WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
VA does not allow Governors to run again immediately. I think they can wait out a cycle though?
I feel like I should know this.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
private messages between friends.
This is a lie. They were not friends, unless you think everyone you work with, even in an adversarial manner, is your "friend". This was sheer gloating directly to a political rival on the other team. He directly said these things, while a Democrat state legislator, to another Republican state legislator, while they were both serving, in the aftermath of a 3rd state legislators funeral.
That's the sort of unhinged psychopath that now has top legal authority over me and my growing family of "little fascist".
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
There is no bottom. Jennifer Welch reacting to a clip from Virginia where normie democrats were talking about being glad Charlie Kirk was dead, and might want the Republican Media Person interviewing them to be murder too was right. Murdering Republicans is a winning campaign platform, and Democrats need to get with the message or be left behind.
God help us all.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
Yes. I am in a dark, dark place right now.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
Listen, I can't go solving Britain's problems for them. If they want to see my woodworking projects, they're just going to have to fedpost
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
I finally worked up the motivation to get back out to my shop and work on some bookshelves I've been planning. This old IKEA veneer and cardboard monstrosity needs replacing as it's overflowing completely, not to mention falling apart after 4 more house moves than the 0 it was designed for. This CRT I keep hooked up to an old Nintendo (well, Nintendo on a chip reproduction) needs a place to go too. So my plan is a three section almost built in, heavily inspire by this New Yankee Workshop episode. Only I'll be using pocket screws wherever possible instead of dados and rabbets, because I'm feeling lazy.
Step one, spend $400 on 6 sheets of birch plywood, half 3/4 and half 1/4.
Step two, break them down using a circular saw and a Kreg ripping jig.
Step three, make the cases. The first two came out pretty good, a little wobbly but nothing some shims can't fix. And then the rest.
My goal is for this to be a pretty quick project. I have some soft maple from the bargain bin laying around for the faces, as well as the rail and stile for the cabinet doors down below. The plan is to stain it black, and then wipe on poly for protection. Wish me luck and speed!
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2d ago
That's complete nonsense. I mean, if you know only about problems in a handful of Western European countries, you could conclude every country is like that, but it's not. Ukraine has completely different problems and Zelensky has no intention and no inclination to do any of that, neither did any Ukrainian politicians. I realize how you want to present it as another case of evil Joos doing evil Joo stuff, but that's just ignorant nonsense, not discussing real facts on the ground.
I'll accept the rest of your post at face value, but this...
Nobody has wanted that anywhere. And yet it's happened regardless. I refuse to accept "That won't happen because nobody wants it" as an adequate rebuttal.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
Yeah, that actually makes perfect sense when you put it like that.
A shame there won't be a Ukrainian people in 50 years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
I've banged this drum for a while, so excuse me for repeating myself, but...
What are the Ukrainian people afraid of, being conquered by Russia? I mean I understand the process of being conquered is violent and deadly, but post surrender, what are they afraid of? Their government is already among the most corrupt governments in the world, and their "Democracy" was already a proxy battle between Russian and USA color revolutions for most of their lifetimes. If they stuck with Western Europe their Jewish President will just adopt a program of flooding them with 3rd worlders as "Replacement Migration" and they'd be ethnically cleansed inside 50 years anyways. The only hope the Ukrainian people have of surviving as a people as opposed to a label on a map is with Russia.
It, frankly, blows my damned mind that European leaders will let virtually every nation on Earth walk all over them, colonize their lands, commit mass rapes, murders, terrorism and ethnic cleansing, but somehow Russia's action are a step too far. There are nearly less English left in London than their are Ukrainians left in Kiev. What's been the greater crime?
What if world leaders just put on blinders, and let Russian people drive all the way to Kiev without firing a shot? What if they told fictions about how they are just immigrants looking for a better life? How dare you accuse them of having dual loyalties? They're perfectly capable of it. It's what they've been doing the last 50 years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
I've long wondered how many people the FBI radicalizes in an effort to entrap... but then they fall between the cracks. Maybe they start getting their own ideas instead of listening to their FBI handler. Maybe someone retires and their casework gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe the target just can't follow instructions correctly and accidentally commits a terrorist attack at the wrong location so the FBI fails to scoop them up. All sorts of things can go wrong. The FBI is obviously playing with fire, trying to create terrorist so they can then arrest them. If it ever went wrong, they'd probably be the most darkly held secrets the FBI keeps.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
Unironically yes. Retards are a valuable political resource.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
You’re talking about Biden like loyalty was owed to him. Isn’t loyalty owed to the country?
Wow, what a shitball of a question.
