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40 / M / Straight / INTP-T / Kalamazoo MI USA
I am here to help build and support vibrant communities not controlled by Big Tech that help others solve problems, examine new ways of thinking and improve their quality of life.
@bjoern_tantau I'll keep that name in mind for the next account I create. In the meantime, which would be better?
Take dividends and donate them to Fediverse servers. As your enemy gets stronger, so do you.
Sorry for the delay. Suffered another job loss a few months ago and had to work my second job like crazy. A couple accounts are in collections. I flew to see family in Japan, got another job and am looking at ways to boost my income and get ahead. No one's going to do it for you.
Neurodivergent individuals are a thing. We do have different mechanisms of function for our respective brains.
That having been said, it is our cross to bear and the world isn't necessarily making accommodations for us.
Try it. Not everyone responds to opposing views like that.
Campaign finance laws
Not saying we shouldn't donate to worthy causes, but if we're going to call using free software without paying abuse, then there are many technology users to round up.
The front page of Lemmy, much like reddit, is full of fear and arguments.
Fear porn generates clicks and sells ad space.
With all due respect, there's more in the direction you mention, but there's more in the direction of opposing views, as well. This was the entire point of moving to the Fediverse: to get away from the restrictions and whims of u/spez and Big Tech.
Keep looking around and talking to other people. This is a better place than Reddit: you just haven't stumbled upon all of the evidence yet. ;)
Respectfully, I'm giving OP the benefit of the doubt assuming they were either looking to get something c/offmychest or look for a solution. I think we offered them some. :)
There's nothing wrong with controlling / filtering the things you allow into your news feed.
Yes, there is a need to stay informed, but TBH the only immediate things one really needs are:
- a weather radio [Canada] [US] to alert of impending doom from volcanic eruption, inclement weather, earthquake or civil unrest
- local weather forecast
- local traffic & news
All of which can be accomplished without a Twitter, Reddit or Fediverse news feed.
You can't function if you're in a bad headspace. If you need to restrict your news intake, not only is that OK, but it is at times required and healthy.
Google sometimes deplatforms people as well. Regardless of one's politics, one can't be positive it won't happen to them should the winds change.
I'm missing the rage over the switch. I like GNOME.
Points for civility in vehement disagreement.
IKR especially considering the space program, shipbuilding and aerospace & automotive manufacturing explosions down South in the last 30 years. To name a few:
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Airbus
- Mobile AL
- (somewhere in FL)
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Austal USA - Mobile AL
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BMW - Spartanburg SC
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Boeing - North Charleston SC(whoops...bad example) -
Ford
- Atlanta GA
- Norfolk VA
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GE Aviation (somewhere in NC)
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Geely (owns Volvo Cars) - (somewhere in SC)
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GM:
- Shreveport LA
- (somewhere in TX)
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Haas F1 team (somewhere in NC)
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Honda:
- Swepsonville NC
- Greensboro NC
- Lincoln AL
- Timmonsville SC
- (some transmission plant in GA)
- (some parts facility in GA)
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Hyundai - Montgomery AL
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Kia (somewhere in GA)
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Mercedes-Benz - Vance AL
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Nissan
- Canton MS
- (somewhere in TN)
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Volvo Trucks - Dublin VA
I'm probably missing a Toyota plant in Texas. Ole Miss aided with the HondaJet program.
All right. It shouldn't have happened in the first place.
All right. It shouldn't have happened in the first place.
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Yes.
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Providing context doesn't magically make something morally correct. It illustrates the circumstances.
There are all kinds of circumstances under which people commit grave wrongs in the face of adversity. If we're going to punish everyone for every wrong committed regardless of surrounding circumstances, there's far more punishment to dispense, regardless of political stripes.
Yeah. For-profit prisons need to go. Privatization works on many things but not this.
Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus & PAC: The trusted voice of Minnesota's Gun Owners to defend and restore the right to keep and bear arms.
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As seen on yesterday's episode of Bearing Arms' Cam & Co
r/VeteransBenefits: Everything you need to get the Veteran's Benefits you earned and are entitled to. We're here to help. Let's get started!
I know it's on that other site but until we build our own it's probably the best one around.
DS Logon
This announcement is a companion post to mine on that other site.
If you need to do in-person proofing to get a DS Logon account, DO NOT blindly drive to the nearest VA Regional Office. Neither the VA call center nor the help desk at DMDC will tell you this, but NOT EVERY OFFICE DOES IT.
I just threw away an afternoon I could have worked a security shift only to arrive two hours away and get ramrodded back to the people who told me to drive down there in the first place. This is after the National Archives supposedly sent me my separation documents and ask.va.gov resolved my request without even doing anything.
The vet rep at my congressman's office will be in touch with me on Monday. I need VGLI and my NGB 22, which is only available through...well...nowhere, apparently.
UPDATE: Spoke with my congressman's office. Passing them details tonight. Oh, and I drove another afternoon during the workday down to Fort Wayne IN VAMC only to find that they don't do in-person proofing, either.
UPDATE 2: CONGRIT sent from their office to the DoD.
UPDATE 3: DMDC called me back to recommend I contact my state National Guard records bureau. Since I was last in the Virginia ANG she gave me the following address:
VA ARNG ATTN: DCSPER, IPERMS RECORDS CUSTODIAN 316 10TH ST BLACKSTONE VA 23824-3036
UPDATE 4: Congressman's office forwarded my DL and Passport to DMDC. Got proofed and an e-mail to activate my account. Requested records in DPRIS. In 24-48 hours we'll know if this is over.
Sinnett in Session
From the campus of Old Dominion University WHRV-HD Norfolk VA Sun 1p-5p, Mon-Thu 9p-1a, Sat 1a-5a ET
Ohio
I don't feel this way about Ohio but it seems everyone else in MI does
Places to Shoot
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The Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer, a senior legal policy analyst in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, testified this week on gun control policy before the Virginia State Crime Commission. Over the course of the two-day hearing, the commission heard testimony from law enforcement, ...
Virginia Citizens Defense League
Defending Your Right to Defend Yourself
This is the organization that organized the rally on MLK Day 2020 at the State Capitol in Richmond during which tens of thousands of gun-rights advocates from within and outside of the Commonwealth descended to make their voices heard: NO MORE GUN CONTROL!
We have declared independence from Reddit
As we in the U.S. are on our Christmas-in-July mini-vacation, let us celebrate the departure from yet another evil empire who abused those in their charge for the sake of their own ego.