Posts by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
(DIR) Post #ASRWBP66exKPQDEwBE by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-07T17:19:23Z
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@elliswyatt @rvawonk Everyone is mostly wrong about most things, including me. This existence in this universe is a tough nut to crack.
(DIR) Post #ASUbnCaWhS02sFBvRw by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-09T05:06:23Z
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@lowqualityfacts Australia is filled with wonders.
(DIR) Post #ASUc30HcDXAhLNsf20 by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-09T05:09:14Z
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@lowqualityfacts I’m told wallabys on your feet can feel comforting.
(DIR) Post #ASUc9KKgaQXzGQKeEy by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-09T05:10:23Z
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@lowqualityfacts I’m told wallabies on your feet can feel comforting.
(DIR) Post #ASVRsErKsWmYywmDNQ by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-09T14:49:56Z
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@garymarcus Lol "Google bombed" is what we did to horrible people back in the 2000s to poison searches for their names. Memories.
(DIR) Post #ASeBeXO1ToEZfo2byq by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-13T20:00:35Z
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@kairyssdal The real story here: all-caps Kai Ryssdal.
(DIR) Post #ASod89AshivPbzpwyu by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-18T20:55:33Z
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@Teri_Kanefield @dmiller62 Liars often say contradictory things to maintain plausible deniability --eg quacks who say, "This isn't medical advice but if you're suffering symptom A, product X will boost your immune system!The contradictory presentation will impact reasonable people in a predictable way: they'll conclude the speaker recommends X for symptom A in spite of the "not medical" disclaimer.Viewers likely concluded Fox presenters said Dominion stole the 2020 election for Biden.
(DIR) Post #ASoo3VRbZragjCeIYS by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-18T22:58:00Z
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@lowqualityfacts Relatable.
(DIR) Post #ASqhRkMpR2DYb7wjx2 by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-19T20:53:22Z
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@lowqualityfacts Low Quality Facts v Girlfriend's Parrot Drama!!Did you know that Internet eFights increase engagement points? If you earn enough points you can turn them in for an engagement ring. Or clout, if you prefer.
(DIR) Post #ASwovPt80NysOkuOCO by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-22T19:45:26Z
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@lowqualityfacts The translations though... couple more than you need for the moose people.
(DIR) Post #ASwrkjhcINXKWp7gOG by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-22T20:17:08Z
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@kairyssdal Corporate media sucks (see NYT, WaPo, everything). We need a corporate windfall tax to pay for public radio so we have at least a little something less awful for our ears.
(DIR) Post #AT81APGFxFWazDCSJc by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-02-28T05:24:23Z
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@Teri_Kanefield "Later that year (2018), Fox journalists discovered another reason for concern. An organizational chart loaded into the company’s new employee portal showed a controversial figure named Peter Brimelow — founder of the nativist website VDare — reporting directly to Rupert Murdoch. "So Murdoch likes profits going up, which is rational, and he likes white supremacy, which is not.
(DIR) Post #ATB1ckAMPIlhP7pmDY by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-01T16:13:42Z
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@kairyssdal I know the government shouldn't be dictating what journalists can and cannot say. But Murdoch isn't going to listen to me because I'm not a billionaire. Somebody needs to slap some sense into that man.
(DIR) Post #ATBH9eaneIc2zFLrrk by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-01T17:50:24Z
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@LouisIngenthron @jperlow It's more like McDonalds telling you not to eat your Burrito Supreme at Wendy's. Because a tool for migrating Twitter info to Mastodon isn't really Facebook's business.
(DIR) Post #ATHaxfcVgJWhpLX0ca by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-04T20:17:54Z
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@lowqualityfacts That is one chill Pus! Our 15 year-old athletic ginger kitty is finally getting more tolerant of being picked up.Years ago we had to disconnect the doorbell d/t the freak outs, lol.
(DIR) Post #ATTZrm694vCvFljlQG by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-10T14:57:42Z
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@simon We don't need Steve Bannon or Putin to flood the zone with bullshit as an active measure against democracy. We've now got a toy that will do that fairly rapidly.
(DIR) Post #ATa4C0g2kM7DpmqvDs by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-13T18:10:13Z
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@Teri_Kanefield Defending clients while remembering the public's need for justice reminds me of the MD oath to remember "special obligations to all my fellow human beings" while caring for individual patients. Sometimes the two duties conflict and that sucks.Conflicting duties can be externalized with different parties advocating for one side or the other. But litigation is itself a punishment so meh, I dunno how to escape the misery of inner conflict everywhere it happens.
(DIR) Post #ATaAwspYKydqpl2DaK by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-13T19:25:55Z
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@Teri_Kanefield There's also the problem of what to do with people after we determine they're bad or did bad things. They're still here. Reconciliation has to be part of the plan. Unless we're all signing up to serve as executioners or jailers.
(DIR) Post #ATdl8KGbkgHv3TMgim by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-15T12:55:32Z
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@kairyssdal Look on the bright side, Kai. Your phone battery is fully charged!
(DIR) Post #ATghKFXvJR4RXwm3kG by peatbog@med-mastodon.com
2023-03-16T22:56:56Z
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@kairyssdal @davidgura I had to Google, "LTCM:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management"In 1993 Meriwether created Long-Term Capital as a hedge fund and recruited several Salomon bond traders; Larry Hilibrand and Victor Haghani in particular would wield substantial clout and two future winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize, Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton.The Nobel was awarded to Scholes for, "Privatizing profits & socializing losses before the poors wise up" and to Merton for, "Let Satan destroy us all!"