Harry Underwood (blackgaynerd)
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I didn't watch the RNC convention. Don't need it in my life.
Wednesday, 20-Jul-16 17:12:00 UTC from web -
But now #PokemonGo is the most massively-popular location-based AR game title produced so far, one in which seeing and interacting with AR-based characters in the wild is the focus of activity. #DennoCoil dealt with the same premise 9 years ago, but with significantly more artificial intelligence and AR glasses involved.
Maybe there will be a way to commercially cheapen the #GoogleGlass experience, just as #GoogleCardboard commercially cheapened access to VR. Pokemon Go using AR glasses would be more efficient than on the smartphone, I would think. -
I think #PokemonGo is the surest path to a near future where #DennoCoil becomes reality. We already live in a world where Google Cardboard has (somewhat) lowered the cost barrier to VR headsets. The short-lived #GoogleGlass also opened us to the potential and controversy of AR headsets.
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@mrmattimation Pretty much for "four more years of Obama". I'm worried about the Democrats' downticket ballot, however. They're in a historically bad place with Congress, governorships and state legislatures since 2014.
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@mrmattimation I primary-voted for Sanders in Georgia but will likely vote for Clinton, at least to keep a third presidential term for the Democrats.
Not voting Green because Jill Stein is not, IMO, a decent articulator of Green Party values on a presidential candidate level. I would take the Green Party more seriously than a "protest party" if they were to get at least one Congressional seat and a few state legislative seats first, rather than resurface every presidential election year with a vanity presidential candidate who poses as "more holy than the icky Democrats" while pining for Democratic dissident voters. The way that Gary Johnson ragged on the Green Party in the 2012 RT America third party debate without an adequate Jill Stein response was embarrassing to watch. http://rainbowdash.net/url/848449
Not voting for Johnson and the Libertarians since they are antithetical to the economic reforms which Sanders pushed for.
Hell no to Trump.
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@blackgaynerd Wait, why did this not post under the original thread?
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@mrmattimation I primary-voted for Sanders in Georgia but will likely vote for Clinton, at least to keep a third presidential term for the Democrats.
Not voting Green because Jill Stein is not, IMO, a decent articulator of Green Party values on a presidential candidate level. I would take the Green Party more seriously than a "protest party" if they were to get at least one Congressional seat and a few state legislative seats first, rather than resurface every presidential election year with a vanity presidential candidate who poses as "more holy than the icky Democrats" while pining for Democratic dissident voters. The way that Gary Johnson ragged on the Green Party in the 2012 RT America third party debate without an adequate Jill Stein response was embarrassing to watch. http://rainbowdash.net/url/848449
Not voting for Johnson and the Libertarians since they are antithetical to the economic reforms which Sanders pushed for.
Hell no to Trump.
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I wonder if rainbowdash.net is one of the larger iterations of #GNUSocial in use. GNU Social seems more mature than #Diaspora and #Friendica. I'm a heavy Facebook/Twitter user who is open to alternative, more federated networks.
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I went onto isidewith.com to see which US candidate I agree with most. Sanders is a 97% match, Stein and Clinton are both 94%, Johnson is 69% and Trump is 21%.
I bring this up because after what happened over here, I've become very averse to apolitical, defeatist attitudes. I understand being disenfranchised and thinking your vote won't matter but it's simply not the way to be when you have a voice. If there's a chance that you might make a difference for the better, please go out on a limb and make that fraction of a difference. Vote if you can. If you can't, get informed, get angry if you think you should. You owe it to yourself. -
Tried diaspora*, which felt empty, cludgy and dysfunctional. Hopefully GNU social/StatusNet is different. #NewHere #ImNew
Wednesday, 13-Jul-16 16:23:23 UTC from web
