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TimLovesTech

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Hi I'm Tim.

I'm AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.

  • Trump refuses to release medical records as he approaches 80

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  • We should probably just listen to his doctor, Dr. Ronny Jackson, who flooded the White House with all sorts of pills. He even had some nice dog whistles to eugenics to say about Trump.

    "It's called genetics," Jackson said. "Some people just have great genes. I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200."

    He also said Trump was 6' 3" and 239 lbs. except when they did his booking in NYC and Georgia it said something else. His NYC booking put his stats @ 6' 2" and 240 lbs., but then in Georgia a month later he was measured at 6' 3" and 215 lbs. meaning he gained an inch and lost 25 lbs.

    And apparently some "expert" used a photo to determine Trump is really only 5' 11" when comparing him to his youngest son Barron who is 6' 7" tall.

  • California bans legacy admissions in all colleges, universities

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  • That wording is again hard Right wording/phrasing. We are not giving preferential treatment, we are attempting to undo some of the systemic racism in the system.

    I think this video is pretty good at looking at Black MAGA, and the wording they use. And this part of the video hits are talking point here perfectly.

  • California bans legacy admissions in all colleges, universities

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  • Your repeating right wing (hate group) language, again undercutting what I think you are thinking you are supporting. What Thomas is saying is the same language used against LGBTQ+ people when they say things like "why do they need a parade to celebrate themselves, you don't see straight parades". Thomas knows what he is saying, and crafts his hateful rhetoric carefully, but it is all full of dog whistles and always in bad faith. There is a reason he "vacations" with and gets RVs from the rich white billionaires that just happen to collect Nazi memorabilia.

  • Ohio’s new photo ID law has already blocked thousands from voting since 2023

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  • Except it's already not happening. The whole pretending that it is, is how they sell their bad faith ways to disenfranchise voters.

  • Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility

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  • Ok, so a business loan, no big deal. Oh .... what's this?

    If Constellation received a federal loan guarantee, much of the risk attached to the project would be shifted to taxpayers in the event of a default. It also would reduce the borrowing costs needed to finance to the restart. The project still needs to obtain regulatory approvals to move forward and would require intensive safety oversight during and after the restart.

    Well that doesn't sound good, I would like some reassurance. Constellation, what say you?

    "Rest assured that to the extent we may seek a loan, Constellation will guarantee full repayment," the company's statement said. "Any notion that taxpayers are taking on risk here is fanciful given that any loan will be backstopped by Constellation's entire $80-billion-plus value."

    Ah good. A company that for sure is going to hold to its word and not shaft the state or tax payers. Great!

    Due to the age of the plant, some experts have cautioned that the project may require significant investments in refurbishments and maintenance beyond the period of the restart.

    "The $1.6 billion is just the start," Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, told the New Republic. "Microsoft will be asking for government handouts just like most all other aged nuclear reactor owners have asked in multiple states."

    Super, a for profit company worth 3.11 trillion USD (as of 1:25pm EDT) that just needs government handouts for it's business based on choices it has made to further its own worth. That sounds great, I'm sure taxpayers will get a return on that investment right? Right??

    In September, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro touted thousands of energy jobs that will be created by Constellation's plans at Three Mile Island. Constellation, which plans to rename the facility the Crane Clean Energy Center, has claimed it will generate about $3 billion in state and federal tax revenue.

    OK, so $3 billion minus $1.6 billion equals $1.4 billion, minus whatever Microsoft gets as a handout (likely equal to or more than $1.6 billion) equals potential negative billions? Yay capitalism! I'm so happy that the US is willing to help small businesses like this.

  • California bans legacy admissions in all colleges, universities

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  • Using a bad faith argument from Thomas undercuts your position. The way the Right frames Affirmative Action as "reverse racism" and part of their over arching attack on DEI is all done in bad faith. They know removing a policy like Affirmative Action allows them to filter out those they see as "less than" under the cover of equality, when white people have been operating from a position of great advantage, while continuing to chip away at any gains by people of color.

    The US has used things like Jim Crow, Redlining, White Flight, and on and on in order to keep an equality divide. Meanwhile white people could always buy homes/land and pass on generational wealth, putting white kids ahead of kids of color from day one, and compounding generation after generation. And that lack of generational wealth plays into a divide in the quality of education as well. And the strawman of "but there are poor white people" is also often trotted out to defend "race-neutral policies" like "admissions to top percentile students". But having poor white people doesn't somehow erase generations of oppression against minorities. And people creating a "top percentile student" policy know that statistically they still end up with a more white population as a result.

    So a policy like Affirmative Action shouldn't be framed as giving a minority advantage, it's more like trying to level the field (for at least a percentage of students) that is titled in one direction.

    /rant

  • Trump’s Tariff Proposals Would Raise Tariff Rates to Great Depression-Era Levels.

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  • Trump has a history of treating workers poorly for decades. He has been known to exploit labor from those that might not want to talk with Immigration, paying pennies on the dollar, or just straight out refusing to pay them and threatening counter-lawsuits if they try to use the courts to recover any money. When he did his feed with Elon he gave Elon praise for firing workers on strike.

