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Grandpa Don

@dbc3@mastodon.world

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I Lived thru Cold War, Civil Rights era. Believed in the "Dawning of the Age of Aquarius" twice.
They shot JFK
Now they shot the Great Experiment
I'm a retired mechanical engineer and systems integration project manager, I'm an ombudsman for my refugee friends. I love science, all fields, refurbish bikes for folks in need. I restore native ecosystems.
I stay busy with these endeavors out of humanist love and to suppress my seething rage.

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Joined November 04, 2022

My "homestead": red prairie trillium in my woods:

https://www.dbc3.com/trilliumridge.info

My 1-person charity:

https://www.secondchancebikes.org

My Late Friend Kaz:

https://www.dbc3.com/Kaz

MY inactive BLOG:

https:www.dbc3.com

Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'm one of the first Boomers and I have helped several immigrants or homeless people hunt for jobs. Those "help wanted" signs in shop windows are a joke. Go to the library, use their computer to fill out an application designed for all jobs ever, requiring a personality screening to see if you are a "team player" for a damned min wage job in a carwash. Then be told thanks, now look for an email (oops, get an email account; check inbox daily at library) if chosen for interview.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Of all the New Testament stories like the Sermon on the Mount, casting out the moneychangers, "Let the little children come", Christians had to pick a couple of unbelievable tales to celebrate. The whole star and 3 wise men thing on top of "virgin birth", and the raising from the dead, timed to co-opt the Springtime celebrations in most cultures for recruitng purposes, and the invention of "saints" to satisfy converts who wanted their elves and fairies really soured me on the religion early.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

#Wordle 1,738 3/6

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 9mo ago

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@broadwaybabyto that can only happen if he is arrested by the state or city police and tried in a state court. Otherwise the regime will announce in a day or two that they investigated and confirmed their initial lies and give him a medal. Maybe chump will invite him to WH and give the medal of freedom.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 5mo ago

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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Absolutely. Most of the animal kingdom have it right. Females propagate the species. They produce males for one reason only: to pass on some of their DNA to another female so natural selection can keep honing the design. Drone bees have one function in life. Black widows and mantises even eat the male to recycle nutrients wasted on the sob. Elephant herds are females. Most female mammals allow only one winner to fertilize. He things he's hot shit.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 5mo ago

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@Strandjunker Same here.never forget, never forgive. Every one in te administration shoiuld be in prison.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

RE: @ThomHartmann@mstdn.social

"Every senator, every congressperson, every governor, every mayor, every Democratic surrogate who goes on television needs to be trained to say the words “rightwing media bias” early and often, not occasionally, but constantly, institutionally, the same way Republicans “worked the refs” for thirty years."

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 15mo ago

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@breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social drives me crazy to see so much potential meadowland, prairieland, marshland, woodland turned into boring grassland that supports few creatures, mowed so not even clover flowers for bees & butterflies.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 40mo ago

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 34mo ago

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@Brandi_Buchman@mstdn.social At the end of the day* you need to be able to.look back and be satisfied you did your best, that there is nothing to be ashamed of that you did not do your best to rectify. Do what you feel.is right . Somebody does not like it, fukem. *Or lifetme

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 33mo ago

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@dentangle Make someone's day. It will make yours.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 46mo ago

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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org What year was this? I first started tending a standalone PDP11/34 in 1976. Those were the days!

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 23mo ago

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@emptywheel Thank you for this. Since I don't intend to pore through it myself, but rather to rely on several experts like you to give the highlights and any possible special nuggets, this provides exactly the broad understanding of what's happening I seek. As always, your hard work and insight are invaluable.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 46mo ago

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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org just did some reading on pdp history - learned the 11/34 was introduced in 1976. The company I joined as Technical Director had purchased ours before I was hired in July. We must have had one of the very first. The RSX11M OS had no print spooler. You got hard copy via a DCL command to copy to the printer. If two were sent at same time you got both files intermingled! 😀 I wrote an app to manage a queue. Used it for several weeks until OS upgrade came with spooler. #IWriteShelfware

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 39mo ago

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@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social bwahahaha He is such a dipshit

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 46mo ago

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@drewharwell@mastodon.social Stop agonizong over it and just say "good riddance" to a toxic atmosphere where journalists cannot do their jobs. Get cnn, wapo, nyt, et al to run ads saying tw is no longer a channel, to find ya'll via (list the links the muskie bans). He is the bully on the playground who should find himself standing there all alone.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 46mo ago

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@localproducer He's not a competent anything. He did not engineer the cars or rockets and his management is atrocious. They succeed in spite of him, not because of. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-business-playbook-boss-visionary-jerk-spacex-tesla-twitter-2022-12

Business Insider

At Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk was a jerk with a grand vision. At Twitter, he's just a jerk.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 33mo ago

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@GottaLaff@mastodon.social At this point his support is from two groups: • Fully incultified zombies • Fully fascist oligarchs, both domestic and foreign, and those they control There is also "coattail" feigned support from craven politicians betting on the other two to get him back in power, knowing they are toast if that does not happen. It is war.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 38mo ago

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@Brandi_Buchman@mstdn.social Standing by for NEWS!

