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Last Notes npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…kwn5 Trying to figure it out now. Thanks. I seem to be having trouble. I’m getting ready to move servers so I’m not going to try too hard. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…uatj npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I understand the world is falling apart, or at least part of it, but I can’t do anything about that right now. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…de6r Great. Thanks. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty You’re welcome to read, of course, but I’m testing the preview here for my personal websites. #IndieWeb npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Does anyone know anything about this site? I’m not going to learn to code from the ground up, but I’m capable of some basic things. I want to create super simple html websites to use as blogs and standalone story sites. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty For the Americans, this is where Venezuela is. At the top of South America, to the right of Colombia, left of Guyana, and north of Brazil. Aruba, which you’ve probably heard of, is just off the coast. You’ve lived your entire lives without ever once thinking about it. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty As of January 1st, I have no healthcare insurance, but sure let’s give tax breaks to the ultra rich and kidnap foreign leaders. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…etys I did not. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…etys He made a joke on a Zoom and now he’s denigrating vulnerable communities and punching down? Give me a break. Sorry. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…2lz9 It is not. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…c6r9 npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Apparently, if you’ve been indicted in America, where famously, an experienced prosecutor can get a ham sandwich indicted, we are justified in using lethal force to invade a sovereign nation, to kidnap a foreign national and bring them against their will to be tried in our kangaroo court. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…etys What a bullshit story. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…7vt8 I would assume so, outside of the cult of Trump. 95% of Americans couldn’t even tell you were Venezuela is on a map, let alone tell you who their leader is. Trump picked a fight he thought he could win to pretend like he’s a tough guy. The whole country is just waiting for him to die. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Dude. WTF? This is such bullshit. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty “Hey, little anal-dwelling, butt monkey. It’s time for you to go home.” npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…238a Watch the first six seasons and then just imagine how it all ends. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I gave up on masks due to Covid long ago, but there’s some nasty shit going around in the form of norovirus and flu that I would like to avoid. I might break out some masks and buy some new hand sanitizer for the rest of January. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty It might be time to kill higher education, since it really only serves to benefit the elites. We need to build a new form of public education that works for normal people and let the rich have their expensive, private clubs, which we will tax the fuck out of. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…p2dc Well, that’s a bummer. Kind of like learning that Orange Julius was closing. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty It’s Pizza Day! At least in my house. We’ll eat around 5-6pm and be in bed by 10pm. #Pizza #NYE npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…9w6h Those items were loss leaders and underpriced to begin with. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Sad to hear that Isiah Whitlock, Jr died. Funny story. I never watched the Wire, but I knew some of the actors and characters, because they showed up in many other things later. Whitlock was in the Wire, but I didn’t know that so I didn’t get the joke when I saw Cedar Rapids. I understood the reference, just not how funny it was. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty The political media is so ready to take down or dismiss Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani before he even takes office. It’s blatantly racist. He was previously a city council member, not a hot dog cart vendor. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty It’s probably my age, but I’m sort of over moviestars. Who cares? The old ones, the young ones—I’m sick of all of them. It’s probably not their fault, but there’s a reason no one goes to the movies anymore. There’s other shit to do. I can spend several hours a day watching interviews on YouTube. If you’re smart and/or funny, I’ll be entertained. I don’t need all the production. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…favr npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…favr npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty A side of French fries can run you $7-10 these days. Can you remember what fries cost when you were a kid? npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…yr34 It’s certainly the nicest thing that came into my head this morning. :) npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty If I had the means, I’d also move to the south of France. No hate from me. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…yr34 I was just looking out my window this morning and sang “The Simpsons” in my head. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Have you ever looked out the window and seen a combination of white puffy clouds and a light blue sky and heard a little jingle in your head, “The Simpsons.” npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Why is that wind trumps sunshine on weather apps? If it says it’s going to be windy, they just ignore whether it’s sunny or cloudy. Like that part isn’t relevant. WHO CARES IF THE SUN IS OUT, IT’S WINDY! npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I feel like once Christmas is over, I’m over it. I’m just sitting around dreading going back to work. NYE is just the signal that the year is over, not that a new one has begun. It’s very anticlimactic for me, like the last gasp of a shitty year, the final straw. