Notices by ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@social.seattle.wa.us), page 6

@natecull Cyberia (rushkoff) is a fascinating book. Dreams in the early 90s.

@finn @tk @isagalaev @xminusone @k almost none down in LQA. Maybe 1/4" on cold areas.

If it freezes tonight- YIKES

@kai ok. Close enough. Must be the lag then.

Wonder if pixelfed posts syndicate properly to Mastodon.

@juliobiason the rumors are weird. I don't see G dropping it.

If you're looking for an ethical cloud provider that's pro-class, I don't know of any. I don't really consider budget providers pro. Ergo, just get the best one.

@juliobiason I use The G's cloud systems. 1-2 cuts above AWS.

@plsburydoughboy that's because talking about sex is has strictures on it.

@jankoekepan

some threats to our democracy are too serious to ignore and hope

I'm done having this conversation about the right 4-dimensional chess to play

@jankoekepan Crystal balls are not available.

I don't think the impeachment process will substantially change the minds of any voters; possibly they will simply solidify existing partisans.

@jankoekepan The political calculations are not good in any way you cut the cake.

The ethical calculations are lucid clear, and I'm rather over talking about them.

@jankoekepan So.

I am disinterested in any both-sidesism. Trump & the GOP are generally some flavor of fascism, depending on the day and the individual.

If someone wants to come up and both-sides at me, they are welcome to depart and reflect on their ability to argue that the modern fascist project is equal to the modern democratic project.

@jankoekepan

Bluntly, I don't care about appearing "hateful" or appealing to people who are still on the fence.

Anyone paying attention & with any sense of sanity saw Trump for what he was in 2015, 2016. Continued events have shown how bad things were, and worse.

Any undecidedness today is a result of dedicated & wilful blindness and a radical disinterest in the American democratic project.

In 2015, I didn't like Obama, and was not a Democrat. It was crystal clear.

@jankoekepan so: yes. I support impeachment, I hope it a fair trial (but have some doubts there), yet judge it worthy of doing.

@jankoekepan I judge it worthy.

I attend to the polls a bit, and it looks like things essentially are sorting out to be GOP = support trump, Dem = against trump, independent = dislike trump, mostly.

What that means for 2020 potus election, I couldn't say. I expect it'll wind up coming down to swing states voters who show up / stay home, much like 2016.

@jankoekepan I think it is worth it, in the sense that Congress has abdicated its power far too much to the executive branch for the past 25 years. Enforcing its will upon the Executive is something that is overdue. (I rather hoped it would get a lot feistier with Obama, to be frank - either we have Congress judge the Executive or Congress tries to be Parliment).

n.b., I don't think it solidified support that wasn't already latent.

@ajroach42 insert fries

he's impeached.

YEA

YEA

YEA

fellow fediversites - time to work out pressure & solidatity to red state senators.

Mostly turning news off today. Because US Pol is VERY DISTRACTING.