blivet

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[–] blivet@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

If you click on the recipient name to go to your contact entry, there will be a “recent” flag on the address the email was sent to.

I agree that this is pretty annoying behavior, though.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago

They are descended from horses brought over by Europeans.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 21 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I know they have to follow their script, so I just play along. And honestly, it’s not as if I’ve never made a stupid mistake before, like accidentally leaving something unplugged.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Historically the Republican candidates have demonstrated enviable party discipline and fallen in line after the nominee has been chosen, but Trump and the rest of the MAGA crowd have shown themselves to be so duplicitous that they won’t even honor agreements made with other Republicans. The more mainstream candidates like Pence may just figure that this time around there’s nothing in it for them, that they won’t get anything from Trump in return for their endorsement, not even goodwill.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 78 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Trump tweeted that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”

Trump is so unprincipled that he managed to get it exactly backwards. January 6 is the one time Pence actually stood up and did the right thing. I loathe the man, but I won't deny him credit where it's due. I can't even begin to imagine the level of chaos if he had gone along with Trump and his followers and refused to certify the 2020 election results.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

causes you to mistreat the people who love you

I’ve told my wife that she doesn’t have to spend time with me if I end up with dementia and I start behaving that way. Both of my parents were more or less all there well into their 90s, but you never know.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago

I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get the feeling that his engineering background, slight as it may be, helped him to hire competent people to run Tesla and SpaceX, and made it possible for those people to convince him not to insist on doing really stupid things.

Since he knows absolutely nothing about social media websites, not even enough to know what he doesn’t know, it’s impossible to stop him from carrying out whatever nonsensical plans happen to come to mind.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My old land line was almost the same number as an entertainment venue whose number spelled TICKETS. People would sometimes dial 1 instead of 4 (corresponding to the letter I), and get me. Usually on weekend mornings, grr, but fortunately it didn’t happen too often.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can’t open the Model S rear doors from the inside if the car isn’t running, either. Everything else aside, when I heard that I knew I would never buy a Tesla. That is a horrifyingly stupid design decision.

[–] blivet@artemis.camp 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I brought mine with me when I got the latest booster, and the pharmacist said that she hadn’t seen one of those in a long time.

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