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2026-05-08 10:57:40 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
LaTeX has come a long way in 40 years since I started with the 5th edition in ‘86. Lucky for me math.utah.edu needed help. I did part time remote work ‘91-‘03.
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2026-01-20 18:57:30 GMT

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@nprofile…l85x The happiest residents of nursing homes are often in the dementia ward because they have no idea if what’s happening.

2026-01-14 21:08:39 GMT

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@nprofile…l85x @nprofile…2ch3
Shooting the dog was her SS qualification.

2026-01-10 08:31:47 GMT

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@nprofile…x9tq I date US imperialism to 1898 & the Spanish-American War.

2025-12-22 09:26:08 GMT

@nprofile…8lq4
"You make music for the reasons of love I think.
You love music, you love to perform it, you love to listen to it. But sometimes there's a catharsis in music that's somewhat incidental, for you and for the audience. As the audience might be changed by the experience, there's a kind of transmutation for you as wel!."
- Richard Thompson
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2025-12-18 16:59:52 GMT

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@nprofile…8pfl @nprofile…nks4 @nprofile…tczh
1st saw TV in ‘48 -9, dad was stage mgr for NBC Cleveland. The advertising business has been propaganda for hundreds of years.
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2025-12-09 03:23:10 GMT

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@nprofile…54w9 Party lines old

2025-12-04 11:58:51 GMT

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@nprofile…glz5 1st TV at home was ‘48-9 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. A 6” diagonal screen in a large wood cabinet. The advertising industry has been propaganda & psychological warfare ever since.

2025-12-04 09:42:44 GMT

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@nprofile…glz5 TV did enough damage.

2025-12-04 09:36:23 GMT

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@nprofile…8lq4 Rolling all of those into one person, you, is hard. Register your work as a business, state dba & tax id, separate bank account. A lawyer writing or reviewing contracts is worth it. It is cheaper to hire an attorney at the start than at the end. Done it 3x & failed.

2025-12-01 22:24:18 GMT

@nprofile…eqsh Odd tools from my dad. Beryllium alloy slip & crescent style tool for natural gas, no sparks.
Berylco pliers & wrench.
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2025-12-01 19:16:27 GMT

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Sparked moments of fear. My short term memory sucks. Could not find online record of paying property taxes. Paid in person by check. 🤪

2025-11-28 16:32:35 GMT

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@nprofile…8lq4 Your piano and organ show the special effects of your fingers and feet.

2025-11-28 10:42:34 GMT

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@nprofile…8lq4 Novice me has only an looper & an inexpensive Fender digital amp w/effect knobs. Pro pedalboard setups are amazing. Photo is one of Tom Bukovac’s.
- hooked on his YouTube channel since March 2020, 1st place that I check daily.
An interview https://youtu.be/FX_zIpWjaiQ

2025-11-22 13:32:37 GMT

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@nprofile…8lq4 13:30 hands on keyboard.

2025-11-18 00:30:23 GMT

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@nprofile…ysmn Yes, from Santa Barbara. Customs at Tiajuana demanded $4,500 to let me cross. Drove to Tecate 50 miles East and was let in for $200. It took 3-days from there ~1,560 km.

2025-11-16 11:47:39 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj I was taught 60 years ago to ask for a trial by judge if innocent because you only have to convince one person. Trial by jury if you’re guilty, one of your peers might save you. Surrendering your right to a jury trial can lead to a plea in abeyance & no record. It did require an attorney, the money was well spent.

2025-11-15 20:59:20 GMT

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@nprofile…02nw I was betting on a Saudi Arabian resort or even Sochi Russia.

2025-11-12 09:23:56 GMT

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@nprofile…ysmn Drove a truck of supplies to La Paz in Baja del Sur in 1980. The contents were for a house on a tiny islet 82km NNW, on Isla de Pardito. - tiny as in 130m x 108m
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2025-11-07 01:20:23 GMT

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"looks like water, smells like wine, oh my god, it's turpentine"

2025-11-06 11:38:07 GMT

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@nprofile…hwyn @nprofile…hzyj Lucky to have read Homer, Shakespeare & the required KJB in a diocese hs. It was presented as the roots of English literature.
Hayakawa was also referred to in a documentary US history class, teacher was a Rhodes Scholar.
College was relative simple.

2025-11-06 09:17:14 GMT

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@nprofile…hzyj Reading seems to be a disappearing skill. Many of the books we read in high school English classes mid ‘60s are banned or ignored now.
One book from then stands out, “Language in Thought and Action”, S. I. Hayakawa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_in_Thought_and_Action

2025-11-05 16:59:07 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec Appears the users pay extra for leasing premium vehicles.

2025-11-05 10:52:27 GMT

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@nprofile…35ec Seems a pricey choice for public funding.

