Notices by Dan Neuman (dan613@ottawa.place)

@Prainbow @BeAware Baby steps

@knittingknots2 @bmacDonald94 "No Child Left Behind" and countless others we have forgotten. All those Republican MBAs know how to sell a product that does the opposite of what its name implies.

@corpsmoderne @16af93 I was not expecting that.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @notsoloud @emptywheel.bsky.social Let's see if they actually do get rid of Obamacare this time. Also, many senators have tax shelter farms that rely on undocumented labour, so that will be interesting to watch. In a train wreck kind of way.

@KaKetelmug @futurebird I think clothing obtained this way actually reduces the clothing produced overall. I've certainly donated stuff because the hassle of returning and risk of it being trashed was too high. And it's a bit like Rent the Runway without the renting part. Or runway, usually.

@dansup When, exactly, do you sleep?

@SherBeareth AOC says the US already is an oligarchy. You can't cross US gun companies, oil companies, insurance companies, war machine companies, bomb companies, mining companies, prison companies, and social media companies. Children get far less justice for their deaths than US CEOs.

I was greatly amused when I was explaining to my kid, who only learned programming in Python in school, that many languages end their lines with a semicolon.

Kid: Not all the lines, right?
Me: No, every line.
Kid: *Every* line?? Why???
Me: To show where the line ends.
Kid: BUT THE LINE ENDS RIGHT THERE!!
Me, laughing: Yup.

#Python

Thought I'd show off my spouse's latest knitting project, which used up most of the remaining yarn bits from all her other projects. Yes, it took her a day to weave in all the ends. She started from the top, and knit the arms and body in tandem on three circular needles to keep the stripes aligned. Just an insane amount of work. #knitting

@niamhgarvey @actuallyautistic 😊

@Susan60 @niamhgarvey @actuallyautistic I'll let my spouse know!

@greennomad @fkamiah17 @aral I just saw Sen. Graham threaten US allies with economic destruction. Including Canada, which would be the most vulnerable. He really wants the start of Armageddon once Israel gets its biblical borders. It's a death cult.

Ed: I see you had already boosted this: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/113535923828964507

@greennomad @fkamiah17 @aral That law only applies to Americans, I assume, not Netanyahu. But seriously, the US will turn on you in an instant if you are doing the right thing but it's against their interests. Because many of their interests aren't the right thing.

@lzg I'm with you, there. We have our domain, and Nature can have the rest.

@EverydayMoggie @regordane @mekkaokereke @carlosrodriguez Pfft! A trifling matter!

@regordane @mekkaokereke @carlosrodriguez Spurious, capricious, volatile...all features you *don't* want in a currency. One reason we dropped the gold standard is that international trade became punishing for some countries who could not control their currency. Bitcoin is no different than gold.

In a free market system, if you aren't Musk or Bezos, you are prey. To think a free market benefits you is foolhardy. #Capitalism

@mekkaokereke That's my perspective as well. You get more free speech if you exclude hate speech. If you include hate speech, then you lose *all* the speech from the victims. It's a loss for society because minorities have the unique perspectives you don't have in the dominant culture.

@alicemcalicepants @TheBreadmonkey @LoganFive The sad part is that there are people out there so addled that these messages work. We have no protections for them.

@mekkaokereke I still dance to Billie Jean. I've never danced to Thriller.