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WesDym

wesdym@mastodon.social

<p>Cranky armchair wonk and word nerd.</p>

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    @petergleick@fediscience.org I&#39;d wager a guess that that&#39;s not too hard to ignite.

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    @MissingThePt@mastodon.social Only without that annoying sound.

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    @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services This image looks like someone&#39;s Last Known Photo.

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    @jd@mstdn.ca * Bring a bucket. * Better yet, bring two. * If you take your shoes and socks off, bring four. * If you&#39;re not eating or drinking, five.

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    @LALegault@newsie.social 1) MPs cannot rename or renumber bills. 2) Fraser was not the sponsor for either of those bills, so I&#39;m not sure why you name him here. 3) C-2 is clearly about border control; it is not &quot;an old disability bill&quot;. 4a) Run-on sentences are a junky writing habit of lazy, thoughtless, ignorant, or immature people. 4b) Comma splices are run-on sentences. If you want to be taken seriously in adult discourse, it will help to write like a serious adult.

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    @HeptaSean@social.tchncs.de @randahl@mastodon.social You&#39;re correct. LAPD is one of the thousands of local or state police departments in the US who operate idependently of the federal govt. That said, LAPD is also infamously corrupt.

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    @huntingdon He&#39;s not the problem. He&#39;s only the most glaring symptom of a much older, deeper, and wider problem. The president has no power to deprive his own people of heathcare and insurance. That&#39;s under the control of Congress; THEY are the ones doing the depriving. They did before he came along, even before he was born. Congress also has the last word on public health infrastructure.

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    @sloanlance Documents like this are quick and easy to make, if you have a computer with WP software (which pretty much all do). In fact, this one could be better in some ways, and look a bit more &#39;official&#39;.

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    A NATURALIST is someone interested in Nature, whether professionally (Sir David Attenborough) or casually (bird-watchers). Its only other meanings are in art or philosophy. A NUDIST is someone who prefers to go nude. The term NATURIST means both. It&amp;#39;s had the first meaning since the 17c (originally referring to healthy living), but gained the second a little over a century ago, in an effort to distinguish serious nudism from, say, streaking or sex parties. https://www.bbc.com/news/art...

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    @karlauerbach Your comment suggests that children pay taxes. They do not. Lots of adults don&#39;t, either.

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    @rashunda I think it&#39;s not valued because C-suiters 1) do not understand it (even though they understand their own equivalent, and 2) cannot quantify it: For the majority of B-schoolers, what can&#39;t be counted is not real enough to matter. Even though there are many old jokes about this, such as the $50,000 chalk mark. Perhaps ironically, it is decision-makers who seem to have trouble learning from experience.

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    @Mastodon Mastodon is also not &quot;a platform&quot;. It&#39;s MANY platforms, all (well, most) interacting with each other through shared protocols.

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    It&#39;s not your imagination. The brands you used to think were great really were, and really did get worse. Because money. https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose

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    Eat Flesh #RuinABrandOrSlogan #HashTagGames