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Posting this as a separate thread bc I have a few things to say ....

Note: There will be cursing.

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First ...

It's well past "about time" that our Fed Gov't gets serious about the horror show that is #LTChomes care in Canada. We have been _warehousing_ our seniors & #PwD for DECADES, believing in the outright LIE that a public / private mix could work.

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When the fuck have private - aka FOR PROFIT - models ever worked to address shortcomings in how we treat "minorities" in society? While Insurance™️ companies sold us the pipe-dream of Freedom55 (remeber that?), seniors that missed the boat got locked away.

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There is NO WORLD in which charging ppl $5000 / mo for _shared_ accommodations in a run-down building, where "nutritious meals" are something we wouldn't normally serve a dog, and residents are _abused_ .... is acceptable. NONE. 🤬

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Further, there is NO WORLD in which, arguably, the _most damaging_ Premier of ON in recent history, Mike Harris, should be trusted to have the "best intentions" of anyone but himself running amok in his blackened heart. That man is human trash 🤬

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This article exemplifies how colonial mentality -- the internalization of attitudes of cultural inferiority by previously colonized people -- is multigenerational. Their descendants' may never have been colonized physically, but their minds remain shackled.1/9


And in spite of a father's, a "hairy-chested" uncle's, or respected organizations like @ChinmayaMission's best efforts, racist, colonial tropes about Hindus and Hinduism rooted in European ideas of white and Christian supremacy persist, and in this case, prove insurmountable.2/9

What's fascinating (and frustrating) is how @mathangiwrites and many like her freely borrow the language of decolonizing used by other post-colonized peoples yet remain completely unaware of the colonial paradigms through which they view and demonize their own tribe. 3/9

And they want to fight against the conflation of Hindu and Indian identities, but have no problem conflating Hinduism with casteism, colorism, patriarchy, religious bigotry, and whatever other social ills?!? 4/9

She ridicules her “hairy chested” uncle who was probably a well-meaning community elder wearing his traditional unstitched, unstitched dhoti, taking time on weekends to pass on Sanskrit chanting and ancient ceremonies to kids like her in the community. 5/9
This is my favorite HN thread in a long time, so (positively) surprised at the support in the comments:

https://t.co/nx8ZfDB5Bc

Maintaining open-source is brutal, and feeling obligated to acknowledge, review, and respond to every attempt to contribute is a huge burden to carry.

When I saw this tweet from @dhh the other day I couldn't help but s/email/open source contribution/, but it makes me feel horribly guilty to suggest that anyone should feel anything but grateful for unsolicited free work from


But the reality is even though folks are generally trying to help by contributing, those contributions still cost the maintainer more than they cost the contributor, in terms of time to review, stress worrying about making time to review, and long term maintenance.

And unlike email where as long as you can convince yourself it's totally fair to not respond to unsolicited email it's okay, on GitHub there's a public counter signaling to the rest of the world that you are a poor steward of your project if you can't keep the number low.

And also unlike email, the only way to ignore something while also dismissing it from your "inbox" is to take an explicit action (closing the issue/PR) that sends a notification to the person, highlighting how rude you are if you don't craft a thoughtful reason for closing.
A THREAD OF PEOPLE DISCUSSING MY THREAD:

here's a good thought about it


and here's another good place to get started on it


this person is saying things about the thread


oh jeez did i forget to add part 5 hold on
Bad faith smears, such as this article, omits so much context, order of events and perspective, in order to turn Lockdown into a partisan issue.

Context like claims about 500K deaths, and 67 million people under house arrest for a year.

67 million house arrest years, and their as yet uncalculated second-order consequences amounts to vastly more lost QALYs than were allegedly lost to Covid19.

No lockdown sceptic I am aware argued against precautionary measures for the categorically vulnerable.

Moreover, the lockdown hawks have traded on rank fearmongering, leaving much of the public with the view that ~10% of the population had succumbed to the virus. There has been no effort from the official narrative to address that fear.

Here, Lawson takes Yeadon's comment, which is a statement about ONS's reporting of the week -- ONS's own claim of no statistically significant increase -- as a claim about the year.

https://t.co/J0ZBFKxfG4


He goes on to wonder what Yeadon was referring to, though Yeadon's Tweet was clear enough. The 5-week figures give some big number-drama to his story, but the daily death rate is less stark: 1,691 versus 1,397. Hardly heart-warming figures, but hardly the year 1349.
Good morning! Uh oh

Oh jeez what did I post last night. Oh jeez oh no

Here's the thread I hope


oh gosh i have to put it to an end somehow, i need to find the ending


i'd make the ending myself but it'd refute my arguments about how the only way to fix things is to do exactly what i've always been doing (which is making the thread) so i have to simply decide the ending already exists and hope i stumble into it
1/ So @WhyTrustTheMsm said something that gave me another idea

Drops 120-131

More overlap with the 1:20 - 1:31 drops too...

Check it out...


2/ Check out Drop 120

Unmasking
&
Em Ess Em
&
H-Arr-See
&
SA

Overlap with 1:20, 1:23, 1:29, 1:31


3/ Drop 121

Hu$$ein & MB & SA

(& r!gged eIecti0ns - worth a re-read!)

Matches 1:23 & 1:31


4/ Drop 122

H-Arr-See
&
Snow White & Godfather lll - same as 1:31

As well as “Operators active” & “Operations in US”

Strong correlations, amirite?


5/ Drops 123 & 124 & skipping to 126

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“Nothing is random.
Everything has meaning.”