WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10hr ago
And all of that might not piss me off, if it weren't for lefty media running constant cover, tacitly agreeing that the violence was justifiable and refusing to actually lower the temperature for these events.
Because people are going to ask for examples, they aren't hard to find.
https://x.com/Banned_Bill/status/1965860260368822399
MSNBC
“[He is] constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which often then to hateful actions.”
If you've seen the guy they arrested, he looks like he has terminal MSNBC brain. Old white boomer who's brain has probably been soaked in MSM propaganda about Kirk for years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14hr ago
How this murder occurred on a bus full of black people and not one single person who saw it happen helped her. Although in the grand scheme of things it took about 90 seconds for a black man to run back and attempt to apply pressure to the wounds about as well as you could hope an amateur would. So at least someone tried to do something.
Yes, I observed as much and was conciliatory in that regard. There was no saving this woman, and realistically shaving 30 or even 60 seconds off the response time that it took a good Samaritan to make an attempt to save her wouldn't have mattered. 90 seconds to someone who actually possesses a soul to rush to the scene might be the best you could expect in this day and age. Maybe even more than. My condemnation is of the 4 or more people who watched the attack, watched the woman collapse and bleed out, and just minded their own business, got up and walked away, whipped out their cellphone to upload to World Star Hiphop or whatever that shit gets uploaded to these days.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
16hr ago
Consequences, please, while there are some reasonable options left.
Wait until a "jury of his peers" finds the murderer not guilty and he's back on the streets again.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
17hr ago
I mean, the problem is, because of the reporting blackout and the "Republicans Pounce" narrative, it's all twitter threads. It's that sufficient?
There are so many threads to this murder to tug. Like how somehow the judges that let all these criminals go are all black women without law degrees? Because apparently you don't need one to serve as a judge in North Carolina? And the one that specifically let this guy free without bail runs a halfway house she pockets taxpayer money with by sending the criminals she releases under her authority as a judge there? How the council of black women that run the city have a history of embezzling COVID funds, and threw a birthday party in the middle of discussing the murder. How this murder occurred on a bus full of black people and not one single person who saw it happen helped her. Although in the grand scheme of things it took about 90 seconds for a black man to run back and attempt to apply pressure to the wounds about as well as you could hope an amateur would. So at least someone tried to do something.
Long long ago, in a more naive time, on a different site, on a different account, I compared Obama's border policies to a hypothetical scenario where all the jails just decided "Fuck you, you aren't allowed to criticize us, we're going to dump all the criminals back on you." It seemed so unthinkable at the time. Such absurd hyperbole. Alas.
Charitably everything about this case is a scathing indictment of Democrat rule. More accurately, it proves 4chan and Scott Adams were right.
Edit: Sources as best I can.
Tiawana Brown, Charlotte Councilwoman, used COVID funds for birthday party
Charlotte City Council being almost entirely black and majority female
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
I mean, the answer to the question changes as society changes. Because the real question, IMHO, is "What does it take for me to be left alone?" And if they keep winning elections, and keep not being left alone, their feelings towards "liberal republic", whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean in the tyranny they increasingly live under, will sour. If the "liberal republic" fails to protect their kids from harmful ideologies they are against, or even pushes them onto their children, Red Caesar starts looking better. If the "liberal republic" unilaterally imports 100% of the extant population of their town in low trust third worlders and then gives them you tax dollars, without anyone ever voting for it, in fact voting against it as often as they can, Red Caesar? I could go on.
Sure, a lot of people might stubbornly stick to worshiping the "liberal republic" they were brought up in, even as it tyrannizes them and has long since stopped being liberal or a republic. Others will cry out for succor, and they won't be picky about the direction it comes from.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2d ago
Some of @WhiningCoil's stories are truly terrifying.
No higher praise do I seek.
Then how did Muslims conquere the UK?
Ok, maybe I advanced past the sell there. But hang with me.
