WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11hr ago
It barely matters. The goalpost just shifts to them having been correct to do so, because the axiomatic belief is that Trump must be destroyed by any means nessecary. They are already electing officials that gloat to the opposition about wanting to see them murdered. You think they care about corrupt investigations at this point?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
I almost beat Ys Chronicles 1. Got to the final boss, decided it was bullshit I'm too damned old for, and watched the ending on youtube before I started cussing at it.
I think I just should have played the game on easy instead of normal. It has some awkward difficulty spikes that after a few tries I was able to overcome, and for 99% of the game normal felt about right. But the final boss was just too much bullshit. Constantly drops meteors on your head to dodge, they explode into more bullets turning the scenario into a bullet hell. Then whenever you hit him, he deletes the part of the boss arena you were standing on when you did it. After 10 or so hits, while dodging all around the screen, while trying to chase him down as he's bouncing all over, you tend to find yourself boxed in.
Watching the final boss fight on easy, it took few enough hits for that to not be an existential problem. But you can't switch the difficulty, so if I want to beat the game on easy, I have to start over.
I'm just too damned old for that. Alas.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
So I read The Master Mind of Mars, the 7th story in the Barsoom/John Carter series. It was aggressively mediocre. Each of these stories has pretty boring, one dimensional characters that are either all good and honorable or all unrepentantly evil and consummate liars. The redeeming quality of Barsoom is usually at least one, single good sci-fi hook or mystery, and some slightly above average action. The hook for this one was a scientist who can swap brains in bodies. It was not his best hook, and the by the numbers "Go and save a girl" story was only complicated by the fact that the hero was trying to save her body to put her brain back in it. Would not recommend it really.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
Yes, the enemy of the people are excellent at telling only the truth, but still leaving you believing a lie.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d 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
3d 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
4d 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
4d ago
Yes. I am in a dark, dark place right now.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
4d 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
4d 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
5d 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
5d 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
5d 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
8d 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
8d ago
Unironically yes. Retards are a valuable political resource.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8d 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
8d 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
8d 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
9d 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
9d 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
9d 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
10d 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
10d 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
11d ago
Don't tease me with AOC having her hands and head nailed to the Senate podium.
The people who voted for Jay Jones.
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