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Timeline:
- COs go on strike
- Untrained Nat. Guard called in
- Mentally ill inmates don't get meds
- Mentally ill inmate "Acts out"
- Emergency corrections officers ditch their body-cams and beat the inmate to death

*LOTS* of blame to go around, here...

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Those teachers who insisted "write the way you speak" were full of shit. I've obeyed, but despite decades of successful public speaking, technical reviews and presentations, and instruction in several fields, my "like you speak" writing is misunderstood or tone-policed erroneously on a daily basis!

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So this morning, I spent 10 minutes looking for my other sock...
Rumpled bedsheets wherein a sock, camoflaged by being an identical color, is right out in plain sight, and yet difficult to see.

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All you have to do to be a prophet is get one prediction right. What about when it's 4, all at once?
A newspaper clipping with the headline from the 1953 "There'll Be No Escape in Future From Telephones". The article discusses a prediction about the future of telephones, stating they will be carried like watches, require no dial, and allow users to see each other and potentially translate languages.

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Can someone please explain to me how the credit bureaus can show that I have "Grade A" standing in *EVERY* one of their categories, but somehow, my credit is "Fair", which translates to "You can't get a lot of loans at all, and the ones you can will have usurous rates!"

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Overheard on the conference call:

"The good news is that this meeting presentation was prepared by the sales-guys, which means it will be short, because they don't like to do advance preparation."

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Overheard on the conference call:

"The good news is that this meeting presentation was prepared by the sales-guys, which means it will be short, because they don't like to do advance preparation."

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The politicians you elected don't want you to have any other choice.

"H.R.3040 - To prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in elections for Federal office."
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So... 1st, the Supreme Court ruled that Presidents can't break the law. Next, the incoming regime began illegally attacking/impeaching judges for trying to enforce laws they broke. Now the SC issues toothless proclamations that 'you can't do that', while wondering when their time will come...

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The politicians you elected don't want you to have any other choice.

"H.R.3040 - To prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in elections for Federal office."
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So here's a question. When RFKJr's tenure at HHS starts killing people, should we blame *him*, or the people who nominated and approved him?

I feel like crazy people usually get leniency, so maybe the answer is "Everyone Else Involved"...

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"Hah!" America says, "We have our own Stasi!"

From what I've heard, at least the Stasi were competent...

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I feel like there should be a law that says if you sell something claiming it's safe, and it kills a bunch of people, you should, I don't know, be held responsible in some way?
It's now 2025, Teslas have killed 700 people including 100+ pedestrians & cyclists. And burned 130+ people alive, doors locked.

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Not for nothing, but if it's possible for an online service to "go down", then it really isn't decentralized, is it?

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PSA: You can write T-SQL, C#, and VB.NET code, unless you have to work on all 3 simultaneously, each to its own monitor. In that case, you really can't write T-SQL, C#, *or* VB.NET code.

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The first hundred dumbs of a new presidency are the most important for demonstration of how stupid a president's policies are...

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Persnickety frustration #4137: People who write the "sad/failed trumpet" sound, which sounds phonetically like "Waaaa Waaaa Waaaa" as "Womp Womp".

Dude, you've got the wrong onomatopoeia...

#4137

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Persnickety frustration #4137: People who write the "sad/failed trumpet" sound, which sounds phonetically like "Waaaa Waaaa Waaaa" as "Womp Womp".

Dude, you've got the wrong onomatopoeia...

#4137

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So listen, Catholics, just a thought: Now that your CEO position is open, you have an opportunity to change. Why don't you get together, sell off the church's $75,000,000,000 in assets, and *actually* give something to the poor, instead of just offering them scraps in return for good religiousness?

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How, exactly, did MS come to the conclusion that only letting users move files with a dangerous-sounding "Cut" option was better than leaving the 30-yr-tested "Move" option in context menus?

1st rule of software improvement: Don't fuck up the stuff that works because you want to add a new feature!

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How, exactly, did MS come to the conclusion that only letting users move files with a dangerous-sounding "Cut" option was better than leaving the 30-yr-tested "Move" option in context menus?