This whole post is basically defeatism. Declaring as psychologically, culturally and metaphysically impossible any sort of return to tradition. "Liberalism" has destroyed the old ways so thoroughly and completely, and habituated everyone against them so innately, that even attempting to go back is just LARPing.
Then how do you explain Islam in Europe? How were they not just swallowed up by the overculture of liberalism they migrated into? How did they not end up as islands of backwards LARPers constantly getting worn away by the relentless tide of liberalism against their shores?
Go back further, how did Islam reclaim the entire region? How did it turn Lebenon, "Paris of the Middle East", a model of a secular liberal society in the heart of the Middle East, back into an Islamic stronghold, with it's own Islamic paramilitary?
There are examples near and far that this model of "Liberal Supremacy", where no other sincere modes of thought are even possible in the face of the overwhelming dominance of liberalism are clearly shown to be false everywhere you look around the globe. I begin to suspect this whole line of thought is just another demoralization psyop.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
4d ago
I keep a windows VM for things like that. Defeats the purpose of Linux only slightly.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
As I recall Steam officially does not let anyone inherit your account. But if you actually own your games because you bought them on GOG, that's what offline drm free installers are for.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
I would think you could just self-sign the printer driver and tell Linux to trust that signature but it might be too annoying.
If it were my computer, and I cared enough, it was a thing I could research. I saw it was presented as a more secure solution that just turning off secure boot. But turning off secure boot was the thing I knew how to do immediately, and thus was much easier and faster. Maybe one day.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
So I finally talked my wife into letting me put Linux Mint on her 10 year old laptop. She's been complaining about it for years. First I swapped out the HDD for an SSD because Windows 10 at some point stopped pretending people might still be running their OS off an HDD and it just ground to a halt. Then I upgraded it from 8 GB of ram to 16 GB of ram because Chrome is a gluttonous whore. Still, the complaints persisted, and I could see why. Random Windows processes were constantly eating up nearly 100% of her CPU. I'd play whack-a-mole with them, but every few months updates would further enshittify her experience. Right before I went to install Linux, I saw some Windows Telemetry service was monopolizing 100% of her CPU. So I kept telling her she didn't have a laptop problem, she had a Windows problem.
Had a few hiccups. It didn't want to boot off the USB on the first try, but the second was fine. Then the wifi didn't work, because it used a proprietary driver. Luckily I wired my office with ethernet, so I plugged in at my desk and downloaded that using Mint's driver manager. Unfortunately it wasn't signed, so I had to turn off secure boot for it to load. After that the printer didn't work. Mint thought it found a driverless printer on the network, but that was a lie. Installing the drivers using a script off Brother's support page worked wonders. Then it broke when I installed the VPN because it broke network discovery. Not a problem, just a config setting away. Last I loaded Brave onto it, and imported all her passwords and bookmarks.
Near as I can tell, after she opens a browser she can't tell the difference. I haven't heard any more complaints about her laptop being slow so far. Finger's crossed I won't be shelling out a grand for a new laptop any time soon.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
If I were to speculate, I'd say that any mass coordination across disparate elements of society, without any authority dictating it, has all the hallmarks of the invisible hand.
I mean, or a visible hand, if you just look.
Third Way circulates ‘blacklist’ of terms Democrats shouldn’t use
Third Way, a prominent center-left think tank, is aiming to shape the way Democrats speak to voters as they try to counter President Trump’s agenda, including avoiding words such as “birthing person,” “cisgender,” “the unhoused” and “Latinx.”
“In reality, most Democrats do not run or govern on wildly out-of-touch social positions,” the group alleged in a new memo identifying dozens of phrases that Democrats should avoid. “But voters would be excused to believe we do because of the words that come out of our mouths — words which sound like we are hiding behind unfamiliar phrases to mask extreme intent.”
Yes, there are literally memos publicly available about this.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
I'm trying not to buy games anymore unless I'm going to play them right fucking now. The shelf of shame is just too weighty.
Currently my spare time is heavily invested in Mechwarrior 5 and it's new DLC.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
I vaguely remember that movie! I think I enjoyed it. I remember I loved Nick Cage in it, and somehow his trademark over performance seemed perfectly suited for his role in the film. Maybe I should give it another spin.
