Notices by Dave Neary (dneary@mastodon.ie)

@evan Traveling to an event in Atlanta this weekend, I'm still going, but trying to put in place contingencies.

@evan @maj Nice! Did you have to axolotl of them before one agreed to the photo? 😉

@evan The question includes an assumption that they should. I think the natural amount of funding a podcast should have is $0, but some commercially successful podcasts may be able to leverage success to raise funds.

If you wrote "blog" instead of "podcast" I wonder if respondents' answers would change.

@evan No, I'm a clear "Yes, and..." - given the choice you offered, I would vote for the candidate with the better policies outside of genocide (if I had a vote). But .. I would consider 3rd party candidates, especially if there is RCV in the district, and I would try to talk to the candidate to let them know that, while they have my vote, I would like to see a clear anti-genocide stance from them.

@evan Because there are rarely only two courses of action. To give just a few alternatives:
* Vote for another candidate in the primary
* Try to talk to your representative by phone, letter, or town hall to let them know how you feel
* Abstain from voting altogether
* Vote for a third candidate

@evan Yes, but... False dichotomy. And voting for someone doesn't endorse all parts of their platform.

@evan @colindean 🤣 I also am neither Dean X or X Dean.

@evan I said no, but I guess it depends on the disgrace. If I resign to concentrate on defending myself against unjust accusations, and then I'm cleared, I should. But then "You'll see, I'm innocent" is hardly resigning in disgrace.

@evan Al Franken might be the poster child for this. I would like to see him in office again, and felt he was the victim of a moment. I do not think he *will* run for anything again, though, and if he did, it would be a difficult campaign.

@colindean @evan Dean never resigned in disgrace from anything! I think moving so far away from the 50 State strategy during the Obama administration, under the direction of Rahm Emmanuel, with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the DNC chair, was a massive long term strategic mistake.

@evan Nice! As a street race, is it free to attend, or do you have to buy tickets?

@clacke I loved being able to point out to my son that "insignificant bongo playing guy" was Feynman. I would have expected his lock picking would have come up in the context of Oppenheimer picking untrustworthy folks.

@clacke There's another lawyer doing deep dives into modern trends. https://youtu.be/zcMrDGs71v8

@roadriverrail @mekkaokereke Thinking of the flag & anthem changes I'm aware of: South Africa, Myanmar, Rwanda all represented a hope to leave behind some former trauma (Apartheid, colonial past, genocide, respectively). The other examples I know of new flags and anthems typically came through secession or break-up of a union (USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia). Are there examples you have in mind?

@roadriverrail @mekkaokereke I dislike jingoism & the symbol-worship too, and it definitely is not as prominent in other countries, but I'm not aware of a lot of symbol-swapping without some legacy of trauma.

@evan Do you have a letter template? "Dear Senator Warren, I like trains. I would love train infrastructure to get better. Thank you, Dave Nearly, your constituent."

@evan Sometimes the racism is the point. Would anything be left of Mississippi Burning if they removed the racism?

@linuxfiend @rysiek @darnell @atomicpoet @axbom @cwebber Users of Identica! The greatest of all @evan 's creations.

@evan Ah, I see. Apologies for my polarization.

@evan I don't understand the middle options on a yes/no question.