2025-10-12 11:57:24 GMT

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@nprofile…g27y Using Google search now is like walking into a face clinging wet spider web in the dark.

2025-10-12 08:58:42 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Social media has become more informative than traditional print and broadcasting.

2025-10-11 15:14:26 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Have a coffee habit. Used same local roaster since 1982. Sumatra Gayo beans for decades. My free hand mix is 12-13g: 150ml water, so about 12:1. Use a burr grinder for each cup on espresso setting in an Aeropress. Filters are reusable for weeks. 200 are the area of a newspaper sheet.
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2025-10-11 10:50:20 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Funny to speak of intermittent sleep and then get 7+ hours straight through.

2025-10-10 14:52:00 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Yes I still do it. Average (7hr 45min) which is more than last year Glad that it works for you. Resting pulse is of more importance to me than hours of sleep.
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2025-10-07 01:18:56 GMT

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@nprofile…rdqy Father & uncles were in the Army in Europe.

2025-10-06 01:31:27 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h @nprofile…stk0 @nprofile…6mfm @nprofile…vdcr
Write for you not for me.

2025-10-05 21:37:25 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h @nprofile…stk0 @nprofile…6mfm @nprofile…vdcr
Less is more for me in folk music.
-Wouldn’t play on iOS 26.0.1. Booted macOS to listen.

2025-08-24 12:25:25 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz My gut reaction to the portrait photo was this guy is bonkers.

2025-08-20 13:11:27 GMT

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@nprofile…5dk9 @nprofile…rh2x
I should change my modem software for WiFi. Desktop has a 62k etc/hosts block file.

2025-08-20 11:27:02 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x Family connections continued via text & emails.

2025-08-20 10:59:05 GMT

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@nprofile…rh2x No FB since 47 came down the gold escalator 10 years ago, also quit NY Times subscription.

2025-08-16 22:47:54 GMT

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@nprofile…wuyc Union construction workers in the US were paid overtime, 1.5x after 8 hours 6 days a week & double time all day Sundays.

2025-08-07 10:01:48 GMT

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@nprofile…gtyw Nicotine in the stomach is not tolerated by some.

2025-07-26 14:10:30 GMT

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@nprofile…r5mx I am surprised that there has been so little gun violence in the US. What are the stats, 1.2 guns per person in the US?

2025-07-24 11:51:42 GMT

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@nprofile…2hrv @nprofile…vkcf The riches of the 1840 gold rush went to the merchants of picks, shovels, pans & lumber for mines.

2025-07-09 14:30:31 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Murphy’s Law

2025-07-07 16:34:09 GMT

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@nprofile…datc @nprofile…9vf2 Several classic bumper sticker favorites include
“God made me an atheist, Who are you to question His wisdom?”

2025-07-07 12:40:44 GMT

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@nprofile…9vf2 Bumper Sticker. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”

2025-07-01 10:43:38 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Back to Norway’s social programs, they share the wealth w/2 pension funds. It’s ~$340k per person.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway
Also the prison cells look like my room, bed, chair, desk, bookcase, a window & a guitar.
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2025-07-01 10:29:56 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h My response was based on recent article. Finland houses everyone.
Hmmm.
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/look-finlands-housing-first-initiative

2025-07-01 02:07:33 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Norway is doing great things. Their prison cells look better than some studio apartments I lived in.
Finland is also trying to eliminate homelessness.

2025-06-12 11:15:15 GMT

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@nprofile…r5mx Southern Baptists attacking LGBTQ never talk about 380 church sex offenders and 700+ victims.

2025-06-01 12:31:18 GMT

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@nprofile…sue4 @nprofile…5cma
Lettera 22
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2025-05-15 08:52:29 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Admiration for your compositions & commitment. I am more audience than musician.
Neighbor had me as her guest for 5 NOVA Chamber Music Series concerts since last fall. I am returning the favor & just bought tickets for 7 next season. “Something to look forward to doing.”

2025-05-05 23:45:32 GMT

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@nprofile…y3mz Do you have a pharmacy nearby?

2025-05-02 11:02:43 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Hello Stan. Wish the same for you. The need to take care and prepare increases daily. Everything has been just a post to me across social media since 300 baud.

2025-04-25 19:45:41 GMT

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@nprofile…65df @nprofile…x38x Idaho is scary w/o any demonstrations.

2025-04-25 18:50:13 GMT

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@nprofile…65df @nprofile…x38x
Utah will be hard to flip. SLC is a Blue dot. There have been Nazis demonstrations in public at the South end of the County.
Stocking up on popcorn for when the evangelicals come after the Mormons.