Have you ever seen Shoot Em Up? It's fantastic. Has some of the worst written dialog you'll ever hear, and two award winning actors chewing the scenery and giving that terrible dialog all they possibly can. Also does a great job of constantly escalating the action to increasingly outlandish and cartoonish places. It's a delight to see what absurdity they come up with next.
It was probably my favorite action flick up until I saw John Wick, and even then I should probably rewatch them both to really help me decide their ranking.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
That's too bad. I keep seeing these memes going around that all the remaining mainstream review sites that nobody has any respect for (IGN, PCGamer, etc) hated it. But I can't see that they've reviewed it at all, because there are no review copies. I'll probably grab it on Switch 2 at some point, unless community consensus decides that it's a completely bomb.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
7d ago
He’s getting away with it, and that’s not a good thing.
I mean, I know this just falls under "Everything that might be considered an overreach is justified by his supporters because at one point, a Democrat did something similar." but... uncritically yes? Like why does this just fall under immediate dismissal? Some sort of throw away line said with a sneer to dismiss the argument just 'cause?
Why shouldn't Red Tribers finally rejoice that one of their guys is finally just doing things like mass deportations, fighting crime and pulling school funding, in the way Democrat's "just did" lockdowns, and vaccine mandates, and eviction moratoriums, and trans kids in schools? Why should they care about the naked corruption when for my entire adult life the corruption was already pretty out there and naked? Did Trump rip off the last fig leaf? Maybe, but it was a pretty damned wilted and decayed fig leaf already. Also I'll gladly take a hospitality industrial complex over a military industrial complex any day.
And I mean... the cherry on top is Trump is a New York City Democrat. He literally learned all this from playing with the other team for 60 years. He just lost the protection of the respectability cartel which covers for that side relentlessly. Your sneering "a Democrat did something similar" is our lived "Democrats have done this to us for our entire lives, my business was bankrupted, I've been ethnically cleansed from my home town, and now my kid wants to get sterilized because of what they were taught in school."
You have it lodged in your brain that there were rules, but when "Democrats did something similar" it didn't count. It all counts, and now there are no rules.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
7d ago
I mean, yes, but also, you can fight it. I switched to Linux at the beginning the year in anticipation of Windows 10 hitting end of support, and it's been fantastic. AI features aren't constantly being shoved down my throat, it's not constantly defaulting to cloud storage, ads are constantly appearing on every UI surface. Most applications have a perfectly fine Linux version or equivalent. Those that don't usually run in Proton or Bottles. And for the few that can't do that either, I can run Windows in a VM easily enough when I absolutely have to.
It's not all upside. There is currently a bug in the Nvidia drivers causing a pretty sizable DX12 performance penalty in many games. And a lot of their Nvidia App features don't have any Linux equivalent. And it's a pain in the ass to get gsync working. But these problems are on the margins compared to the annoyances of windows that were increasingly part of the core experience.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
7d ago
Naw, if we're just making up who's to blame, lets go with the Jews. They're used to it.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
7d ago
Stallman is a controversial figure for a bunch of reasons
Only for being too correct. The baseless character assassination he suffered was purely to sideline him so that Google and Microsoft could get the foundation he formerly headed to be more "reasonable" and/or diminish their influence in total.
So I think I last posted about my chairs in depth 2 months ago?
The last 2 months were the most tedious, least exciting part of the project. Sanding. Also a heat wave to kept me out of my shop for a nearly a month. And then my wife wanted me to make some shelves since I was taking a break from my chairs anyways. I had 68 individual parts to sand though a progression of three different grits, many of which were small or narrow enough that I didn't trust my orbital sander to not just round the whole damn thing over and ruin the edge profiles. So lots and lots of hand sanding.