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I saw a movie on Netflix last night called, “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry.” It was long, sad, and more than slightly disturbing. An odd duck for sure, and a bit less cheery than the trailer would have you believe. Still, I’ll be thinking about it for a while. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I’m very disturbed by The Guardian’s use of punctuation, specifically around quotes and at end of sentences. That’s just wrong. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…vh6l I had a few restless moments as well. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I’m pretty sure Jesse Plemmons is a phantom. I’ve never seen him in anything, but he gets talked about. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty When I was growing up during the 70s and 80s in a northwest suburb of Philadelphia, the creek near our house regularly froze over and the neighborhood kids would play hockey on it. Occasionally, you’d lose a puck down a muskrat hollow. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty “The comedian Tim Minchin once gave a commencement address at the University of Western Australia, wherein one of his bits of wisdom was that young people should avoid defining themselves simply by what they dislike.” npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…va7c Why do you honestly think that is? It’s a pretty big company. They can’t all think the same. But story after story is oddly critical in the strangest ways. What’s not to like about him? npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty The crazy thing about this to me, is not the size of the F-350, an unusually large, unnecessary, and less common truck, but the size of the once small trucks such as the F-150 or the Chevy Silvarado. Even they’re enormous now. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Well, old Dave Chappelle is not taking his foot off the gas, that’s for sure. #Comedy npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Really good talk. Worth your time. Smart stuff. Tax rates. Economic disparity. Men and women. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty “You take Dartmouth, who lets in 1100 students a year, which is what the average Starbucks serves in a day. In the next five years you’re going to have two women graduate college for every man, and my fix is if you are a university with a billion dollar endowment, and you are not growing your freshman class as fast as the population, you should lose your tax-free status, because you’re no longer a public service, you’re a hedge fund with classes.” npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Scrolling through the BBC website and I come across an article titled, “The Top 25 Films Of 2025.” npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Interesting take. #USPol npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…09nj I’ve been pretty happy with my NuPhy. They have a lot of options. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I would like a magical dream thing where I get to hang out with the Sedaris family for a week at the beach. That’s the lottery I want to win. #Sedaris npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…ntzk Morocco is such a melting pot, and I assume Egypt and Turkey are as well. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I have this little fantasy of moving to either India or South Africa. With little hope of fitting in. I was originally considering Bergen, Norway or Barcelona, Spain, but that seems too ordinary. Kenya is also a possibility. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Robin Williams gave me two of my favorite inspired characters of all time. Mr. Keating and Sean. I want to spend time with them. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I fear that Jim Gaffigan is going to become an alcoholic. He seems WAY to into his bourbon. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Probably my favorite Christmas song. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty It’s 12.25.25 npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…3wga I’m not actaually convinced it happened. I’m not so sure about reality. Maybe. Sure. What the hell do kids know? npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I’m not gonna lie. I lit one end of my scarf on fire tonight. There’s no good excuse. No reasaonab rationale. It happened. I don’t know how else to tell it. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I still love this. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…pcpt Yeah. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I have a family member that I struggle to connect with, and not because we are interested in drastically different things. Our brains are just timed differently. It’s the best way I can think to describe it. He asks me questions that I assume he wants an answer to and while I’m thinking about the complexity of the answer, he asks a different, unrelated question. I think I can help him become a better communicator, and thereby, a better person, simply by teaching him how to listen. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…dw33 Funny enough, the idea that anyone can do anything is a great example of Dunning-Kruger, but not the way we typically think of it. Talented people overestimate the average schmuck’s ability to do anything. Most of us suck at most things. :) npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…x3wk Espero que tengas un año estupendo. Gracias por tu apoyo. Hopefully, that wasn’t too terrible. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…dw33 I am 57 and still not sure if I can sing or not. I’m not convinced either way. When I was 14 an upper classman asked me to join his band as the lead singer and I was completely confused. I couldn’t wrap my head around the idea. I’ve always regretted not trying. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I’m thinking of taking my son, who is an incredible musician, to Guitar Center and buying a Yamaha. #guitar npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…dw33 I seriously considered a violin but convinced myself that I’m not quite that crazy and would never learn to play it. I’ve met enough guitar players to know that it’s not outside of my reach. