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[SallyM]

Elections 2023-2024

I just want to say no matter what happens that I have been amazed by the quality of the campaign Harris has run since she started. I was just thinking how prescient their choices have been. I’ve barely been following BUT I’m sincerely impressed. It seems to me that the brightest and best of my generation and the one after mine at least have been recruited to the Dem causes and campaigns and it does not appear to be so for the GOP. I’ve never been really about party. I don’t like feeling like …

[SallyM]

If I Had a Time Machine

EXTRA: Archduke Ferdinand killed in crossfire during conflict between rival time travelers. Austria-Hungary responds by declaring war on timepieces, invades Switzerland.

[kxkvi]

Response to @LockeCJ /obviously

Responsible Monetization of a BBS

I know you think long and hard about all these things, and it’s a tribute to your talent, wisdom, and dedication that this place has been here without interruption for seven years already. I myself have no concerns about the way you’ve run things here. And I figure you’ll let us know if you ever want or need any help. Hope so anyway! Thanks again for all you do.

[SallyM]

Elections 2023-2024

Okay, if there was shenanigans, then there will be evidence of said shenanigans… It could be true. But we also live in a racist, misogynistic country. That’s just the truth of it. We never did the work to end the cultural roots of racism and misogyny in this country, and Trump benefited from that.

[SallyM]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

I’m a polytheist and animist. My religion doesn’t proselytize… in fact I’m not even going to say what it is. I don’t believe that everyone needs a religion. Some people find various benefits either from the belief, ritual, or the social aspects, and some people aren’t wired that way. And people change over time, too. I don’t believe anyone’s religion (including mine) should be permitted to make laws, nor to impinge on anyone’s rights (including their own membership). If they don’t like you…

[SallyM]

BoingBoing move to substack

I tihnk there is “a capitalism” that can be ethical, at least for a while, but I’m not sure there’s such a capitalism that can exist without eventually ballooning into big-C Capitalism, which is where we see all the late-stage shareholder-value-cult stuff suffusing everything like so much toxic mycelia. Whether the capitalism that our current Capitalism emerged from was ever ethical is left as an exercise to the reader.

[SallyM]

Did Somebody Say "Star Trek"?

One thing that never ceases to amaze me about George Takei is how fully he’s lived out the last couple decades of his life at an age when most people are in their retirement years. Coming out publicly at 68, getting married at 71, taking a musical to Broadway at 78, writing a New York Times bestseller at 82… he even managed to bridge the nerd fandoms by being the first prominent actor to play roles in both Star Trek and Star Wars. This is a person who really took the Vulcan greeting to heart.

[SallyM]

Elections 2023-2024

You know how they feel about “evidence” and “facts.” The more evidence there is against someone, the more innocent they are. The only facts are those that are unproven.

[MerelyGifted]

The Onion buys infowars. (No joke)

[SoM__Uzis__War On Fake Schnitzels]

[MerelyGifted]

Weird, odd stuff

Second banana to the right, and straight on till morning.

[SallyM]

Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

As far as I can tell all the real leftist ideologies agree that human lives have value, even if they disagree on how to realize that. The right thinks only some do, and the far right thinks the rest have negative value.

[MerelyGifted]

Unicorn Chasers

[SallyM]

Elections 2023-2024

I paid mine off literally the month before Biden made his (first) announcement. It was the student loan from my first degree and I paid it off while finishing my second (paid for by work). I was thrilled for the people. Paying the loan for 14 years sucked. I was laid off 3 times in that period. There were times I didn’t pay my rent or house, but I paid my student loan. Because in my past, I worked for ISAC, who manages loans for my state. I understand the default process too well, and ju…

[SallyM]

Did Somebody Say "Star Trek"?

Come on… You know what I meant… the people doing the actual work Christ encouraged in his day (and the actual radical political positions of the historical Jesus for that matter) is often dismissed by the most loud, vocal, and insistent Christians in our midst, while there are many Christians out there doing the things that their faith actual demands, without grandstanding about it - caring for others, welcoming the stranger, loving others as their brothers, turning the other cheek, fostering em…

[SallyM]

Systems of education and its discontents

Yeah, that’s part of the problem - these schools are often private, so unaffordable for most people. I had friends who went to Hampshire up in MA, and while my friend was lucky to have two college professors for parents, the other got in on a scholarship (his family didn’t have much $$$). But much of the rest of the student body came from wealth and privilege. They shared a house with Eugene Roddenberry’s (Gene and Majel’s son) girlfriend! But that model is only going to reinforce class hierarch…

[politeruin]

Found Randomly on the 'Net

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[SallyM]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

This, exactly. It’s not religion per se, it is about power and authority over lesser humans. Period, end of subject. And, of course, “lesser” is subject to redefinition at any time. Women, LGBTQ, PoC will be subject to far greater scrutiny, but a whole lot of cis, white, straight, white men are going to shocked to find themselves classed as lesser due to income, disability, “wrong opinions,” whatever. Leopards need faces, and there will always be a supply.

[OhHai]

Inside your home stuff

And then he wrote a story about cryogenic hibernation?

Amazing. No notes.

[Millie_Fink]

Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American"

But…the private sector is so much more efficient than the government is. How could this possibly be true? (please read the previous sentence as dripping in sarcasm) The private sector has one “cost” that must always be present, that the government never has: profit. Sure, in some instances, that profit can serve as an impetus to increase efficiency, but that only works when there is a truly free market with significant competition. That isn’t the case with Medicare Advantage. All that program …

[SallyM]

Follow up news

Like, oh, lifesaving therapy for their spouse or child, humane care for their parents, medication for their own mental health. We had Sentara buy one of our Medicaid providers and immediately change the whole formulary. Kids who had been stable on psych meds for years had go off on short notice and start over with a whole new set of “approved” drugs. No appeals, no provisions for more time. Do it now, or pay out of pocket. Now we are looking at tons of kids getting abruptly thrown off Medi…