DaveO
@daveon.bsky.social
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I write SF, buy my books :)
Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez
Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies.
I write SF, buy my books :)
Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez
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@daveon.bsky.social
· Aug 19
Clueless: Trunk Line Book Three - Tales of the Orion Spur (Trunk Line - tales of the Orion spur 3)
Amazon.com: Clueless: Trunk Line Book Three - Tales of the Orion Spur (Trunk Line - tales of the Orion spur 3) eBook : O'Neill, Dave: Kindle Store
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One man, one summit, a bunch of AIs and a LOT of delegates who don't like each other - what could possibly go wrong!
Clueless is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
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Clueless is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
amzn.to/3HH1nT6
I have not had Covid since April 2020 but I have a suspicion I might have it now. Testing tomorrow I think.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I have not had Covid since April 2020 but I have a suspicion I might have it now. Testing tomorrow I think.
The problem with percentages. Percentages lead you to missing large numbers.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The problem with percentages. Percentages lead you to missing large numbers.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
There's also a problem here that while these locations are 'only' 20-25% of the entire US economy, there are companies in these areas which drive wider economic activity across the nation. Seattle/WA is only ~3% of GDP but MS, Amazon, Starbucks, Boeing, CostCo drive GDP nationwide.
Conditions in places that make up a disproportionate share of the national economy *are* in fact more important. That’s where people are much more likely to want to move!
Conditions in NYC, Boston, and SF may feel more important to you than Cincinnati and Chicago and Oklahoma City and Houston, but rather than finding a way to rationalize this instinct, I’d encourage you to recognize that it is a your perception of the country being distorted by social relationships.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There's also a problem here that while these locations are 'only' 20-25% of the entire US economy, there are companies in these areas which drive wider economic activity across the nation. Seattle/WA is only ~3% of GDP but MS, Amazon, Starbucks, Boeing, CostCo drive GDP nationwide.
Poker is what?
Lmaooo dude deal with the fact that the only truly right-coded things are pedophilia, racism, misogyny, and stupidity and not necessarily in that order
what?
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Poker is what?
As I said in the thread - if you had to find a way to survive in San Diego on $130k WITH current housing costs it isn't going to be a lot of fun and could eat up 55-60% of your take home pay.
Right the dynamic here in San Diego is that you can live a perfectly normal middle-class life on $100k/year here... if you bought your house 15 years ago or otherwise have some sort of housing hookup like a subsidized BMR unit.
Other option is to live an hour+ away from where the jobs are
Other option is to live an hour+ away from where the jobs are
Even in San Diego, a family making 136k a year isn’t exactly working class, much less living in poverty! There are many, many people making much less than that
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As I said in the thread - if you had to find a way to survive in San Diego on $130k WITH current housing costs it isn't going to be a lot of fun and could eat up 55-60% of your take home pay.
No. Really? Shocking 🙄
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
No. Really? Shocking 🙄
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
And yet countries which prioritize rehabilitation over punishment seem to have better outcomes. Kinda weird that.
Not surprised to see Elon Musk supporting Cruel and unusual punishment.
Pretty sure this was the place innocent people were sent for life earlier this year
Wasn’t it viral for also being a suspected death camp, blood/bodies in Google earth?
Pretty sure this was the place innocent people were sent for life earlier this year
Wasn’t it viral for also being a suspected death camp, blood/bodies in Google earth?
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
And yet countries which prioritize rehabilitation over punishment seem to have better outcomes. Kinda weird that.
I remember having lounge access for an airline and standing looking at the lounge but finding out from the part of CDG I had found myself in that was essentially all I could do without doing some kind of mythic ring quest to retrace my steps to work out where I went wrong.
Truly insane that there’s nowhere to get a drink behind security at Charles de Gaulle. I demand that Interpol investigate
It's shocking that the nation that insists on having a bar next to every playground (good) doesn't have anything in their major airport.
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I remember having lounge access for an airline and standing looking at the lounge but finding out from the part of CDG I had found myself in that was essentially all I could do without doing some kind of mythic ring quest to retrace my steps to work out where I went wrong.
I have never seen a rugby match like that and fervently hope never to again.
IREvRSA
IREvRSA
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I have never seen a rugby match like that and fervently hope never to again.
IREvRSA
IREvRSA
It is the inevitability of some Boer here coming up to discuss the game with me after the match that has the acid reflux kicking in.
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It is the inevitability of some Boer here coming up to discuss the game with me after the match that has the acid reflux kicking in.
