Notices by Curmudgeon (jetton@mastodon.online), page 2

Why was this never mentioned in school?

Google search is getting so good now. I'm always learning new things.

"To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, and never the oppressors."

Marek Edelman
Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and supporter of Palestinian resistance to occupation.

Donald Trump at his New Jersey speech:

“The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man,” Trump continued. “He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene? ‘Excuse me, I’m about to have a friend for dinner’ as this poor doctor walked by. ‘I’m about to have a friend for dinner.’ But Hannibal Lecter, congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter.”

Former Trump aide bragging on TikTok:

"So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car, so when a homeless person asks for money, and I give them like a $5 bill, I feel good about myself, they feel good," said McEntee, also a senior advisor to Project 2025. "And then when they go to use it, they get arrested, so I'm actually helping to clean up the community and get them off the street."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mcentee-secret-service/

My Mother, in 1980:

“You know, I’ve always said, if you can’t think of anything nice to say about someone, you should say nothing at all.”

“What was the question? Oh yes, what do I think about Reagan.”

She then sipped her coffee in complete silence.

Miss you Mom.

Trump and Jeff Sessions separated 4600 children from their parents seeking asylum.
They did not keep records.
1400 still have not been reunited with their family.

WP gift link.

https://wapo.st/3USKpVS

The only time I’ve been beaten by police was in NYC in 1969.

I was at a peace rally at a field near the edge of Central Park and was one of the volunteers on the perimeter. A van pulled up on the path. A group, in full Nazi attire and carrying Swastika flags, jumped out right next to the rally. They ended up running away, chased by some from the crowd. Several of us ran alongside yelling at people to turn back, to little avail.
Two blocks away they turned a corner and…

#press #news

1/3

@RustyBertrand

@Gargron

Eugen, why are you blocking one the best accounts on Mastodon? I know mastodon.social has moderation difficulties, but this is ridiculous.

@22 @mike805

My original post was mostly a snarky comment on the inappropriate use of a summary statistic that is misleading.

Child mortality was also very large so the median(WAG)* is probably higher, maybe 5 or so.

I only picked on the Middle Ages since that was the most recent comment that I had seen (There were no old people!!!!).

The Renaissance likely made things worse.

* WAG = Wild Ass Guess. It's a technical term.

There is this misconception that people in the Middle Ages only lived to their thirties.

This is of course misleading, since this is the mean age at death.

About half died as infants.

Using the median instead gives a clearer picture of #medieval lifespan.

Median age at death was 1.

23andMe was hacked and DNA records of 7 million people were compromised. Originally they said it was 14,000.

They just sent out an innocuous sounding email about change in Terms of Service.

If you do not respond rejecting the change, you will give up the ability to be part of the class action lawsuits that are being filed, or take action in court against them.

They sent this out before they are notifying those whose data were breached.

Strongly recommend you opt out of the change.

#23andMe

Been perusing late 17th and early 18th century texts, as one is wont to do, when I came across this pronoun rant.

Looking for people to follow?
Use this one weird trick to find kindred folk.

See a post that speaks to you, or at least you strongly agree with? Besides boosting the post and following them, click on the post.

At the bottom it shows the number of boosts. Click on the icon and you’ll get a list of others that have boosted the post. Same with favorite icon. Ta-dah!

Only took me 11 months to figure this out.

This is on the web. Not sure if it works on them new-fangled brainy phones.

#Mastodon

First they came for the journalists, who were very surprised to find themselves in a giant warehouse filled with minorities, immigrants, disabled, trans, and gay people.

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.