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Bernie Gets Hit Early
Sexism Claims From Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Run: Paid Less, Treated Worse
Bernie Sanders says he was not aware of claims of sexism in 2016 campaign
Bernie Sanders apologizes for allegations of sexism in 2016 campaign
Sexism Isn’t a Problem for Just the Bernie Sanders Campaign
We have to get the weird old capitalist out of the room. #Warren2020!
We have our third, all at 76, all on the same day
Need Twilight Zone music...
Mean Gene Okerlund
Super Dave Osborne
Daryl Dragon (The Captain)
Rest in peace, it's over in an instant...
Catholic Nuns Get Their Own Abuse Scandal
"The secret not yet told": Women describe alleged abuse by nuns
"It's not abuse, it's education."
What is an ideologue?
This was during an interview with a particularly hostile host.
She said "so you're basically a Hobbesian."
(I was actually impressed she appeared to know what that means and come up with it herself on the fly. Good job!)
He replied thus;
"No, I'm half and half. Half Hobbes, half Rousseau; that's why I'm not an ideologue. Because I don't think that people are good /or/ evil; I think they're both. I don't think that culture is security /or/ tyranny; I think they're both. And I don't think that nature is benevolence /or/ catastrophe; I think it's both."
Women's March Too White
Women's March in California canceled over concerns it would be 'overwhelmingly white'
A California Women’s March was canceled because of concerns that its participants have been “overwhelmingly white,” the march’s organizers said.
Organizers announced Friday that the Women’s March would not take place in Eureka, in Humboldt County, California, on Jan. 19 as previously planned due to issues of representation.
“Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community,” a post on the march’s Facebook page read. “Instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take time for more outreach.”
Eat your own. #Unity
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Only until 12/31/2018, 11:59PM MST, sadly.
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So where have I been? What have I been up to?
Acid andy recently had the heartwarming conviction to reach out to me for fear I'd kicked the bucket or abandoned SN. I suppose I haven't been that active lately, in SN or otherwise.
So I'll tell you what I've been up to.
Life has been a category 5 shit hurricane for the last two years, though recently things started ostensibly improving. Loss of income, debt, bed bugs, serious health issues, mom getting cancer, my beloved cat dying, there's a lot more. It hasn't been fun. I've become an angrier person overall because of it, which saddens me a lot, because I used to be like a rock that nothing could scratch.
If the years of OCD prior to effective treatment made me a more melancholy, cynical person, then the last two years have made me much more irritable, temperamental, and hot-tempered.
I've currently landed a passably-paying job with a tech company. I'm bound by NDA to prevent from telling you much more about what those duties entail or which company I work for.
The boss clearly means well but he's made it more than a slightly rotten experience for me so far, with constantly shifting demands, impossible time frames, and me getting blamed and threatened because of other people's mistakes on multiple occasions. I've also made just enough airhead mistakes of my own to make them think it was all my fault, which clearly doesn't help.
Volition and Epoch 2.0 are still definitely on the agenda despite a lack of current repository activity. It's just very hard to find the time and energy to work on those right now. When I have the time, I don't have the energy, and vice versa.
My best real life friends are either in excruciating pain from lupus, picking up the necrotic chunks of leg flesh that fall off their diabetic body, or nearly blind as the result of a stroke, so I suppose it's been terrible for everyone around me lately.
Things are slowly improving, I just hope I can keep this momentum, because I'm already seeing some warning signs, and well, I didn't end up becoming such a pessimist for no reason.
There. Now you know.
REDRUM REDRUM
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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Must be hell, locked up in that big old House, huh?
Failed Circumcision Kills Toddler in Italy
Italy circumcision kills toddler, with one man charged
A two-year-old boy has died from blood loss following a failed circumcision at a migrant centre in Italy. The boy's twin brother also underwent the procedure in Rome's north-western suburb of Monterondo and is recovering in hospital.
A 66-year-old man has been charged with murder, according to Italian media. Some 5,000 circumcisions are performed in Italy each year but more than a third are carried out illegally, according to health charity Amsi.
Cultural non-profit group Arci said the procedures had taken place at a refugee centre it runs with the local council in Monterondo. "It is a tragedy that leaves us speechless," Arci said in a statement on Facebook, adding that it would take civil action once those responsible for the child's death had been determined by police.
The two boys, who have not been named, were born in Italy in 2017 to a Nigerian mother who has five other children in Nigeria. Local media say the mother had asked for the operations in respect for Nigeria's Islamic traditions, despite being Catholic herself.
The medical credentials of the doctor are reportedly being questioned by police. Ansa said the man arrested was an American citizen of Libyan origin.
There's a lot of snark I could put here but I'll just go with "Merry Christmas!"
"Short Throw" 4K Laser Projector
I didn't quite realize these were a thing. Something like this would be nice to replace a family member's old projector (it has 3 VGA inputs but no HDMI), but I'm sure this specific model will be priced out the ass. It might make a lot of sense for some people though since it's much more compact than a large TV and you won't have people blocking the image when they stand up.
LG is also planning to sell roll-up OLED TVs in 2019. I don't see how that approach is better than this short throw projector. Maybe the projector makes some fan noise, or maybe the roll-up has better brightness/HDR.
