Letting billionaires who will never need Social Security and Medicare cut these programs to fund tax cuts for billionaires just seems like a stupid idea, doesn't it?

“DOGE Set to Cancel Lease on Weather ‘Nerve Center’ as Tornado Season Begins” by Katherine Fung for @newsweek. Read more here:

https://www.newsweek.com/doge-set-cancel-lease-weather-nerve-center-tornado-season-begins-2040142

Raw milk, raw water. No benefits, all risk, and we're still doing this going in to 2025. I wrote about it years ago and it's still as dangerous now.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/post/3lemgm5z3nk2t

‘Raw Water’ Isn’t Better for Y...

@OrionKidder History is fascinating. I'm a native Californian. I have always been appalled when I hear some doofus say something about "all the Mexicans" and how they "should go back to...". Even friends and acquaintances never knew or thought about the history. So, a long time ago I printed out a couple of maps and would show and tell. 🙂 Then, I'd mention all the place names that are in Spanish and watch happily as the lightbulbs would go on. California was Mexico.

The polio vaccine clinical trials in 1954 included over 1,800,000 participants & was conducted over months. And it included placebo groups.

This is EASILY verifiable. There is no reason that people should be repeating lies that the polio vaccine was tested for only “3 days” or didn’t include a control group.

Those false claims persist because people continue to circulate them. We all need to participate in media literacy and critical thinking. Otherwise, disinformation will take root & spread.

@SwiftOnSecurity The story I remember was a cell tower or radio transmitter causing all kinds of health problems in nearby residents.

The operator apologized profusely and said they couldn't imagine how much worse things would get once they actually turned the power on.

I signed up for a black-market time-travel tour as soon as I heard about them. (The first rule of Time Club etc.)

There’s an hour long pre-mission briefing on how you must be extremely careful in what you say or do as the smallest event could have future-changing consequences.

After that, they give you back your money, admit that there is no time machine, and tell you “now go and do the smallest thing you can to make the future better”.

I’m not even mad.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

At times I wonder
how it can be
that we cannot seem
to get control
of all these viruses
but then I will see
a headline such as:
“Louisina forbids
public health workers
from promoting
Covid, flu, and mpox shots,”
and after that, for a moment,
I cease wondering.

I have coworkers who should see this.

So, that Gaetz report is pretty special. I'm surprised a GOP person voted to release it.

The TL;DR from it is, "Well, yeah, we're pretty sure he did everything he was accused of, and a couple of things nobody had even thought to mention."

The 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years
https://slate.com/life/2024/11/food-cooking-recipes-thanksgiving-2024.html

@luckytran @aardvark If I manage to find the owners, I’ll definitely send them a note. And it’ll be about more than their poor grammar. :-(

@luckytran Does anybody have an email for this place’s management?

@dogzilla It’s a deal, let me know if you’re ever on the Left Coast of the States & my husband and I’ll buy you a drink and talk about when the modems sang. :-) Or I will anyway, his engineering degree doesn’t seem to translate into computer knowledge. :-)
I see both sides of ads, I’m an advertiser myself and I DETEST the way the current Real Time Bidding system works and I FERVENTLY believe Google (and the other big corps) should be broken up!

@jaredwhite @dogzilla Would love to sit down over a beverage with you some day and discuss the current online advertising environment. Once ads come into the picture, I firmly believe ALL privacy goes out the window, regardless of what anybody says. I’ve been following ads/marketing/retargeting/SEO since 2010 and I’ve been watching Google with great interest since well before their IPO.

@jaredwhite @dogzilla I’m an old cynic, and I say “I’ve been online since before there was an internet.” Which is a bit sarcastic but also happens to be true. I know Apple’s reputation, and I trust them more than most. But I also believe the marketers and data trawlers tend to win out in the end, absent some VERY strong legal protections. Which don’t exist in the US, sadly.

@dogzilla @jaredwhite
Maybe my knee-jerk anti-AI stance is blinding me. <shrug> I don’t like AI taking over my devices, my social networks, the way I interact with the web. I especially don’t like being required to opt-out. But I’m not sure what part of that message you are disputing. Can you elaborate? Do you trust Google NOT to trawl thru data on its hardware?

@dyani Transcripts on all audio & video material. I’m not deaf (yet anyway) but I can read many times faster than people can talk. Don’t waste my time.

@rayckeith If the license # on his truck and documents is NOT valid, report it!
But do be aware of “dba” names. They should be listed somewhere on the official government docs though.

@Waitnwallflower If you find some, please let us all know!