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…expl First, I suppose. At least as an adult. I have owned two guitars in my life. One, was a gift from my favorite uncle. It was his and I fawned over it at his apartment, and he gave it to me at Christmas. Might have been the most blown away I ever was. I was a child. Second was a new guitar years later at maybe 13 or 14. My friend Mark borrowed it in my 20s and learned to play. Started a band and wrote songs. Never saw it again. He’s dead now. Blew his brains out. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I think I’m going to buy a guitar. #guitar npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Maybe The Grinch Wasn’t All That Wrong npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…dw33 I actually want to buy a guitar and learn to play. I had them as a kid and tried, but never worked hard enough. I have my eye on a Yamaha. I know you were joking, but I’ll try to avoid having it in the shot. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Jim is a funny fucker. #Comedy npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty In the end, we only needed one Avatar movie. For the same reason no one asked for a Titanic 2. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty The NY Media is so ready to tear Mamdani down. They can’t wait to see him fail. If he isn’t swallowed whole by the Pizza Rat, then he wins. It’s an impossible job. Anything would be better than nothing. Someone trying to do the right thing will earn a lot of good will. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…wq5a Merry Christmas! npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…wq5a Don’t feel obligated to read it, but I did write an essay about this. ;) npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty We had the kids and grands over for Christmas. This is where we exchange gifts because they have their own families and traditions. I’m really pleasantly surprised by how well my strategy of giving books to everyone worked. I believe it will pay dividends. I truly do. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I’m seriously thinking about the physics of what it would take to get a runny egg on a Neapolitan pizza without making like 30 pies. Preferably by tomorrow. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Grandie’s Eve. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty The girls (wife, SIL, kids) made cookies the other night and one daughter made salty-sweet cookies that were amazing. So I asked my wife to make chocolate chip cookies that we finished with fluer de sel. Amazing. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I listen to music all the time, and mostly it’s in the background and fairly low in volume, but there’s nothing like blasting music at home. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty There’s something quite pleasant about waking up early on your day off, then remaining in bed, dozing lightly and just enjoying the comfort and solace. There’s little better in life than having nowhere to be and nothing to do. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…daft Reminds me of the classic Bob Newhart bit: npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty It’s Grandie’s Eve!! npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…ynwr I used to get rides to go skiing from a kid who owned a 1968 Mustang. This would have been early 80s so not that old at the time. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…q399 Yeah, that’s the one going around. Aren’t you surprised a real copy hasn’t been released? I mean, where was it broadcast in the first place? npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty There’s something about this that moves my soul, even though the last place I would ever want to be is in that crowd. Something about that group of people coming together fills me with joy. It’s fascinating. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty This is really pretty funny. Isn’t this referred to as the Barbra Streisand Effect? I would have never even paid attention to this story. I’m not following 60 Minutes. What is this, 1992? But now everyone is going to see it, and worse, it’s like a bootleg version. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I think my current top Christmas songs are: npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I continue to find it a little mind-boggling that people just make up stories like this and put them into songs. I’m so literal and biographical, it doesn’t occur to me that I can just make shit up. I need to start with a true story and just make it more interesting. #Writing npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Just good, clean fun. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…ntzk I feel like I will die well known but not popular. No one will come to my funeral, but they’ll read about it. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty There’s still time, but I don’t think I’m going to end up being remembered as being a great guy. Not a bad guy, but not a great guy. I’m just not that nice. I’m quite polite, very empathetic, and extremely kind, but you’d never know it because I’m a self-isolating misanthrope. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty The government of Israel is evil. You can no longer ignore this. They’re not magically good because of past trauma, and it has zero to do with being Jewish. They are a racist, fascist, radical government intent on expanding their power and influence at the expense of everyone else. I no longer understand the we live in. It’s unimaginable. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty There is nothing more useless, wasteful, and dangerous to me than a bitcoin mine. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty @nprofile…yzwg @nprofile…snq9 @nprofile…expl I mean, that’s cool and all, but how can a Senator from Vermont swear in the Mayor of NYC? What authority does Bernie have? npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Been listening to a podcast season by Michael Lewis on the scourge of sports gambling. It’s so predatory, so evil, you can’t believe it’s legal. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty I don’t engage with people who can’t be bothered to upload a profile image. I don’t care what your malfunction or excuse is, you can upload something. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty Supercharge your writing with a daily walk. npub1mm92u4wgxqfe0mnuukrn7s5ga0ft9qxvj206tken23q5q6tsdstqgqa8jr David Todd McCarty When Food Writing No Longer Features Actual Food https://www.davidtoddmccarty.com/?p=19492
