Notices by davidpmaurer (davidpmaurer@mastodon.sdf.org)

@skinnylatte

in my books i have a running gag about spies from different countries comparing health plans while attempting to kill each other in the field.

"what's your copay?" blam! blam!

there's another about russia 'retiring' spies by using whatever crazy new method comrade putin likes that week. one is an american drug called havadoc - available over the counter - that causes fatal projectile diahrrea while tap dancing.

#MissingWoman #california
please boost.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/family-searching-missing-southern-california-woman/amp/

@Nonilex

'all the war objectives': complete genocide of palestinians and the seizure of their remaining land while making the rest of the fucking world fucking pay for it.

@Sardonicus

why is there a ...um... has it ever been more than zero? since bush was president?

carrying cups of cum is weird.

carrying cups of fake cum is even weirder.

#vance

@gwynnion

it is also extremely likely that there will be another, much better organized coup attempt.

@indigenous_commentator

if biden loses, you will see something much worse.

trump has said that israel should 'get it over with', referring to that same genocide. have you forgotten that he moved our embassy, which started this whole offensive, and his son-in-law (as part of a 'peace-keeping mission' on trump's behalf) proposed that israel stop pretending to favor a two state solution and just seize any remaining palestinian land?

choosing the lesser evil is necessary in politics. grow up.

@thegarbagebird @indigenous_commentator

not at all. i think all funding and weapons sales to israel should have ended decades ago. menachem begin was the last israeli pm to take the 2-state solution seriously, and i don't know that any american president ever has. israel owns both parties, but trump's camp believes in the wholesale slaughter of palestinians.

@thegarbagebird @indigenous_commentator

the u.s. has never been what it pretends to be. gaza and ukraine are not an exception. anyone my age will tell you that we are doing what we ALWAYS DO. it's still better to save some than none, and those are the only options we're ever given.

if you want true change, go after exxon and the other powers that really run things. biden is a well-meaning puppet. trump is an evil one. we'll get 1 of them no matter what you do because the game is rigged.

@thegarbagebird

you clearly don't know shit about biden's record.

@thegarbagebird

because he has a good record on the economy, civil rights, unions, judicial appointments, ukraine, infrastructure, student loans, healthcare, and the environment. probably more, but i haven't had coffee yet.

the other guy...

daughter and i saw 'the watchers'. not a terrific script, plot (lots of holes), or great direction, but entertaining enough.

#horror #film

piers morgan. what a servile little bootlicker.

i hear people wonder what will happen to property values and coastlines if the oceans rise 6 feet.

listen to the carnivorous time-traveling shrub: that's not going to happen.

they're going to peak at 183 feet.

@bmacDonald94

both are likely.

trump is going to win the election, and it's all our fault.

@paul #ForwardIntoFeudalism

@quixoticgeek we put a heat pump in one of our stores and it made a huge difference. for the first time, the temperature was consistent on every floor regardless of the season, and it saved us a fortune.

@Nick_Stevens_graphics the advantage that ai has is an unlimited supply of constant feedback of what it gets right or wrong. it's a mess now, but a year from now it won't be.

the real issue that i have with all of it is that it's called ai when it's nothing of the kind. at best, it's a guessing engine. true ai is coming, but it is a decidedly different (and more dangerous) thing.

@joeo10 i have a little bit of a different take on the isms. each economic system has merits, but the failure of every one is that hoomins are involved. no system will ever be beautiful and perfect and fair because acquisitiveness is hardwired into hominids (watch a video of a chimp given too many oranges for an example), and the folks that most hoomins choose to lead lean more aquisitive. like the trope about priests and pedophiles, no one who wants the job is a good choice.