Poll: When does life begin?#

It was always possible to edit subscription lists in Drummer, its native format is OPML which is the same format used for subscription lists for RSS applications, but a feature was added and a howto written that makes it easier. You can start with a list exported from your feed reader, or write one from scratch to import into your reader. #

I've noticed my Spectrum bill inches up a few dollars every month. Not enough to make a stink about but it adds up. I have StarLink now, but haven't mounted the antenna well enough to get good connections, so I can't turn off Spectrum, yet. ;-)#

Two Game 7s in the NBA playoffs today. Uncle Davey will be watching TV. The two games mean different things, to me at least. Either way, in the first game, one very deserving team will move forward and another very deserving team will go home. The other game will determine if future Hall of Famer Chris Paul will get another shot at the championship, or if he's forever banished to being a great player who never got there. You get a sense this, at age 37, is his last shot. There's no shame in that, he has lots of company.#

If a baker may not be forced to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding on the basis of religious freedom, surely a woman can’t be forced to give birth. #

Taylor Lorenz gets a lot of shit, what else is new, that's what happens when you speak from a terrific pulpit, as she does -- she's a Washington Post columnist, before that was a reporter for the NY Times. If you go back far enough she was a blogger on Tumblr, so we feel pride, a local girl did good. And she adds a bit of open web, user-centric thought to everything. As a software developer, I see things the same way. I don't care how much money Zuck or Bezos or Musk have, like most journalists seem to, I care how empowered the users are, because that's how we will solve the problems of our world, by smart people who see things from important perspectives, who say what they see. Her recent piece in the WP is about a group of startups who want the big silos to make it easier for their users to migrate to other platforms. This is a hard problem both economically and technically, and I'm not sure the startups are sincere, it could be they only want the publicity. There are no details on the website, and a project like this is all about the details. Also VC-backed startups are the last devs I expect to go this route and I don't imagine if one of them is successful that they're going to rush to share their user lists with the others. The only way something like this can work is if they share a membership system from the start. And if they do that, and want credibility, there should be some non-VC open source devs in their group. One more thing, why not just use Twitter's identity system. It's got a great API, scales really well, and other devs (such as me) are using it that way. Instead of building my own identity system, I just use theirs. I have no interest in controlling my users, so it's a no-brainer. Sure the day could come when Twitter shuts off the API, but I could also get hit by a car riding my bike on a country road, or any number of other calamities.#

There was a time back in the early-mid 00s, that I hoped the World Outline would be the future of the web. Much later, in 2015, I ported the World Outline software from Frontier running as a server, to Node.js, but I left the site private, probably because I wasn't planning to build in this direction, I just wanted to get some sites that were running in Frontier to work in Node. This morning some of my work led me to this software, and I saw that it was private, and made it public. Basically the wo is like the www except with outlines instead of HTML. You can of course render the outlines as HTML, and that's what the WO software does. Given all the interest in outliners these days, it seemed like a good time to open this stuff up. However at this point I don't plan to run the server software here. If you get it running, all I ask is that you continue to support OPML. Interop is everything. Thanks.#

I was out driving the new Model Y with a fresh pizza on the passenger seat, rounded a corner and there was a fat turkey waddling across the road. Slammed the brakes. They work, but turkey keeps waddling as if nothing happened. Pizza mess on the floor of the new car. Where the Model 3 had the new car smell even six months after getting it, this car smells of pizza. Hey at least it was good pizza. Heh.#

I think a lot of people on Twitter argue for fame. They want to be famous for having an idea first, whether or not they did have it first. I don't think I do that. I like setting precedent in software. But even there, I have a motto -- "Only steal from the best." My goal is to find ways to work with others so that the sum is greater than the parts. I think that's the challenge of our generation and all subsequent generations. We're not dealing with climate change, for example. We're losing our minds as a country in other ways, for example the decision the Supreme Court is contemplating. You know it's not going to work, it'll be as big a disaster as climate change, but we'll feel it right away. We can't connect enough so that the people who we've supposedly trusted for being wise to avoid jumping unnecessarily, with no possible gain, into an abyss that will certainly lead to war. It's that big a deal. At age 67, I don't have the same goals I had at 22. I'm not trying to set the world on fire, I'm trying nudge people into working with each other, even today's 22 year-olds. We should be giving out Nobel Prizes to people who find ways to work with others. That's the challenge for the human species, from now on, imho of course.#

