G.I. Robot :bc:

Husband, father, anti-fascist robot and enjoyer of things.

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2025-12-19 17:17:40 GMT

If you've ever wondered why your USB-C cables only work sometimes, or for some things but not others... wonder no more. This video explains it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPIJEFVetW0
TL;DW: Because USB-C is just the shape of the end of the cable. Not what's actually INSIDE the cable. There are a ton of variations of wiring inside the cables!! It's not just one type of cable!

2025-11-18 05:28:43 GMT

God dammit. I was ready to jump from Apple Watch to Pebble but now I don’t want either of them. https://activitypub.space/post/612

2025-09-18 18:29:09 GMT

It’s here.
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2025-09-07 19:47:05 GMT

Little things that are nice that make me feel better… this sand art turned out pretty good.
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2025-07-12 14:11:11 GMT

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Orbs? Ok, fancy French man. We all know they’re called balls.

2025-04-06 05:28:07 GMT

Estimated 50-80k people in Downtown LA today. We can and we must continue to do this. We need to double the 5 million that came out today across the nation.
#50501 #50501movement #handsoff #protest #uspolitics #USPol @npub1uq7…8g68
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2025-03-05 05:18:40 GMT

Ok I’m just now watching Al Green’s defiance. I cannot believe he was the ONLY one to have the guts to stand up.
Why? Why was he the ONLY one?
Was that a directive from the DNC? Were they told not to make a stand? What the hell is wrong with this party? Where was The Squad? Where was AOC? Where was Jasmine Crockett? Where were the people who we all thought were on our side? Only Al Green had the guts.
#sotu #stfu #algreen #USpol #USpolitics #democrats

2025-02-10 16:56:42 GMT

AMERICA HAS NO KINGS
UNITE AGAINST #FASCISM AND #TYRANNY
MONDAY FEB 17 - 12PM
NOHO ARTS DISTRICT
LOS ANGELES, CA
ASSEMBLE AT NOHO RECREATION CENTER
@ 11430 CHANDLER BLVD.
A #PEACEFUL #PROTEST AGAINST TYRANNY AND FOR #HUMANITY
50 STATES. 50 PROTESTS.
1 MOVEMENT.
www.fiftyfifty.one
#50501movement #50501la #politics #uspol
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2025-02-05 18:33:12 GMT

Looks like the #50501movement protests are a real grassroots thing... Good job, guys.
https://bsky.app/search?q=50501

2025-02-04 06:54:35 GMT

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Why are these people still using Nazi Twitter?

2025-01-30 01:33:46 GMT

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Give him a hug for me. I know exactly how he feels. :)

2025-01-26 07:44:30 GMT

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2025-01-24 18:17:23 GMT

This definitely needs to be shown to more people...
#antifa #antifascism #nazi #fascism #trump #politics #uspol @npub1yqw…jrue
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2025-01-20 05:06:26 GMT

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity.
It’s also what I said when The #Bills beat the #Ravens

2025-01-19 03:43:52 GMT

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Really? I was under the impression that this whole “shut down TikTok” thing began with the viral circulation of footage of what Israel was doing to Gaza (you know, genocide?)

2025-01-11 05:05:57 GMT

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Really amazing work by these guys, honestly.

2025-01-05 16:17:09 GMT

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“But that would be communism!” - Every American Politician

2024-12-23 17:54:04 GMT

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Here's a comparison - Archive.org on the left, Youtube on the right:
The Archive.org version is vastly superior, because the level of fine detail is retained, whereas the Youtube version is compressed, the blacks are crushed, and there are multiple artifacts in that version that are not seen in the Archive.org version.
While there may be more contrast and more saturation in the Youtube version, that comes with the sacrifice of details that are retained in the Archive.org version.
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2024-12-19 16:32:32 GMT

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God that man was a genius.

2024-12-18 15:40:32 GMT

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Good morning! (Or evening?) how was today?

2024-12-18 07:26:43 GMT

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It’s Tuesday night here and I’m going to bed. See you all in 8 hours hopefully.

2024-12-18 07:17:57 GMT

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That guy looks like he was a good time at parties.

2024-12-16 02:42:06 GMT

“Enter Santa” by Merrytallica
#MakeAnySongAHolidaySong
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames

2024-12-12 18:19:21 GMT

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(I liked the guillotine one just as much... can you post that again?)

2024-12-12 18:16:27 GMT

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Yes, but have you considered the fact that... sigh, yeah, I can't come up with a witty sarcastic retort. Any ideas?

