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Lifelong lover of sci-fi 🚀, concerned about welfare of 🇺🇦, citizen of 🇺🇸, horrified at our current leadership. “Statistics matter; only stupid people think in anecdotes.” This thought occurred to me yesterday: No one should ever have to learn about the personal lives of their political heroes, and definitely they shouldn’t ever learn the politics of their personal heroes.
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Lifelong lover of sci-fi 🚀, concerned about welfare of 🇺🇦, citizen of 🇺🇸, horrified at our current leadership. “Statistics matter; only stupid people think in anecdotes.” This thought occurred to me yesterday: No one should ever have to learn about the personal lives of their political heroes, and definitely they shouldn’t ever learn the politics of their personal heroes.
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Feb 27, 2026
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I just did an experiment. I looked on the app for a local big box retailer here in Tennessee. If I am only worried about obtaining a smartphone and laptop computer, lowest prices I can find, I can walk out of the store today with both for about $280 plus taxes, which would probably bring the total to about $315. That is an unlocked Motorola Android phone ($130) and a very basic Intel N150 laptop ($150). I could when walk out with a smartphone for as low as $50 if I don’t mind it locked to some prepaid wireless provider. I’m too used to my 4-year old iPhone and 8-year old business laptop to do so, but I *could*.
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