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Not to date myself, but I used the cash register version of this adding machine at my first job! Thanks for posting!
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mastodon 4.7.2The lens through which each of us views the world colours our experience and influences our response or reaction.
Any political system seeking to control its people is flawed.
Corporate greed has subjugated our politics and our culture, exacerbating the #climatecrisis , #financialdisparity and is the biggest threat we and the earth face.
One day we will all realize that #WeAreAllOne and that what we do unto another, we do to ourselves.
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‘More Destruction of Science’: Trump Fires Every Member of US National Science Board
“This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation.”
Jake Johnson
Apr 26, 2026
Excerpt:
US President Donald Trump on Friday quietly fired every member of the independent board that governs the National Science Foundation, a move seen as an escalation of the administration’s destructive war on science.
Members of the National Science Board (NSB) were notified in a brief email “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump” that their “position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately.” One fired board member, chemist Willie May, told The New York Times that he was “disappointed” but not “entirely surprised,” adding, “I have watched the systematic dismantling of the scientific advisory infrastructure of this government with growing alarm, and the National Science Board is simply the latest casualty.”
Full article below:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-fires-national-science-board
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Just wondering out loud here ...
Is ( #TrumpDerangementSyndrom )^-1 the correct expression to properly refer to how whacked the current #POTUS is? 🤔
Now we know why ICE acts like #FDJT 's private army ...
From @RBReich:
"ICE Whistleblower Speaks Out
This former ICE instructor reveals how the agency has changed its training program to carry out Trump’s cruel deportation agenda — even if it means trampling on our civil rights.
Not another dime for this out-of-control agency."
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@violet@lgbtqia.space if I may make an addition - from a co-worker who worked in that field:
Engineer: the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online
"...
Call me for your lover's lover's alibi
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Sounds like it should be quite the Supergirl movie!
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@kravietz and I thought it was bad 20 years ago when the internal controller for a piece of equipment required the OEM to come out with their laptop and DOS program to reset it before we could start it back up. 🤪
And no, they wouldn't sell us the program.
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@augieray@mastodon.social
From July 2021:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/belgium-imposes-ventilation-rules-for-businesses-to-combat-new-covid-surge-1.4612101
"Across Belgium public venues from restaurants to swimming pools are being fitted with sensors that display how much air [CO2] customers are sharing with others in an attempt to combat further surges of Covid-19 into the autumn and winter."
That's world class leadership!
For governments to NOT require safety measures to protect the population is a clear indication of the value they place on the people they supposedly represent.
Right on ... 👍
Exclusive: Jane Fonda Enlists Bette
Midler, Patti Smith, and More Stars to Fight Authoritarianism at June Concert
“We have to stand up now,” says Fonda, whose Committee for the First Amendment is organizing the star-studded “Rise Up, Sing Out” event in New York.
Headline:
Snowbirds could be grounded for years, Conservatives warn
That's sweet, given that it was Conservatives that killed the Avro Arrow project in 1959 ...
Aging hardware and safety and real concerns.
Excerpt from link below:
"Sam Vaknin writes: “The reason narcissism is underreported and healing overstated is therapists are being fooled by smart narcissists. Most narcissists are expert manipulators and learn how to deceive their therapists.” Thus, if therapists are being fooled, it’s likely estate law attorneys are also being fooled.
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My father and his estate attorney probably met only as many times as needed to put together a standard will and trust, filling in a few blanks along the way—not much time for even an experienced attorney to detect a pathological liar, one of Vaknin’s points in the video mentioned before
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There’s something else an attorney assisting with wills, testaments, or trusts should note: a widowed testator or testatrix with NPD might kick into high gear in the lying, smearing, and twisting of reality. It might be telling to consider the degree of negativity in a testator’s remarks with how difficult it would be to (hypothetically) check up on those strong negative statements. In my case, my mother had died two years before my father did his will and trust, and I was literally half-way around the world unable to know what was going on back home behind my back, so he could and did get away with a lot."
You don't say ... 🤔
From:
https://npdandtestamentarycapacity.blogspot.com/2018/05/narcissistic-personality-disorder-and.html
FYI ...
Sun Life reaches settlement in principle to resolve class action
Sun Life Logo (CNW Group/Sun Life Financial Inc. - Financial News)
TORONTO, April 30, 2026 /CNW/ - Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF) announced today that it has reached a settlement in principle to resolve a class action relating to individual life insurance policies sold and issued by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife") in the 1980s and 1990s, which Sun Life inherited through historical Canadian acquisitions. This matter does not involve any policies or products sold by Sun Life.