2024-12-12 18:13:55 GMT

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Who amongst us has not had three glasses of wine and inadvertently let our inner Winston Churchill float to the surface?

2024-12-10 22:02:25 GMT

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here’s the manifesto:
“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
#uhc #unitedhealthcareceo #ceo #ceomurder #luigi #luigimangione

2024-12-06 13:57:10 GMT

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That’s why they survived the depression!

2024-12-06 13:54:02 GMT

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That’s interesting. You have a very responsible extended family!

2024-12-06 13:44:32 GMT

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How many people do you know that have a 72 hour kit?

2024-12-05 20:55:44 GMT

Reddit post from Mountain_Fig_9253:
Thank you for choosing United Healthcare for your healthcare needs. After a careful review of the claim submitted for emergency services on December 4, 2024, we regret to inform you that your request for coverage has been denied. Our denial is based on the following findings:
1. Lack of Prior Authorization: Our records indicate that you failed to obtain prior authorization before seeking care for the gunshot wound to your chest. While we acknowledge the emergent nature of the situation, our policy requires that all non-preventative services, including “unexpected chest injuries,” be pre-approved through our 24/7 Prior Authorization Hotline. Unfortunately, our hotline received no such call during your ambulance transport or at any point before your admission to the emergency room.
1. Failure to Prove Medical Necessity: The submitted documentation does not sufficiently demonstrate that treatment for a penetrating chest wound meets the definition of “medically necessary.” Our guidelines specify that life-threatening conditions must be substantiated with a second opinion from a network provider, preferably before care is rendered.
1. Alternative Options Not Explored: Based on our retrospective analysis, alternative, more cost-effective treatment options—such as a virtual telehealth consult or at-home first aid—were not attempted prior to your emergency room visit. We understand that you were actively “bleeding out,” but this does not exempt you from exploring lower-cost care pathways.
1. Out-of-Network Care: The emergency room where you received treatment is not within our network. While City General is geographically closer to the location of your shooting, our network partner, DiscountCare Clinic, is only 25 miles away and equipped with staplers and gauze for such injuries. Next Steps: You may file an appeal within 30 days i you believe this decision is incorrect. Appeals must include:
« A notarized letter from the attending physician, explaining why you thought you were entitled to not bleed to death while waiting for approval. « Evidence that your injuries were, in fact, serious enough to merit immediate attention, such as photos, videos, or live reenactments.
We encourage you to familarize yourself with your plan benefits and utilize in-network providers for future incidents. Please do not hesitate to reach out to our customer support team if you have questions about this Sincerely and in good health, United Healthcare P.S. Remember: Preventative care is the best care! If you'd lie, we can help you schedule your annual physical or connect you to a mindfulness seminar to prevent future traumatic injuries.
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Thank you for your recent appeal regarding the denial of coverage for your emergency room visit on December 5, 2024. We have carefully reviewed the additional information you provided, including the attending physician’s notes, photographic evidence of your gunshot wound, and the security footage of the event.
After a thorough re-evaluation of your case, we regret to inform you that the original denial decision has been upheld. Our reasons for this decision are outlined below:
Insufficient Documentation Supporting Medical Necessity:
While we acknowledge the physician’s statement that your “life was in immediate danger,” we remain unconvinced that the treatment you received in the emergency room was the only appropriate course of action. Specifically, we find the decision to intubate and transfuse blood unnecessarily aggressive when other cost-effective options, such as applying firm pressure to the wound with a clean cloth, could have been attempted first.
Failure to Contact Prior Authorization Hotline: Your appeal asserts that you were “unable to call” due to being “unconscious” after sustaining the gunshot wound. While we empathize with your condition, we remind you that our Prior Authorization Hotline is available 24/7 and can be contacted by a friend, family member, or even a concerned bystander. The failure to delegate this responsibility during your medical emergency further substantiates our denial.
Out-of-Network Services: As stated previously, City General Emergency Department is not part of our network. While we understand that DiscountCare Clinic is 25 miles away and does not operate ambulances, the choice to seek care at a non-network facility remains inconsistent with your plan’s cost-saving guidelines. Our analysis indicates that driving oneself, despite injury, or calling a rideshare service might have provided a viable and more affordable alternative.
Policy Exclusions on Firearm-Related Injuries: Your plan explicitly excludes coverage for injuries resulting from “unapproved use of firearms.” As no evidence was provided to confirm the shooting was accidental or unavoidable, we are unable to overturn this aspect of the denial.
Next Steps: This decision is final. You may choose to escalate your appeal to the Independent Medical Review Board (IMRB) at your own expense. If the IMRB overturns our decision, you may be eligible for partial reimbursement minus a $5,000 “Claim Reconsideration Fee.”
We encourage you to consult our Member Handbook to better understand your plan benefits and avoid similar misunderstandings in the future. Should you find your current coverage unsatisfactory, we invite you to explore our new UNH UltraBasic plan, which offers even fewer benefits at an even lower premium.
Sincerely and in good health,
United Healthcare
P.S. Please note: Our appeals process is designed to promote proactive healthcare decision-making. While this unfortunate incident did not meet policy requirements, we commend your efforts to stay alive and wish you a speedy recovery.
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2024-12-05 06:41:29 GMT

