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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · Dec 2

I am a technically savvy guy with knowledge on science, tech, math type stuff. If you need or want something explained to you at a level you are comfortable with; no judgement; let me know here or in DMs.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 2h

A MorbAres twin bill would lose so much money it would tear a hole in the fabric of reality and ideally send Jared Leto into a video game so we should look into this

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 8h

On which date do I bring up the absolutely massive Nazi tattoo on my left tit?

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 12h

Higher ed in the US is totally fucked

There. I said it out loud

Dems are spineless chodes. There is no one to save us. Our administrators are also spineless.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 11h

“Thanks for coming to this all hands, I know we’re all busy. I’ll get right to it, the agenda is: how do we get ahead of the giant Nazi tattoo our guy has on his chest and I mean it is BIG. Big like can’t miss it, easily seen on a blurry video of a drunken debauch which reminds me of agenda item #2”

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12h

And here’s the best part: if we’re all real with ourselves and course correct right now, it will severely diminish the amount of damage Republicans will do to the left over it by the time the primary comes around, which actually matters a lot more than just for one seat in Maine!

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 12h

"Loads of guys in the military have tattoos like that" is an argument against the culture of the US military, not an argument for chilling out about Nazi tattoos.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 13h

*smacks hood* you won’t BELIEVE how many leaguered this baby can be.

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 13h

A 60 something scholarly looking man. Balding. Glasses. Wearing a blue suit and a striped tie with a sweater vest. He rests his right hand on Peter Parker‘s shoulder and says, “I don’t know what your problems are, but…work them out.“

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 13h

I got the basics of version control from this book. Hopefully this helps you understand the intent of VC and then Git is just the How. And start small. Start a new R project as Git controlled. You’ll see how it works in not too long.

svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.b...

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 13h

‘push’ your work up. There are some subtleties about trusting others when pulling and just having them write over your WIP and so forth, but this is enough to get the gist.

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 13h

If you can keep these ideas in your head straight; Git just becomes verbs. Snapshot your stuff is ‘committing’. Starting up something new is ‘branching’. This is happening locally in your own little Git environment. If you are interacting with others, you are going to ‘pull’ their work down and

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 13h

What You Support with new features or look nicer or whatever. Some of those versions will get merged into What You Support. Or maybe they are so cool and different they turn into Another Thing You Support.

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a lot of lingo about branch and master and other stuff; but they all boil down to you have a version that is What You Support; that is, it’s out there, doing the thing, and folks expect you to fix it if it breaks. You can have several versions (branches) of This Might Work that extend

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 14h

The snapshots are nice because sometimes you have a bad idea that you get really into. Then you realize it’s bad and can just ‘revert’ to the last time things were good. 😌

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 14h

Think of a VCS as taking snapshots of your Work In Progress. It also ‘protects’ your WIP when many developers might be working on the same project. That is, you might collide with someone else’ idea in the code and the VCS should help you sort that out.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 14h

Each of them thinking, “When I’M President they will remember this and vote for my picks.”

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 14h

This particular guy has $3m in election funds. He could livestream the removal/cover as a spectacle of contrition. He won’t though, sounds like he’s already mad that folks are mad about it.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 15h

Have you used any version control system before? Subversion? CVS?

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 15h

Those are the folks that are beating the traffic! 🤓

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 15h

I think about the Dems that voted FOR YEARS for more ICE more deportations more more because they thought they would ‘look weak’ electorally and then they lost TWICE to a DUMB MOTHERFUCKER. These folks need to go. People smell desperation and shallowness and it repulses them.

BELIEVE IN THINGS.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 15h

I have a zero tolerance policy for Nazis! Sorry!

If for some goddamn reason you had a "Nazi phase" and want to have anything to do with this particular trans Jew, I'm sorry, but you have to prove that you've done massive personal and communal work to rip out that wiring

That's just how it is

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 15h

If this makes you think at all, you should think billionaires must be destroyed.

An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 15h

There are no brakes on him. What if he decides to have the whole WH demolished? He’s a billionaire; he can just pay a guy. He gets voted out, and has a little tantrum, orders it razed and retires to his $2B-of-tax-money refurbed jet. Who would stop him; honestly? Congress? Maybe…? After a loss?

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 15h

I stopped hanging around someone who quoted Family Guy too much. If it was Nazi stuff, I woulda bounced even quicker.

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An argument for the pit @jeblucas.bsky.social · 16h

How does this world still have so many Nazis in it? Literal, “I am into what Hitler did” Nazis. Millions of people were murdered by him and millions and millions more were killed because of him and his twisted anti-life ideology.

How does this idea still have staying power?

We are sick.