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Star Wars or Web 2.0?

Can you tell the difference between the name of a Star Wars character and the name of a Web 2.0 company?

I got a moderately nerdy 37 of 43 right.

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1 hour ago

I am flushed with success, having successfully dealt with a major toilet clog. If the solution had been a snake, it would have bit me. But I should have predicted, once I took the plunge, that augury would point me in the right direction. :toilet:

4 hours ago

Always fun to see how deeply some #Republicans are willing to brown-nose the #DearLeader #Trump.

#GOP #termlimits

https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term

15 hours ago

The guy who's made a career (and won elections) as a professional xenophobe wants a couple of other countries to take in a few million refugees, almost certainly permanently.

Or is it he just thinks all Arabs are alike, so why wouldn't Egypt and Jordan take in the population of Gaza so Israel can annex the land?

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/26/trump-gaza-palestinians-egypt-jordan

15 hours ago

"L'etat c'est moi."

#Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/trump-fires-inspectors-general/index.html

15 hours ago

#Trump making noises about taking over #Greenland costs him (vs US reputation) nothing, makes him look like a Strong Amurrican to his #MAGA cohorts, and lets him show Putin and Xi that he belongs in their Big Boy Conquest Club.

And, he certainly thinks, maybe the pig will sing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkezj07rzro

1 day ago

#Target becomes the latest corporate craven to eliminate its #DEI programs, "staying in step with the evolving external landscape."

OTOH, #Costco's just announced its shareholders roundly rejected a proposal to "review the risks of its DEI programs."

So ... another good reason for me to shop more at Costco than Target.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/24/target-rolls-back-major-dei-initiatives.html

1 day ago

Not surprisingly, laws being passed to require #ageverification before accessing "porn" sites are very, very easily turned into censoring broad swathes of information that particular individuals, or parties, feel might be "harmful" to kids.

Consider things have been banned on t-shirts at schools. Now lock anything about that online behind an ID firewall.

#lgbtq #politics #protest #atheism #dissent #justice ... anything that has been branded "dangerous" for kids.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/impact-age-verification-measures-goes-beyond-porn-sites

4 days ago

The City Council of #Tulsa, OK, has decided to swap out pre-meeting invocation #prayer for pre-meeting moments of silence, after an invocation prayer by a #pagan made many of them really, really uncomfortable, which got them wondering what non-Christians felt like when #Christian prayers were forced on them.

So, yay, Tulsa. At least for the moment.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/godless-libs-of-tulsa-ok-city-council

4 days ago

Seems to me that being condemned as "nasty" and "Radical Left hard line Trump hater" by #Trump himself is ... well, a pretty good endorsement of the target's virtue. cf. Matt. 5:11-12

Bravo to fellow Episcopalian Bp. #Budde for speaking truth to power.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/trump-bishop-mariann-edgar-budde

6 days ago

There are all sorts of reasons to think that a lot of #Trump's first-day executive orders are illegal and will be struck down by the courts.

Unfortunately, that requires (a) the courts to actually do so, all the way up to (presumably) #SCOTUS, and (b) him and/or his appointed lackeys to pay any attention to what the courts, vs the #DearLeader, say.

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/20/trumps-illegal-first-day-executive-actions/

6 days ago

I left out, of course, #pettiness, #racism, and #nationalism

6 days ago

#Trump doesn't miss a second for #rudeness, #revanchism, and #PerformativeImperialism.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rename-gulf-of-mexico-denali/

7 days ago

#Donald, #Melania, and #crypto... a match made in Zany Town.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-meme-coin-immediately-crashes-after-melanias-cryptocurrency-launch/

1 week ago

German industrialists and captains of industry didn't like, let alone trust, Hitler. But they worked with him because he was the guy in charge, they figured they could control him, and it gave them an advantage over their peers who didn't.

They eventually learned who was managing whom. But by then it was too late.

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/15/2025/trump-musk-dined-with-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-at-mar-a-lago

2 weeks ago

Racist MAGA idiots ranting

Four *decades* ago, I was working with my company's HR to track race among job applicants. Because you know great way to show you are being racist in your hiring efforts? By documenting a racially diverse applicant and hiring pool.

Remarkably, you can even do that even while accomplishing your mission statement, just like you can provide insurance, or remove snow from walkways.

Suggesting LAFD's #DEI program has killed people is (typically) disgusting.

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