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Speaking as a ref, I think this is poor game management from Carley. If this is such an issue then speak to the captain. Irelands discipline is piss poor but Carley is taking the absolute piss
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Speaking as a ref, I think this is poor game management from Carley. If this is such an issue then speak to the captain. Irelands discipline is piss poor but Carley is taking the absolute piss
When did they bring in time limited red cards in rugby.
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
When did they bring in time limited red cards in rugby.
Ryan you bloody idiot. You didn’t need to do that.
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ryan you bloody idiot. You didn’t need to do that.
This is going to be a long morning.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is going to be a long morning.
I have been talked into watching the Ireland game at the home of South African rugby in Seattle.
This could be depressing.
This could be depressing.
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have been talked into watching the Ireland game at the home of South African rugby in Seattle.
This could be depressing.
This could be depressing.
Roofman is a very odd movie with an exceptional cast and, seems to, track closely to the true story it’s based on.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Roofman is a very odd movie with an exceptional cast and, seems to, track closely to the true story it’s based on.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
I do not wish to damn with faint praise because it is genuinely a better movie than that, but Play Date is wayyyyyy better than it should be and a great deal of fun that does not overstay its welcome.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I do not wish to damn with faint praise because it is genuinely a better movie than that, but Play Date is wayyyyyy better than it should be and a great deal of fun that does not overstay its welcome.
Roofman.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Roofman.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.
I *love* being 6 hours into my work day by noon ...
🙃
🙃
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I *love* being 6 hours into my work day by noon ...
🙃
🙃
Having slept on this I’m still angry about it. We got here because the entire media establishment enabled it and still are.
The article is an astonishing time capsule particularly because everything they chide Harris for saying CAME TRUE.
The article is an astonishing time capsule particularly because everything they chide Harris for saying CAME TRUE.
Can’t think why it turned out how it did with the media reporting honestly.
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
12 misleading or lacking-in-context claims from Harris’ DNC speech
They range from characterizations of former President Trump’s stances on abortion rights and Social Security to her plans to address housing and grocery prices.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Having slept on this I’m still angry about it. We got here because the entire media establishment enabled it and still are.
The article is an astonishing time capsule particularly because everything they chide Harris for saying CAME TRUE.
The article is an astonishing time capsule particularly because everything they chide Harris for saying CAME TRUE.
What astounds me about this utter shit from @npr.org and let’s be clear here this is shit. It’s shit reporting. It’s shit coverage and it’s the shit that has led us to hear because of the flagrant dishonest involved is just how fucking wrong it all is.
Apologize to me.
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
Apologize to me.
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
12 misleading or lacking-in-context claims from Harris’ DNC speech
They range from characterizations of former President Trump’s stances on abortion rights and Social Security to her plans to address housing and grocery prices.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
What astounds me about this utter shit from @npr.org and let’s be clear here this is shit. It’s shit reporting. It’s shit coverage and it’s the shit that has led us to hear because of the flagrant dishonest involved is just how fucking wrong it all is.
Apologize to me.
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
Apologize to me.
www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g...
This was said to me today.
"Okay so I just don’t find this persuasive. Falling a foot isn’t the same as falling a mile, even if you fall the same speed"
Thing is. Falling a foot or a mile at the same speed is EXACTLY the same.
"Okay so I just don’t find this persuasive. Falling a foot isn’t the same as falling a mile, even if you fall the same speed"
Thing is. Falling a foot or a mile at the same speed is EXACTLY the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This was said to me today.
"Okay so I just don’t find this persuasive. Falling a foot isn’t the same as falling a mile, even if you fall the same speed"
Thing is. Falling a foot or a mile at the same speed is EXACTLY the same.
"Okay so I just don’t find this persuasive. Falling a foot isn’t the same as falling a mile, even if you fall the same speed"
Thing is. Falling a foot or a mile at the same speed is EXACTLY the same.
Pluribus would be a different show if Carol was a Science Fiction writer and not a fantasy one :)
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Pluribus would be a different show if Carol was a Science Fiction writer and not a fantasy one :)
Pluribus is amazingly fucked up.
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Pluribus is amazingly fucked up.
Decide to make beef stroganoff and immediately disagree with the recipes.
Sigh.
Well I’ll figure something out.
Sigh.
Well I’ll figure something out.
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Decide to make beef stroganoff and immediately disagree with the recipes.
Sigh.
Well I’ll figure something out.
Sigh.
Well I’ll figure something out.