2025-04-22 18:56:51 GMT

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@nprofile…prnp Have 113 hard copies of the Whole Earth Catalog, including the Last Supplement. All(?) of the Whole Earth Review & CoEvolution Quarterly.
- issue #1 of WER is a bound printout sent from the barge in Sausalito.

2025-04-20 10:55:39 GMT

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@nprofile…kczp
A pysanka ostrich egg made in Minneapolis by Luba Perchyshyn.
https://ukrainiangiftshop.com/pages/our-story
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2025-04-19 11:22:17 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h @nprofile…vafa
My home once had 6 on weekends, then 4, 2 and now just me There are no bare walls here.
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2025-04-19 10:38:52 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h @nprofile…vafa Buy direct from the artists & surround yourself with works of art.

2025-03-19 15:25:02 GMT

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@nprofile…9z8h Hints of the Middle East.

2025-02-17 08:11:50 GMT

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@nprofile…60lz Fixed property taxes 34 years must impact public services when everything is >2x the cost. US property taxes vary by state. California has the lowest, now capped at +2%/year.
My Utah home’s tax increased 37% in 2021, assessments are yearly. There are exemptions for age 65+ low income. Disabled veterans pay $0.

2025-02-08 16:10:16 GMT

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@nprofile…r5mx Tow lines are objects, part of maritime & inland water transport vernacular. If you didn’t toe the line, you’d be fired, a physical object and a rule.

2024-09-02 12:22:59 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq I have no biological children, just 3 stepsons and their 3 grandchildren. I’m just a part of the village it takes to raise a child. Learned a lot from people my grandparents and parents age.

2024-08-17 14:23:43 GMT

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 tfg’s pose in the photo is prefect for a straight jacket.

2024-08-14 21:52:25 GMT

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@npub1dts…6798 Dorothy Parker — 'If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.'

2024-08-12 16:51:17 GMT

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@npub189n…satx US ideas about race and euthanasia were copied by the Nazis.

2024-08-09 10:31:56 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq I believe this to be true. Been there, done that. Was taken young & housebroken. 💜

2024-08-07 11:27:32 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq Been indy in other skills than music. It’s a struggle to do it all solo.

2024-08-05 22:30:13 GMT

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@npub1tps…9rmt Viagra is #genderaffirmingcare

2024-06-25 09:15:46 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 26°C inside & 24°C outside, is deliciously cool. Going to 38.889°C / 102°F later today. 28% RH so breathing through your nose is required & a liter of water/hour if outside in the shade.

2024-05-15 20:08:21 GMT

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@npub1grx…uxfe Had multiple ER visits from basic safety mistakes. Started woodworking in grade school in ‘59. Never considered any a manufacturer’s liability it was always the user & not the tool.

2024-05-15 19:30:15 GMT

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@npub1grx…uxfe ICU for you if you f*ck up

2024-02-17 21:19:56 GMT

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@npub1e0g…3wlv Knew someone who saw the premiere in Oconomowoc WI 1937-08-25. She’d just turned 15.
I was washing & braiding her hair 79 years later. ❤️
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2024-02-04 22:51:15 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq Excellent news that makes me smile. Your organ pedals …
Drove in ski boots where the most delicate touch was required. Had a cast on one leg replaced 2-weeks later w/one on other leg in ‘77. A seamstress friend made me bell bottomed jeans. We adapt & even overcompensate.

2024-02-04 20:51:04 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq Twitchy me, wanting to make you a pedal extension & foam heel cushion to allow hamstring muscles to do what calf muscles did with toe.

2024-02-01 10:00:01 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1g0t…tvm4 Did bomb drills in middle school 1961-2, 25 miles (40km) from NYC. Read “On The Beach” by Nevil Shute then.

2024-01-26 10:39:34 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq You will adapt in many ways. I hope that your mobility increases daily.

2024-01-22 21:16:54 GMT

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@npub1qk5…jlda @npub1te3…eheu Approve. Had noisy enduro & motocross 2-stroke bikes. Scraped valve covers & foot pegs on BMWs in local canyons. Broke both wrists, a collar bone & ribs by 1984. A silent E-bike would be lovely for trail riding. Not riding on 2-wheels again unless it were track time.
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2024-01-22 19:11:34 GMT

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@npub1qk5…jlda @npub1te3…eheu “Motorcycles should be seen but not heard”, sign on a BMW shop. :)

2024-01-18 12:13:12 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq I’m being evil to mention having driven manual trans in casts on alternate legs. Each followed 3-4 weeks of keeping the ankle elevated and crying a lot between pain meds.

2024-01-18 11:13:04 GMT

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@npub10cs…5prq Yikes. Wish you a speedy recovery.