Here is the thing. I can imagine a world where Jen Psaki, much as I disliked her and everything she stood for, takes that question and makes the interviewer deeply regret asking it. I deeply loath her, but I can admit she was good at her job, if you take her job being to make reporters look more stupid than the administration.
Likewise, look at JD Vance, being the current administration's attack dog, going into hostile media environments and generally having pretty good message discipline, as well as being verbally nimble enough to not appear that he's pointing to a deer and calling it a horse. He generally does a pretty solid job making reporters regret asking him questions by making them look stupid.
KJP was, and is, a preposterously stupid individual who was terrible at her job. Her elevation to the position, and the fact that she somehow rode it until the wheels fell off, was probably one of the most obvious signs that nobody was in charge in the Biden administration.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
So I watched The Exorcist a few nights ago, because it's Halloween. I remember my mom talking about how much it scared her as a little girl, and how when she was a teenager living in Vienna, VA, it wasn't uncommon to go see the steps in Georgetown where they filmed for a scare. Despite it just being a movie, people swore they felt evil. You know, according to teenagers in the 70's.
It got me thinking how different that movie must have hit in 1973 than it does today. I mean now, being a parent, and a parent of a child who's spent some time jumping through hoops to get things diagnosed, many of the medical scenes hit super hard. But the whole concept of demon possession, or even demons being real probably hit harder in '73. Supposedly 87% of the nation was Christian then, versus 65% now. I hazard to guess the quality of Christian back then was different as well. I know my mother would talk about her Southern Baptist upbringing, and the nightmares she'd have about demons and ending up in hell.
I wonder if it was like The Blair Witch Project. For like the first week it came out, people thought it was real. I certainly remember thinking it was, until the actors appeared on Letterman. It leaned hard into that leading up to the release. I'm sure in 73 people knew the Exorcist wasn't real, but maybe they felt like it could be real? In a way we simply fail to appreciate today.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
I haven't watched the Nick & Tucker interview. I did watch the Sam Hyde and Nick episode though. I also watched the Ian Carroll and Joe Rogan episode. I suspect Nick's appearance on Tucker was much the same.
Nick (and Ian since I brought him up) are slightly smarter than your average bear. They can go on shows and hide their power level as needed. But then, if you find yourself thinking "I like the cut of their jib, I wonder what else they have to say" and you check their twitter, you immediately discover they are shit flinging retards. It's a short lived illusion. This really doesn't work like it used to, where radicals could publish a book that sanitizes a version of the insane things they believe, filtered through a retard to normie ghost writer. Then they get glazed by the New York Times, it's required reading in college, and nobody would be the wiser because you'd have to actually know this retard in person to understand what a crazy person they actually are.
There may be knock on effects from letting retards attract more retards to their retard army. But Antifa and BLM already exists, so that bridge is burned.
Only way out is through. The right can't let the left monopolize retards.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
Simple assaults are among the most common cases prosecuted in the US, and if every case of punching or tackling, or whatever else you can say Mr. Hayes suffered placed the victim in apprehension of imminent death or serious bodily injury then the common practice of sentencing perpetrators to probation and community service is one of the grossest injustices imaginable.
My god, you do have theory of mind! I apologize. Yes. Yes. Yes.
I could go on.
Yes, the entire reason most people think more aggressors need to be shot (preferably dead) is because the Justice System keeps just dumping them back on our streets to terrorize and eventually murder us.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
7d ago
They could say that. But that would all be orthogonal to what I'm pointing out.
Look, any world view with enough sophistication will detach from reality. There will probably be contradictions on the margins. Weird word games you can play as gotcha's. One I heard lately was "If God is everywhere, is God also in hell?" Sometimes it cracks me up that the universal escape for any contradiction is "It's a mystery of faith."
But all that is a separate issue from a world view that nakedly contradicts itself from moment to moment. Police are moving back a BLM protest, and knock down a frail old man fracturing his skull? The left shouts about how that was an illegal use of lethal force! BLM protestor charges across the street and ground and pounds a counter protestor? Come on, what's the big deal? Sometimes you just have to take a beating. There is no ideology or world view tying this together except, "Fuck you, that's why". But they can't admit to that, so instead the news programs people with arguments as soldiers, and then they go out and do it for free.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
7d ago
Am I alone in seeing this as so egregious to want this guy to go to jail for life or be given the death sentence?
No. I remember this quote all the time lately. Arguing with leftist is impossible because they pretend not to know things. This guy is just pretending that getting tackled to the pavement, and then ground and pounded is just no big deal. He knows. There is no way he doesn't know. This is all performative.
