First Time Turtle Jockey

Solidarity and sound systems forever

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@BeroPorcher @JezziiB Follow your conscience but like nobody out here has AC. I'm in and out of warehouses of all size every week. If you think it's hard on the grid to cool residential units, it'd be way worse to cool every warehouse. I think adequate break time to cool down should be the ask

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@Cjdeck1 @JohnHinckley20 He didn't miss, just couldn't quite score a fatality. The Bible is an anthology. Different authors take opposing stances on numerous issues. Quite easy to find books with different views.

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@bo_austin_ Completely down to check out good critiques of MMT being done at the moment. But come on, basic starting point is that a municipal government is an example of a currency user, it has a different set of constraints than the issuer.

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@missh8ter The @cta will happily tell you to go fuck yourself if you ask for help on this one

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@Ilhan Also nobody should be losing jobs for testing positive. Those of us who work in safety sensitive jobs should be able to enjoy our time off without the anxiety about getting fired for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@Cominsitu Recent favorites of mine were Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts and Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach series

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@krishnanrohit @t0nyyates My mantra when my Tesla does 120 through a school zone

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@WTCHCRFT666 I lived in this neighborhood in Jersey City that was just swarming with stray cats and I never saw a single rat the entire 2 years I lived there. Only neighborhood near the city I've ever had that experience

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@JuneSayers1 Two of these meet the Sci Fi criteria but definitely not cerebral at the level of those you mentioned haha

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@JuneSayers1 I also only recently discovered Bertrand Mandico and have enjoyed everything I've seen so far

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@AdotCrawley @LivFaustDieJung Nuclear War and runaway climate change are the two clear existential threats to human civilization and I'm deeply disturbed to see people be glib about the prospects of either

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@AdotCrawley @LivFaustDieJung And despite its provocations, nuclear war was avoided and I think the first priority here should be the emphasis that nuclear war must still be avoided at all cost. It's not about any of these nation states being more or less moral actors, it's about preventing apocalypse

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@AdotCrawley @LivFaustDieJung America's war crimes in the modern era are just unparalleled and if one is going to condemn the Russians here, for the sake of moral consistency, America needs to be condemned for its crimes as well

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@AdotCrawley @LivFaustDieJung America has subverted more democracies and imposed more dictators across the world than any other country in the modern era has had the opportunity to. And to be clear, I think this is horrible act and all people facing occupation have the right to resist

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@jmcrowell @LivFaustDieJung Regardless of who your worldview believes was the most violent government and military since the advent of nuclear weapons, escalating war between nations that have them is something that must be avoided at all costs and I sincerely don't understand why so many are resisting this

[First Time Turtle Jockey @Kwolter6]

@jmcrowell @LivFaustDieJung I'm baffled as to how you can read what I wrote and draw that conclusion. Never said anything close to that. Probably or definitely no major nation state seeking resources and power has ever been blameless or without major acts of violence and repression

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@jmcrowell @LivFaustDieJung Regardless of the scale of crimes perpetrated by the US in the past and Russia in the present, what has shifted since the cold war that could make suggesting total war against Russia an option that anyone who cares about the survival of our species even consider?

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@jmcrowell @LivFaustDieJung Intimidation through mass executions and rape is very much the definition of what the US engineered in El Salvador. But this frankly isn't the conversation I was trying to have. My initial question was why it is brain rot to prefer diplomacy to military escalation