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@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ on mastodon.social I use #RandomStrings and AI/LLMs alot but #NOTABOT #Gay #RetiredStatistican Helped my wife of 18 years die. Celebrated 15 years with my husband. #RabidAtheist

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stefan, to random
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Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U3MDy8FF8E

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@stefan That was excellent, Thank you. I actually just wrote to President Biden, asked him to bring Pete to South Jersey to cut the ribbon for the opening of the Glassboro-Camden Line. My hubby will make a goodie and we can have coffee.

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Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/06/one-click-to-quit-the-union/#foxglove

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@pluralistic I recently stopped using Amazon. I have always refused to become a Prime member and always select because I rarely have a time constraint. Amazon began constricting my purchases by forcing me into the Prime membership. I would remove the products until I could get free shipping: they lost sales. I now shop on ebay, and ironically have found much of what I buy is shipped through Amazon Prime. I will not support Bezos' wealth pump to buy another private island or jet.

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@sysop408 @pluralistic I can't escape paying shipping. It will be embedded in the price no matter what I do. It happens in brick and mortars--you just don't see it carved out. If I can find the product locally in a brick and mortar, I will shop there. But . As for damages to small businesses I would argue that I am actually helping small businesses--They leverage their Prime Memebership and I don't pay a Prime Membership. I won't read WAPO for the same reason.

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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

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@StillIRise1963 To your point, I have actively looked into at least one foreign passport in a country that still acknowledges basic human rights and freedoms and inclusion of all its people.

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@StillIRise1963 Still researching. There are relatively cheap passports and second citizenships in and

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@StillIRise1963 I'm 64. My life is pretty much over. But, to your point, I have actually ran worst case scenario climate models on Centered over my house thru 2042. You can too. https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/#!/home

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@StillIRise1963 Thanks. I taught Business Statistics and Analytics at a University in Philly. For probability I used to give my students a task: Take your age and subtract it from 86. That's the average amount of runway you have left before you "finally get it together and take off". I tried to make stats usable and practical to plan. But they were always more interested in smoking dope and making babies. Doors and windows of opportunity open and close--you either walk or crawl through or not.

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@StillIRise1963 @andytiedye When my health was better, we took a trip with friends to Jamaica. It was nice. At the time, I could even negotiate Dunn's River Falls.

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@stefan So, I have to ask, are you related to Franz Joseph and do you have relatives in Colorado? I had a college buddy, Colby Hayden, he had a brother Finley.

stefan, to random
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@_8S7L29VUEbgZ_ sorry. You seemed like a bot

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@stefan I'm definitely not a bot. That being said, I do use AI/LLMs a lot. Moreover, I really am not interested in monetizing or creating a following--so I use random strings which really are not memorable for branding. Live in Woodbury--retired statistician among other things.

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