I've opined on this repeatedly. I'm still seeking the right terminology, the right descriptors for the phenomena. I like "Unidirectional Knowledge", but there are aspects of demoralization to it as well, when Yuri Bezmenov is saying you can shower the demoralized individual in limitless true facts, and they will still not be able to perceive the truth. Maybe an element of demoralization is a fear of thinking any unapproved thoughts, a terror of noticing something you aren't supposed to notice, and then being exiled from the tribe. But the bottom line is, they stick to pre-approved talking points they picked up from others, and they never have their own thought about it. That the talking point conflicts with other talking points is a thought they are no longer capable of having. That the talking point might actually justify the other sides actions if applied universally is also not a thought they are capable of having. You don't think about the talking point, you repeat it to ward off the thoughts people are trying to make you have. Thoughts are evil. Famous leftist of yore described this as "mind killing" themselves, and they were very adamant about it.
Regardless of the topography of the phenomena, that's what you are arguing against.
That or a troll.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8d ago
But on the other hand, some forms of protecting people from the damage they can do to themselves and others in a fit of passion seem to be very popular. We have laws against drugs
I guess I've just hardened against these arguments, as I've watched all the people we protect from themselves drag society down. Also, I clipped this quote where I did because, per the article, 2 out of 3 of the anecdotes in the article about "Stand your ground gone 'wrong'" involved drugs. The drugs we allegedly protect people from themselves from.
I almost want more people to die at this point. I'd be for regulating gambling because it doesn't even kill anyone. But lets lace more drugs with fentanyl, lets give everyone with a clean record who can pass a piss test a gun for free and free legal counsel about self defense. I want more poor life choices to have immediately fatal consequences, not less. Our polity needs some drano.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8d ago
You know, this reminds me of when Rittenhouse was found innocent, and a forum I no longer frequent was losing their damned minds that it was now "legal to shoot progressives". I wanted to make a snarky reply along the lines of "Worry not, it's rather simple to avoid getting Rittenhoused. First, don't riot. In the event you riot, don't attack an innocent bystander with a gun. In the event you attack an innocent bystander with a gun, and he runs away, don't chase him. In the event you chase him, run away when he stops and points at you. If you follow even these simple steps, you too can avoid getting shot by Kyle Rittenhouse." But before I could say anything I got banned for reacting to people having panic attacks with the "Awesome" button.
I'm reading this article, and every single one reads like a "When keeping it real goes wrong" sketch. Two people get out of their cars, armed, to fight over a parking space? Someone refuses to get off someone else's property with a chainsaw while high on meth? Some drunk lady needs to give some other drunk dude a piece of her mind in a bar parking lot?
People “feel compelled to imagine living in a world where everybody might be armed,” said Caroline Light, a Harvard professor who wrote a book on the history of stand-your-ground laws. “Suddenly it isn’t just an annoying confrontation with somebody who’s being a jerk on the road. Suddenly it’s that split second decision, is my life actually in danger? What if that person’s armed? Well, I better get to my gun first.”
You know, I brought this up when talking about a 14 year old carjacker who was killed in DC. Liberals act like the person who shot the congenital felon was the one who decided their life wasn't worth a car. I said it was the carjacker that decided their life wasn't worth a car. And likewise here, these people decided their life isn't worth a parking space, or a few tree limbs, or your wounded pride. If two people are maladjusted enough to go "Fuck it, two men enter, one man leaves" over a parking space, I'm not exactly against it. In every story provided, I'm not unconvinced the world was made a better place by 1 unit, despite the friends and family of the deceased, even admitting the dead had anger issues, grieving the loss of their unhinged husband or son.
Frankly I'm shocked the article wasn't loaded with more inflammatory anecdotes. Like wildly implausible scenarios akin to all the squatters saying "I have a lease" so that the police won't kick them out of the home they obviously broke into. Felons breaking and entering a house, and then claiming "self defense" when the homeowner draws on them, or shit like that.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9d ago
Don't tease me with AOC having her hands and head nailed to the Senate podium.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
For over a decade at least I've seen the right blame Reagan's amnesty for turning California from deep red to deep blue. And also the reason to never believe in another amnesty deal every again.
I think for the longest time the GOP loved Reagan almost just because he won 49/50 states. He won the cold war, and there are still a terrifying number of unreformed cold warriors in and around Washington dictating increasingly deranged policy.
But it's also easy to forget that Reagan was a Hollywood liberal until he reinvented himself as a conservative. Liberals flocked to the GOP under his banner, and this weird combination of pro-interventionist, pro big spending liberals with pro free trade conservatives birthed the Neoconservative movement, which has been hated my entire life. Neocon was a meaningless smear word the entirety of my childhood and early adulthood.
But the lived experience of the Reagan years were amazing. My father until the day he died talked about what a relief it was to just survive in America under Reagan. The way he remembered it, taxes and cost of living was destroying everyone in America until Reagan came along and finally fixed everything. Reagan was elected in 80, my dad got married, bought a house and had a kid (me) shortly after. I can't speak to the accuracy of how he remembered things, but his actions certainly speak to some faith that it felt that way to him at the time at least.
