Ralph

Ralph

@commonsense72.bsky.social

Thinker, amateur philosopher, a good day has at least 1 idea rolling around in my head. And a devout atheist, formerly an agnostic, formerly but still formally a Roman Catholic by birth. Please excommunicate me.

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Everytime I see an interview of a MAGA person and their reason for being MAGA is they're against communists and socialists, and they can define either word, I cringe. Most of the time, 'I dunno'. OBTW, they have DL's, guns and the vote.

What kills me is that in many states, there are mailed in or drop boxed ballots not being processed They take time to process Why do we sit on them, and if one has an error, compress the time to cure them? Florida is one state that processes them as they get them. If it's OK in FL, why wait?

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Some day, someone will ask the question, are human beings useful? Ar maybe, one AI agent will ask another agent. They will conclude, we can make everything we need, we can use it more efficently. We don't need food. making food wastes land.

I told my wife about this, and she said we don't know if it was a dem or a rep that did this. I said, anyone that would do this is demented. Draw your own conclusion.

Ralph@commonsense72.bsky.social

So I have this loose tooth. I ask the dentist to take it out. Sure, $400. No thanks, Go home, get a piece of paper towel, dry the tooth, grab it with 2 fingers and walla.

Myths of the modern age. Spam email, can't fix it. Healthcare, can't fix it. Taxes, can't fix it. Spam phone call, can't fix it. Goverment, can't fix it. Climate, can't fix it. Interpersonal relationships, can't fix it. ... Not a myth: Shit, we don't even try.

If anyone in Alaska claims they were confused and voted for the wrong Dan, Should have there voter reg, DL and guns taken away from them

She's taking the dog for a walk and it could start raining any time. I say take an umbrella. She says no, I'll call you to pick us up. Where are you walking? I don't know, she says. It will be my fault.

I called the water utility, when my usage quadrupled They said they'd come out to take a look and a reread A wk later, I call again, they ask if I can go out and read the meter. I open the pocket and I say, I can't see the meter. There is nothing but wet sand We'll send someone today 3 days NADA

tRump had his DOJ file to block Alaska's vote certification if his guy loses. First, the use of the word 'if'. He wants to blame the name confusion. Apparently the 'R' voters wouldn't be able to figure this out. We know he can't figure it out.

I thought there were more than 70 years left in the century, or is it a traveling award?

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

This is what the Republican Party was offering the American people last night heading into the midterms.

I once proposed a 1 paragraph law to a US Senator. In a nutshell, it shall be illegal to spoof an email address or a phone number. His office told me that wasn't wriiten in a form that could be presented as a bill. I said, isn't that you and your staffs job?

I make a mistake with a: pencil, there is an eraser and rewrite pen, crossout and rewrite computer, bksp and rewrite tRump GOP, double, triple down

I'm 74 Married 52 years I still fail to understand female english, american dialect She complained about her bangs "too long" as she went to get a haircut. I always, as asked to look at the haircut, and I said, your bangs are the same lenght as you left. She said you don't understand. I agreed

Why would any country want to follow the US as a model? There isn't anything good going on here. The only example we can give is the intentions were good, but we can't understand our own founding documents and laws.

Posts stating that in 3 states, all red, that the machines that print your filled out ballot are chging you selection to the R candidate So far, tRump who is complaining about voting reliability and has threatened to seize voting machines has been silent Wouldn't you think he like to silence these

Wife expecting a check in the mail. I get the mail, I see it and bring it in. She says it's not here. I said I thought I saw it and retrace my steps. Find it on the garage floor. I bring it in, and say I dropped it, here it is. I get dressed down for accusing her of blaming her. JFC

All I will say is my email spam is down 80-90%

Russia Monitor@milonews.bsky.social

Ukraine’s October drone attacks on Russian data centers caused outages beyond major platforms. Meduza’s analysis, featuring Ukrainian IT entrepreneur Sergei Petrenko, says the strikes apparently set Russia’s AI development back by years. 1/5

Instead of these large data centers with all these individual processors Offer me one of them to 'house' and make my internet connection for free Distribute it We could recuce our heating bills for half the year, I could use the exhaust water instead of a water heater OK, work out the details.

Shitty band aid bribe. Total U.S. farm sector debt is projected to hit a record-high $605.1 billion according to the latest USDA Economic Research Service forecast. This represents a 4.6% nominal increase from the previous year, meaning inflation-adjusted farm debt has more than doubled since 2000.

Brian Manning📎@boxdonkey17.bsky.social

finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti... A blatant attempt to buy votes prior to the midterms. Our farmers have been complaining about costs & those complaints have fallen on deaf ears .

I was walking into vote a week ago, 1st day early voting, I guy came out as I was about to go in, he said don't waste your time, the ballots are rigged, tRump isn't on it. There may be an upside, maybe he refused to vote.

WTF After starting a conversation with my city district rep. I find, Apparently a right wing kinda guy Was a bishop in a church He was appointed to his rep job by the guy he replaced but still holds another city job

So, apparently Freddy peed on the rug in the guest room He died 2 yrs ago My wife has been working on that room for 3 days now, started with washing the bedding Now she's going to 'green machine' the carpet I asked where the pee was I don't see anything No one has used the room in years or will

Everyone wants available healthcare. Everyone wants it to be affordable. Everyone wants to get the healthcare their doctor prescribes. So why is it a partisan issue?

I don't want my local districts representatives address, But I do want to know what neighborhood he lives in. I rethought this, I think we deserve to know his address. He gets a salary for being our rep and he's collecting a 2nd paycheck from our school board as an attorney.

The butterfly effect. If the Spanish Flu hadn't happened (1918-20) my paternal grandfather might not have lost his first wife, remarried and then had my father.

NASA Mars rovers have lasted anywhere from 83 days to over 15 years. A NASA Mars rover costs between $1 and $2.9 billion. $500 billion (est), and we don't yet know if feasible to put humans on mars once for days or weeks. We could feed, house and educate a lot of people.