Notices by Matthew Merkovich :clippy: (mattmerk@mastodon.social), page 2

@AnarchoNinaWrites Are you telling me that pink pussy hat marches through Manhattan aren’t going to restore abortion rights?

@AnarchoNinaWrites I feel absolutely no joy from being able to say, "I told you so."

@pluralistic I felt a little bothered that your care in California had so many bumps, mostly because I loved my life in The Golden State. And I hate to see what you had to deal with, no matter how not-that-bad it was.

I'm glad to see you are doing better, though. I'm NOT glad that you too now have years of hitting your insurance deductible for all the followup visits.

This insurance-company-CEO-pay-care system we have really needs to go!

@pluralistic Sorry to hear all this, Cory, but you've been hearing that a lot lately. I know because I just ended treatment a year ago for my also very treatable form of cancer. All my friends live in Southern California, and a couple of them said I needed to go to UCLA for the best care, but here in Boulder County, CO, I got world-class care, with next day appointments, an Oncologist from MD Anderson, and a wonderful care team. 1/

#Linux I think I have tested out nearly every popular Linux distribution over the last couple of months, and the latest was Mint, which at first glance looked great. But then I tried my true metric: Fallout 4. I just couldn't get it running well at all.

What I've been looking for was a Linux distro that just worked with little or no effort, and it looks like Ubuntu wins for me. Everything just works, with little user intervention.

If any Linux fans out there want to set me straight, please do!

@molly0xfff "Something we are doing is clearly not working."

@br00t4c What a kooky lunatic! 🤣 @CStamp

@CStamp Meh. This is the same tired argument that democrats in the US keep resuscitating over and over. It's Ralph Nader nonsense, version 2.0. Instead of attacking the right, neoliberals always go after anyone to their left, and will fabricate whatever "facts" they need to support their assertion. Only Hillary cost Democrats votes in battleground states in 2016.

Gary Johnson's scant numbers beat Jill Stein's by a good margin, and yet ...
@br00t4c

@AnarchoNinaWrites But thank you for inventing the term "Pig Empire," right? 😂

Oh wait, that was "noted antisemite*" Abbie Hoffman.

* Written in my most sarcasmy sarcasm voice with my most sarcasmy sarcasm face.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I just can't even with these people ... as the kids say.

And Hunter S Thompson is my model for people I don't agree with all the time, but who have some great ideas and who I'd love to hang out with.

#VFX #AI Just had someone sincerely suggest that the SynthEyes user manual could be re-written by Chat GPT. 🤣 I am still laughing!

@AnarchoNinaWrites "You aren't a capitalist because you don't have capital." I laughed out loud!

https://mastodon.social/@MattMerk/112413455610652763

Shout out to everyone else who doesn’t celebrate Mother’s Day, for whatever reason you don’t .

I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”

So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”

Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.

So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.

@LeftistLawyer And we should stop calling it “profit seeking,” when it’s just “rent seeking,” which is often the case.

@AnarchoNinaWrites It’s not difficult to find evidence to support that racism has historically always been fomented by capital.

@aral @RadicalGraffiti Ahem! In keeping with Yoda’s natural speech cadence and patterns, I submit this superior version.

@AnarchoNinaWrites LOL! I’ve been lately having a fair number of “Wait, has hell frozen over?” moments.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I love all the, “Yeah but he wasn’t really in charge” talk. Me? I’ve never been remotely close to any child trafficking organization. It wasn’t even hard. Effortless, in fact.

@AnarchoNinaWrites $520 million is a start. Now we need that wealth tax.

Party pooper post script, just for some perspective ...
1 million seconds is 11 days
1 billion seconds is 32 years.