Twitter-as-a-service from AWS would kick ass.#

You know that scene in Annie Hall where Woody Allen gets into an argument with a Columbia professor about Marshall McLuhan, who is waiting off-camera to support Allen. McLuhan says to the professor: "You know nothing of my work. How you ever got to teach to teach a course in anything is totally amazing." Allen looks at the camera: "Boy if life were only like this." Well anyway, on Twitter, I am regularly pulled out from behind a poster to support someone who thinks RSS is doing fine. I'm supposed to play the role of McLuhan. I would enjoy that once, but not all the time for decades. 💥#

Poll: Is Twitter too big to fail?#

Re celebs and Twitter. They certainly are coming back, unless you think Twitter is over. These things go in cycles. Because the celebs are gone, one new name is going to emerge from twitter, because they can stand out by being the one on twitter, and for a while all the new ones will appear on twitter until that phase is over when the story that the celebs are gone will repeat. #

Poll: What are the odds that Musk actually acquires Twitter? My bet is it's virtually zero. Why? The difficulties of Twitter have become more apparent, and at the same time, the difficulties of the companies he already controls have gotten bigger with the collapse of the tech stock market. Owning Twitter is a hobby he can't afford now.#

Think of all the places you write and read. Why shouldn't all of them understand RSS, in and out, where ever possible?#

Twitter is like AT&T was in the 70s. Imagine trying to use the telephone in 1978 but you couldn't access AT&T's network. That's the role of Twitter in 2022.#

Twitter Pro, as I've described it earlier, would have a legitimate claim to the term "Web3." Because this is what the web of 2022 is. It's basically a lot of tweets and blog posts. ;-)#

Just guessing that the people who will force people to get abortions are the same people who won't wear a mask to protect others. #

I saw a note from Jeff Jarvis to tune into twit.tv to hear their commentary on Google I/O, so I went there, and saw a nerd talking about releasing Asahi Linux, and when the camera stepped back I saw this old dude (no other way to say it), white hair, classy glasses, and then I realized holy shit that's Doc Searls. I haven't seen him in a few years, and at this time in our respective lives people's appearances can change dramatically. He looked good but old, like Colonel Sanders. I think he got a stylist and I'm guessing the Colonel Sanders look is deliberate? I'm sure he'll tell me. Anyway the nerd is going on and on, and if that really is Doc, I can't imagine he knows what he's talking about, and why the hell should he. The guy was talking very fast about problems that I thought would have been solved long ago. This is 2022 after all. I guess that's just nature of computer stuff, we're always re-inventing things. I do it too. #

I wanted to ask a question on a local Facebook group about a construction project being done in town (the town the FB group covers). The admin rejected the question, suggesting I call the company. I find this sad and humorous at the same time. #

I would love to have a very simple XML viewer app. I have one that I don't like very much. The app would run in a web page or on a server (if so, must be a Node app). It takes a url parameter, displays the contents of the file, parsed and indented consistently, and uses the same display that GitHub uses to display code, though it doesn't need any of the GH features, just the appearance. Horizontal scrolling, not wrapping text. I would use it in my existing app, with credit of course. I need this because my work requires me to look at XML files. And as far as I know there isn't a great way to do that, and given all the XML that's out there (web pages are XML, RSS feeds are XML) it would make sense to solve this problem well, as a very useful upgrade to the user experience of the web. Comments/questions here. #

It'd be interesting to see the results of a poll: 1. Do you wear a mask to protect against transmission of Covid? 2. Are you in favor of repealing Roe v Wade to force people who are pregnant to go through months of painful, risky and expensive medical procedures? #

I started reading Heather Cox Richardson's How the South Won the Civil War and I can tell it's going to be another transformative reading for me. There's a basic bug in the American myth of self-reliance, the bug is this -- it's a lie. Humanity is like an ant colony. Our lives follow a rigid template that's hard impossible to break out of. Unless you're a hermit, you pay taxes, get the same medicine as everyone else, celebrate the same holidays (even non-Christians in the US observe Christmas in some fashion). You are only unique in your mind, but even there, where you are free to be different, there's a lot of conformity. We rely on each other, there is no such thing as a pioneer on the open range, fending for himself. Richardson doesn't say any of those things, at least not in the beginning of the book, instead she describes the American myth. And as I'm reading it, I recognize it as the argument between the people and the oligarchs that's still raging. We think of it as North vs South but that's all part of the puppetry. We're being manipulated into blaming each other for nothing, distracting us from what we could be if we didn't pander to the oligarchs. Really looking forward to this read.#