2024-01-15 14:29:04 GMT

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@npub1e0g…3wlv Eliot Porter’s books are treasures. Photos of places that no longer exist. pic “Glen Canyon: The place no one knew” It was flooded to make Lake Powell.
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2024-01-05 09:54:28 GMT

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@npub18fv…9y77 @npub1ccn…czwu “Temporarily embarrassed millionaires” was floating around 30 years ago.

2024-01-05 08:29:45 GMT

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@npub1tps…9rmt Those words have meant “run away” in most endeavors.

2023-12-26 18:58:03 GMT

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@npub19ll…nvrx Kuru - Prion disease is in Utah as well in Mule Deer. Been around a long time in Chimpanzees, Neanderthals, sheep cows and passed to current humans.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4235695/

2023-12-22 23:17:58 GMT

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@npub19fc…ay3c
President Roosevelt’s The Great White Fleet(s) 2+ year world tour was more intimidation than a goodwill tour after the Spanish American war.

2023-12-11 14:48:43 GMT

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@npub1qjs…xp6v @npub1h8r…90mu @npub1ccn…czwu
The mushroom emoji 🍄 is the Amanita Muscaria. Some victims exhibit signs of lunacy & several probably started religions.
Do not recommend ingesting. Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” included a recipe for smoking it.

2023-10-12 17:29:46 GMT

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@npub1grx…uxfe The Evangelicals are hoping for the Rapture which will transport them.

2023-10-07 09:40:14 GMT

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@npub1vh9…8qsf @npub1g0t…tvm4 A slight rise in sea level and storms will make container ship transport difficult. Estimates go up to 90% of non bulk items in the world are delivered by container ships. This might happen earlier than 2040.

2023-10-02 11:53:39 GMT

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@npub189n…satx “… and too much money leads to madness” -Stanislaw Lem in “The Cyberiad”
Fortunes rarely last 4-generations. The grandkids never worked a day and partied hard.

2023-09-25 12:29:00 GMT

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@npub189n…satx Garbage in, …
Had a police scanner in ‘99 & a psychologist I knew socially rolled her eyes and said, “throw it out”. Much too depressing.

2023-09-25 12:16:27 GMT

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@npub189n…satx
Blissful with no TV at all. Distrusted US TV news since Watergate. Listened to CBC news on AM from Montreal. It was 180° from broadcast network’s’ coverage.

2023-09-24 09:31:09 GMT

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 A salary would look great now. Self employment was a big cut from peak corporate wages & not just 8 hour days. Balance came in free time to travel, work elsewhere & learn new skills. Health insurance expense was enormous prior to retirement, about 33% of my earnings. Federal taxes for Social Security & Medicare were on you & 15% not 7%. Taxes ~50% of gross.

2023-09-24 01:29:08 GMT

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@npub15nc…8xmk @npub189n…satx @npub14ha…pqf0 No one in Walgreens pharmacy was masked last week.

2023-09-17 09:19:00 GMT

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Interesting.
Art, music and dance have always had wealthy patrons. Few hourly wage earners buy ballet tickets.
Trade schools taught graphic arts in the US along w/welding, machine tools, plumbing, etc 60 years ago. Community colleges still offer those & State universities offer various fields for a BFA degree. Private colleges had artists in residence as teachers & the 2-3x cost was a class based filter.

2023-09-16 20:20:05 GMT

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@npub1e0g…3wlv The work of Helen Levitt in NYC. 1940
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2023-09-10 20:27:29 GMT

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@npub1agu…j0sk @npub1grx…uxfe
Anyone looked at a PinePhone? They run Manjaro Linux and other versions ~$200.. Have a PineBook Pro notebook for several years just to have a machine w/zero personal info.
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

2023-09-08 22:52:18 GMT

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@npub148r…0yv8 @npub189n…satx @npub19rn…sf9u Can’t imagine asking my GP for a drug, except for refills of one’s he chose.

2023-09-04 19:01:30 GMT

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@npub15vk…pz7c @npub1flk…s55c @npub189n…satx The difference in outcomes from White & Black doctors of Black patients is embarrassingly large, still.

2023-09-04 11:48:38 GMT

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@npub1uar…vzvt @npub189n…satx Travel anywhere outside the US at any point in life can be illuminating. It changed me. Had multi racial and foreign HS & college classmates, nothing prepares you for outside views of the US.
Lucky to have neighbors that are of 3 races, 4 nations & ~10 languages.

2023-08-23 17:33:16 GMT

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@npub1a8g…60k6 @npub1grx…uxfe Late ‘70s Dustbuster lasted. Mfgs keep seeking more cost savings than improvements.

2023-08-19 12:45:58 GMT

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@npub189n…satx White colonialism has been messing with indigenous cultures & considering them as lesser for centuries. We are one people, we interbreed and the children are beautiful.