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Cake day: September 25th, 2023

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  • polling shows most republican voters are *not* in favor of extreme abortion restrictions. They want abortion up to a certain point and for certain reasons.

    So those polled voters indicate what they want in a poll.

    But when they’re told the other side is murdering full-norn babies, they go for what seems to them like the lesser evil.

    Yet those same voters elect (choose) the politicians (their representatives who speak for them) who want something different.

    Again I ask why a distinction should be made, in regards to voters and politicians, when discussing party. Seems to me like both groups, voters and politicians, say one thing and do another.

    As Maya Angelou once said, “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.”



  • I am aware of telemetry, yes.

    Even if we ignore your continued conflation of Word and Microsoft 365, I suspect you have nothing to support your assertion that Word transmits the content of your document files to Microsoft.

    Realistically this whole exchange is moot. A medical providers use of patient data management software in no way constitutes a “release” of data to that software provider as the person I originally replied to seemed to think.

    Perhaps you’ll have an opportunity to administer a tenant someday and that’ll give you a better understanding.


  • So I am not being willfully ignorant. I work with both daily.

    Then you’re just being ignorant.

    O365, which is actually Microsoft 365 now, is a suite of productivity software as well as collaboration and cloud-based services.

    Word is a word processing program. They are not the same and use of Word does not equate to O365.

    You should know this. Just like you should know that a business using a piece of software, such as a medical facility using Epic’s patient data management tools, does not equate to patient data being “released” to Epic.

    Since you seem to be struggling with the concept perhaps a different example would be easier for you?

    Just because you get an MRI doesn’t mean the data collected for the MRI is “released” to GE.










  • I’m there with you.

    We have a camera on the driveway and the front walk. We have a sign at the start of the front walk that, in compliance with state/federal law requirements, says no politics (among others). Anybody who makes it to the door gets yelled at for not reading the sign and asked for their permit from the city to go door to door.

    We really don’t like people, outside of expected visitors/deliveries, coming to our door. Our dogs lose their minds barking and then are on high alert for a while going off at every little noise.

    Political texts, regardless of party or content, get an automatic delete and mark junk. Same with emails.

    Mailers don’t make it into the house and go right into the recycling.

    We don’t vote based on the best marketing campaign.