #LGBTQ #KOSA #politics #internet
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👭new episode!👬 #TransTuesday
A whole lot of people like to think of themselves as trans allies, but what we need are accomplices who are proactive in trans rights and liberation, so let's talk about what that looks like... along with the WGA strike! (they're related, trust me.)
@Impossible_PhD returns to discuss unreal reflections and how she wants you to fail as hard as you can! I want a slumber party!
#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #transrights
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tillys-trans-tuesdays/id1661980695
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