Tesla news. I'm trading my Model 3 for a Model Y this week. The Y's were hard to get when I decided it was time to get a Tesla. The way values have been going, I'm paying very little to make this switch for cars of comparable value. The mileage on the 3 is low. And the cars are still very much in demand, it's a seller's market. I want the Y because I am tall, and getting in and out of the 3 is a pain. The Y, which has a different seating arrangement, is easier. #

This is a very powerful ad. "Headed to the border?"#

Our rulers, the royalty of the US, is so inbred and out of touch, they think we're bullying them because we don't want them running our lives.#

Next time you're going to tell someone they're tone deaf or something like that pause for a moment and ask yourself how you know. Sometimes speaking truth to power means asking yourself questions you don't want to answer. #

Abortion gives men freedom too. A lot of people used to have kids before they wanted them and before they were ready to be parents. It's true of women and also men.#

Abortion made better families. People have the choice to grow up before becoming parents. They can have some life on their own, to find out who they are before they have to live with another crazy person with no experience as a standing on their own. Trying to form a family with no experience in lie is a weak structure. #

Popping up every time there's a crisis, emitting rage on social media, is no answer. We got into this hole by not understanding the implications of our actions while the other side was working slowly and surely for 30+ years to get to this place. #

How many people who will be enraged over the abortion decision, didn't vote for HRC in 2017 because they didn't trust her. This would not be happening if a few more people came out to vote on election day in 2016.#

To Democratic marketers (I hope there are some) -- it's time to introduce a new actor to American politics -- The Federalist Society. Treat it like the right treats Sharia Law or Critical Race Theory, only of course the FS is real. And the conspiracy is real. It's how we got here. I heard Biden on the radio this morning talking about MAGA being behind this. That's not useful and it's not true. The MAGA people will really be hurt by this. Now is a good time Mr President, to try to unite us. This is the real anti-people Republican Party. The 1%. The Federalist Society. It's a plot to rob us of our rights. To turn America into a religious dictatorship. Mr President here's your chance to be transformative. But first you need to learn how to talk about it.#

Is abortion “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition?” Among people alive today, most of whom have lived their whole adult lives in a country where abortion was always constitutionally protected, yes it is very much deeply rooted.#

Popping up every time there's a crisis, emitting rage on social media, is no answer. We got into this hole by not understanding the implications of our actions while the other side was working slowly and surely for 30+ years to get to this place.#

How many people who will be enraged over the abortion decision, didn't vote for HRC in 2017 because they didn't trust her. This would not be happening if a few more people came out to vote on election day in 2016.#

The events of the last few days are proof that reporters should never guess the outcome of an election months before it happens. Even today, after the news of the Roe v Wade decision leaked, they're saying that Repubs are expected to take control of Congress in the November election. Let's dive into that supposed fact. Who is doing this expectation? Shouldn't they say? Isn't it just reporters who expect that? Like so much news this is like barbers cutting each others' hair. They isn't any actual news. They should always be aware that anything could happen and almost always does that could change the expectation, so stop advertising your expectations, they have no value as news. #

Consider the possibility that the leak of the Alito decision might not have anything to do with Roe v Wade. It might be the work of a Putinite wanting to distract attention from the atrocities they're committing in Ukraine.#

The Supreme Court protects the rights of Americans. They’re not a religious body, they are not chartered to adjudicate religious questions, because there is no religion attached to our government. That part is in the text of the Constitution, for our textualist friends.#

Roberts should resign to let Biden nominate and approve the next chief. Admit failure to maintain integrity of the court and let its reformation begin now. Gorsuch and Barrett should be removed and a conservative and liberal should replace them. McConnell should be strongly advised to retire now.#

We have to FILL the Senate with Democrats. And we need to have a lot more Dems in the House and we need to add a dozen Supreme Court justices who aren't Federalist Society nuts and get Roe in there as a law and whatever else we need to turn this corner. We are really WOKE now.#

My mother had an abortion in the 60s, in Puerto Rico. We lived in NYC at the time, but it was illegal. #

Update. The person who said it was Ted Cruz who was getting involved in her body was the great Amy Klobuchar. What an image. I can see so many ads, of women in the bathroom with Ted Cruz in the next stall peeking over the top. #

I watched a lot of news this evening. I forget who said this -- women do not want Ted Cruz controlling their bodies. I think that's compelling. I, too, would not want Ted Cruz anywhere near my body.#

An idea for a movie. Get a writer to transcribe the latest QAnon fiction, turn it into a screenplay. That's the story. I bet it would be a box office smash. I'm surprised Hollyood hasn't done this yet. #

