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Joined mastodon.social in April 2017, inactive until November 2022. I hang my head in shame.
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November 22, 1963.
If you lived through the assassination of JFK, and you are old enough, you remember it well. I was in third grade, and it was one of my first traumatic experiences.
Older friends thought that WW3 was imminent. I was oblivious to that threat, but could feel the loss through my teacher and then my parents.
Interesting (flash bulb memory!) I remember the caissons as being in color even though we had a b/w tv.
In any case, his loss, and later MLK and Bobby were a terrible blow
Highly recommend ProWritingAid (which is currently and briefly on a 50% off Black Friday sale).
In addition to punctuation, spacing, etc. it is terrific at grammar and "better writing" suggestions. Of the latter I only accept about 30%, but those are very valuable.
You can turn on and off what you want to see, and you can get comprehensive reports on your larger documents.
The Chrome plug-in works great and works great here on the Mastodon Web interface.
FDR, Thurgood Marshall, Susan B. Anthony and others taught us the way forward.
We got out of the age of robber barons with the New Deal.
The solution is here:
https://terikanefield.com/things-to-do/
The way to save democracy is with more democracy. See my list for more.
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Okay, so how do we strengthen democracy? The way to strengthen democracy is with more democracy, or what Barack Obama calls citizenship. As Obama said in 2020: Even if the methods are new, sowing the seeds of doubt, division, and discord to turn Americans against each other is an old trick. The antidote is citizenship: […]
Thread.
Q: “Republicans enact policies that hurt their own constituents.
So why do people vote for them?”
A: It has to do with the purpose of government.
For some people, purpose of government is to help people. We think fairness is possible and the government's job is to create fairness.
Others have a different view.
They think there’s a natural order: Some people belong on top; others at the bottom.
They think people with money and power deserve their money and power.
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Part 7 of my ongoing blog series on building a non-trivial .NET MAUI app focuses on unit testing and mocking.
Part 7 of my ongoing blog series on building a non-trivial .NET MAUI app focuses on unit testing and mocking.
I moved to @law-and-politics
Mike Masnick ✅