    Trump and Musk discussed firing striking workers. The UAW is now seeking an NLRB investigation

    “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name of the company but they go on strike and you say, ’That’s OK. You’re all gone.'”

    Musk said, “Yeah,” and laughed while Trump was talking.

    In June, eight former workers at SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, sued the company and Musk, alleging he ordered them fired after they challenged what they called rampant sexual harassment and a hostile “Animal House”-style work environment at the company.

  • Trump’s Tariff Proposals Would Raise Tariff Rates to Great Depression-Era Levels.

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  • Correct. It was just an example under ideal conditions when everyone involved was acting in good faith, not taking into account capitalism, which demands the graph go up no matter what.

    Anyway, either way it demonstrates that tariffs aren't free money (or even a money making tool) like Trump believes them to be, and the BS he is trying to sell Americans on.

  • J.D. Vance Lashes Out After the Smallest Fact-Check in V.P. Debate

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  • Charismatic adjective

    1. exercising a compelling charm which inspires devotion in others.

    I wouldn't consider staring off while trying to reword your same lie as being charismatic. There is a reason his favorability has been under water the whole time, it isn't because he was a Marine. I have met Marines, and I have seen former Marines in office that can have a normal conversation, and actually appear to care. JD lacks the ability to converse, and has zero ability to relate with anyone, even MAGA folks.

  • JD Vance answering debate questions tonight

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  • The robot? You thought the robot that can't order doughnuts, or talk to people, that robot did charismatic lies tonight? JD is a lot of things, charismatic is not one he even approaches.

  • J.D. Vance Lashes Out After the Smallest Fact-Check in V.P. Debate

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  • JD looked and talked like an alien making his first contact with humans. He lacks any charisma, and you can tell he doesn't actually believe anything he says. And because of that, the moderators asked many times about his stance on almost everything being 180 degrees from when he started the Trump audition.

    Also I don't think Republican = MAGA cult anymore. I also feel 99% of these "undecided" voters at this point are going to vote Trump, and are just reaching for something that they can say is the reason other than racism.

  • Trump’s Tariff Proposals Would Raise Tariff Rates to Great Depression-Era Levels.

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  • A tariff isn't a money making tool, it's about making a good not as great a deal against another, typically a domestically made good.

  • Trump’s Tariff Proposals Would Raise Tariff Rates to Great Depression-Era Levels.

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  • Correct. So in the car example, it really only works if the US puts a tariff on imports, and then they do some kind of government credit for domestic cars. This would raise the price of imported cars while making domestic cars more affordable to Americans.

  • Told you they would notice it

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  • California bans legacy admissions in all colleges, universities

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  • I'm sure the Right that pushed so hard to get rid of affirmative action will also be behind this as they are very against discrimination. /s

    Good on California though, if the Supreme Court doesn't want to help minorities, then we shouldn't be giving white/rich students a stacking advantage either.

    (For some reason I thought of it as a game with buff stacking)

  • Calif. sues Catholic hospital for ‘refusing abortion to mom whose life was at risk’

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  • I think to call yourself a hospital the law should require them to adhere to medical science, not a religious belief. If they want to be religion first, and medical second, then they should be a private clinic that is labeled as such so people know they are not going to get the full hospital medical care one would expect from an institution calling itself a hospital.

  • Trump Promises 'Very Large Faucet' Will Funnel Water from Oregon to Los Angeles

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  • He is also famous for not listening, because he thinks he is smarter than everyone in the room. He is also rarely held accountable for any of the word salad that he spews like a firehose. He also surrounds himself with people providing constant negative reinforcement of rewarding him like he actually did well, when in reality he functions so outside acceptable for most things. Then couple that with being a classic narcissist and it's not surprising he is basically clueless on almost any subject asked of him.

  • A website that provides a platform for neo-Nazis got its seed funding from Boston elites

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  • Trump Promises 'Very Large Faucet' Will Funnel Water from Oregon to Los Angeles

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  • I love that Trump has no ability to do any critical thinking, and thinks of everything as very literal now. He believes the planes are actually invisible, the only way to prevent Forrest fires is to actually rake the forest, and now that a literal giant faucet would be used to divert water in what kinda sounds like a Roman aqueduct to Socal.

    I also agree that journalists should not be spinning Trump's word salad, that makes zero sense, by calling them "poetic" and then trying to explain what the hell he is maybe trying to say. He is running to the President of the US, if he can't explain how he wants to use plumbing to divert water from the Columbia river to Socal he should be asked about that over and over until he can articulate that. Journalists doing the heavy lifting of making real ideas out of Trump's babble should be looked down upon. Instead they continue to "both sides" anything left of the far-right.

  • A website that provides a platform for neo-Nazis got its seed funding from Boston elites

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  • And of course the site is built on using a blockchain by a company the government shutdown for fraud.

    LBRY, Inc.'s CEO was a political activist named Jeremy Kauffman. The company closed in July 2023 after losing a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which found that LBRY had sold unregistered securities.

    Although a bank(s) are involved, so a public statement from someone with an audience asking said bank(s) why they are supporting hate speech might be cool.

    This is almost certainly why Trump's sons have pushed Trump to pretend to back crypto so much. They want in on grifting his followers using crypto.