People used to assume you have to make money from a blog, which is ridiculous. My blog did make me money but only incidentally, by making products of mine more famous, or helping establish standards that allowed me to build other products. But I never did this for the money, I pay money to do the blog. I do it because I have ideas that I want to get out there. It's worth it. #

I could save $0.24 a year if I switch to Spectrum. Hmm.#

Ukraine had to deal with what we're going through now. Their political system was undermined by Putinites, proclaiming their right to speak, but they were undermining their democracy like the Putinites here are today. They solved the problem by being hardcore about it. Free speech is not more important than survival of democracy. We will have to make that choice too, until we do, we'll be stuck where we are. #

I don't know how McCartney came up with the idea for this song, but I imagine he goes into a junk store and takes a look around. Then he goes home and writes a song about what he saw. "Candlesticks, building bricks, something old and new. Memories for you and me." #

I'm trying to figure out why Wordle's reports get mangled when they come through the Twitter API. I find when I paste them into a local text file they look pretty bad too. Update: It appears it has nothing to do with the Twitter API, rather the fonts that are used to render the page. #

The monthly ritual is complete. Here's the archive for April. #

My tweets for April are automatically archived in JSON. I can leave notes to my future self in this manner. #

McCartney songs are great to sing along with.#

Thank god we have prickish billionaires to protect our freedoms. #

Four months ago I shipped a package called myLogseqBlog that made it possible to publish from LogSeq outlines to Old School, following the same path as blogs written using Drummer, like Scripting News. My hope was this would serve as a seed that would help someone who was skilled at doing LogSeq add-ons to take my code and convert it to something that ran inside LogSeq, so blog publishing from an outline would be just as easy there as it is in Drummer. Well it took a while, but Scott Block, a brilliant and persistent programmer, made it work. Here's the project and his announcement on Twitter. Please if you can, and you are a LogSeq user, help him out. I want to build interop between outliners based on OPML. I don't want to see silos rule something as wonderful as outlining, the way they do in so many other areas of tech. #

I got my Nintendo Sports and was pretty excited till I found out there's no golf. Oy. That was my favorite. But bowling and tennis are pretty good. They say golf is coming. #

It's time to read the Wikipedia page for Elon Musk. #

If you're working on an RSS reader, you should allow users to subscribe to OPML files. It should be a standard feature in RSS reader apps. If you have questions or comments, this is the place.#

Does anyone believe that with journalism as it is, we will be able to manage the climate crisis without huge lost of human life.#

I wanted to read the docs for the MetaWeblog API, but found that the link was broken. I was able to find the page in the new XML-RPC website, but I'm going to find some time to patch the original URL and the other docs that are locked up in the same folder. #

I figure if my Tesla can sense a human standing on the curb and slow down as my car goes by, Twitter can detect a troll's tweet, and warn you about it or even not show it to you at all (subject to a preference of course).#

Today's song: Every Night.#

I'm addicted to Twitter, but I could live without it, if I had something better. What I want is to be connected to smart people who want to work together to make cool things and solve important problems. That, emphatically, is not what Twitter is.#

I love the McCartney album even though at the time the critics panned it. It's a really interesting album because they're all Beatles songs. He wrote them to do with the Beatles. But they had already broken up. At the time no one knew. So he bought a tape deck and recorded them all on his own. He has a beautiful voice. And they're not big productions, though they would've been if they had been done by the Beatles. This is like blogging or punk rock, but it's McC. What's not to like? It's Paul McCartney man. Get over yourself. #

Another band I've been appreciating more than ever is R.E.M. The songs are so beautiful. I'm sure there will be more to say about this. #

There's so much power to be taken all around you. But if you're waiting for someone to give it to you, packaged up a gift box with a ribbon, that's never going to happen.#

Jan 2017: What if TWTR is bought by a Repub?#

My guess is that every billionaire is going to try to compete with Musk, maybe some will join together. If you know how to write a TWTR get busy. #

AWS should have, long ago, written a faceless TWTR clone, and let a million flowers bloom. As with many other things, I beat the drum ceaselessly for this, as far as I know they never heard me. #

That's why it was interesting to see Jeff Bezos poke Elon Musk in the eye last night. That's exactly the kind of thing a competitor would say, and the fact that he said it so publicly, on TWTR, says he's going to do it. He wants to reserve the space in our minds. #

Another thought, making a federated twitter will be hard. No one knows how to do it. But I bet a lot of people know how to clone twitter. That's the way this will go. And we should make sure all these clones can peer with each other. I'm available to help with this.#

