Okay, this has happened twice now and it's freaking me out. @paulcarp13 is at work, I'm alone in the townhouse, writing, downstairs, at my table/desk.
Listening to music on noise-canceling headphones.
And --
The music cuts out briefly for what sounds like a woman making a clicking noise in her throat. Like a little "uck-uck" sound. Half a second maybe, very brief.
It's happened twice, same sound both times. Only after Paul was gone. Never heard it before.
My first thought was that it was some kind of low battery warning or other hardware notification, but it doesn't seem to be.
My next thought was maybe it was something cutting in on the bluetooth signal? But if so, what? and how?
IS THIS SOME KIND OF SPIRITUAL ENTITY TRYING TO TALK TO ME
If so, you've got to do better than "uck-uck" because I do NOT know what you're getting at with that.
It happened a third time, same sound, no more info. New working theory: it's some kind of battery indicator that might be malfunctioning or just weird to start with.
I say this because after the second one, I pressed the button & got "battery about 30%" and just now got "battery about 20%"
Hypothesis mostly confirmed. It gave me an ACTUAL low battery warning at 10%.
I still don't know why the 30% and 20% warnings were "uck uck" but...
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I would say a lot of "red states" are already there and what they're doing now is 1. getting even worse 2. trying to drag the rest of us into hell with them
After reading the article, I have a couple thoughts -- every "gut punch" he identifies -- a moment where he was viscerally struck by the gap between the crappiness of the America we actually live in compared to the America we pretend to be -- was a gut punch for me as well.
You know, Ronald Reagan, the 2000 election, the Iraq war, Donald Trump -- and then just punch after punch after punch.
But he misses something. He misses MY first gut punch: the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment.
This seems relevant:
"The bill updates a piece of Cold War-era law that bans educators from advocating for communism in schools, and adds additional bans on advocating for socialism and Marxism."
It sort of resolves something that used to be a bit of a conflict for me, back in the day. Around the age of 15-16 I started to get political and hated Reagan & all things of Reaganism.
Interesting how when it's cancer or covid, death is no big deal to these ghouls, but when the question is abortion suddenly OMG EVERY FETUS IS A SACRED SPECIAL HUMAN LIFE THAT MUST BE PROTECTED
"Life" to them is nothing but a hollow pretext for undermining women's human rights -- their GOAL is the undermining of rights, not the saving of lives.
Which is made obvious by the way the anti-abortion right is never trying to save lives in any other context, but they ARE always trying to undermine human rights.
Yesterday I read a lot of Twitter content about abortion rights and noticed a trend, not sure how significant it is.
There is a LOT of anti-abortion content coming from accounts that look like bots or trolls.
Is it a psy-op to make support for the anti-abortion side look bigger than it really is?
Could be.
But also, a lot of the botty stuff is REALLY misogynistic. Like it just openly takes the "we don't give a crap what happens to women" route.
I'm not sure whose agenda that is serving. Keep an eye on it, I guess.
This essay lays out a point I’ve tried to make a lot in the last few months: Americans lost the right to an abortion because the people who supported it didn’t care that much and the people who opposed it cared a WHOLE lot.
It’s like in the poem. The best lack all conviction, while the worst
re full of passionate intensity.
For the entirety of my political awareness — from Reagan’s first term until now — there’s been an obvious anti-abortion bias in this country, and it really DOES come from both sides, because it’s one of the topics the “balancers” try to keep us “balanced” about.
One thing we rarely talk about, it seems, is that the traditional Christian church holds a lot of sway over both parties. Republicans are basically a branch of the evangelical church these days, but Democrats aren’t immune.
I think a kind of hands-off “Roe is settled law, don’t worry about it” was part of how religious Democrats navigated the conflicting demands of church vs. reproductive rights.