Posts by i_understand@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AVn2x0QLr9PxnT3UVk by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-18T20:11:29Z
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@lauren I think he (or his advisors) saw how weak a leader Chapek turned out to be and tried to take advantage of the situation.I doubt they bet on the board making such a huge move in bringing back Iger.Now, DeSantis is stuck given his entire slogan is "never back down".
(DIR) Post #AVn3XN19Kc8kIJbhnk by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-18T20:18:02Z
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@lauren The amazing thing is that for Republicans to try and back DeSantis, they have to assert that corporations don't have constitutional rights.Which means all of the religious carveouts for corporations were made in error.Or, they're just hypocrites.
(DIR) Post #AVn5naxXSp4g4kmaCe by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-18T20:43:24Z
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@lauren maintaining legacy code is almost by definition not utilizing the latest technology.Developing skills in "yesterday's technology" is considered less personally valuable than "today's technology".COBOL and 1999 excepted of course...
(DIR) Post #AVtDSblCzT9hzKbcZs by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-21T19:37:30Z
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@lauren that takes me back. Back in the 80s, for fun, I built a text to voice board and used it to read emails.I very well might have used a Votrax chip for the project!
(DIR) Post #AVvixRY0UuUSBZXB0C by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-23T00:39:48Z
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@lauren Should that apply that to the Government also? So anytime the Government collects (through taxes, confiscation, whatever) more than a billion dollars the excess is immediately distributed to all citizens.
(DIR) Post #AVvmxmYOnQQp9V8Oki by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-23T01:24:42Z
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@lauren That's pretty vague, the Government's revenue didn't even exceed a billion dollars until 1917.The Government has infinitely more power over people's lives than even the richest person or private group ever will, what makes the billion an individual has with their limited power worse than a billion in the hands of the Government?As a nation we were much more concerned over national power than we were over individual riches. And the fact is there are billionaires all over the world.
(DIR) Post #AW1DO3jL7siYYHF4Gu by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-25T16:14:15Z
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@lauren I noticed DeSantis is already out there lying just like Trump, falsely claiming it was the biggest Twitter Space ever.
(DIR) Post #AW1DvR7JCEFodlMvNg by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-25T16:20:25Z
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@lauren What I've read so far is that it crashed out at 500,000 and when it came back on only 250,000 reconnected.I also read that the largest space was over 2 million (an interview with Musk last November).But I don't have any definitive source of info. 🤷
(DIR) Post #AW5EVaCxeMe9tS5XhQ by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-27T14:45:24Z
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@lauren You account is actually suspended on univereodon.com for some reason. Which, given your single user instance, is the same as de-federating your server.
(DIR) Post #AW5Ey5DPxVvsAYtMES by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-27T14:50:56Z
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@lauren just reach out to their admin, I suppose.
(DIR) Post #AW5FsVoEGrpQrh19Fo by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-27T15:01:04Z
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@lauren I dropped him a DM, we'll see if he responds. I assumed generally admins would only discuss the issue with the account holder.
(DIR) Post #AW7VnpvS2QXzOF6kaG by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-28T17:08:54Z
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@lauren The only solution I can think of, which seems incredibly remote as a possibility, is to mandate all elections be with proportional ranked choice voting and then, at that point, elect all representatives at large. Thus eliminating congressional districts and ensuring all people are represented.
(DIR) Post #AW7ZKTCppVb2LSUX5M by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-28T17:48:31Z
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@lauren @boutell true enough.Although it's clear to me that it should. Thankfully rank choice voting is picking up in popularity and use.
(DIR) Post #AW7ciy5IyXFUvSLImW by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-28T18:26:28Z
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@lauren @boutell I've never heard the second complaint, only the opposite of that actually.On the first, as more and more jurisdictions put it in place I expect that concern will diminish.As it is, Trump is counting on the growing list of Republican candidates to allow him to win even with70 percent of more of the primary voters voting against him. How is that better?
(DIR) Post #AW7dAIXD3C7CAYQVSi by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-28T18:31:29Z
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@lauren @boutell I think the whole top two system CA implemented is crazy. It just makes having multiple candidate worse as not only can the majority vote for a Democrat but get one they don't want... they can get a Republican even the majority of Republicans didn't vote for.
(DIR) Post #AW9mq8KEgc2SZWIkwi by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-29T19:29:18Z
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@lauren Passkeys could be a good topic.
(DIR) Post #AWALFwkPkewmdQ1i2S by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-05-30T01:54:51Z
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@lauren and also interesting is that Nvidia shares skyrocketed recently because GPU demand that has been falling off in crypto has been replaced with high demand in AI.
(DIR) Post #Aaa5Upg5MELmh3pCwC by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-10-08T22:06:27Z
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@hankg I know, the world is so much better now that we have the three seashells.
(DIR) Post #AatepZKZV1p9zYkCrg by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-10-18T14:04:58Z
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@tomjennings What CBC wrote is not even close to the same thing.
(DIR) Post #Ab1w9lMRjYUja1W1wW by i_understand@mastodon.social
2023-10-22T13:32:19Z
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@kravietz Don't jugglers rely on the same principle to catch bowling pins? Although their accuracy is a lot higher than 51%