Last night the Nets lost and were eliminated. The Nets might've fared better if at least some of NY's long-suffering Knicks fans were behind them. But this team has no idea what NY is, and our relationship with basketball, and our Knicks, who we love like family. It doesn't matter if KD thinks they're cool, and if you think that matters, you can have the Nets. But last night's crowd at Barclay were mostly pulling for the Celtics, and that's a shame. It tells you how much the owners of and players for the Nets have to learn about the city that they are supposedly playing for. And btw, forget about a cross-town rivalry. You might want to see if the arena y'all were using in NJ is still available. #

Why Musk bought Twitter: There’s tremendous value that does not show up on a balance sheet. He was smart enough to see it, gutsy enough to buy it, and had the means to do it.#

Today's song: Losing My Religion.#

BTW, you'd be a fool to leave if Musk buys Twitter. It'll be the greatest show on the Internet. A regular three-ring-circus.#

In general I buy too many domain names. #

The Nets lost last night, playing at Barclay's in Brooklyn. There weren't many people rooting for the Nets in the arena. There was a lot more enthusiasm for the Celtics, because they're an exciting team and they're going somewhere. Boston is close and NYC is so huge there are already a fair number of Celtics fans here. Today's Nets don't have a home court. They haven't sold the idea of the Nets to the NBA fans here. NYC is huge, even a team without much of a following should be able to fill the arena with enthusiasm. But Kevin Durant, the leader of the team, the reason the Nets are supposedly contenders, never approached the city as something he had to win over. They must've thought fans are simple. They loved me in Oklahoma and Oakland, of course they'll love me here. I don't think anyone in particular loved KD in Oakland, they do love Curry, Thompson and Green. KD was a carpetbagger in Oakland as he is in NYC. He came to the city with disrespect for NBA fans here. He could have said hey it's great to be in NY, love the energy of Knicks fans, I hope some of you will come out to see the Nets. That would've been appropriate. Instead he disses the Knicks, the Garden and by implication those of us who have suffered with the Knicks all these years. Yeah we know they suck, but we love them. They're family. You don't get to dis them. So this is the price. No one here cares if this year's Nets win. And some of us want them to lose. At this point it seems unless there's a miracle, the Nets are eliminated. If he's going to stick around KD should ask for a reboot with Knicks fans. Forget about a crosstown rivalry. For now the Knicks own the city, even if they suck. Ask for our support. You might get it next time you're in the playoffs. But you'll have to earn it by showing up in our city in the meantime. #

How about a rule that only stories that are not behind a paywall will be considered for a Pulitzer prize.#

Sometimes you can spend an hour beating your head against the desk trying to figure why some perfect piece of code doesn't work. Or you can, after wasting the hour, go for a drive to get your car washed, and while you're driving back, figure out the bone-headed mistake you made. And sure enough when you get home, that was the mistake. You fix it, run the experiment again and it works. You write a blog post about it and then take the rest of the day off. #

Two new season 2's I'm going to watch. First, Russian Doll. I thought the first season was way overrated, but I liked the scenes from NYC, and I like the star, Natasha Lyonne from OITNB, so I'll give it another chance. And Gentleman Jack, whose first season I absolutely adored. I'm rewatching season one so I'll be ready when the new season starts on HBO on April 25. It's already started on BBC. And in just six days the new version of Wii Sports arrives for the Switch, so you know what I'll be doing in May, June, July and so on. #

Netflix should have something nice like BingeWorthy for people to find out what’s good from friends.#

What I want to hear: Audio of Trump talking with Congress people from the White House, in the Capitol, while the riot was taking place. I want to hear the fear in their voices, and the pathology in Trump's. If the reporters have that audio, release it now.#

I'm convinced Sarah Sherman is the next SNL star. There isn't very much of her yet, the best stuff are two appearances on Weekend Update where she acts like a lunatic, roasting Colin Jost. #

I'm working my way through Paul McCartney's first solo album. It was as big an event in 1970 as Elon Musk tweeting that he wanted to acquire Twitter in 2022. The album amounted to the announcement that the Beatles were broken up. In fact, Lennon had already quit the group, but hadn't announced it publicly. But it's a good album. I listened the hell out of it when I was a teen and in my 20s, but never really listened to it if you know what I mean. Like try this song out. Or this. So much to listen to. And he did the album, in secret, and on really low tech hardware with no mixing board. Just four tracks straight to tape. Much more lightly produced than Beatles songs, no grand George Martin productions, just McCartney and that's worth something.#