1st rule of software improvement: Don't fuck up the stuff that works because you want to add a new feature!

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We have forgotten so much about software and interface engineering over the past thirty years it's insane.
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So as near as I can tell, my daughter's 9-child softball team contains 2 Ellas, 1 Bella, and 2 Belles. I feel like maybe an entire generation of new parents all watched the same show, or something...

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So as near as I can tell, my daughter's 9-child softball team contains 2 Ellas, 1 Bella, and 2 Belles. I feel like maybe an entirr generation of new parents all watched the same show, or something...

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The Trump regime has ignored both the other branches of our government and our constitution. It's acting against all three, and states publicly it intends to continue.

What's the term for a government that is run by one person, unaccountable to anyone else?

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President of El Salvador says he won't return mistakenly deported man to U.S.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man DOJ said it mistakenly deported to his country.
Dareh Gregorian (NBC News)

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Of course, this will eventually have been what the Trump regime was planning the whole time. Never mind the obvious stupidity of the action and immediate frenzied pushback even from Trump supporters. That had nothing to do with it...
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My job? Build an error-handling system for code that handles errors in a controller that runs the plant error-proofing system.

This is not an exaggeration. My profession is... complex.

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I told you The Left made the federal government too powerful when was in charge. Now The Right is in charge, and that government is an invading force!

"They have taken people with valid work permits. They have taken people in retaliation for not sharing information."

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Unprecedented crackdown sees ICE agents detain at least 10 Berkshire community members in sweep

At least 10 people were detained by federal agents in a series of immigration raids across Berkshire County Wednesday.
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What Android needs is a way to deny an app notifications privs but *tell* it it got notifications privs, for the asshole apps that I don't want to send me fucking notifications but then retaliate with a "enable notifications!" popup on every launch

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"Do you want to turn on notifications"
'No'
"Really, we got all kinds of cool ones"
'No'
"To contiue we advice turning on notifications"
'No'
"Seriously just turn them on
'No, Delete'
"To delete you need to turn on notifications"
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@Trevorgoodchild it looks like there might be but you have to go into a second dialog.

one thing i am trying to figure out though is i think if you give an app notifications it changes how it behaves in sleep, which is the real reason some of these apps want notifications.

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For nearly a decade, I told people that cars that spy on you, require internet access/tracking data, may be updated (or bricked) at any moment, and have door handles that won't let anyone save you if you're unconscious are a bad bet, and the left told me to shut up...

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Well, I guess having someone with rank-and-file military experience as SecDef at least means he knows how to manage "OPSec", right?

Right???

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@corruptian I think you want to believe that, but if you'll look at the facts and the track-record, you'd have to agree this is exactly the current regime's incompetent style...
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Hard to tell. He has a totally different management style to what is normal in DC, but sometimes this disruptive fast take approach works well.
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I feel compelled to point out that the loudest voices calling for public broadcasting's end could clearly use a little educational television...

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Panel 1 shows someone signing a "we own your DNA" agreement with 23andme; second frame shows 23andme location rebranded as 23andmeat, drive-thru open.

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Panel 1 shows someone signing a "we own your DNA" agreement with 23andme; second frame shows 23andme location rebranded as 23andmeat, drive-thru open.

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I read Project Hail Mary. I think I would eat a me burger.
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𒉽 Stephen Littleton ❤ ⛌
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Or... tailor made virus got them wondering why they are the only ones who are sick.
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I painstakingly created a clean, bulletproof Facebook account, and it worked. Finally, able to interact with dumbfuck events and businesses using only Facebook online. Just now, I missed the VPN disconnect notification, and clicked on a Facebook link. And now my new account is banned.

Well, fuck.

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#NoNYMaskBan
#NoNYMaskBan

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Me: At great cost and effort, I have made you pan-fried spaetzle with a from-scratch mushroom-onion gravy!

Kids: Ohmygog ohmygod, this is disgusting! Can we have box mac and cheese instead?

Me: How did I fail you?

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Our ally is being a bad ally because they aren't pleased that our president wants to steal their territory?!?!?

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Maybe we need a "Department of Garbage Engineering"!

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