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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't have an answer but someone on my team at work is Russian and named Daniil and I've heard it pronounced both in a more Russian way and just as Daniel and at no point has he ever corrected anybody so I don't really know what to think lol

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'll entertain those questions as soon as we have a working definition of thinking, intelligence, sentience, or consciousness.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have these same machines. They get the job done, and the jingle they play is pretty funny.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You could also just up unemployment so it's a wash financially for the unemployed.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Where does "All genders, and in fact all forms of categorization, are made up. Do what you want." get me.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've wondered about the possibility of taking care of them for life but banning them from making money any other way.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some people assume that because America does shitty things that anybody who fights against America is, at worst, misunderstood. In reality everybody directly promoting violence tends to be some shade of shit.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It also frames "being moderate" as a virtue in itself. Completely devoid of morality or policy. Turning being obstinate and contradictory into a political stance.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Does "rural America" even actually exist in any meaningful sense or are people just talking about conservative suburbs and exurbs?

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You can "force" it in some specific ways or where things have changed enough to support it. The NHS is undeniably socialist and broadly works great for instance. I don't think you can just swoop in and magically make the world socialist, but I think it's where things will head naturally.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't mean it in a No True Scotland way, I mean I don't believe you can "force" the current world to be socialist any more than the world could have become capitalist in 1200AD. The society, technology, knowledge, naturally move economic systems. Policy just nudges it around a bit.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This feels like a misunderstanding of socialism as a political system rather than an economic system. I don't think socialism "prescribes" a policy any more than capitalism does. It describes an economic concept that can arise in a variety of ways, both natural and artificial.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Free Ph.D idea. Examination of porn size categories (I.E. chubby, BBW, big ass, big tits) and how changes in what videos get put into each category reflect changing beauty norms.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Humans will humanize and gender anything and everything. Chatbots are honestly one of the less weird things we've humanized given. They do at least "talk". Compare to boats, cars, appliances that annoy us, etc.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm not so sure. Biden is a committed pro-Israel politician but not sure Harris actually cares and might shift if she thinks the winds of change are blowing. Which is better than nothing I guess but not a glowing endorsement, and I don't think it makes her a viable candidate anyways.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Usually "tourist towns" don't have anything else keeping them going. Like why would you invest in building factories or other businesses in bumfuck nowhere vs a major metro area.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I genuinely thought it was a phishing email at first.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been wearing a $60 pair of boots for like 5 years. You would need your boots to last 25 years just to break even with the cheap pair. This is why the boots theory has some element of truth to it but ironically boots are probably not a case of it. Buying in bulk is a better example.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I read this mostly as people having no actual idea who Liz Cheney is right?

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

With government handling enterprises that are society wide or don't fit well into that competitive paradigm, such as law, fire, etc as well as rebalancing things when necessary by providing people with money.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Collective ownership of the means of production yes. Having a strong central government so that is one way but ownership, money, and capital are all abstract and can be handled in a variety of ways. I lean towards wanting employee ownership of enterprises rather than government. 1/2

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And also either subsidize or make it easier to build stores in food deserts.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Honestly I don't know why we try all this fancy stuff when we could just give people more money. The government is one of the best entities for just moving money from A to B and should leverage that more often for equality issues. Just give money to people to buy food.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

People can mostly afford food now, it's not actually a major policy issue in the United States. The only potential negative I see in a vacuum is the grocery margins are very thin and a government run store could drive small stores in the area out of business.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yeah I think they could still end up being good for that reason. I'm just saying they aren't going to have the sweeping impact the person I was responding to believes.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh that was in the other thread. Here I am more commenting on the fact nothing of substance was said. Just derision. I think socialist policy is perfectly capable of standing on it's own without the dismissive vibes based attitude the online "socialists" have.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I didn't make arguments against them, nor am I angry. Literally all I said was I don't thing they are going to solve any major problems.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The person I replied to described it as fixing major problems in society. That is what I was responding to.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don't particularly care one way or another about government run grocery stores but nothing about them is really a central problem with society right now. I would expect it really doesn't actually change much of anything overall.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

As a socialist it is rather embarrassing how many socialists, especially of the Internet variety, are allergic to actually grappling with policy.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think the feeling from a lot of centrists in Americans is that Democrats have better politics but Republicans are better at governing day to day. Which is of course insane but explains the many states that have blue legislatures and red governors.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social I realize it's probably a huge lift to move off Shopify but I hope DFTBA and Complexly at least look into alternatives.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The whole "Fiscally Conservative but Socially Liberal" thing is really just immature baby-men who never moved past their teenage exclamations of "You aren't the boss of me!" or "Just leave me alone!"

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I think there are specific circumstances where it could make a big difference though. That could be a down payment on a house, or wipe out medical debt or student loans, or pay for schooling. So it can be massively transforming but only if applied in certain ways.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Probably the first particle forming. Which it is interesting to think there had to have been a very first particle ever, and what a lonely existence that must have been for a picosecond before the second particle formed.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It doesn't have much practical important but it's important to continue to make a stink about bullshit. If McConnell is just a barely sentient husk then the Republicans enabling it need to be dragged endlessly and frankly probably charged with some kind of fraud.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I actually think I like these better than the regular ones.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Its basically always better and easier to just give everybody the same benefits and then collect it back in taxes on the back end. Like sure let millionaires get food stamps too who cares, just tax them more.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Pretty crazy for 1 in 4 Republicans to be saying to abolish ICE. Like I interact with more than 4 Republicans a day and imagining even one of them abolishing ICE seems crazy.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm foggy on Guardians 2 but it's an unfortunate truth of the world that abusers frequently love the target of their abuse.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

That's a very good point. Using AI and still getting it wrong - that would be the real failure. If you tell me more about the poster I can adjust this response to better fit the moment.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Banish children to the home and then argue that women have to stay home to take care of them 24/7.

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Robb @robbpettit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This could be an all-timer rule of threes

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is the correct way to do things. Collect taxes and provide rebates and services that help those with less.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The splitting hairs thing I kind of get (they are technically different things but most people won't care) but then he just goes totally insane at the end there.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Even at the best of times the US military does a lot of dumb shit. And it is not currently the best of times.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I've started walking for exercise at night and although I already knew it was bad it has still given me additional appreciation for just how fucked the roads are for pedestrians in most American cities. Some have made me audible say "Are you fucking kidding me?"

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