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A collection of 32 posts

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Life and loss

Thinking about life while on a run and thinking why can't I hit my previous running goals with the same effort. This is due to various factors, but the one that continuously hits me is injuries that show up that never did before and take extraordinarily (in my opinion) long

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Decoding political speech

Driving by the highway and I saw a sign for the state board of education candidate which said Education not Indoctrination and that is obviously an inverted lie because the candidate Kathryn Monette is wanting to indoctrinate students with their insane religious views and eliminate any factual information or teaching.

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The history of Web Financial Fraud

Web 1.0: Identity When the web first started early 1990s - 2001 or so the anonymity offered by the newness of the platform and protocol allowed people to deceive others about their identity to conduct fraud i.e. email fraud, website fraud, payment fraud.  This level was mostly at

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Tacoma Screw

When I lived in Seattle I would get pizza in the Georgetown neighborhood (Via Tribunali) and every time I drove back to my apartment in Capitol Hill I would pass a sign that said Tacoma Screw It made me laugh every time and the joke was this should be the

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Jury Selection

I was "summoned" to jury duty in my current county of residence Tarrant and this is an evaluation of the process, what the potential trial was, and my critical observations and statements. Setting the stage of the Summons Why am I being summoned to a in person jury trial during

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Disagree and commit

Cult terms Have people used this term in your work lately? Disagree and commit  It's a cult phrase and it is actively making me mad because this is what it means to me. * Disagree and submit (to what others say) * Disagree and ignore (the fuckup that is coming because ignoring

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Exhibit A On money is the delusion we tell ourselves everyday.

Last August, Citigroup Inc. wired $900 million to some hedge funds by accident. Then it sent a note to the hedge funds saying, oops, sorry about that, please send us the money back. Some did. Others preferred to keep the money. Citi sued them. Yesterday Citi lost, and they got

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Corporate Decisions Joke

Execs After careful consideration (person golfing) we have found that (technology choice) is the most complete, reliable, efficient, and cost effective solution (golf flag) we would like to thank all of the technical experts (vendors in bidding) to guide us in this choice (dollar bills) and now must lead an

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Covid 19 Vaccine distribution failure

The USA government was gifted with powerful and effective vaccines against COVID19 in late 2020/early 2021. Supply was unable to keep up with demand for vaccination for the first couple of months, but now we have plateaued at a low vaccine rate per population something like low to mid

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Time for a summer beach trip

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Horizontal Gene Transfer in Vertebrates

Incredible that it happens this way, the parasite/virus transfer method falls in line with a virus spreading successfully by a mutualism approach in my opinion. DNA Jumps Between Animal Species. No One Knows How Often. | Quanta MagazineThe discovery of a gene shared by two unrelated species of fish is

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Covid 19 + Post Office

The distribution of the Covid 19 vaccine has and will continue to be a disaster in the USA because structural having public institutions run by the government would demonstrate that profit and business are terrible at handling crisis situations. What should be happening * Vaccines should be distributed by and adminstered

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Inauguration Anger 2020

Disagree completely with this shit.  Feeling very much like no bullshit Bernie * Why is this not virtual? * Why the spectacle and waste of money while people have no money or food? * Where's my $2000 a month owed plus back pay to March 2020 i.e. get me my $20,000

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Improving Feature Candidate Meetings

Proposal Covid19 is a definite hardship, but collaboration, planning, and execution of planning iteration goals have gone swimmingly for the affected planning iterations having resounding success in converting a largely in person office activities transitioning to seamless distributed work. Reults have been in the upper bounds of the optimistic forecasts.

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What the Covid19 pandemic has proved

After one year of Covid19 the following is shown to be true for people What we need * Access to free quality healthcare * Guarantee for all a basic level of housing * Agency for every worker in their workplace * Decriminilazition of sex work * Legalization of drugs What we do not need * Police

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Election Predictions

Prediction: There will be blood.  Rules are good for those that believe they have value.  Trump and his supporters do not think rules apply to them and hence their behavior and actions. Joe Biden is a terrible candidate.  We are in a global pandemic causing health and economic destruction to

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Surgery Recovery Update

Seven weeks after shoulder surgery and the stiffness and soreness is beginning to go down.  I had arthroscopy bone spur removal and some stitching of the rotator cuff. Yesterday I was able to go running again and didn't have any aching pain afterwards.  The heat exhaustion and lack of conditioning

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Black Lives Matter

That's the entire post and my support for this.  Asking to not be killed by the government (specifically police) is a human right and this is not a controversial idea or value to hold.

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Shoulder surgery

Had surgery on my left shoulder in the 21st to remove bone spurs, repair my ac joint and do additional cleanup.  This was after 2.5 years of consistent pain, several cortisone shots, and physical therapy.  Not my first choice, but the improvement had plateaued to a kind of constant

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COVID19 + Preppers

As we are in a global crisis now with rapid spread of COVID19 across the globe it would seem to be the ideal time for preppers to take charge or at least provide guidance over how we can deal with the situation and get over it as quickly as possible.

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In solidarity with the Zapatista Movement

Standing up for the right to be treated as a human being is a universal movement we should all embrace and strive for. > The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and

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Fictional abstractions as social contracts: Part 2

Second fictional abstraction used by humans on a daily basis that are completely fabricated abstractions of any physical traits or requirements i.e. they were created by humans as a representations of implicit social contracts for cohesion and cooperation that then became explicit and codified. Abstraction 2: Religion Religion is

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Fictional abstractions as social contracts: Part 1

Thinking of two items that are used or experienced for most humans on a daily basis that are completely fabricated abstractions of any physical traits or requirements i.e. they were created by humans as a representations of implicit social contracts for cohesion and cooperation that then became explicit and

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Hire me in 2019

I love to turn ideas into reality through software and want to make a difference in the world and your organization. I have been working remotely with a team based in Australia [https://solcast.com.au/]making SaaS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service] solar energy available

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GitLab Activity Overview

GitLab activity [https://gitlab.com/siliconrob] - As GitLab doesn't have the same option as GitHub to anonymize contributions my GitLab profile looks empty, but here is my overview contribution chart that is not publicly viewable.