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Aaron van Dorn

@aaronvandorn.bsky.social

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Sometime writer and (mostly) analog photography | Award winning chili maker | Baltimore via Jersey City, Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, and Ohio | Friend to cats | He/him

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · Nov 16

[holding a glass of wine, wearing a shawl collar cardigan] We call them 'skeets'

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 22m

"What files did Trump have and why" is one of the questions that everyone across the spectrum just decided we were going to move on from because the firehose was too intense.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 23m

Trump DEMANDED THEM BACK good lord

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 25m

Apple has the world's most extraordinary unearned PR bonus

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 30m

I'm sure somebody has said it better than I, but I can't offer a source other than my own head atm

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 34m

At some point, I assume, the fact that social media, the news, and the real world are all different is going to sink in, right?

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 35m

I have made an end run around this by installing a GFCI that the garage door opener is plugged in to and then just not leaving anything else in there plugged in, but you're of course right.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 39m

People on this site do not understand the 2010s and they think they can understand the 1840s, incredible stuff

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 47m

This really is the central problem of the west currently that economically marginal voters want one type of economy, but culturally they absolutely do want it.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

These jobs are not coming back and Clinton got pilloried in 2016 from the left and right for admitting that, but this wider inability to admit it is a lot what drives to populist turn in the West.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 44m

It's also worth remembering that pastor's in the Lutheran context are more of a "first among equals" thing than in the catholic tradition where priests have a separate spiritual category from the laity. Pastors are (probably) more educated in religious affairs, but they aren't materially different.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 46m

No doubt! But do I want to pay for it?

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

"You're not talking about policy you're talking about your mental health" is just absolutely undefeated

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

Former Lutheran here, and it was always "pastor" in our church. There's a fairly broad variety of Lutherans in the US, though, and i think mine was fairly MOR.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, he's literate and has some arithmetic, he must have attended at least grammar school. There are multiple rungs of gainful employment below him before we can even start talking about "destitution" in an meaningful sense. Again, the whole *concept* of a "minimum wage" is throwing this off.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

3% of the population of NYC in 1870 was made of of homeless orphaned or abandoned children. We just don't have a mental model for what pre-1900 destitution looked like because it's too horrific for us to consider.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · Jun 16

In the 1870s, there were 20,000-30,000 homeless, orphaned, and abandoned children in New York City each year. The population of New York in 1870 was 940k. 3% of the cities population were abandoned, homeless children. They didn't all make it.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

It all bends toward crab

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

Good thread on how difficult it is to read our current world into history, but I also like to point out that the QT also evinces a real poverty of imagination re: pre-1900 destitution. Cratchit is not an allegory for destitution. He was solidly middle class by the standards of the day.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3h

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

Also doesn't preclude the making of other arguments that might have more salience for different types of voters, which is where we run into trouble on social media, where there's just the One Right Take.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

There is something in all of us that yearns for schism

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

The grounding rod is at the outside corner of the house by the garage, and I thought about just running a 6 ga grounding wire from it to the mc in the garage and clamping it to a junction box in there, but I have an electrician coming out to give me an estimate for how to fix it.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

No panel. There's an overhead steel pipe moving from a junction box between the second and first floors that goes in to the garage and feeds the electric in there. I have an electrician coming out today to give me an estimate on what to do. I think it's probably mc romex in the house and then mc.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

"These people aren't human" has a winning track record of not having bad consequences

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

It's easy to get numb to all this, but there's just no justification for these agents of the government to attack any of the people in that completely non-violent crowd.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

- @therickwilson.bsky.social

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

We leased because we were somewhat trepidacious about jumping in to a full EV from the get, but I think when this lease is up, I'd be inclined to move towards that. So far I absolutely love both the EV part and the hybrid aspect. Just a night and day shift.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

The Versa usually got about 27 miles to the gallon, which means that the fuel costs for it was about 12 cents a mile. Just an insane cost savings. EVs are fundamentally the way of the future.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

It came with a full tank of gas and since we bought it in August, I haven't put any gas in it. We still have about half a tank of gas, and I've spent about $24 on charges because our garage electric isn't properly grounded. We've put only about 535 miles on it so far, but that's about 4 cents a mile

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