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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Well, there it is. The dumbest thing I'll read all day, and it's not even nine o'clock here.

Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Clinton and Harris were left-wing radicals? The DNC and Dem congressional radicals? Do you not understand that "moderate" "centrism" is precisely what has gotten us here, and "being strategic" is why so many people sat on their hands in the last general election?

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Write, because nominating and electing "moderates" has been working so well for the Democratic party rather than, say, a party machine run by corporate centrists and political consultants, and owned by big-money donors. It's also given us Trump twice, and a Republican Congress

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Starmer is like the villain of the worst Dickens novel ever, and the title is Low Expectations.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm not going to disagree with you on that one, but that bar is so low it is actually underground. Also, "we want lots of money from the Pentagon, but we don't want them to use our product for anything weapon-y" is certainly a take.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Anthropic's entire business model seems to consist of putting out press releases wildly anthropomorphizing its products, or wildly overstating the existential risks to humanity, then holding its hand out for more money.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Why is it called "toxic masculinity" when "lad poisoning" was right there?

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, backwards, in high heels, and without pockets"

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Surely you can't be serial.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I just wasted a couple of hours trying to debug an obviously-correct Arduino program and eventually I discovered... ...HelloWorld is not forwards compatible from older Arduino Uno to Uno R4. What the fuck were they thinking?

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

What if he's just an asshole with dementia? Looking for a logical explanation might be a fool's errand

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

You're welcome to DM me, if it helps.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

You're welcome to DM if you wish. I understand entirely your point about skeets being a difficult medium for complex ideas.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm surprised it's as much as half. I watch some Finding Your Roots, and it's pretty much inevitable that anybody white whose family have been in the US long enough has some African heritage, and vice versa. That's another reason the whole "one drop of blood" standard in the South was stupid.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

My wife's family are all from Southern Italy and Sicily. When her father did a DNA test, he found that he had about 5% Arabic heritage. Sicily in particular is an absolute melting pot of the Med.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I hope that the Dems will not be this stupid. Vote first, then shutdown ends. However, I suspect that they are exactly as dumb as Charlie Brown.

Lucy pulls the football away just as Charlie Brown is about to kick it.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm 50% Ashkenazi (which itself is not as homogeneous as many people think), 50% English mutt: English, Welsh, Norse, Cornish, ...

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Let's also not forget Operation Paperclip, which whitewashed the Nazi records of "sufficiently valuable" engineers and scientists.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Prove me wrong. I'm not making this up, it's right there in black and white for everybody to read.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Bonus fun fact: Jaguar started out as the Swallow Sidecar Company before becoming SS Cars in 1935 and introducing the SS Jaguar. After WWII [oddly, not during] they renamed the company Jaguar, for reasons obvious to everybody except Elon Musk. Anyway, the SS Jaguar 100 is an amazingly beautiful car

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"Sir, it's not the vehicle."

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"Sir, it's not the vehicle."

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I asked a well-known search engine about gods of writing or authors. This was one of the top results:

Search result for the hazards and risks of aspartame.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

BTW, I had the term "scientific racism" because it sounds like it is validating the concept, but unfortunately that is the term in common use, even by critics of it.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Indeed. If people were dogs, we would all be the same breed. There is more genetic variation within the population of Sweden than between the average Swede and the average Nigerian (to pick two random countries). "Population genetics" as a basis for racism is silly. But so is all "scientific racism"

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

You are not engaging in good faith debate. Instead of responding to the (valid) claim that women are less prone to these behaviors, you leapt to the fallacy of the excluded middle and hyperbole. If you want to be taken seriously, respond to what was actually said, not the voices in your head.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Apparently, "nonplus" used to be a verb and a noun, though sadly today we are left only with the adjective nonplussed. I think we should revive it. "Read this Trump speech, it will nonplus you. He really brings the nonplus."

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Why is accidentally subscribing to some marketing list instantaneous, but unsubscribing takes 7 to 10 days?

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

As usual, Luigi gets left out.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

(For whatever it's worth, Godfather 1 and 2 are just about the only gangster movies I have enjoyed, unless you count classic Noir. I'm just glad that they didn't make a third movie.)

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

...which, I'm sure you would agree, would be fine if somebody didn't like gangster movies, regardless of their subtext? It would just mean that they wouldn't find many Pacino movies to enjoy, including what many people consider his best. Personally, I'm partial to Dog Day Afternoon.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

And also to clarify: I'm not trying to develop a balanced a sense of her oeuvre or the arc of her career. I'm trying to find movies to enjoy, and lots of people have spoken highly of her work. So I feel like there might be something in there for me.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

To clarify, by "setting aside", I mean I have no opinion. I don't know the facts, and never will. Some of his earlier stuff had moments (Broadway Danny Rose). I can't speak to his later stuff because I haven't seen it. I'd be a fool to. But back on DK: what should I watch?

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Setting aside Woody Allen the person, other than Hannah and her Sisters, I just don't like Woody Allen movies. Sorry. But thank you for the informed response

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to me.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I'll see if its streaming on any of my channels.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Wall weasels. I once convinced my sister-in-law that her house had wall weasels. It was epic.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Apparently, there is no patron saint of railways. I would like to nominate Saint Pancras.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Given the rapacious appetite of GenAI datacenters, I imagine water companies will be next.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Just remember, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I have never understood the admiration for Diane Keaton's acting. Given the plaudits, I feel like I'm missing something. What should I watch that might change my mind? Degree of difficulty: no Woody Allen.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Thomas Paine played important roles in both the American and French revolutions. This is the origin of the expression "No Paine, no gain".

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

WTF is wrong with website designers who don't show you the password rules until after you've broken them?

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Good luck, I'm behind seven proxies (You have to know the joke).

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Time for Dems to play hardball. They need to find a way to block the swearing in of reps from gerrymandered seats. Otherwise, no exaggeration, democracy is replaced with a permanent one party system.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Combine this with refusing to seat Dem representatives, and you've got a quiet coup.

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Area Man @jzelten.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I now feel very dirty. Not because of the pornbots, but because I used ChatGPT.

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