Posts by nitpicking@mstdn.party
(DIR) Post #AcONJLQmZGcc0NXz0a by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2023-12-01T21:34:14Z
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Want to stay alive? Skip Texas after SB 7 goes into effect in February. It forbids all vaccine mandates, including for medical workers. Greg Abbott joins Ron DeSantis in the category of "pro-disease activists".https://www.natlawreview.com/article/texas-enacts-ban-covid-19-vaccine-workplace-mandates-six-things-health-care#COVID #Vaccine #Texas
(DIR) Post #Ad0Mfx3pah6Qqgbd7w by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2023-12-18T20:30:51Z
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@briankrebs I'm happy to say that I've been warning people about this method of theft for a few days now.
(DIR) Post #AhZCtDJxsqoVMVHF9k by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-05-05T02:22:24Z
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@ZachWeinersmith The fact that mom is actually a zoologist is irrelevant, of course. Cassandra knows better.Tell her you had her name legally changed to Cassandra, just as she requested. She said she felt like a "Cassandra", right?
(DIR) Post #AheGX3Ywr6B4Kim7Zg by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-05-07T12:56:47Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I don't read that much fiction these days, but I happen to be reading a story by Steven Brust right now, and he definitely does this. Then again, Steve is deliberately aping older writers. This novel is partly a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's stuff ... which was itself satire. Brust's themes are things like class warfare, the breakup of a marriage leaving the protagonist devastated, and redemption for a character who was, a few novels ago, an unrepentant psychopath.
(DIR) Post #AhofWgwDPkKcbBBEMy by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-05-12T13:23:56Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I find Wells to be hard to read, even his best stuff (according to others). I can read his contemporaries (e. g. Twain) with no problems, it must be some stylistic thing that bugs me, but I can't tell what.
(DIR) Post #AhtzrSOvcvOkT5ab1U by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-05-15T03:05:22Z
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@ZachWeinersmith In isolation, maybe. In practice, lowering interest rates has other effects. Also, it would take years--home-building is not generally an overnight thing. And home ownership is bad for society, for many reasons. (No, I wouldn't say provocative things. What gives you that idea?)
(DIR) Post #AiFd1ubBcUZ7LjSQGe by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-05-25T13:33:10Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Up next, the incredibly useful idea of dimensional analysis!
(DIR) Post #AiliPSCeFgvagV0FdY by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-06-10T01:04:13Z
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@ZachWeinersmith There are non-stupid alternatives to Reddit, notabl Lemmy. I'm aware that you're promoting your webcomic by posting to popular services, but you're also influential and can to some extent influence which services are popular. This is what science nerds like us call "the observer effect".
(DIR) Post #Aiy8AOm0CdRfyWgjce by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-06-16T00:49:22Z
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@ZachWeinersmith There has been a lot of ink and electrons about the Chinese demographic crisis. They'll be half senior citizens about the time I die of old age (should I make it that far), and currently their immigration policy is "No." That's thought to be one reason China wants colonies and dependent states: they'll have no workers when this generation reaches retirement age.
(DIR) Post #Aj48QENahshvgIj7qK by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-06-18T22:20:28Z
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@ChrisWere @vkc Ditto. Not once.
(DIR) Post #Aj8OYcwjcxhe5c1wae by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-06-20T23:40:08Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Talmudic miracle stories? Golem stories? Kabbalist stories?
(DIR) Post #Ajhex4tTl4jUY15KOu by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-07-07T23:58:41Z
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@ZachWeinersmith I'm not an economist, but presumably if China wasn't an industrial powerhouse, someone else would be. It isn't that people are proposing to eliminate industry and return to medieval agricultural economies.
(DIR) Post #AkbBfItxvBHxafUK5Q by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-08-03T18:54:23Z
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@ZachWeinersmith No. Elucidate.
(DIR) Post #Ake9JLy2E3leIFg1Gy by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2024-08-04T02:17:21Z
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@vkc I agree with you entirely. And I know you already use Linux. (Me, too.) Everyone who isn't a Microsoft executive or stockholder, I think (e. g. @geerlingguy) agrees with you.
(DIR) Post #AqE7ocFJ5fy12BnP60 by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-01-19T03:04:58Z
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@vik Was it platform or version? Sincere question, not arguing with you.
(DIR) Post #AsCOHQTPf3X1M9Ixfc by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-03-19T02:19:36Z
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@wes @geerlingguy I do know. I don't think it's sufficient *from my point of view as the audience*. Jeff will do as he pleases, of course.Nebula charges very little by comparison, because you get all channels for the same monthly rate. And there are multiple good ones. And it was just an example of a non-exorbitant service.
(DIR) Post #AsCP2o3RnwTC6Pki5w by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-03-19T02:44:11Z
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@geerlingguy @wes I didn't want to suggest PeerTube precisely because in the short term, you'd lose income. I do respect your desire to, you know, eat. And feed your family.
(DIR) Post #AwptTqihMaEpCgt2Fk by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-08-04T19:35:22Z
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@aral @Mastodon "Consider this a formal complaint" is useless. Make a formal complaint to the admins, if that's your tactic. There's a perfectly functional "Report" button in every Mastodon client I've tried. You can even report the account to both your own instance's admin and the other account's admin.
(DIR) Post #Ay7cOWyLCcCDvzsLpI by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-09-12T03:36:48Z
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Unexpected medical consequences of vaccines are real, it would seem. For both HPV vaccine and shingles vaccines.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/unintended-side-effects-hpv-and-shingles-vaccines-reason-for-concern/#SBM #Vaccines
(DIR) Post #B1D8SyFp8YxOxio9y4 by nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-12-13T16:11:10Z
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@Nonilex Should a special session take place: it suspends the rules of order and impeaches the Governor instead of redistricting. MAGA heads explode.