Born at 318 parts per million carbon dioxide. On 2025/02/14 it was 427.44 ppm. "He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me." Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.
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Last Notes npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Some sentence just sound better with the word "idiot" appended. "Yes, vaccines really work, idiot." "Yes, you do have a blinker on your car, idiot." "Yes, the stripper really thinks you're different from the others, idiot." I'm not saying they're more effective that way. Just that they sound better. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran If you say you're going to do something, and someone else's immediate response is that you can't, or won't? I won't say anything dramatic like "get that person out of your life," they may have other virtues that make them worth hanging onto ... But it's a big strike against. You need to manage the space you let that person have in your head. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran It's possible the rest of the world accepts the U.S. back into the community of civilized nations in a generation ... if we do the work. If our fash use nukes in the war they started, we're Germany, best case: three generations or more (after denuclearization) to be wholly trusted again. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I *do* think better of fascist scumbags who hate Trump. But they're still bad people. Don't praise them. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran In Australia, the minimum wage is $24.95 AUD per hour. A Big Mac is $7.50 AUD. You can buy 3.33 Big Mac's per hour work. In the US, it's $7.25 USD (hasn't changed since 2007), the Big Mac is $6.01 USD, and you can buy 1.21 Big Macs per hour of labor ... While dying for lack of health care. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I've been asked if I would really hang members of the Trump administration. *Hell* yes. After a fair trial, sure, I'm not one of them. Who? Trump Hegseth Miller Noem for *starters.* Prison for a lot of the rest, but those are murderers and war criminals. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran In WWII, there was only one right side. It wasn't perfect, there were many abuses, but on the other side there were Nazis. You're having a hard time picking a side? Fuck off. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Blocked on FB for another week. This time they didn't say why -- probably because I mocked them for saying why, last time. So it goes. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @vivtek Your coffee arrived yesterday. (Or we pulled it out of the mailbox yesterday, anyway.) Jodi and I took turns smelling it. I assume it's great coffee, the last batch was, but I swear you could bottle the smell and sell that. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran The last mention of cigarettes in Robert Heinlein's work appears to occur in the novel Farnham's Freehold, published in 1964. It may be that cigarette smoking is referred to without the use of the word cigarette in some later work, but certainly the drop off is considerable if not total. Prior to 1964 his work cites cigarettes regularly, and afterwards only stories written earlier but published later refer to them. I don't think young people can understand how prevalent smoking was. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Fashbook. Fair play, I'm quite sure that mocking Nazis does go against their Community Standards. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/921/706/662/681/501/original/a949d75d40240307.png https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/921/706/755/626/146/original/63d2dca958d447fa.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Those of you in the pnw who might have use of this, enjoy. ICE licenses database. https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeign25hjov5cjxt6oei6zp5ei7k4wbkgm4usxhahjkl3wsbi4w7gxu/ npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Wait, wait, the Scandinavian countries aren't socialist? They are merely (checks notes) capitalist high tax welfare states with universal healthcare? God bless capitalism, buddy. Let's do what they're doing. Good talk. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Heinlein described what we consider an artifact of internet culture in 1949, in Gulf: https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/794/040/378/907/430/original/cdb5913032d0802c.jpeg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Billionaires are planning to murder most of the human race. Don't doubt it. #nevent1q…jwp3 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Nicely written. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/768/538/033/717/768/original/143348df7954e049.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran A piece of actual good news in our dystopian reality. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/730/208/178/804/323/original/73e03169019ec288.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Can't imagine anything less relevant to me. I'm self published these days, make more from my SF than most literary writers. Goes both ways though. I don't go to science fiction conventions, and don't care very much what that crowd thinks. It's an easy life. #nevent1q…d5tp npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Modern conservatives didn't only invent a version of the Republican party that solely served fascist interests, they did the same to their churches. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "We are experiencing higher than normal call volume." Any service that lies to you every time you call it may have other bad experiences in store for you. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran So many of the things "everyone knows" are false. The taxes on an average family are much worse in Texas than in California. https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer/2416 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Going through my old bookmarks and cleaning up the stuff that doesn't resolve. This still does. https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/everything-you-know-about-fitness-is-a-lie-20120504 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran What do I really think of fash? ~~~~~ I asked him how advanced societies ran things. His brow wrinkled. “Mostly they don’t.” That described the Empress of Twenty Universes: Mostly she didn’t. But sometimes she did. She might say: “This mess will clear up if you will take that troublemaker there—What’s your name? You with the goatee—out and shoot him. Do it now.” (I was present. They did it now.) Robert Heinlein, Glory Road npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…hc5w ordered. The 8 cents was a typo, but enjoy it in good health. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…hc5w I can't read print, blind in one eye. I'd be happy to support this if there's an epub. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Bunch of people out there trying to explain the secret wisdom of the 8 Dems who sold us out to reopen the government. Somebody should explain it to the other Democratic politicians, many of them don't see it. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/democrats-infighting-shutdown-deal-00649599 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Boy, really don't do business with Bosgame. (AKA magicnuc.com, and Jinge Technology (Hong Kong) Limited.) I asked for my money back -- so they created a label in UPS, conceded that the package was coming from overseas, and did not refund me. UPS doesn't have a package yet. They just have a label. So the gear that was A) in stock, B) in the U.S., is neither, and I have none of A) my gear, B) my money, or C) any idea when the alleged gear will arrive. Buyer beware, etc. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I'm so old. If you're older than me, you're so, *so* old. I watched this seven or eight times and laughed harder every time. https://youtube.com/shorts/izXtkUpWRi4?si=Kt2AH_7flQWojfEa npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran The Taliban comes off *better* in this comparison. They don't deny the existence of global warming. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/475/911/675/934/167/original/6bf86b63736aa050.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Killing 95% of the human race is the oligarch plan. The left is likely to kill some or all of them in the fight -- but either way, the right is going to serve mindlessly, like the natural slaves they are, and turn on each other as the ovens start rolling, screaming "look what you made me do" as they put their friends and cousins in trains to the crematoriums. Each successive purge, the circle of conservatives escaping will get smaller. 95%. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran The last thing tying me to the Google ecosystem is my phone. Can anyone out there recommend an open source phone that they have had good success with? npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I'm blind in one eye & get double vision reading paper. For half a decade I didn't read much, certainly not for pleasure. Then ebooks on phones appeared. I hold that tiny screen three inches from my good eye, and I can read as fast as I ever did. I'm fond of paper books, as pieces of craft, even today. But I don't read them. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Conservatives are the dumbest people on Earth. This is a purely technical description. That's a 20-year gap, folks. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/362/725/722/991/771/original/c8a987f88d728110.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/357/808/231/044/244/original/b898f9bd8a86f7a3.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran 'Venezuela’s authoritarian regime makes political work extremely difficult. As a founder of Súmate, an organisation devoted to democratic development, Ms Machado stood up for free and fair elections more than 20 years ago. As she said: “It was a choice of ballots over bullets.”' Quite right. Those are the options. And there fascists who think the bullets are going only one direction? Foolish fascists. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/press-release/ npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "One day I realized that all the dumb stupid things people do. It's not our fault. No one designed us. We're just an accident, Harold. We're just bad code." - Root npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, 7,000 years ago. Tell me that's not a TARDIS. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/345/837/675/956/783/original/be38f955765ead62.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran The Turkish journalist Ersin Celik told local news outlets that Israeli forces “dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag.” He added, “They publicly humiliated her and targeted her specifically because she’s a well-known figure.” The Italian journalist Lorenzo Agostino offered a similar account, saying Thunberg was “wrapped in an Israeli flag and exhibited like a trophy.” https://www.thecut.com/article/greta-thunberg-was-tortured-by-israeli-forces-witnesses-say.html https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/340/497/074/723/651/original/c2d98ddfe65445ef.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Ronald J Bass, "The Perfect Thief" https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/321/721/899/405/080/original/6c0921004441c736.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Over the decades since the '70s, about 3% of American political violence has been leftist. A third Muslim, 2/3rds NatC. It's not "most violence is right wing," it's *overwhelmingly* right wing, of Christian or Muslim flavors. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "Earn or die" is the billionaire mantra. They're planning to kill 7/8ths of the human race, ballpark. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/015/858/720/584/769/original/e84b1dc266028812.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Nazi punks are a protected class, on Facebook. Who knew? https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/984/069/117/401/488/original/2be61228bd683295.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…q5wq Linux/BSD/Inferno/UBUNTU! Sharing, though. 🙂 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran A lady whose page I checked -- nice liberal, to all appearances -- wants me to stop using "Nazi filth," because it poisons the discussion. Maybe it does. If we get back to a point where discussion matters, I'll reconsider. I don't remember who I'm quoting, but if fascists could be defeated by argument, no one would ever have lost an argument with fascists, hey? You open your first concentration camp, you've cleared the bar for Nazi filth in my book. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran A superb read. The size of the problem before us. https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/ npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I said the other day I'd done something clever -- always be skeptical of people praising themselves, of course. But it really was. Had Calibre ingest my entire Dropbox folder, which is everything I've done in ~49 years, including my FB download from 2020 & 2023. I'd been cleaning it up in the filesystem -- slow. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Dude, if you're still posting "first they came for" -- that was a decade ago. They're building death camps now. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "You're not far left," a buddy says. In a world with fascists controlling every part of the federal government, I'm disinclined to argue with "far left" as a description. At least it clearly distinguishes me from the Nazis. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran A guy who I've known many decades said that my embrace of the far left had lowered his opinion of me a lot. We were talking about wealth taxes, qua my earlier post about 90% tax rates. But not just income taxes, estate taxes, real estate taxes, generally speaking, asset taxes. The billionaire class has to cease to exist. What the bootlickers defending them seem to not understand, is that this is the *nice* way to make that happen. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I've been armed most of my life, because you never know when you might need to reason with someone. Last decade, though, every round of ammo I bought was with Nazis in mind. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "Fuck you. Tuck me in." "Excuse me?" "Teenagers. They need to hate you so they can leave when the time comes, but at the same time they don't want to go, so they drive everybody nuts." - Dept Q, Ep 4. ... not wholly my experience of my kids, but enough of it to recognize. If you have a healthy relationship with them, the certainty you want what's best for them muffles this stuff, though it doesn't stop it. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Look, Nazis picked Jews as their targets the last go round because they were about 1% of the German population, and powerless. They picked trans people this time for the same reason. They're rancid cowards and ensuring that worse happens to them, than to their targets, is the only answer. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran That democracy is incompatible with obscene wealth has never been more obvious, has it? npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran When a conservative says "the poor will always be with us," it is a statement not of fact, but of intent. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Erectile dysfunction, various "meet this twenty year old girl" services, and divorce attorneys, feature prominently among my recent ads. The business world certainly has an opinion about the services I need. I've been *looking* at health clubs. Not one ad. "He's not serious," they've concluded. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran All conservatives are filth, I said earlier today. And yes, I meant it. Someday there may be decent conservatives again. Never say never. If that happens, I'll retroactively label this lot fascists. But right now? If there are any "real" conservatives, No True Scotsman aside ... they're pretty fucking quiet. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran U.S. trade deficit by month for the last 3 years. Yes, Trump and his supporters are literal Nazis. They're also clowns. Stupid and incompetent, enabled in their brutality by a billionaire class that doesn't mind brutality as long as it permits them to continue to steal. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/461/077/603/144/483/original/3b2a852b9575261f.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran 'A revolving door of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post columnists made a career of platforming people who—either blatantly or through implication—argued that transgender people shouldn't exist. That democracy had "gone too far." They raged against "wokeism" because they couldn’t conceive of a world where it wouldn’t prevail. They bemoaned "cancel culture" not because they cared about free speech ...' https://www.theindex.media/the-pundit-class-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/ npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . Enough.” npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I do like that man. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/396/995/902/092/479/original/ab6958819c5dd931.jpeg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I haven't run the numbers except in passing, but you know when it changed? Sure you do. 2016. The U.S. itself is sick with its gun fetish. But even among a highly armed domestic population, white men are sicker and more fascist than anyone else. