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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 02:28:32 JST 
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@p
I hope you're putting "welcome aboard"
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 02:12:41 JST
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@p
I am sure you'd have room to put it in a variety of language in all three locations.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 02:06:37 JST
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@p
Does he charge by the digit or by the arm on which he places the digits? Do you need to call my camp building guy? You're gonna need to get in quick, building season is ramping up
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 02:04:12 JST
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@p
RMS makes the fundamental flaw that most collectivist idealists do. That others will act in good faith. I am not a communist because I know no human enterprise acts in good faith once actual humans are in any kind of position of power.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 13:13:26 JST
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:31:52 JST
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@polarisera
It's most often the case here on the Fediverse where we run into those who cannot handle discussion and must make everything an argument. They are easy to spot. Every time you aren't arguing with them they find new things to try to make you object to in order to foster that conflict paradigm they are most comfortable with.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:31:51 JST
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@LostInCalifornia
The irony of you responding to that post is delicious.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:07:05 JST
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@sun
As far as I know the entire Western political angle on Ukraine is to make sure Russia is the bad guy. Winning and losing the war is not a significant factor. The West will spin it either way and because most Western countries are full of people who cannot understand Russian or even sound out a word in Cyrillic letters, it'll work unless they fumble really hard. And Europe is doing exactly that when it comes to how they're dealing with Trump not being a team player.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 03:17:30 JST
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@feld
Yes, your posts are certainly having that effect.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 03:14:33 JST
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@feld
I have seen where intellectuals get us. No. Fuck intellectuals. I could not be less interested in giving them time to engage in sophistry about what is fundamentally already bullshit.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 03:00:15 JST
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@feld
I disagree and fuck you.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:35:25 JST
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@tk
Damn right.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:28:36 JST
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@feld
I do not think the US deserves that trillion. Cut the taxes instead and cut the IRS budget.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:18:10 JST
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@lain
That is the one scenario I can see where the payment might be warranted even if the order was for stupid bullshit. If it's something not delivered, or something intangible and the terms were not met, though, that could warrant reduced or nonpayment.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:14:22 JST
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@lain
It also often depends on how you define the default. Defaulting on THE debt and defaulting on a bill they argue they don't really owe are two different things. I suspect DOGE shut down these payments on the claim that these were not properly authorized, but a Democrat-aligned judge is arguing it's a contract and valid enough to be paid before a proper judgement is made (without regard to the correctness of the authorization, which may or may not be real).
The biggest issue with the thing the judges are doing is that they're making injunctions requiring a potentially improper and almost definitely unrecoverable payout. I consider that beyond the purview of these judges' authority. SCOTUS chose not to intervene, which is not a ruling but more a "declined to intervene" situation. I hate the Judicial Branch but I hate watching armchair lawyers treat everything as if it's right because a judge said it even more. We should all be critical of all parts of the government at all times.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:01:55 JST
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@sun
These two should not be combined. That sounds like an awful UTI in progress.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:01:35 JST
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@sun
Without knowing what is specifically being demanded it’s impossible to know what is rejecting an expense and what is just defaulting on a bill. Knowing the government, the latter is possible even if the goods or services were bullshit
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 23:24:07 JST
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@ins0mniak
At least you parted with good advice
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 23:22:42 JST
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@p
> Luckily for me, I'm a weird fucker anyway. All the effort to not seem like I was quite as spergy as I am (unfortunately there exists no way to conceal a brain lockup), so I just stopped caring and eventually figured out that people react better when you seem like they expect you to seem. The only time I have to act is when someone quotes the Star War of the Ring and I have to stifle the retching.
I grew up in a weird-rich environment that gamified learning to act normal. The adjustments I had to make were to professionally mesh with the stereotypes rather than being my own brand of weird. But the gamified environment taught me the skills people interpret as "business acumen"
> Entirely accurate. When I was 18, I wore a suit and tie to job interviews because I heard that was how it worked. That is not remotely how it works, which is delightful, but I wish I had known earlier.
I wore a suit and tie to that company I was consulting for's interview. They almost didn't interview me because it made them believe I was a poor fit for the job. They told me this after hiring and told me never to wear a tie to anything for that job/company again.
> Reminds me of that experiment where they had a cashier duck behind the counter to get something and another cashier would pop up, sometimes one of a different race, and people almost never noticed.
Yep. That told me everyhting I needed to know about that manager that I had not had the opportunity to pick up at the dinner.
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Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 17:37:27 JST
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@p
I have affected a lot of things that make me seem more like a "tech guy" in my career. That need has relaxed some but that used to necessarily include attire. Too much business and strangers question your engineer cred.
Once I got asked by a firm I was working with to drop by a different client I had not worked for previously after my day finished and I told them I was not dressed for first contact. They said that was fine, it was an emergency, needed to go to the server room and be the one who called warranty support so they could get accurate information on some faulty hardware. Not my usual but good enough.
I showed up and they almost called security. The manager came out and saw me in my band T-shirt and combat trousers, and asked if I had business with them. I told them I was the "Linux guy you called $COMPANY for" and they were overjoyed and immediately led me to the server room.
Funny thing is I'd had a high end dinner with her at a charity event not a month before. I dressed appropriately to the event and sat right next to her. We had a great conversation. I don't think she even realized I was an engineer because I know how to do this social shit.
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