Paul Timmerman
mndba.bsky.social
Paul Timmerman
@mndba.bsky.social
Minnesota Nice!
I keep hearing the mantra “waste, fraud, and abuse”

…… and then people vote to add trillions to the national debt.

…… and then people vote to make healthcare unreachable for millions.

…… and then people vote to assign worth to other people.

🥺
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Hey @stevevladeck.bsky.social
Is there an equal protection argument to be made specific to the chaos that will likely ensue from Trump v Casa? If you were born in State A you get XYZ but if you were born in State B you don’t.
June 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Well, if you’d ever wondered “is Donnie a disgusting human being?”, you have your answer.

Today:

1. Military aid to Ukraine is paused
2. Administration is looking to lessen or lift sanctions against Russia.

Going to get Ukrainians killed and make Putins life easier.

Disgusting and indefensible.
March 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Apparently when they were talking about “the swamp”, they meant the American worker.
February 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Where are the House and Senate Dems? Why aren’t they suing the admin for their lack of authority, which they are stealing from Congress, to dissolve agencies and make new ones just by renaming them. Are they waiting for something? I don’t understand. Courts are the remedy. Why aren’t they there!?
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
February 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
February 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Soft invasion of Mexico, buying Greenland, and taking back the Panama Canal.

Whew! We sure dodged a bullet by not electing a senile old white dude for President!
December 23, 2024 at 3:47 AM
OK, serious question. What is the actual reason that Donald Trump thinks we can somehow “take the Panama Canal back“. I’m sure it’s flawed logic but there’s gotta be something there, right?
December 23, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Wait a minute….. so there was a bipartisan deal on something and Trump stepped in at the last minute and torpedoed it. Boy, this sounds awfully familiar….. like he’s done something just like it before……
December 19, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Weird….. I don’t recall Elon Musk being on the ballot in November.
a cartoon minion with a question mark above his head
ALT: a cartoon minion with a question mark above his head
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December 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
It’s so disappointing to see the PEOTUS, in his selection for FTC chair, reference big tech and free speech. Breaking news, free speech rights are about the government limiting your speech. I don’t think he knows that. Love em or hate em, FB, X, BlueSky etc. don’t owe anyone free speech protections.
December 11, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Using EE to capture login counts. Username to a histogram target so I can get count. Would also like to group output by day. So output would be Login, Count, Date. Can I do this with a histogram or would I need to dump to a file and massage from there? Can easily get everything but date. #sqlhelp
December 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM
“Hegseth says he is not dropping out as Trump’s defense secretary pick”…..

Might be wishful thinking, but isn’t randomly proclaiming that the sort of thing that usually happens right before someone decides to “spend more time with their family”?
December 4, 2024 at 6:27 PM
“new to politics” right wing President who won in a razor thin margin, thinks everyone is out to get him cause there is a strong opposition party, decides to declare marital law.

Well, at least there is no mechanism, in the law, for martial law in the US………. 😳
December 3, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I will never understand the moral compromise/compartmentalization needed to vote for this creep.
November 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM
OK, serious question….. someone explain to me how a tariff on an import does not raise the price of said import. And no, you cannot rely on “companies will just eat the expense”. And go………
November 27, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Thought I would be nice and clarify what Eric Trump said the other day

“You want to allow drugs to come through our southern border? We're going to tariff you (tax the American people),” he said. “You want to allow them to come through Canada? We're going to tariff you (tax the American people).”
November 27, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Going to go out on a limb here and say that I doubt the founding fathers were setting up a structure where one could get elected President of the United States to avoid being held responsible for criminal conduct. Yet, here we are.
November 25, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Paul Timmerman
Interesting reading: NASA working on establishing Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) www.nasa.gov/solar-system... h/t @chrzanowski.info
NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives  - NASA
NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC)
www.nasa.gov
November 23, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Man, the number of job openings at Fox News is going through the roof!
November 23, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Could someone actually tell me where the money for the Mas deportations is going to come from? Genuine question. I have yet to hear anybody address that.
November 23, 2024 at 1:27 AM
FYI, I don’t have a good way to test this right now.

When #SQLServer is doing partition switching via ALTER TABLE and uses ABORT_AFTER_WAIT = BLOCKERS, are any connections killed as a result, logged to the error log like any other “normal” KILL statement?

Chasing ghosts on a Friday. #sqlhelp
November 22, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Makes my blood boil to hear talk about “we’re going to let the states handle special ed as they see fit”. Problem is, they weren’t and that was one of the main reasons for the Dept. of Ed being created. Far too many states were choosing almost anything over taking care of vulnerable populations.
November 22, 2024 at 4:28 AM