Mitch Russell

Mitch Russell

@retirednetworker.bsky.social

Retired Network Engineer. 40+ years in IT.

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Anti Post Capitalism: Basic minimum income for all making less than $1M year. $5000 Paid by taxes on the rich. Essential wealth redistribution. Start at $5K and build. Parents receiving checks for children. Setup distribution to homeless. Even the Hispanic that just crossed the Rio Grande.

Anti post capitalism. Workers that have been exploited for years without any significant raise but the owners get significantly richer. If we could make some noise about this, we could end MAGA. They are being exploited by post capitalism.

If you ever start taking Nintedanib for serious lung issues, here is some advice: Never, ever trust a fart. Just don't. And if you puke in a Walmart parking lot, leave it and drive away. Do you get the idea that this is a really fun drug? But I get to live.

I cooked pancakes as part of our dinner. On a West Bend electric griddle. The controller has a manufacturing date: 11-61. Way before PFAS. Still working great. Originally bought by my parents.

A month ago, cable provider Spectrum (A) was owned by Charter Communications (B) Now Spectrum has taken over my provider Cox Communications (C). Cox (C) will cease to exist. But, next year Charter (B) will rename itself as Cox (B renamed), since it owns that name. Spectrum will continue. Confusing?

I've decided that next year, I'm going to hand out mini Moonpies for Halloween. Just to be that one weird house. And to imagine a 1 year old eating one for the first time. I can get 120 for about the same as 240 pieces of candy, mostly chocolate.

Living in this backwards Republican run state: 1. Our votes are a paper ballot that we fill the boxes with an ink pen then feed it into a scanner with no verification. 2. Early voting starts Wednesday for four days. I'll be out of town Wednesday, probably vote early Friday.

The myth of students being transitioned at public schools is actually an old Republican attack on public schools. They want the gaslighting, propaganda pushing private schools that make some richer.

I once was in a fun situation. First car at a red light. Multiple cars on all four approaches as it seems to have gone red all four ways, then starts flashing red. Who is supposed to go first? I did, and didn't worry about the rest of them. I fixed my problem.

The Oklahoma Governor race is really simple. The Republican campaign is claiming, of course, she supports health care for illegals, and trans operations at schools. The Democrat is talking about how she will help the people of Oklahoma.

Watching the two new episodes of Vision Quest. Makes a lot more sense than listening to the current President. We really need to change the President to someone with intelligence and without dementia.

Republican ads for political office are about trans and such. Democrat ads are about affordability. And Trump is getting so desperate I saw a MAGA trans ad against the Democratic running for Oklahoma Governor.

In 2005, GWB changed the start and end dates of DST. VCRs were popular, but had the dates burned in. Everyone who wanted one that changed correctly had to buy a new one. My theory is that is why GWB signed the change.

I remember the beginning of the Internet. But here is a fundamental to remember. The Internet is a communication media. Not a library or a store. Those are servers on the media. Just like your new garage door opener or toaster.

History update - order of events St Augustine Florida Jamestown Virginia Plymouth Rock Bonus - Jamestown was a commercial venture. They had to make a profit. Raising tobacco with slave indigenous labor.

History lesson: Indigenous peoples were the first in America. Chinese were next, but didn't leave a lasting presence Vikings are probably 3rd Then Russians chased the seals all the way down to California Spanish, French Portuguese and British all claimed what wasn't theirs.

With Ukraine bombing Russian data centers, social media is shifting. Russian influence is shrinking. Mid-term elections may go quite differently. Without fresh conspiracy theories, what are the GOP going to base their ads on?

It is interesting to read the origin stories of indigenous tribes. So far I've seen Osage and Cherokee. It is fascinating reading. And you generally have to visit their museums to find it.

Well, the Fall Festival in Van Buren AR was mostly a bust. We walked it in two hours and left. The toilet in our hotel room was dysfunctional, and that doesn't combine with diarrhea at 4:30 in the morning.

This drug I'm taking to save my lungs has a nasty side effect. Diarrhea. To the point of a wet fart in bed woke me at 430AM. Had the change underwear and removed PJ pants. But I'm still breathing.