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hamilcar98 3 points ago +3 / -0

Jenny Nicholson is hilarious even if the source of her content is often an ideology I don't agree with. This post is a good example of that - it made me chuckle.

I do this when communicating to men or women, but especially women for exactly the reason she jokes about here.

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hamilcar98 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Hypnospace Outlaw game does a pretty good job of recapturing some of the feel of 1990's Internet. For a real-life experience, you can check out the Gemini protocol and associated "smolweb".

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hamilcar98 4 points ago +4 / -0

Horus Rising

This is the first book in the Horus Heresy series, and takes place about 10,000 years earlier. It exceeded my expectations, and seemed to be a good introduction to the setting. I went on to read through book 8 or 9 in the series because the first entry was so good.

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hamilcar98 1 point ago +1 / -0

Washington is still actively working on the new tracking infrastructure as far as I know.

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hamilcar98 3 points ago +3 / -0

Correction: state employees, and likely contractors of the state, will still be under the vaccine mandate.

Here is a better link:

https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-announces-end-remaining-covid-19-emergency-orders-and-state-emergency-october-31

From the announcement:

“Inslee has already announced that COVID-19 vaccination will remain a condition of employment for most Washington state agencies.”

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hamilcar98 4 points ago +4 / -0

It’s worse. They are using a private 3rd party to handle the authentication. Citizens should not be compelled to share personal information with private entities to access government services.