SteveKirk
10d ago
Are you in your 30s now? Coffee never used to do that to me either, until one day at about 34.
That's basically the plot of the Turner Diaries, which is interesting but not something I expected to hear from the left. Reminds me I should finish that book review.
As for strategies used abroad coming home, as you might suspect we are somewhat more concerned about the rhetoric and tactics of the "anti-colonialists" coming home to us, being as we are disgusting Settlers illegally occupying the traditional Unceded Land of Turtle Island, marking us for righteous ethnic cleansing by Decolonial Violence.
Also we already know what being a target of the security state is like. One of those "not giving your enemy a path to retreat guarantees he'll fight to the death" issues the left has created for itself through its dominance and abuse of every institution.
SteveKirk
10d ago
Seconding bartender, coffee reliably gives me the shits in ways tea or even energy drinks don't.
SteveKirk
10d ago
I'd actually switched to an old Logitech M100 that was sitting around, and it completely solved both problems! It's so lightweight the pad doesn't shift, and the cursor accuracy is better than any of the others I tried.
SteveKirk
10d ago
Have you looked at e.g. datahazard's graphs, which are the most widely seen example of citizen journalism (no scare quotes) that musk has re-xeeted?
Do you see any inaccuracies? Has anyone pointed any inaccuracies out to you? Are you just going with a framing of "musk tweets malinformation" because it's convenient?
A right wing extremist would have obviously just shot the boxes 5000 times with the ammo he had laying around in his truck, not used a Molotov. It's all about which tool you reach for.
Not to mention microwave ovens.
Somebody really needs to write a history about how a small chunk of unregulated spectrum set aside for microwaves ended up containing all the stuff we actually use.
Is the entire rest of the spectrum just camped? I think we're missing big chunks of 5ghz wifi spectrum because it was licensed to some satphone operator who never even used it(?)
Installed the new factorio and noticed how bad my mouse is for the fast and precise clicking needed to make furnace rows. Worse, my mousepad actually shifts around when I move fast.
Are there any pro gamers on the motte who'd like to share their mouse and pad setups?
SteveKirk
12d ago
I don't know who that guy is, maybe he's totally out of the loop and using stale lines? Or not generally political and falling back on stuff from last time PR was politically relevant?
These guys need an SNL writers room feeding them topical lines. Just more missing cultural infrastructure.
How complex are your finances that you need these tracking systems? Would simplifying them be an alternative?
I guess I'm not seeing what your aim is.
SteveKirk
13d ago
Frankly if the only choice is between a bullet in the back of the head from a friend vs an enemy, I'll choose a friend every time.
SteveKirk
13d ago
The cool part is it seems like there's a high end goal to beat the game now. It's not "win in 4 hours then fuck around with the post-game content for no reason" now. Although I can see massive opportunity for that with the new quality system.
How is it for bugs (not the biters)? The early access guys were finding big ones the week before release.
I don't have nearly enough time to play right now, maybe this winter. Am listening to Nefrums try to speed run it right now: 5.5hrs in and he's finally on a new planet with everything exploding and his Nauvis(?) base being overrun by biters.
(Checked back: 13 hours and he's flailing around getting ready for the end)
I'm actually almost more interested in how they added all these new features without a massive performance hit. How do you optimize thousands of items on belts all decaying at different rates?
Alternate take: it's the bottom half of murderers killing the bottom half of victims who are most likely to get away with it. In 2022 cook county (Chicago) had a 20% clearance rate (154/756). Maine had a 90% rate (54/60)
The bottom half of victims get the "he already had crack sprinkled on him, let's get out of here" investigation technique.
A gang member shooting a guy who looked at him wrong just has to be clever enough to use his girlfriend's car for the drive-by. A white collar guy who wants to murder his boss or an annoying neighbor needs to be Moriarty with a forensics post-grad.
(And cynically/realistically, only one of those two will get a billion dollar foundation helping him avoid justice, unless the professional's name is Leo Frank)
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Oh, they're finally rolling that out to more people?
I've noticed that selective rollouts mute opposition to anti-customer policies, and I'm sure they have too. A/B testing+user data gives you a lot of tools to boil the frog slowly by never hitting a critical mass of resistance.
As an annoying side effect, it also slows down helping people affected by updates. When YouTube rolled out forced AV1 encoding to 1% of people and their old laptops started roasting from the strain, 99% of people told them "what? I'm not seeing any problem. It's probably on your end".
I've had to walk several people through forcing vp9 who are tech-savvy enough that they could have googled/reddited a solution themselves if the change had been sudden enough to hit popular awareness.
I am referring to the case here, where they would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids attorney general.
One lucky wrench foiling an otherwise perfect plot just highlights how easily they usually get away with it without us ever hearing about it. Just check out the "success stories" on the innocence project site and read between the lines that all those guys were as guilty as this one.
They released 14% of the entire prison population in 2020 using covid as an excuse, and if you read that paper and don't acknowledge that their goal is total prison abolition I don't know what else to tell you.
And if you think they care about the concept of truth when it comes to lawfare, just check out the "disparities" section that starts
People of color remain massively overrepresented in prisons, accounting for nearly 7 in 10 people in prison. Systemic causes range from a history of racial and ethnic subordination to ongoing police tactics that unfairly ensnare people of color into the system...