Here's the thing about Mark Zuckerberg's dream of the Metaverse. It's like Second Life. And Second Life was boring. All kinds of people said it was the next big thing, but they were people who generally didn't correctly spot big tech things. But there are life simulations that did catch on. I loved SimCity and The Sims. Poured endless hours into them. The difference is that they are third person and Second Life was first person. In The Sims you get to play god. It must not be a lot of fun for the virtual people in The Sims, but it sure is fun to play god. Maybe Zuck should check that out. An online system where everyone gets to be a tech trillionaire with a massive family compound in Hawaii and nukes (like Putin) and you get to do whatever you want with the poor schnooks (who aren't actual people, btw). That's where the virtual in virtual reality is fun, when you get to be Elon Musk and own your own Twitter for example. Isn't that the dream we all had as kids, that we'd grow up and then we'd show them. I used to have images of my father, locked in a tiny bathroom, with a bowl of spaghetti poured on his head. I would say to him "You're staying in there until you learn some manners, young man!" It was a nice dream then, truthfully it still is. 😄#

I'd love to see some publication do a comparison of legal cannabis in various different states. How does the quality compare, prices? What states have public places like bars and coffee shops where it's legal to hang out and consume as in Amsterdam (where it's not legal, I know, but tolerated). New Jersey just opened yesterday, and I was interested in seeing how prices compare to those in Massachusetts. Too early to draw any conclusions. But I can tell you that it's way more expensive than in Washington or Oregon. #

Poll: Have you had Covid?#

I can’t believe reporters keep holding material evidence secret to promote their books. And other reporters let them slide. With glee. What a racket. #

We should just discount the president's approval rating down to zero and then we could view 39% as a historic high. But seriously folks, the president's approval rating is just how the news, as it's reported, bounces off the minds of the people the pollsters talk to. You could model it like they model weather reports, and tune up the news coverage to create any approval rating you want.#

A new season of Gentleman Jack is coming to HBO later this month. Great show. #

After reading this Wikipedia article I still don’t understand what “full stop” means. Instead of saying “full stop” couldn’t you just stop?#

I’m a lifetime Knicks fan, rooting for the Celtics proving life is weird.#

It'll be interesting to see if any fans show up in Brooklyn to support the Nets.#

The big problem isn't climate change, it's getting people to work together instead of just working for themselves. And to start working together we have to learn how to listen. It's hard, when we're raised to not listen.#

I watched a tiny bit of the French presidential debate yesterday and what struck me is how civil they were with each other, compared to US politics.#

Today's song: Losing My Religion.#

BTW, my plan is to hook RSS up to any protocol people come up with. And when I say RSS, I mean all flavors including RDF and Atom. I don't just have advice for other people, sometimes I give myself advice too. I think it's time to love RSS again. ❤️#

I adore the current Jeopardy champion Mattea Roach. Actually I adore them all. They are amazing people. Not only do they have great memory, but think about all the things they know. I also think Ken Jennings is the obvious best choice to be the Jeopardy host because he's such a great Jeopardy player, is immersed in all aspects of the game and he really connects with the players, and therefore the fans at home. They are all such wonderful unabashed nerds. I've been watching the show since I was a kid, when Art Fleming was the host, when I watched it with my mom. #

Yes, I do edit my JavaScript code in an outliner. A few years ago I started including the OPML source in my GitHub projects. Look for source.opml. It has the source for all the files in the project in one file. Example. #

We're curing ourselves from Covid the way people who smoke while they quit smoking aren't actually quitting. To quit, you stop. If you take your masks off, that's like buying a pack of cigarettes, and having one or two and then finishing the pack and then getting another. I speak as an ex-smoker for over 30 years. I had all kinds of plans for quitting, but the only way to do it is to quit. We'll never get out of the Covid hole until all of us commit to it and then follow through. Otherwise it's going to continue to be a lingering tragedy. #

I'm going to continue to wear a mask when I go out in public. My face feels naked without it. The other day I went into the supermarket without a mask and had to go back out to the car to get one. In that moment I got to think about why I wear a mask even when others aren't. It's because I want to send a message to my fellow shoppers that I care about their health. I was raised to be a considerate person. So many people were raised to be self-centered and pissy. I never want to see myself that way. Anyway it was really annoying how quickly the airlines took down their mask requirements. I suggest if you want to make your feelings known to them, stop flying until they bring the mandates back.#

"Tactical" nuclear weapon is an idea like "neo" Nazi. A distinction without a difference.#