@bdsams@TimSweeneyEpic My middle sister, no programming background, has moved into a data analyst role and has been learning SQL. Cursing about semicolons around the house has gone up 300%
Dear Senator Sanders,
Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment.
The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything.
Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register.
Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing."
Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it.
And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth.
When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?"
Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed.
Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont.
You named. Two. Post offices.
You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem.
Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle.
You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning.
I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise.
The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else?
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But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us.
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Does anyone know how we can get these extensions taken down faster? They're still active!
Updated breaches are a bit messy when it comes to sending domain notifications. We only send ONE email per breach to domain subscribers, so you may get an alert for dump 1 but not for dump 2. It's probably worth running the search again if you may have people in both dumps.
@JohnDCook Have you seen some of the cheap tools on the market these days? Sometimes it's the tools too.
I've been lucky on some attempts to get less expensive brands/versions. Unfortunately others were both less expensive and cheap.
Two things I’ve yet to see in my lifetime:
1) A Sasquatch
And
2) The headline “Government program ends because it’s achieved its goals and solved the problem.”
I hold out hope I get to see a Sasquatch though.
@JohnDCook I'd argue it's because nothing is done in gov't by anything other than committee. I've seen work by committee when I worked for a hospital... it explains many of the problems I've had trying to find work in the NC Works job board. 🫤
@JohnDCook I used to teach classes for a hospital (staff training). 9 out of 10 times, pressing the thermostat as if I'd adjusted anything left people satisfied with the new temp. Which was great, because the temp was centrally controlled - the thermostat setting did nothing.
@disparutoo Remember though, we've got to find work for all those mandated people that came out of union negotiating. If you're required to have the people and the writers you've got to do something with them...
For the love of God... @dominos let me unsubscribe to this. I didn't check the box on my order, I don't want it, and there's no option on your website that makes it stop.
When it comes to overseas problems, which are legitimate concerns but do not require direct US Military intervention…
Might I interest you in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the US Constitution?
Let's make “Letters of Marque and Reprisal” Great Again!
@bdsams I put a pair of Seagate IronWolfs in my small 2 drive NAS, and they've been pretty good. Though I suspect I have my NAS tucked further away too.
@bdsams What drives did you put in that thing? I've got a WD Black in my current PC that's kinda loud like that. Also seems to be failing disturbingly early...
@disparutoo I would much rather the Amazon we have now forget that they have the Stargate IP... I don't have faith enough that it will be Reacher instead of Rings of Power.
@ScottGreenfield@optimum ...the auto-reply just makes it all the better. Would be nice if the various cable co. had some proper competition. Service in the apartment sucks, because where else am I going to go? Service out by mom's is great. Coincidentally, totally not related, fiber is expanding there.