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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Also most (all?) digital imaging/drawing technologies and programs. Don't tell me that there weren't people who were incandescent with rage over the idea of someone drawing on what is effectively a very large touchpad to create art, because there absolutely were.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It wasn't a question of when I realized it so much as when I accepted it. Much like coming out, at first I denied being weird, but eventually accepted and embraced my weird.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

True, but not because of $10/month spent on anything.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

...given time. Generally, anytime the brain is getting sensory inputs from everywhere all at once, it tends to be a period of stress, or fun, like a full body orgasm. Lots of fun but not something you want to last forever.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There's clearly a minimum threshold. If you had no vision, hearing, smell, sense of touch, or awareness of your own body, how could you have consciousness? But I don't think losing a limb makes you less conscious, it just lowers the maximum possible sensory inputs that could be received at any...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Me, to Puppers after he ate his raw juicy turkey gizzards and heart on the living room carpet my aunt had just vacuumed.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Billions of dollars will be stolen.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's a logical extrapolation of what you said.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Again, until it's not. Either you're claiming that local roadways will never be as safe as motorways, or; we shouldn't try and limit motorway deaths, even if they become the leading cause of vehicle fatalities because of significant reductions in local roadway fatalities.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh! The most obvious exception: when talking to a dog. Always acceptable, and indeed expected, to ask a dog if they would like some tummyrubs.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unless it's in response to a person 5 or younger who has used it, or; When you're alone with your significant other and are being cutesy, eg.: "Is there a reason why you're hugging me from behind like this?" "My hands are cold, and your tummy is warm."

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

...speed, but most motorways also have laws about driving too slowly, and it's easy to add a few more cameras at each overpass, to track your average speed over shorter intervals.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

However, if the implication was your intent, then it's wrong. You only need to record a person's entry and exit times to and from the motorway to calculate their average speed during their trip. Sure, you could speed for part of the trip, then slow down later for enough time to drop your average...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You said more speed cameras are used on local roads, than on motorways, and seemed to imply it was because enforcing speed limits on local roads is more important than on motorways. If you did not intend that implication, why mention that there are more speed cameras on local roads than motorways?

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You need to use more speed cameras/km on local roads than you do on motorways in order to achieve the same level of enforcement.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not quite. Motorways are controlled access, which means that compared to local roads, you can actually have more effective enforcement of speed limits and with fewer cameras,

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Except they do use speed cameras on motorways.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also, I'm not against speed cameras at all. Those countries with higher speed limits and fewer fatalities use them extensively.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's not dumb at all. Some countries with higher speed limits have lower fatality rates than those with lower speed limits. Therefore, lowering speed limits will not necessarily guarantee a reduction in fatality rates, nor will raising speed limits raise fatalities.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You seem upset that I pointed out a major flaw in your argument.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Obviously speed is not the only factor, and also obviously it's possible to have higher speed limits and lower traffic fatalities.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

No, because they work by causing each eye to have a different focal point.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You mean that in several countries with higher speed limits on their motorways the traffic fatality rate is substantially lower than in the US?

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But the large house also must feel cozy.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Achievement Name: "Challenge Impossible", Desc.: "Read through the entire very lengthy text message which is at parts highly critical of the recipients of the VLTM for their ongoing behaviour, and reach the incontrovertible proof at the end the VLTM", "In pogress'': "Mom"

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As with all suffering, they both contribute to their neighbour's suffering, and to their own suffering.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe, but the things that happened on Sunday have not been happening for centuries.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Again, I have seen guys who have been up for 3 days and can't even utter a coherent sentence anymore find a vein in under 5 minutes.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

...but the longest draw took at most an extra minute because of the missed vein. How do you spend an hour?

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After a two week stint in the hospital, having had three IVs simultaneously, an IABP, and later after the IABP was removed, so many blood draws that I left the hospital looking like a heroin addict. There were issues with some of them, sometimes they did have trouble hitting the vein correctly...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If I shake my head any more it's going to fall off.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...execution), might actually give Wilson some valuable insight into how these events happened, but in a way that is much safer than trying heroin.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wouldn't even say her comparison is off. AI can do many things that are harmful to people, even if not directly, yet, and there seem to be credible allegations that it has helped people end their own lives, and the lives of others. Using an LLM to do these things herself (the planning, not the...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...the greater whole, but executing them seems like cruel and unusual punishment given that it was society that helped create them.

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...right for society to execute a monster it helped create, even if it only helped by indifference/inaction (in some circumstances, that can actually be worse than deliberate harmful action). Those monsters still need to be incarcerated, indefinitely in many cases, for the protection of the...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I assume you mean her history of being a victim of abuse? One of the reasons why I oppose capital punishment for even the most vile serial killers is that very few of them became monsters in isolation. Most of them suffered some kind of trauma, often horrific levels of abuse. I don't think it's...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...review I'd be grilled about why that happened, to which I replied, "because no one will tell him not to."

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...down to $10k from $20k, and started working when the client paid only $5k. At the end of the month, WIP was almost always ≥ $20k. At the end of the next month, we'd still be waiting on payment for our first invoice, having only $5k in trust, and A/R + WIP of around $35k. Then at the next a/r...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...record. A couple hours later, my boss stopped by my desk to tell me how inappropriate my email was, and that it was not my place to tell the lawyers how to run their files. During my remaining time at the firm, on about a dozen files this jr.p opened, he agreed to revise the retainer amount...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...while looking at a new file, I saw the indications of a problem client, and sent an email to the junior partner handling the file informing him of my concerns, and that this particular client's willingness to pay accounts should be treated as suspect until they established a good payment...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...was specifically prohibited from doing anything about most of the problems I saw. For example, after 5+ years of managing the firm's receivables, I had a pretty good track record for identifying early on which clients were likely to have problems sending payment for the accounts. One day...

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Proud Anselmo @proudanselmo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This also describes most of my last year at my former firm. I could see how all the associates and junior partners were screwing up (because the senior partners had not taught the associates and jr. partners client, and business management), and had no ability to do anything about it. In fact I...

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