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran When he was taken into custody after being shot and injured by university police, Phoenix Ikner, 20, was carrying a handgun that used to be the service weapon of sheriff’s deputy Jessica Ikner, according to officials and records." A Republican, son of one of the members of our increasingly militarized & Nazified police. It was once true, I swear, that white men didn't become spree killers at any higher rate than any other ethnicity. (Though they are almost always male.) npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran The mass shooter at Florida State? "A Florida State University student accused of killing two people and injuring five others in a shooting at the university on Thursday is the son of a local sheriff’s deputy, authorities say, and spent time training with law enforcement and serving on a sheriff’s advisory council in the years before his alleged attack. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "If someone says something Nazi on your page and you say fuck you and kick them off, that's fine. If someone says something Nazi on your page and you don't, you're a part of the problem." - SF writer Steve Perry npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Look, if you don't get what's happening, I can explain it very simply: The Republican Party exists to tax you and give your tax money to billionaires. That's it. All the rest, all the bigotry and religion and kidnapping and threatened wars, exists to distract you so that they can continue to steal. I could write a million words worth of analysis and not get significantly closer to the truth. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran If the punishment for property damage is the same as the punishment for killing billionaires, people will make a rational determination. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Chumbawumba, The Day The Nazi Died "And we'll never rest again/Until every Nazi dies" A truly great song. https://youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?si=OmeL02YYlKOCZ5T8 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…q5wq yeah, Reagan was when I first noticed this. Angry artists run eloquent. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran I legitimately don't hate Trump. He's an evil man, sure, but he's also a clown, probably mentally ill, and certainly senile. The United States should be able to handle someone as trivial and obvious as him. I hate his supporters, though, the rich and poor who've prevented us from handling him. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Don't fall for the highest crime city roundups. This is a conservative gag, intended to focus on areas run by liberals. The most crime ridden places in the U.S., per capita, are counties full of conservatives. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran From billybongos1337 on the Bad Place: "If you are abducted by an ICE agent, you can be sent to that gulag in El Salvador, potentially for life, with no judge, jury, or court date or records of your disappearance. On the other hand, if you shoot an ICE agent, you will be apprehended by local law enforcement and have a day in court before a judge and/or jury and there will be a paper trail of where you are so your family members can find you and you will be able to correspond with a lawyer." npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Almost all philosophy is monkeys arranging symbols into attractive patterns. 1 Do no harm. 2 Protect the innocent. I can stand on that. It's not a rock, but it's pretty solid. Near everything else I've ever seen that I like is some flavor of 1 & 2, or something I disagree with. On my optimistic days I add, 3, enjoy yourself and help other people enjoy themselves. Now you don't have to read John Stuart Mill, anyway. You're welcome. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…q5wq what happens to most writers. Shakespeare and Mark Twain are rarities. And Twain may not last -- he was as anti-racist as any man of his time, and less of a misogynist. But there are moments of both. Huckleberry Finn's Jim may ultimately be the knife that puts Twain to rest. Shakespeare wrote before the US existed, and the industrialization of slavery in the US followed his death. He's so central to the English language, I doubt he ever really falls away, as long as people speak English. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…q5wq his two best books are Have Spacesuit Will Travel, and Citizen of the Galaxy. His best adult book is Moon is a Harsh Mistress. He's of his time. (Also, I think he lost certain inhibitions later in life, for whatever reason. Actual brain damage, I suspect. And this reflects badly upon him and upon the people who should have been looking out for him.) But if you choose not to read Heinlein, and fair enough, you're avoiding the person who defined mid-20th century science fiction. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…q5wq I don't like a lot of it. But I can quote with the best of 'em. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Always been interested by the sort of liberal who can, barefaced, say that violence settles nothing. Taken to its extreme, this insane belief falls straight into the crime of pacifism. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/187/644/566/153/473/original/d54b3eabcb810e03.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "Republicans are laying the groundwork" Jesus fucking Christ, never read the billionaire press. There's no fucking groundwork. We're here. It's now. Fools wondering if the court system is going to hold are too stupid or corrupt to listen to. Do you know who's on SCOTUS? npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran An NSA tech I knew told me my mailing list was being monitored after 9/11, and suggested I tone it down. Today? I'm certain I, you, and everyone who's ever posted on social media, have a score in a database maintained by the Nazis -- and they'll work their way down the list as quickly as they can. It won't be *that* fast. Too many powerful families split across the liberal/conservative divide. Too many armed people who'll take action if they and theirs are threatened. But it's coming. