Duane Massa

I like to science good, and do other things good too!

[Parker Worth ⚡️ @parkerworth]

I'm American.

I just revisited my home country after moving abroad 2 years ago.

What I saw shocked me.

13 American oddities I still can't believe:

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@elonmusk , this Starlink Mini is amazing. But where the hell is the carrying case and 12V adapter?

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@MassaOrganics @J_GallagherAD3 I’ll echo Greg’s comment since my home insurance increased by 116% this year right after the total income in this house dropped by 1/2.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@CanaRepublic @MikeDonio Just watched my wife die from AML. You’re not going to keto diet or exercise your way outta that one. She would have been dead a year ago without intervention. She got a few good months, but the rest was hell for all of us. Gone 15 months after diagnosis. She was 47 years old.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@POTUS Ah yes. More sermons from the Church.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@MassaOrganics @thefarmerslife I’ve lost two lambs this week to coyotes. They are born and gone within a week. I lose all but a couple lambs all year. My flock is aging because I can’t get ewes to reproductive age. It’s open season here year-round on coyotes, but I don’t have time to protect them right now.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@sfchronicle - Don’t visit San Francisco

This has been working great for me!

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@MaxROIFarmer Have you considered learning how to grow food without spraying poison on it?

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@MassaOrganics You sir would love my friend and colleagues’ feed @RiverSciLife

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@teslaownersSac @J_GallagherAD3 Even at $6/gal the economics aren’t there to switch. I really would like to go electric, but I own my truck and it only has 30k miles. Doesn’t make financial sense to buy a comparable electric replacement for $100k. In the meantime, fuel everywhere other than CA is cheaper.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@MassaOrganics @AngryButane And a BLM camp at Massacre Flat that’s only accessible by a solid hike or by water is a great place to stay the night if you wish to make it an overnight trip.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@MassaOrganics @AngryButane I think the Battle Creek confluence upstream is RM 271 and Red Bluff is RM 254. There are a few access points along that reach; Balls Ferry, Jelly’s Ferry, Bend Boat Ramp, and the boat ramps at Red Bluff. So you can make the trip as long or short as you like.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@J_GallagherAD3 One boat fire with EVs doesn’t make all EVs “not environmentally friendly.” Have a better idea that doesn’t include fossil fuels? Let’s hear it.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

The numbers don't lie.

[TOOL effing TOOL @Tool]

"Spiral out, keep going." / Lateralus, 22 years old today

[One Dull Son @WanDullSun]

A lot of people are getting upset having their conduct during covid compared to Germans supporting the rise of Nazism.

Let's recapitulate.

A fifth of the population was legally classified as unclean. They were barred from most public spaces, including theatres, restaurants, movies, pubs, clubs, swimming pools, sporting events, concerts, conventions, etc.

To access public facilities, people had to carry a digital mark with them so authorities could confirm they weren't unclean.

The unclean were fired and barred from most jobs: education, healthcare, courts - all public sector work, most major union jobs and a wide smattering of major private employers. When they were fired, the unclean were denied employment insurance, the reasoning being that they had been fired for cause on account of being unclean.

The unclean were banned from travel on trains, planes, and chartered boats. They had no legal means of leaving the country. Even if they wanted to, they could not escape the country that obviously hated them so.

It became illegal to socialize with the unclean. They weren't allowed to attend weddings or funerals, or visit sick relatives or friends in hospital.

Special laws were made for the unclean subjecting them to house arrest if they were around a person who had recently had a positive PCR test. The unclean had to continue to cover their faces in public when universal masking was dropped.

It became socially acceptable to wish death upon the unclean in social media and in major news organizations. Public health figures and other politicians gave press conferences to shame and insult the unclean. The public developed shared pejorative names for them, and relished in insulting the unclean.

News media regularly ran polls asking if the unclean should be arrested or fined. Public figures openly and proudly spoke about witholding medically necessary healthcare from the unclean - letting them die. The unclean were removed from organ transplant lists, condemned to almost certain death.

No end date for these measures was ever suggested, no timeline given. To the contrary, this was called the "new normal".

Criticizing any of these developments made you a social pariah, and likely cost you most of your friendships and family relations, if not your job.

The lesson of the Holocaust - and of covid - isn't that Germans or Albertans or people of the 21st Century are uniquely gullible or evil. It's that for most people, "morality" is not a matter of principle, but rather of adopting what they perceive to be the dominant group ideology - even if that ideology is marked by wanton irrationality or brutal inhumanity.

Indeed, as in certain cults or gangs, the brutality or irrationality of the acts or beliefs required to signal group inclusion further entrench people into the ideology, rather than repel them; a kind of perverse sunk cost fallacy writ large.

So, yes, if you're a typical person - Albertan, Canadian or otherwise - it is overwhelmingly likely that you would have been a Nazi if you were born in Nazi Germany. If you cheered along lockdowns and mandates, that likelihood approaches certainty.

Repent.

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@MassaOrganics Radical as in awesome. 😉

[Duane Massa @DuaneMassa]

@NWSSacramento These temps are not good for fishing. 😂

[Greg Massa @MassaOrganics]

Check out this great article on Raquel and the research she has done for her Master's Thesis in Regenerative Agriculture at Chico State:

https://t.co/RNF7dlLLOH