NYT: Women who voted for Trump
Some insight into women who voted for Trump.
“I think he’s a really good man, deep down. This guy has such potential, and I truly believe he cares about our country and wants to help everyone."
Well, by everyone, you mean “those exactly like me." Actually, how about “just me”.
“But I had an 8-year-old who was totally on the Trump train. He talked me into taking him to a Trump rally."
It’s never too early to think about getting the youngsters into the Hitler Youth.
“Trump’s a successful businessman, and I feel like that’s what America needs to bring our economy back."
Well, let’s just forget about the multiple bankruptcies and stiffing contractors.
“Benghazi. The emails. The I.R.S. She’s a liar."
Thank goodness we elected a truth-teller. Right.
“Look at how much Trump hires women, how much he does rely on women, how much he relies on his own daughter. I’m sort of amazed by her. She may pull him more into the middle. She’ll be a good voice for women."
A good voice for wealthy women of privilege.
“Driving to work yesterday, I saw three homeless people. They need our help."
So taking away any hope of medical coverage is the best way to help people?
Trumpku No. 1
vicious neurotic,blue blood coursing in black heart.eyes piercing with lust. Scripting Indigo with Python
I’ve used Indigo home automation software for a few years. It’s a integrated home automation software environment for the Mac and its a solid stable and well-supported platform.
Within Indigo, it’s possible to script triggers and actions either AppleScript or Python. It’s funny - AppleScript often looks like the easier route to take. It looks more like plain English than Python. But as they say, looks are deceiving. Two bits of bad news put the nail in AppleScript’s coffin for me - as least with Indigo.
President Trump insisted...
Original at truthdig.com
Going "low information"
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election, Republicans are taking the opportunity to scold progressives about living in an echo chamber and failing to take a moment to sample thought patterns of the Right.
Well I did, but I came to the conclusion that most is still complete rubbish. In fact, according to Sturgeon’s Law, 90% of everything is crap. So don’t take it personally.
Extracting mp3 file from web page with Python and ApplesScript
As I’ve mentioned before I use Anki extensively to memorize and practice Russian vocabulary. With language learning in particular, adding spoken pronunciations to the cards makes an enormous difference. Since I use Open Russian extensively to provide information to built my Anki cards, it’s a natural source of audio data, too. To optimize my learning time, I built two small scripts to grab and rename the audio files from the Open Russian site.
How to tell if you're being pandered to
You might be the subject of political pandering if:
- Fear, uncertainty, and doubt are the main tricks in the politician’s kit. A politician who never tires of scapegoating a feared group, or a feared outcome is undoubtedly pandering. Or a demagogue. Or both. Whether it’s Mexicans, or Jews, or Muslims, or gay people, they never seem to stop talking about why you should be afraid of someone or something.
Well that has a familiar ring to it
The U.S. has become well-rehearsed in its response to mass shootings. An event. The pondering over terrorism vs. generalized craziness. The outpouring of prayers and support. Then the internet outrage. And more internet outrage. More meme pictures about guns and love. More color-your-profile picture trends. Empty scripted responses from pious politicians. A week or two, then back to our regularly scheduled programming.
News flash: this isn’t getting better.
EC: An Environment Canada data plugin for Indigo
Indigo is a well-known home automation controller software package for Mac OS X. I’ve written a plugin for Indigo 6 that allows you to create a virtual weather station from Environment Canada data. If you live in Canada, this will be a useful way of using weather data in your Indigo rules. For example, you could use wind and temperature data to adjust your irrigation schedule.
You can download the plugin from its git repo.