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "The only ideology nuttier than communism is libertarianism. Communism doesn't scale, no, but it's ok in small groups. Libertarianism in small groups is "Lord of the Flies." We don't know what libertarianism looks like in large groups, none of them have ever managed to run even a small town anywhere." - Dan2017 ... Well, now we get to watch a whole country being run by libertarians. Make sure your cupboard is stocked and you have plenty of ammo. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran One note -- $5bn in savings is wrong. The overall costs to the federal Treasury, from this criminality, is now in the tens of billions, will eventually be in the hundreds of billions -- trillions, finally, if it crashes the economy as it might. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/134/860/910/242/828/original/338f85a673dd0162.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Why you should read "On Writing Well," by William Zinsser. 300 pages of similarly precise work, by a world class, all time great journalist and writer. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/112/465/690/158/640/original/2599bd55488de810.png https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/112/465/851/254/667/original/5d7a00799e9693da.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…5n8f @nprofile…23dn "On Writing Well," by journalist William Zinnser, is the book that actually taught me something -- specifically how to edit, by Zinnser showing successive drafts of his work. I've recommended it to others for decades. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "We have proof that Musk is not a Nazi. The Nazis built good cars." npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/044/761/407/701/006/original/9983173cd6f45054.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran ‘No, the way you can tell a Klatchian is, you look an’ see if he uses a lot of words beginning with “al”, right? ’Cos that’s a dead giveaway. They invented all the words starting with “al”. That’s how you can tell they’re Klatchian. Like al-cohol, see?’ ‘They invented beer?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘That’s clever.’ ‘I wouldn’t call it clever,’ said Sergeant Colon, realizing too late that he’d made a tactical error. ‘More, luck, I’d say.’ ‘What else did they do?’ https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/033/602/601/105/302/original/5e5abfb017319147.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "The King can do no wrong." - Charles Stuart, approx 20 January 1649 Execution of Charles Stuart, 30 January 1649 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "It took many years to develop birth control for men, but I'm so glad the CyberTruck arrived and fixed all that." npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @nprofile…q5wq we're so in their heads, pissing off liberals is 90% of why they do anything. I can be petty 10% of the time in return. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Never used to call myself woke. I've started using it. Apparently it now means anything decent that Nazis hate? Sure, I'm woke. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran The Nazis are making me appreciate the Commies. That alone is reason to hate them. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/113/985/972/428/079/849/original/9aeac356405ef9eb.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran "I do not authorize META, Facebook or any entity associated with Facebook to use my penis, scrotum, taint or anus in any way, past, present, or future. It is strictly prohibited to disclose, copy, distribute or take any other action against me based on my penis, scrotum, taint or anus. Violation of this may be punishable by law. However, in the spirit of compromise, Mark Zuckerberg may personally gargle my balls." npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France Donald Trump, collaborator of Russia Vidkun Quisling, Minister President of Nazi-occupied Norway https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/113/667/980/390/404/317/original/c81103418a7e0427.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran @npub1dgz…4q3g all true. I couldn't listen to his music while he was alive. Could again after he passed. But I can remember him as a little boy. Monsters don't come out of nowhere. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Of all the things to find myself grieving for, Michael Jackson didn't strike me as the one that would hit me today. He was damaged from the first, an utter brute of a father, but there was a time when he looked like he had a shot at being one of the best of us -- not just as a singer, which he still is, but as a human being. But time and trauma caught him. https://youtu.be/ElN_4vUvTPs?si=j-WVHF5LF6WoeTw1 npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Not one conservative in a thousand understands this. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/113/398/716/175/986/060/original/0f3725157976248d.png npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran Cancel your NY Times subscription. If you absolutely must read them, use archive.is. npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/686/725/509/496/219/original/c18358af50939bbb.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran This is seven years old. But I don't think the principle has changed. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/633/417/620/220/628/original/3cc571897b7c2083.jpg npub13nzntmcap0l0eualhy059sv8x255pslhy9yv39napzy4f9tcmmps28p4nr Daniel Keys Moran When I hear conservatives talking about how trans girls and boys are a communicative fad, what I hear is people who would rather their children be dead than different.