ScottinSoCal ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ณโ๐ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
Itโs getting to the point where you canโt even plan an insurrection, beat and kill police officers, invade the United States Capitol, and try to overturn an election in this country.
Texas' government just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.
No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Neither to install booths with free fresh water. Neither to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Neither to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.
No, the government just gave that money away to Bitcoin miners to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool.
Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea. In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them for the losses that they would make by turning off their computers.
I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/
Accepting, honoring, and embracing your autistic self isn't limited only to those #ActuallyAutistic humans who understood that they're autistic recently
It's a journey that ALL autistic people, from all backgrounds & needs supports must take
Join us
https://www.theautisticcoach.com/autistic-self-advocacy-unmasking-exploring-the-autistic-self
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To early for #Dinner
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Twitter (x) has changed due to the influence of Elon Musk, the new owner. He's unleashed quite deliberately, by his own invitation, a tidal wave of hate speech, racism, far right tropes, and these kinds of voices are becoming more and more dominant. The US fascistic right-wing is flooding into twitter more and more and they now see twitter as one of "their" online spaces.
English-speaking twitter isn't specifically "American" but certainly it often expresses a part of the US that is toxic, depending on which corner of twitter you hang out in, but with the new algorithms its hard to avoid the toxicity.
So, yeah, many people are leaving twitter, Americans included, and coming to mastodon, or going to other platforms. Twitter for many of us is dying a slow death. I still check in there to get a sense of political patterns and trends. The US in in a period of major flux with politics, with fascistic impulses on the rise as it is in other parts of the world including parts of Europe (see Hungary for ex).
Anyway... I'm "American" in terms of birth. Culturally being American is hard to exactly pin down, because it's a large geographic area. West coast is very different from East Coast. Urban different from rural. All the things that make up my world-view including being multiply-neurodivergent make me quite different from most others around me. My values and mind-set are so different from others in the US that I feel often socially alienated (mostly because I'm autistic). For me, it's not where someone is from, or where they grew up, it's their values, awareness of diversity, acceptance of differences. In the Portland area where I live, people tend to be very progressive compared to other areas of the US, and for that matter, probably more progressive on average than most other parts of the world, with some of us being far left. People here are often open as autistic. We have a lesbian governor. And yet just travel a short distance into the eastern part of the state and it's culturally very different.
But the internet collapses space in terms of giving a platform for all voices... and often the loudest are the most toxic.
Anyway... yes, I'm "American" whatever that means... I feel estranged from the world in my own country most of the time, these days.
The comments on my women in computing videos just keep on coming, and today it was someone who says he's been in IT for 30 years and has "never, ever" met a woman who has shown any interest in computers.
I seriously didn't know how to respond except to say that it's okay, not everyone meets women. Because what other explanation could there possibly be?!
#Wisconsin Republicans are moving to impeach a newly-elected state Supreme Court justice before she has ruled on a case because she won an election and she's a Democrat, and the NY Times is here to normalize it. I'm not going to link to the article, but it's framed as "here's a new tool Republicans are now using to their advantage."
A trope that I hate in novels is when a female character makes it clear that she doesn't want to have children, but then oops! she gets pregnant. Suddenly, she is super happy to have a kid. Stuff like this lends support to spurious arguments that women don't really know what they want.
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DA Fani Willis is channeling some Herschel Walker fake sheriff badgeness in this filing, and Iโm here for it.
Mercury is in the microwave again, so if you drive a Taurus, make sure your Chaka Khan tape is aligned and avoid candy corn and vertigo.
Tommy Tuberville is a clear and present danger to Americaโs national security and military readiness.
Pass it on.
Remember ladies, the way to a man's heart is between the 4th and 5th ribs, at a slight upward angle.
You are driving a #germany ๐ฉ๐ช car to an #Italian ๐ฎ๐น coffeeshop to drink Brazilian ๐ง๐ท #coffee and then going home buying #Chinese ๐จ๐ณ takeaway to sit on a #Swedish ๐ธ๐ช sofa in front of a #Korean ๐ฐ๐ท TV to watch #us ๐บ๐ธ shows and all the while being complain your neighbor is an #immigrant
Pull yourself together.
It's my Birthday today ๐
As a tradition I may request for sharing my work.
Thank you to everyone who supported me so far.
I'm looking forward to a brighter future. You can find more in my Bio.
Whichever twitter alt platform loves Alexis the most is the one I will want to spend the most time on
@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Listings of homes for sale
One of my favorite things about @KevBot is how heโll loosely plan out or day and send the agenda to me in the form of a Yelp collection.
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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