Notices by Urban Hermit (urban_hermit@mstdn.social), page 3

Some of you are not getting the "weird" framing.

Weird is not just a bad name you fling at people you don't like. Weird, the bad weird, is when somebody says or does things that show that they don't understand other people at all. Since all people are modeling others on how they think, it suddenly tells you that they don't think at all like other people.

An obsession with others masturbation, controlling women, obviously worthless NFTs - don't normalize it because they are rich.

@HamonWry if Donold had dropped dead at some point previous to this year Melania could have stood to inherit half a billion dollars...

...she still never, for one second, ever, looked like it was worth it.

🙀😸

@grishka @eloquence I want, badly, to see screen shots of Mastodon, posted to Xitter, then posted back to Mastodon w/ a flummoxed, wrong, or bewildered reply.

I would follow a bot that posted Mastodon to Xitter, then posted the result back to Mastodon.

Troll trolling? Troll fishing?

Could it go wrong, could it attract their attention? Sure, probably, but when they think they are going to swarm they have to pick a server, create an account, make some friends because there is no algorithm, ...

@Tharpa @glennsills @cynblogger @Dave_Goldsmith @Nazani @stevebenen that is why he desperately needs a friendly crowd of weirdos at his next debate. His rambling nonsense can only stay on track, roughly, based on crowd reaction.

Imagine if they had an audience for the next debate, but only let in people who passed a politically neutral IQ test, which was a fact not leaked in advance. Even if the "pass" was average, he would be looking at a stone faced and horrified crowd, with 2-3 "yeah" guys.

@Tharpa @Dave_Goldsmith @andytiedye @glennsills @cynblogger @Nazani @stevebenen at this point Trump doesn't even have his own popularity, he defeated the other Republicans by name calling and now he is riding the coat tails of people who have been fighting "The Culture Wars" for 2 decades. They have given 20% or more of their family life savings to defeat the gays, woman's lib, and equal rights people and they will support a rapist if that is what it takes to "never have to vote again".

Weirdos

@Nazani @stevebenen this is what a life time of lying gets you, he doesn't even know the difference between the truth and a passing 'hallucination'.

@TanekRune @Lesliesez I was right on the edge of listing all the positive traits of being autistic with none of the negatives. What is not said was, "I can do this job and nearly half of any others you might have better than it has ever been done. I am not perfect, but I have tested above the 98th percentile in EVERYTHING. I play strategy games on my phone for fun where I am in the top 400 in the world. Now give me this fucking job before I am fucking homeless!" - definitely not said.

@Lesliesez @TanekRune I lived alone in a one room studio apartment in SE Portland in the 90s, worked a near minimum wage full time job as a security guard for graveyard shift, was too poor to buy a car until I was 26 years old, rode the bus nearly 2 hours to get to Portland Community College where I took an average of 2 hours worth of classes before I had to go home and sleep, pursued that for 6 years, and still got a perfect 4.0 GPA in a broad spectrum Associate of Arts block transfer degree.

@Lesliesez @TanekRune
I got into half a dozen of the best universities in the United States & briefly went to Cornell before that state's lack of a minimum wage law & the University's ban on working more than 10 hours a day forced me out.

This $20/hr job I might be forced to accept isn't even the hardest thing I have done before breakfast. The question isn't can I do this work? The question is when will you disappoint me & how many times I will accept it before moving on.

Definitely not said.

I just had an argument about politics with a friend (IRL). Funny things is, I agreed with him sincerely on everything he said.

But this election is not going to be won by good arguments about important issues. We already have everyone who listens to good arguments on our side.

We need to point out that the otherside is an effing joke, of history's losers and bad ideas. You break the culture wars by pointing and laughing at the side with weirdos who want to do creepy things.

@thomasfuchs we have a leader of the House of Representatives who has an app on his phone so that whenever he or his son think about looking at porn with it they can text each other and pray about it together.

That is both weird and an obsession.

And he basically bragged about it, which is how we know.

That is a party of obsessive weirdos and criminals propped up by rich dumbish guys who want more tax cuts and own media outlets.

This is not healthy or normal.

@HamonWry let's hear universal calls for him to step down.

He got 46% of the popular vote in 2016. As an incumbent he got 46.9% in 2020. He had and always has had a hard ceiling on his popularity. He is not electable unless Republican hard shenanigans pull him through.

Trump is a toxic brand and the only thing more unpopular is the party of tax cuts for the rich and racism for everybody else. That is why they let the rapist, fraudster, grifter take over.

The GOP is a dead brand.

I just figured it out:

Most of the richest people lie more vigorously and more often (commiting fraud) because they don't feel the consequences of wasting credibility. Because being rich, no matter how they got that money, automatically buys credibility and attention, without even spending it.

!!!!!!

(I am almost sorry for them, but not, because most were raised better and some have resisted the temptation to make a living being shit.)

@rightardia you can bet that is a direct quote from somebody who wasn't expecting to be quoted. Expected everyone else to go along with and enable their bigotry. That is a good case of malicious compliance and I hope the executive who said that originally gets fired, sued, and does jail time on a civil rights charge.

MAKE BIGOTS AFRAID AGAIN!!

@TCatInReality @noiseician @StillIRise1963 only people who pretend US presidents have the right to order average citizens killed believe that the presidency has and needs some sort of immunity.

Every death by the government should be lawful, and none should happen outside of courts and explicitly declared wars.

I can't believe this timeline.

@HistoPol I like Michael Steele, I have listened to him as a guest on The Bulwark podcast and he seems like a smart guy, clever, with the ability to laugh at a situation. Glad we are on the same never Trump side. But I don't know how he could be a Republican. It's like he has no sense of history. Trump is the direct result of 30 years of Rush Limbaugh lies at any cost, tolerance of any conspiracy as long as it helps the GOP. And before that is Agnew and other criminals. I don't know how.

@eyrea @samplereality it is interesting that the numeric keypad, which I can do mostly subconsciously without any training or looking, is not remotely diagonal like the keyboard, and is essentially in the order we all learned digits.

I am old enough that I had a one semester typing class in highschool, but I have autism and fine finger movement without looking has always been difficult for me. I am a slow typist, but I will try to remember YHN, UJM, ect. THX.

@stevewfolds @flyblue @eyrea @samplereality when I was in highschool in 1988 my mom bought a used manual typewriter for me to use when classes started requiring typewritten papers and I needed to practice for typing class. A year later she relented and got an electric typewriter with a page and a quarter of memory on a 14 character LCD screen so I could edit out mistakes and typos. In 1990, my last year of highschool, I won my first computer in a contest and could finally write a complete paper.

@rgarner you remember that, do you? Hmm.. Have to do something about that.

THINGS THAT ARE NOT CONSENT:

"We will brick your device if you do not agree to terms of service" is not 🤬 consent.

"The company you worked for transfered your retirement to this company. You will not get access until you create an account and agree to our terms of service and fees and payments. There is no other way to reach us." Not 🤬 consent!

"The money you are owed is on this card. To redeem you have to sign this card which means you agree to our terms of service and fees." Not 🤬 consent!