Have you ever heard an avalanche? Terrifying sound like a freight train coming down the mountain.

It happens in Colorado by accident and design.

#avalanche

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Sorry to be such a bore, but I find this library censorship really unsettling. And mind you - I was raised in East Germany, so I am no stranger to state-imposed restrictions.

https://www.salon.com/2023/01/25/sorry-twitter-but-floridas-on-books-is-no-joke--ron-desantis-wants-to-keep-kids-from-reading/

If someone is having a bad day and wants to buy a gun to carry out a massacre, they need only pass a minimal background check. If I want to give blood to save lives - including the lives of victims of gun violence - I have to maintain an iron rich diet, answer dozens of highly personal questions about my medical history, vaccinations, medications, reproductive history, travels, personal habits, ethnicity, and sex life and undergo medical checks and blood testing. Life in America makes no sense.

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Serious question - at what point in hiring do employers start to look at equally weighted white male candidates and female and/or minority candidates and consider which is statistically more likely to get them sued for sexual harassment or shoot up the workplace?

Follow up - is a remote workplace safer and more equitable for women and minority workers?

#Politics #CoSoPolitics

Cat in a dodecahedron 😺

Has anybody gotten new health insurance and suddenly start getting voicemails wanting you to call them back to go over your "health goals" with them? Makes mee uncomfortable and needless to say, I haven't called them.

Iowa GOP Moves To Stop SNAP Users From Buying White Rice, Fresh Meat And More
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iowa-gop-snap-bill-meat-cheese-white-bread-food-stamps_n_63cc0850e4b04d4d18df3b43

#Cosonews
#iowa
#snap
#pantrystaples?
#Gop
#republicans
#usa
#snapuserswillremember

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^^^ Progress Update -

Outbound Link Sanitizer working, PRO features (mostly) working.

Todo:

- COSOTV integration
- COSOGroups integration
- Settings synchronization
- Actual ability to one-click enable it for both PRO and non-pro users
- Tying up of loose ends.

ETA - 7-10 days.

Man... this one is a tough read.

Wife fatally shoots terminally ill husband at Daytona Beach hospital.

The woman told authorities that they had a conversation and decided that if he “continued to take a turn for the worse that he wanted her to end this."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wife-shoots-terminally-ill-husband-daytona-beach-hospital-barricades-r-rcna66852

Stunning. Nancy Pelosi photographed for the New York Times by Damon Winter.

Raising the debt ceiling does not increase spending or the federal debt. It simply allows the government to pay bills it has already taken on. Know the truth.