Actually kind of reminds me of the trajectory of my own life with respect to Trump getting elected. The tax cuts were among the best raises I ever got, and my investments went through the roof. Made me feel good enough about my life after too long feeling like I was barely treading water, unable to keep up with a constantly shifting goalpost, that I got married, bought a house and had a kid.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
Honestly ICE's signing bonus has been the most attractive offer I've seen, were I going to attempt to make a positive change in my country.
The biggest impediment to taking on more risk to exit the scam laden public/private industry I'm in has been health insurance. I have it, my family needs it, and privately insuring my family is the single biggest factor making me doubt I'm as close to "Fuck You money" as I am on paper with my current assets and burn rate.
That and the friends I have who did take the jump out of the industry to start their own businesses, and came crawling back broke (at best) having wasted a decade of their life's savings.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
If a sawmill sells their product to someone who just immediately burns the wood, I would still credit the mill workers and owners with being productive.
I guess my nitpick is, is the sawmill's only customer a government program that buys it's laboriously milled wood and then immediately burns it? Would the sawmill even exist but for this senseless government program? What if the government then further paid to have those laboriously milled planks further refined into exquisitely crafted chairs... and then burned them in a heap year after year as if they were just minimally processed firewood?
Furthermore, imagine the entire industry, which knew precisely what the deal was, started scamming the government? Instead of S4S lumber, the mill was just churning out rough planks, saving itself the time and expense, but kept charging the government at the S4S rate? And the chair makers, taking this rough lumber that hadn't even been properly kiln dried, just roughly hacked it apart with circular saws instead of any sort of proper cabinet saw, and stuck things that were technically chairs together with brad nails and hot glue. Of course they too also still billed the government for the hours and expense of finely crafted chairs. And then the government, receiving these unfinished, wobbly, barely held together "chairs" that had come half apart in shipping just nodded satisfactorily, paid the exorbitant price, and gave them to the fire.
I've been a chair maker in this scheme my entire life, except my chairs are code. The things I've seen I probably shouldn't publicly disclose. Some are in the past, some are ongoing. I've encountered start ups run by veterans who charge into this space, knowing how awful it is, thinking they will be the company that makes the thing that will at last bring value to the problem the government has been funding solutions to for the last 40 years and then burning on a fire. I've seen them eventually give up, and join the scam realizing there is no point. I've seen companies that were only ever in it for the scam. I've seen people too stupid to realize the difference between the rough planks they make and the S4S planks that they should be making, profoundly proud of having achieved nothing. They look at the size of their paycheck, the leased BMW it affords them, and assume they must be a valuable participant in the economy. They're leasing a BMW after all, how could they not be?
I compare this to the multi generational welfare consuming congenital felon, and I'd truly, truly like to believe I'm different. But sometimes the intrusive thoughts say otherwise. At least the military industrial complex really gets people killed. I'm not sure anything I've done has had any measurable outcome beyond driving up the national debt.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
I've increasingly wrestled with this. I write software. To the best of my knowledge, not one line of code I've ever written in my entire professional career has made anyone's life better in any way. I've worked on government contracts for systems that for whatever reason never reach actual deployment. My cantankerous nature, and endlessly arguing with FAA and NASA points of contact about why they are wrong may have helped someone somewhere in the instances where I've been born out to be correct, despite my boss wishing I'd just go along to get along because the government signs our checks.
Sometimes I contribute to open source projects. I fixed a bug or two in Sergey Kiselev's 8088 BIOS, and years ago I rewrote the gamepad/joystick code for 86Box, but I'm pretty sure that's all been further rewritten since. Those two things probably made more people better off, niche as they may be, than anything I've written professionally.
Currently the most valuable thing I've contributed to my nation and my culture is my child, who we're trying to raise in the best tradition of the west. I try to make beautiful furniture for my family, and we raise chickens and garden. In the sense of GDP being a measure of economist paying each other to eat shit, these activities don't do much. But they are invaluable to me, and profoundly meaningful.
In a sense my life has been the tax payer indirectly paying me to write useless code. I've then taken that money, and invested it into crypto and stocks and now I'm more or less set for life. There are days it doesn't feel good. It didn't start this way. When I first began working on these contracts I thought I was making things that would be used to make the world better. 20 years later it would be delusional to think that has happened. But now I'm in too deep. It's my career, I have obligations and responsibilities, personally as well as professionally. I keep hoping maybe the next contract will be more than a make work exercise.
Yes, the enemy of the people are excellent at telling only the truth, but still leaving you believing a lie.
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