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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:29:47 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@fu Thanks for that. I was assuming "bonus kid" was some strange reference to a stepchild. But what you said makes more sense.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:25:25 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

So I now have a Bluesky account. I've never posted, just looked at the "Discover" stream and reported a few spammers. So it doesn't make any sense that I have a few followers.

There's no assurance that I'll continue using it. But if I decide I'm done, I'll probably just stop logging in. Same thing I did at X/Twitter.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 14:52:30 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Grandson_3's class learned about turkeys today. He wasn't descriptive enough to make it clear, but he did mention the sounds that they make. As we walked at the park after school, he heard an animal and said its sounds were similar to turkey sounds.

I'll be at Son_1's home the next couple of weeks, so I won't hear about next week's school experiences.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 11:36:11 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I keep seeing people looking forward to Trump cutting or ending US involvement in NATO & US support for Ukraine.

Hasn't anyone read a history book around here? Didn't the schools require them to study US history and government?

During the build up to WWI ("The Great War") and its early stages about a century ago, the US had its head in the sand. But as a late entrant that didn't have already its people and infrastructure being overrun or assaulted, the nation was able to come out of it in a good spot.

In the late 1930s through the mid 1940s, the same thing happened with WWII. The US's isolationism (and being separated from the combatants by oceans) helped keep things good until the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the war to the US.

In WWIII (in preparation since at least 2008--don't pretend it is avoidable, either), ignoring or failing to prepare will not prevent severe damage to infrastructure and population.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 14:26:24 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/james-webb-bright-galaxies-early-universe/ [www zmescience com]

#JWST finds unexpectedly bright galaxies in a time when dark matter theory expected them to be smaller and dimmer.
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1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: cdn.zmescience.com
  
  Astronomers Shocked as JWST Uncovers Massive Galaxies That Challenge Gravity Theory. Is Dark Matter Theory Wrong?
  
  from https://www.facebook.com/tibipuiu
  
  New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 13:25:06 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

"Putin has failed. ... the West must prepare for the Kremlin's collapse." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0H9bRPeUck [www youtube com]

I think this is wishful thinking. I think Mr Putin's position is relatively secure. Short of a complete battlefield rout that puts Russia under the control of an occupier (fat chance of that!), Russian institutions, the Russian people, and even the Russian oligarchs will stand with Putin.

A few months from now, when the total Russian war deaths reach 1 000 000, people will still be saying the same. They often compare this to what happened when the Soviets had something like 50 000 casualties during their invasion of Afghanistan, but the invasion of Ukraine is already around fifteen times that many without any significant threat to his continued rule.
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1. ‘Putin has failed’ we must prepare for the Kremlin’s collapse | Vladimir Kara-Murza & Bill Browder
  
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  "It's a public humiliation for any dictator, however the Putin propaganda will try to portray this."Putin has already been destabilised by failing to seize a...

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:13:33 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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> ... their pathological social culture ...

Ah, yes. The initial and subsequent Mastodon growth waves were full of that. The Fediverse has never fully recovered.

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