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Too late. They already have.

2024-12-05 05:49:42 GMT

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Damn. We're fucking old.

2024-11-28 19:10:11 GMT

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I had no idea that existed! Is it like an air fryer?

2024-11-25 00:16:43 GMT

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Talk is cheap!

2024-11-22 20:54:02 GMT

I just... really?
#stardew #stardewvalley #game #games #gamedev #rpg
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2024-11-21 07:50:34 GMT

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No.

2024-11-18 02:20:03 GMT

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Have you tried sleeping?

2024-11-16 22:43:19 GMT

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Gayer than a lake full of pink fish?

2024-11-15 07:26:34 GMT

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As much as I want to agree with you, it’s dangerous not to take them seriously. Especially when over half the country actually voted for fascism this time.

2024-11-15 04:37:57 GMT

Why the HELL am I just learning about this NOW?!?
Why am I JUST NOW learning about this?!??
In the early 1900’s Judge John Moses Cheney (a Republican running for Florida Senate) started a voter registration campaign to register more Black people. Norman and Perry led the drive to register Black people in Orange County (florida). Their efforts were so successful that according to the 1920 Census, 68% of Ocoee’s Black community registered.
On November 2, Election Day, despite warnings from the Klan that no Black folks would be allowed to vote in Ocoee, Norman and Perry went to the courthouse to vote. A few of the town’s white residents turned them away on their first visit to the polls and pistol-whipped them on their second.
That night, members of the Klan showed up at Perry’s home, in search of Norman. A shoot-out ensued in which they shot Perry in the arm, and two whites were killed.
The mob returned with backup. Norman escaped, but Perry was subdued and then dragged behind a car.
Thus began the massacre that lasted well into the pre-dawn hours of the next day.
The white mob burned at least twenty-five homes and two churches, as well as the groves of Black residents, and killed an estimated sixty people attempting to flee the fires.
Those not murdered escaped to the nearby towns of Apopka and Winter Garden with only the clothes on their backs. Perry wasn’t seen again until his body appeared hanging from a tree (some sources say light post) outside Judge Cheney’s well-to-do enclave.
No Black residents lived in Ocoee for fifty years. Voting records state that the number of Black registered voters in Ocoee dropped from 68% to 11%. The people who murdered, burned out, and assumed possession of Black property were never brought to trial.
Judge Cheney was never elected to the Florida Senate. https://mastodon.world/@clayrivers/113484241248169621

2024-11-15 01:02:45 GMT

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But how do they keep the homeless from sleeping on all those benches?!? (he asked sarcastically)

2024-11-14 06:31:04 GMT

An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the regime due to incrementalism.
“Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.
But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free
#USpol #USpolitics

2024-11-13 23:37:29 GMT

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2024-11-13 23:34:42 GMT

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What else happened today? I've been trying to stay away from the news.

2024-11-13 23:29:24 GMT

Holy fucking shit. Jesus christ.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trump-appoints-former-democrat-tulsi-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence/ar-AA1u2nDU
#uspol #uspolitics

2024-11-09 04:05:33 GMT

Never give in to the despair they want you to have. Fight against regression, and fight for progress. If they want to take our rights, make it a fight at every level
#uspol #uspolitics
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2024-11-08 21:59:46 GMT

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https://www.lronhubbard.org/ron-series/profile/introduction.html

2024-11-06 23:27:51 GMT

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A job is a job. I don't fault people for working a job.

2024-10-02 22:55:24 GMT

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Ok, so I never played any of the Final Fantasy games, and I was thinking I should start with the NES version and work my way up. Good plan? Or am I in for a world of pain?