Children and youth, especially Black and Latinx children and youth, have also been swept up in mass incarceration’s harmful policies. Under the guise of concern over rising violent crime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, policymakers quickly adopted and spread the fabricated “superpredator” theory that described young Black boys as especially dangerous.
Did you research how they did it? The state AG's intervention was the only thing that stopped them from overturning the process from 1998.
The criminals, the media, the defense, and the prosecutors are all on the same side and all literally employed by the same leftist prison abolition groups, and the only people still opposing them are a handful of right wing politicians.
They're mostly succeeding in their goal of releasing violent criminals to kill again (see my link to the SC case), and the occasional failure just gives them more propaganda material.
See the Jaremy Smith case in SC. 5 years in prison, 7 more for hostage taking during a breakout attempt.
Released on Dec 1st 2003 for "good behavior".
Murdered a woman and a police officer in March 2004.
No amount of labor you get out of that thing will make up for the risk some "progessive justice" ghoul will release it on the public to kill again. A rapid death penalty is the only way to remove the threat they present to their victims.
It would be nice if we had the power to peacefully incapacitate them so they could make up for the harm they've caused, but it's simply not possible when large parts of the justice system are dedicated to freeing violent criminals.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
Why on earth would you want to do that? It's one of the best parts of being a man!
The number of lies spread about this case and how uncritically large parts of the population accept them have made me even more cynical. I didn't think that was possible.
It's been like watching people blasted by a firehose of bullshit and respond by puking what they swallowed into each other's mouths.
The messaging apparatus is shockingly effective, and I'm not sure if it's possible to do anything about it under our existing legal system.
And even if you do fix the problem at the source by abolishing "the innocent project" and their media accomplices, how do you even arrange your society recognizing that so many people are just blank canvases for propaganda?
However, they had a financial incentive for doing so.
His girlfriend never claimed the reward. She came forward after he was arrested because he had promised to kill her and her family if she told anyone.
"The prosecutors now think he's innocent"
No, a leftist 5th columnist elected in 2018 with no connection to the original case tried to ruin the already won case. You'll be shocked at who funded his campaign (no you won't)
Lies and liars make me angry. Any I notice go on a permanent list of irredeemable monsters. Every lie told about this case is so blatant and malicious I can't see any explanation except that they don't care about truth or even acknowledge the concept of it, and their only goal is to unleash murderers on the innocent.
We're now in a situation where both the public defenders and prosecutors are bought by the same leftist billionaire, and the entire justice system is a circus of sociopathic procedural manipulation to achieve political outcomes. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
He literally had a biden-harris bumper sticker. This is just playing that smug little "you can't prove he's a Democrat because we literally refuse to report the evidence" game.
I didn't particularly like the show (made it 4eps before dropping), but the English "community" around it is the perfect example of everything in that post.
Just looked the series up on reddit, check out /r/yuri_memes and users like /u/CuteNervousLesbian for what I mean. Literally has the "umm yikes men have the gross male gaze, unlike wholesome me wanting to fuck them with my heckin girlcock" thing. Just impossibly creepy 30+ year old men grooming kids on reddit.
English "nerd" communities have poisoned a lot of media for me. Thank God most of my actual hobbies gatekeep creeps like that.
Is the show itself to blame? Not sure where I fall on that. Depends on the intent of the authors I suppose, which I don't have much insight into.
SteveKirk
1mo ago
The Mazda trucking forum went down at one point and I instantly lost the ability to service my truck. You don't realize how important these communities were until they're gone.
It isn't just futa hentai, there's also a disturbing trend with non-sexual yuri (lesbian) stuff.
It attracts boys and failsons who are struggling to be men, feeds them "cute girls doing cute things with other cute girls", barrages them with anti-male propaganda, and sorts them into toxic groomer communities.
Do you remember that famous Tumblr post that went "for all my lovely trans-girls who need to hear this: you do not have the Male Gaze, you cannot Sexually Objectify women, your love is Pure, you are not Gross for looking at women because you are not a man"? Millions of poor boys who fell into the manga/anime tumblr-sphere grew blasted by a firehose of that shit, usually backed up by groomer teachers.
Tumbler's long past its peak now, but the scene has mostly moved to discord, where kid-games-for-autist servers have softcore porn and roleplay channels, and being "queer" gives predators total immunity to rules.
Those communities were actually a lot worse than the porn ones, because A) they didn't exclude minors, B) they enabled predators who pulled the "heckin wholesome trans-girl egg-hatcher uwu" act, and C) got a ton of institutional support from e.g. school librarians trying to bait kids into reading "queer affirming comics' (you can see endless examples of this on librarian reddit)
Source: I knew people in Yuri manga translation, and saw the browser history of a few boys who were getting their first porn from /r/egg_irl reddit predators they met on minecraft discords.
And I know far less about it, but I'm confident there's an equivalent "boys love" pipeline for girls. They're all the same types of awkward weeb girls who read that stuff back when I was in school, but now with support from teachers who groom them into "oh you must be a boy if you like reading about boys so much. Let's get you a haircut and some jeans but don't tell your parents tee hee"
TL;DR if you have a kid who spends too much time on the PC and has started reading weird tranny-adjacent stuff, literally just check his discord account. It's an invasion of privacy, I know, but a potentially lifesaving one. And of course if you see anything furry, it's too late.
If it makes you feel better, I had issues with this for years as a kid, especially in winter. Not sure if it was something in the house, but it ended for good after I moved.
Have you moved between environments at all since it became an issue? Any possible clues there?
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