Notices by Scott Miller 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 (scottmiller42@mstdn.social)

Can I commit felonies and get the judge to just give me no jail time, no fines, and no community service? There's lots of crimes I want to commit free of any repercussions.

#ScottSearches #ScottHumor

@stux FYI, it looks like this stupid bill got exactly the attention it deserved:

"Introduced 07/31/2024

Latest Action: Senate - 07/31/2024 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs."

No co-sponsor, no action was taken aside from it being introduced in committee. It was dead on arrival. Hopefully that will be the last we hear of this bad idea.

@trebach @stux Agree. Essentially zero chance this gets resurrected before the next assembly.

It's hard to predict what might happen next year with a GOP trifecta and with the reckless fool that runs birdsite having Turnip's attention. If I was forced to guess though, I'd say a bill like this won't pass the House or Senate in 2025-26. My guess is we'll see chaos and gridlock similar to 2017-18 with little of substance being passed.

That's a guess though — bad stuff could still happen.

@selzero Reminds me when my Senator got all anxious about hearing about 9th month surgical procedure to remove a fetus. Yeah they’re called C sections ya twit.

Alright, I have created my new home on Mastodon. My Twitter ID is also https://twitter.com/scottmiller42

One of the lessons of conversation that I'm still working to get better at is how to let the person know I'm interested in what they are saying and invite them to add more instead of responding to the gap with a related story of my own.

I think part of it is my natural Midwestern tendency to think of asking direct questions as nosey. My instinct is to let them know I'm engaged in this topic which gives them space to share more if they want and stop where they are comfortable.

#ScottThoughts

Want to see the value of the Internet Archive? Check out this 10-year-old article on Buzzfeed. All the image links are broken, even though Buzzfeed itself hosted the images.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/magritte-meets-mario

Thankfully, Internet Archive has the site with the images intact.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160227103626/http://www.buzzfeed.com:80/lukelewis/magritte-meets-mario

@internetarchive

Responding to a request or suggestion for X with "we already do X" shuts down the conversation & forces the requester's hand. Requestor must then choose between abandoning the request or start an argument that X is not being done. Either way leads to hard feelings.

At minimum, VERIFY that you are doing X before responding. Ask "does this example meet your needs?" Handle it like a step in the conversation, not a conversation ender.

#OfficeWorkerGripes #UserFeedback

It’s frustrating to see progressives who think #Biden should just “do more” without taking any consideration of the makeup of #Congress. They talk as if Biden should pull legislation out of a magic hat.

Have you seen how obstinate the current House is? Biden could propose a Bill declaring the Eastern sky as the place to look for a sunrise, and they’d pass it as the Western sky just so they could stamp out the woke.

#PresidentBiden #MikeJohnson

@hrefna *nod* My statement on that topic from about 5 months ago: "People at the AI leading edge self-selected towards individuals who move fast with a mind unburdened of ethical concerns."

The concerns I ordinarily would have about AI are doubled by this bias.

Great work, Elmo! You've finally reached the pinnacle of performance with your bird site.

#TwitterDown