I'm actually still in the middle of shellacing, waxing and assembling them. But I rushed ahead on my wife's advice to get one chair done to keep me motivated. The dry fit went fantastic, so onto the clamps. So many clamps. I didn't exactly trust my joinery to be perfect without some assistance, so I put my 24 kg kettlebell on top to motivate the legs to make full contact with the floor while the glue was drying. It's been a trick that has worked well in the past with shop furniture for my heavier tools. A piece of plywood to protect the finished seat seemed prudent though.
24 hours later, out of the clamps, and I attach the seat more permanently with some hardware that slots into a seam I cut out of the front and back skirt pieces. This allows for some wood movement in the large seat panels. All in all, I couldn't be happier with the final result, although the clamps did slightly mar the finish.
I had adjusted the dimensions from the initial plans I found to more closely match other chairs I had in my house already. This chair making guide helped with the dimensions a lot too. The original plans had it several inches larger in almost every dimension. It was just excessive, and intuitively seemed uncomfortable as hell. This is a perfect fit, and in fact is far more comfortable at the table I built than the folding chairs I was using. My elbows feel like they are at a more natural height, and the back being straighter makes it easier to sit up straight and reach across the table, versus the slouch other chairs have given me at it. A very happy accident, as I was I afraid I hadn't given the chairs enough backward tilt to be comfortable.
I have 27 more pieces to go with finishing, and 3 more chairs to glue up. It's a risky trade off finishing the pieces before assembly. But I've found it to be worth it, since my glue ups are always a messy disaster, and trying to finish the work afterwards always shows huge blotches in the finish where the glue got away from me and refused to sand out or wipe off cleanly. In fact, on the chair I did glue up, I used way too much accidentally and it squelched out of all the mortises and dripped absolutely fucking everywhere. Thankfully because the work was already completely waxed, it wiped off easily, and what didn't wipe off flaked off when it dried. That said, I think on the next chairs I won't leave it in clamps as long, and hopefully that spares the finish some of the damage it took. This chair was actually made using all the jankiest most warped pieces, and it needed to stay in clamps for the full 24 hours so that it didn't pry itself apart. All the other chairs fit together much more naturally so I can probably take them out of clamps after only an hour.
Also, my daughter keeps talking about how I'm the best carpenter she's ever met. My pointing out that I'm the only carpenter she's ever met doesn't dent her enthusiasm one iota. It's very cute. She likes to show off to her friends everything around the house I've made.
So now that I'm a chairmaker, if anyone has any political enemies they need taking care of, I suppose I'm open for business. You supply the next of kin though.
Is it remotely possible they don't understand the character is being an asshole? And they are just depicting how mean they think people are to the lady for living her "authentic self"?
I first noticed this with that Cat Person short story. Taken on it's own, Cat Person seemed vaguely aware of the all the grey areas in trying to date when it was written? Then the lady goes and does this interview moralizing about how the woman in the story was clearly the victim and the man was clearly wrong. And I'm sitting here thinking "Oh.... this lady basically just accidentally admitted how awful she is". The kinda passive in a shitty way female character in Cat Person is her, and that's literally how some dude reacted to her being so passive aggressive, and she doesn't understand what she did wrong at all. She just wrote down what literally happened thinking nobody could possibly find fault with it. And then I think at some point this was more or less proven true when the guy from the story got doxed?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
12d ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q78-bm6eHLw
Launch Trailer for the new Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries DLC. Fucking Clan Invasion! I've been wanting this for almost 30 years since Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries covered the same ground in an increasingly jank and crash prone engine. Also that fucking bullshit mission where you had to escape clan imprisonment in a hovercraft.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14d ago
I'd almost guess some sort of early onset dementia?
You think you hate TMZ enough, but you don't.
The office at TMZ can be heard loudly clapping and cheering live when the news that Charlie Kirk has died comes through
I'm allowed to say you should hate those people right? That's specific enough? With enough evidence? You can hate the people at TMZ you can hear loudly clapping and cheering the death of a husband, father and Christian? It's not more heat than light to make sure people know that's what TMZ is? That every time you see an article at TMZ, it's important to remember they would cheer your death.
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