Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 32

Someone said it's important say this publicly in the US: so I will. (And I think each of us should, online and to friends)

This November *I* will vote for Biden.

I would regard not voting for Biden, particularly in: PA, OH, MI, WI, IN, IL,VA, GA, FL, AZ, ME, NC, NH, etc. as a huge error. I'd be disappointed to find out anyone I knew didn't vote. It's one of a long list of things we need to do. We can't skip it.

And still? We deserve better choices, and in the future we shall have them.

He's so damn desperate he is putting everything the president has power over on fire sale.

It's terrifying.

Politicians and political commentators whine about young people not buying homes and starting families (not getting married) and then do NOTHING to help the young people (who do exist) who would love to do one or more of these things but can't because it's too damn expensive.

Build housing and coops where young people want to live. Protect their jobs with unions. Make health care not an issue.

Do not make some marriages impossible because you don't like the genders.

Not rocket science.

the anti-fluoride people are back... I mean, if you like anti-vax stuff why not? It's the same swindle.

"precious bodily fluids" and all that.

I hate the taste of mint so I'm always looking for toothpaste that tastes better... I was horrified to discover that if you go of the beaten path with toothpaste there are 100s of brands with "no fluoride" which only a tiny number of people really need... Be careful if you use a "crunchy" brand ... fluoride is amazing.

Glen Kirshner is so fed up with 'judge' Cannon he's walking his viewers through how to file a judicial complaint. Click by click.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MXVfiTa3KM

The ancients walk among us even now and boy are they cranky.

I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰

Its always remarkable to me to think about Descartes and Galileo being contemporaries: so we know how the former reacted when the latter was imprisoned:

“I inquired in Leiden and Amsterdam whether Galileo’s World System was available, … I was told that it had indeed been published but that all the copies had immediately been burnt at Rome, and that Galileo had been convicted and fined. I was so astonished at this that I almost decided to burn all my papers … .”

I think Descartes impact on math education and communication is much more significant and interesting than his philosophy which always felt a little shallow to me— I think of him as a math teacher first and everything else second.

Everyone running around excited a non-human primate "used medicine to treat wounds"

I'm just over here looking at ants who have been doing this since before you were an inkling on the evolutionary tree and wondering what the big deal is.

Whatever it is ants did it first.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ants-can-diagnose-and-treat-their-comrades-infected-wounds-180983526/

@leadore

"the modem--"
"do you mean the wifi?"
"no just the modem there was no wifi."
"... ?..."
"everyone had to get off the phone..."
"... so they could focus? Like how the sixth graders have to put their phones in the cubby all day?"

I think they are just messing with me at this point.

@alienghic They screamed and howled! They knew it wasn’t a good idea… but we didn’t listen… no no we didn’t listen… *wanders off muttering*

You might think this meme from the cat internet is about shaming the second cat for being lazy... but if you do? You don't really understand cats.

This is a celebration of cat progress. Posted as a brag mostly.

"Joe Biden fascist marxist prosecutors"

Like... how do you even unpack a phrase like that?

The prosecutors aren't--
Biden's not--
Marxism isn't--
Fascism doesn't--
It's New York State not--
Those aren't even--

This is beyond a Gish Gallop (lies so thick you can't sound sane as you counter them all)

It's like information anti-matter and it's not even the whole sentence.

What do we call something that is "beyond untrue" ?

My current radical take that is driving the principal insane is the idea that to better educate our students about social media, online safety etc. we should have them set up and run their own social media on the school intranet.

And I get why. But, why do we just throw young people out into the wilds of the internet where they are surrounded by ads, creepy people, criminals etc.?

Part of why social media can be chaotic and destructive is because too many adults hope it just wont exist.

“Fluent Python” is an excellent example of a “good programming language book” — it’s not cluttered with “enterprise examples” it’s focused on how python works and goes into detail on edge cases. This lets one write code with real confidence that you know everything it’s doing. It is also written with the aim to justify *why* python is the way that it is. Which I need or I get irritated.

If you like python you should probably have a pdf or buy a copy.

Now which book on Java is analogous?

About 1:4 women have had a miscarriage. I’m among that group, *you* know multiple people in this group. Every one of us would need to be investigated in the world where you monitor pregnancies. I ran a half marathon about a week before the miscarriage- maybe that was “reckless endangerment” and I should be in prison. This kind of thinking makes all sorts of restrictions on “those of childbearing age” not just possible but plausible—

All in the name of protecting the unborn.

Why do all these solemn newsmen keep insisting that Trump said it’s fine for states to monitor all pregnant people because he “doesn’t think much about the issue” like —they see what a fantastically bad take it is and make excuses for him! Why? “he’s not really *that* authoritarian- he just hasn’t thought it through” Who cares?

Why try to be a Trump whisper and decode the erratic catchphrase-driven slam poetry?

And if it’s true he doesn’t care, isn’t that worse?

I don't know why I'm so attracted to little computers like this. Maybe it's the retro futurism? Maybe it's the prospect of understanding how every component in my computer works for a few beautiful moments in the day.

Maybe it's thinking about how fun it'd be to text secret messages with a little cyberpunk looking card.

Anyway, if you have ever wanted to make something like this know you will have fans. You don't need to explain why... just make it!

A single-board command-line computer using the esp32. Look at it! It's cute. Can't buy it yet the creator is starting some kind of online commune for single-board computer freaks. I bet some of you are around here, go say hi at his forum it only has like two posts and its making me sad.

https://a.singleboard.computer/