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 41mo ago

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@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social I hope we have our own "Arab Spring" We've had a couple of massive, nationwide demonstrations, both organized & executed by women. They turned out in red states too. We need something like those but far bigger, more diverse, longer lasting. Block all the roads in and out of every city. Block nationwide interstates like I-70 and I-80. Create traffic jams that will take days to dissipate. Yes, I know all this impedes emergency services. Collateral damage.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 42mo ago

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@schmod@xoxo.zone it is superb

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 45mo ago

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@shuttersparks@qoto.org @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org @EugestShirley@m.ai6yr.org yeah IBM was heady competition, especially fr big systems integration projects. I was assigned as Customer Program Manager on several of those competitions. Our biggest coup against them was the Space Station Freedom Software Integration Facility in Clear Lake. One of the first VAX9000 wins. DEC called the 9k the "mainframe killer." I worked in that facility until the SSF program was mothballed. #IWriteShelfware

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 46mo ago

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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social After the first reported busload that were dumpe on Martha's Vineyard ther was an outcry about trafficking, fraud, kidnapping. Then nothing. Reportedly this has been a steady stream since then. Where are the CR lawyers? Where are the class action suits? Where are the reporters? What bus companies are being used? Who are the drivers? Who are the CEOs? #AssylumSeekerKidnapping

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 23mo ago

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@tristansnell@mstdn.social All I see of them is what people post about here most ate paywalled and I don't subscribe, won't subscribe.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 46mo ago

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@Terminal_GForce @atrupar They can find him on the cross-reference list I maintain to find the folks I followed on Tw. I post it online for my convenience and it is accessible to all at dbc3.com

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 17mo ago

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@bronakins@mastodon.world @GottaLaff@mstdn.social I think you should just drop it. Sure, there are lonely elders who may do that, and scam artists prey on them. But you generalizations are unfounded and unappreciated.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

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@rbreich@masto.ai I hope you're right. His one other option - just contiuing as-is is not one for him, as you explain - is to escalate massively, as threatened, and that might mean a tactical nuke. Truman facd slogging on or nuke. Trump might claim that's precedent. Of course it's not, but he could grasp that srraw anyway.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 42mo ago

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@customer228@ravenation.club No, the formervRepublican party is the old, played out group. The current gang of christofacist thugs has formed a new anti-America party, recycling the name for cover

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 8mo ago

Replying to on masto.ai

@rbreich@masto.ai Gut wrenching for parents to need to write that.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 46mo ago

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@atrupar You can get a verification that a website you link to is yours, that you have access to its html code. See green highlighted links on my profile as examples. The

is something you can add yourself to your handle. It made a blue check but they disabled when Tw chaos came. I'm not aware of any vetting of it. I guess it is an "honor system." If you dont see a green link dont trust the person to be whom they say they are. I hope this helps; corrections welcome.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 41mo ago

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@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social we should create "safe zones" for them. Maybe some of that public land they graze vattle on. Fence it in, round them up, lock them in. All white. No sunblock.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 5mo ago

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@tomtrottel@mastodontech.de @rbreich@masto.ai Fuck off

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Whst fresh hell do we face todsy?

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 44mo ago

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@ahrkrak@hachyderm.io seconded

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 8mo ago

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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social any other politician, let alone POTUS, would be savaged over it.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 34mo ago

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@popsci@universeodon.com Something unsettling about the fact they can only identify such longevity by killing them.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 8mo ago

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@rbreich@masto.ai started to answer but in truth it is "how are THEY doing?" and I try to help, be cheerful, say this will end... but I feel like a liar. They fled their homelands, left relatives behind, to come to the shining city on the hill, only to see more of what they fled.

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 4mo ago

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@rbreich@masto.ai he cares only about "winning" personally. if he had to kill 10 million American citizens to get Iranian leaders to bow down and say "your word is our command, oh master" he'd do it in a flash. He'd give them every dem leader and demand a ringside seat for mass beheadings if they gave him the satisfaction of somehow "winning."

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Grandpa Don @dbc3@mastodon.world

· 41mo ago

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@jbf1755@mastodon.social they saw that expulsion did not work in Tennessee so used a different ploy to suppress opposition. Her district should shut them down. This calls for the kind of civil unrest we had in '60s and '70s. It's the same shit. Nixon declared all oponents of the VN War to be "dirty hippies" (now it's "antifa"). I was watching a woman in a peasant dress putting flowers in rifle barrels at a peaceful march on the Pentagon when a tear gas grenade popped behind me. Make them do that.

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