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  1. CW: Part 1 The greedy people who care only about money and possessions are destroying our country!! What motivates Republicans to say they’re for the “little guy” when the only policies they'll pursue are to cut taxes for the rich, gut unions, destroy public schools & ship jobs overseas? Why Must Americans Walk Life's Tightrope Without a Safety Net?

    Part 1
    The greedy people who care only about money and possessions are destroying our country!!

    What motivates Republicans to say they’re for the “little guy” when the only policies they'll pursue are to cut taxes for the rich, gut unions, destroy public schools & ship jobs overseas?

    Why Must Americans Walk Life's Tightrope Without a Safety Net?
    hartmannreport.com/p/why-must-

    #GOPInBedWithRich
    #GOPLovesPower
    #GOPHatesDemocracy
    #WantTheirSerfsBack
    #GOPGreedy
    #GreedKills

    "Republicans are about to seize control of the US House of Representatives, where the Constitution says all taxation and spending must originate. And the result won’t be difficult to predict.

    This Spring will be the 20th anniversary of my radio program. During that entire time, I’ve run a contest for anybody who can name even one single piece of legislation from the past 40 years (since Reagan) that was:
    — authored by Republicans,
    — principally co-sponsored by Republicans,
    — passed Congress with a Republican majority,
    — signed by a Republican president,
    — and benefited average working people or the poor more than it did the GOP’s donor class.

    Outside of a feeble-attempt bill to regulate spam callers during the first Bush administration and legislation reversing the Osage Allotment Act of 1906, nobody has ever won the autographed book prize.

    Every developed country in the world has some variation on a free or low-cost national healthcare system, and free or subsidized higher education.

    In most developed countries homelessness is not a crisis; nobody goes bankrupt because somebody in their family got sick; and jobs pay well enough and have union pensions so people can retire after 30 or 40 years in the workforce and live comfortably for the rest of their lives.

    But not in America. Republican politicians have fought tooth-and-nail for generations to prevent any of those things from happening here.

    Which raises the question: “Why?”

    Why do Republican politicians promote hateful messages and cruel policies? Why are Republican-run states the real “shithole” parts of the US with the highest rates of poverty, violence, early death, disease, and illiteracy?

    What motivates these Republican politicians to say they’re for the “little guy” when the only policies they pursue are to cut taxes on the rich, gut unions, destroy public schools, and ship jobs overseas?

    It’s not about ideology.

    Republicans don’t hate Social Security and Medicare, for example, because they’re afraid that those programs are going to somehow turn America into a “socialist” country. They hate those programs because they’re paid for with tax dollars, and greedy Republicans hate to pay their fair share of taxes.

    It’s not about racism, although it often appears that way.

    The reason Republicans work so hard to keep Black and Brown people down is because they subscribe to a weird economic theory that “requires” an underclass who do most of the hard work for very little money. Thus, morbidly rich Republican “donors” — being part of the overclass — can reap the benefits of increased corporate profits while keeping their taxes low so they can stuff the extra cash into their money bins.

    If their use of racist language and Confederate iconography brings in a few more low-IQ white voters, that’s just icing on the cake. They can use the racist yahoos to get themselves reelected so giant corporations will continue to stuff their SuperPACs with lobbyist cash they can use for their own retirement."

  2. Starting my shift on #AllStarTrek. Good evening everyone! This is certainly a novel situation.

    Worf was excellent with the phone. Best to be assertive with unknown callers.

    #StarTrekTNG #TNG #TheRoyale

  3. Starting my shift on #AllStarTrek. Good evening everyone! This is certainly a novel situation.

    Worf was excellent with the phone. Best to be assertive with unknown callers.

    #StarTrekTNG #TNG #TheRoyale

  4. Starting my shift on #AllStarTrek. Good evening everyone! This is certainly a novel situation.

    Worf was excellent with the phone. Best to be assertive with unknown callers.

    #StarTrekTNG #TNG #TheRoyale

  5. Starting my shift on #AllStarTrek. Good evening everyone! This is certainly a novel situation.

    Worf was excellent with the phone. Best to be assertive with unknown callers.

    #StarTrekTNG #TNG #TheRoyale

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  7. Rep. Mike Haridopolos Faces Direct Questions from Voters on C-SPAN About Trump and Economic Concerns

    📰 Original title: Republican gets more than he bargained for from angry callers on C-SPAN

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary: en.killbait.com/rep-mike-harid

    #politics #tru...

  8. Okay, I know that this is probably obvious to anyone who does sound engineering, but I just realized that for contra dances I can add a compressor to whatever bus the band is on, then sidechain the callers microphone in as the input. The band will be slightly quieter whenever someone is calling, making the calls more clear over the music but without having to turn them up so loud that it blows out everyone's ears during the walk throughs when there is no music. This sounds so much better, why have I never thought of this before? Just doing it in recordings right now, gotta figure out if we have something low-latency enough to do this live.

    #Contra #AudioEngineering

  9. @riley Those adjustments are still themselves based on statistical methods.

    The underlying situation burrows a bit further into communications options.

    Household penetration of landline phones hit ~90% by the late 1960s (transportgeography.org/content). Not only was that a fast and cheap way to reach most of the public, but the namespace was densely filled and could readily be randomly walked, and on a local basis by using area codes and local exchange numbers (the first three digits of a traditional seven-digit phone number).

    That is, with a "wardialler" dialing random numbers, and excluding those which were not in service or institutional (business, gov't, schools, etc.), it was possible to quickly reach a useful representative sample of the public (~300 to 1,000 people, typically), which is all you need to get a reasonably representative view WITHOUT any regard for how large the total population is. Ironically, it's often easier to get a represntative national sample than it is for a small region such as a city or county. You could select given area codes to address a state (or portion of one), and exchanges typically identified specific towns or neighbourhoods of larger cities.

    Almost all problems arise from sampling bias, which is what your weighted samples and other factors try to address.

    Household landline penetration is now at or below 20% in some US states, though others have higher values than I'd have though, NY topping the list at 52.4%. Mobile devices and many landlines now block unknown (or specifically blacklisted) callers. Robocalling is an absolute plague.

    All of which means that there's currently no universally utilised telecommunications means of running surveys. The options are to statistically adjust known methods, to do in-person or postal-mail-based contacts, or find other alternative methods of contact. The #DeathOfTelephony problem I discuss from time to time is having its impacts on US politics and polling, among other areas.

  10. Can we please have the telephone booths back in the city?
    💡☎️📱⌚️📞

    Just the booth, a designated place for people to talk on their phone. A sound barrier is much needed in the ever-getting-noisy world, both for the callers and the others around.

    #smartPhone #LookABunny 🌹🐇✨

  11. Christa is both an experienced, knowledgeable lawyer and a survivor of abuse.

    Please, read her article and listen to her concerns regarding a conflict of interest in survivor advocacy at the SBC.
    @[email protected]:
    Callers to the SBC's sexual abuse hotline are often routed to a person who also serves the SBC's abuse reform implementation task force.

    My column today about dual roles. I did not want to write it, but I hope you'll read it. #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo baptistnews.com/article/sbcs-s…