Snim

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Software Engineer. Listener of Podcasts. Father to one human and 2 Australian Shepherds.

I enjoy politics and fall into the "hate the policy not the person" camp. I don't plot well onto the US political spectrum--a moderate, libertarian leaning voter.

Was on Mastodon 1 day in 2021 but didn't use it in earnest until 2022.

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Show threadSnimDec 20, 2022
@EposVox I have those glasses. Didn't know they weren't cool, though. 😒
SnimDec 13, 2022
Mike Galsworthy 🦣Dec 12, 2022

So what are our Twitter-Mastodon strategies people?

Which one best describes you?...

Please re-share for larger numbers.

On Twitter mainly, but with a backstop here
13.6%
Half Twitter (for fights), half here (for love)
12.7%
Mainly here - but keeping Twitter account in case
41.1%
Have deleted Twitter and only on here
32.7%
Poll ended at .
SnimDec 13, 2022
Ken WhiteDec 12, 2022

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.

Show threadSnimDec 13, 2022
@Popehat I smiled a little when I saw the SubStack email. Now, I am smiling a lot 'cause you're on Mastodon. Welcome!
Show threadSnimNov 27, 2022
@julienhoez while I agree that Musk is a grade A dickwagon, this sort of thing is common in the startup world and not unique to Musk or Tesla. And Musk didn't do it alone...he had the backing of the big investors during the following series (in the early years).
SnimNov 27, 2022
Dave Troy Nov 27, 2022
Experiment: Ayn Rand, yay or nay?
Yay
2.2%
Nay
97.8%
Poll ended at .
Show threadSnimNov 25, 2022
@EyalL @Richard_Littler I find that definition problematic, people have opposed systematic racism for decades (and I am one of those people). At a minimum, I would characterize your definition as incomplete.
Show threadSnimNov 25, 2022
@EyalL @Richard_Littler Depends on who you ask. I use it in a general, neutral sense to cover all aspects of the woke/stay woke movement where it transitioned from Black communities into the cultural and political mainstream. The progressive activists would likely give a different definition.
Show threadSnimNov 25, 2022
@Richard_Littler Dr. John McWhorter wrote a book about it: Woke Racism. Granted, he's a linguist but it's an interesting read.
Show threadSnimNov 25, 2022
@Richard_Littler There already is a counter-narrative: that woke culture is functionally a non-thiestic religion. At least that counter-narrative has support from both lefties and righties. It is also a position I share as I am agnostic and see the same weak arguments that theists make.