WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8hr ago
Yes, the left traded a pawn for a knight or a bishop. Maybe even a queen. They don't seem too upset about that trade, and in the meantime they are winning elections, and their base is crying out for more political murders.
"Oh" you might say "But after Charlie Kirk was killed, thousands of chapters of Turning Point USA were founded!"
First, we'll see how that pans out, and second, the left decided they can murder those too.
Meanwhile almost every single popular conservative is afraid to appear in public because the left will murder them. The right has almost zero ground game because the left will murder them if they do.
It's a winning strategy, and I think we need more of it. Making journalist, judges, legislators and administrators fear for their life in public is a proven strategy.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10hr ago
You're not wrong, but what use is it to have a bunch of radicalized red tribers if there is no plan for them to fight back?
There was no plan, and Charlie Kirk is still dead, the power he wielded in life shattered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds.
You can make a pretty big impact without a "plan".
Look up Jay Jones again.
You are point of fact wrong on every point.
Let me put that another way. Ten years ago everyone knew white males were being discriminated against. Say it then and people like you would accuse me of "giving into hate and losing the normies". Now that it's fait accompli, all the institutions have been lost, white family formation is in the toilet, and our country is lost, people are coming out of the woodwork admitting "Yeah, we did that shit". Articles like the above are allowed to be published. But it's too late, there is no reversing it.
And I'm sure in 10 years time, there will be another slate of late admissions "Yeah, we did permit the ethnic cleansing of white people. Oh well!". And when the actions required to make the survivors whole are proposed, people like you will once again wring their hands going "Woah, woah, that's too scary, you'll lose the normies!"
The normies need to be radicalized. And attempts must be made 24/7 to see that they are brought on board with saving themselves. If you are afraid of losing them, you are failing in your moral duty to save them.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
15hr ago
Since I did not finish my bookshelves before sub freezing temperatures set in, and I have an abundance of time on my hands, I'm working on a game again. Dusted off all my old C/SDL code, and made many of the UI elements more generic. Grabbed a bunch of UI and terrain artwork off opengameart.org and have set to work.
I keep around an old perlin noise library written in C, so I used to that create a 2-wang terrain map. I'm keeping it relatively simple, with each environment only having three types of terrain, a "high", "medium" and "low". I skim the perlin noise for the low terrain first, and then in a second pass skim it for the high terrain, making sure there is a buffer of medium terrain between the two at all times. 2-Wanging your terrain only really works between two different tilesets, so you can't have a tile where the four corners contain all three terrain types.
Well, you can, but then you get into higher order wang combinatorics that I just don't give a fuck about.
Anyways, so far so good. Using a viewport in SDL works pretty well for ui containers, and rendering to a separate texture works pretty well for a subpanel you want to scroll. Working on adding some basic gameplay of placing down buildings, generating resources, etc. Long term goal is to have it be a sort of light space 4x game, with light factory based gameplay on each planet. Aliens you encounter will be more like environmental hazards to eliminate than peers to do diplomacy with.
I also got it cross compiling from Linux to Windows easy peasy. Building for Steam's Linux Runtime was pretty easy too. Never hurts to get those things sorted out early.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
17hr ago
very sad to see that so much of the dissident right is just pure vitriol.
There needs to be more vitriol. You can't just ask nicely not to be ethnically cleansed. The people you are up against have recently and openly learned they can just murder you, your children, and your representatives and suffer virtually no political consequences.
Vitriol is a start to what you need to do.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
4d ago
I can tell you what not to do, from experience. Don't become a functional alcoholic, and don't start sticking your dick in crazy. And oh, is crazy gonna be all over you. They can smell your vulnerability, and it excites them thinking of all the shit they'll put you through that they know you'll take in your fragile state.
I didn't have it at the time, but I've found church helpful dealing with stressors later in life. Funnily enough I remember walking past a church after my father died and thinking to myself "I never believed in it before, why start now?" But eventually life brought me even lower and I found great comfort in going to mass every Sunday.
Regular exercise also helped. Join a place with some community, like a martial arts school. Something with regular classes and a regular roster.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
I think you left out a 5th option, enemy action. What happens when a sociopath infiltrates the church, makes all the right mouth sounds, and uses their superior verbal intelligence to hoodwink the congregation into beliefs and actions antithetical to their core beliefs or interest?
I picked Bari Weiss for my example, because this is a woman with a singular interest. What's best for Israel and Jews. She's not shy about it at all. I mean if you put it like that to her, she'd deny it. But then she'd go on to prove the accusation correct with no possible alternative with every word and deed. She's thrown enough red meat to the right that now the left hates her, but that's only so she can lead and pace an increasingly Israel skeptical right wing back in the direction of backstopping Israel's well being at the expense of their own.
Some people seem to get an almost sexual glee out of rewriting reality in front of people's eyes. I think often of that scene in Batman Begins where Falcone is bragging that he could shoot Bruce Wayne in front of a hundred witnesses, including law enforcement, and everyone would ignore their lying eyes and parrot whatever he says happened. Alternately, if you've ever dated a woman with BPD, letting them gaslight you turns them on like almost nothing else. Not that I recommend it.
The problem with the Church is the same problem with Western Civilization at the moment. Christian Charity. They are so willfully blind to enemy action, cannibals could be harvesting their flesh and they'd try to come up with a plausible alternate explanation.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8d ago
I have breakfast around 9:30 or so, dinner at 5:00 most often, and lunch around 12:30 or 1:00.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8d ago
Sure. My goal is at least Sunday through Thursday sticking to an 8 hour eating window. I have a pretty hearty breakfast, a light lunch, and a large dinner, often with a protein shake if I've been working out. The protein shake seems to go the farthest in terms of nipping cravings in the bud, although starting out there really isn't any getting around them. Took a few weeks for my body to adapt to me not shoving carbs in my face every waking moment.
My goal is to only have one cheat day a week where I snack late or drink whiskey. Sometimes it turns into two. Occasionally three if it's just be an insanely stressful week and for whatever reason no other vice is available. Sometimes I really let myself go those nights, but I guess my body has adapted because now I'm not even slightly hungry until noon or later the next day when I pull a stunt like that.
As far as "without experiencing cravings", I mean, that's going to be subjective. I think IF enormously down regulates how intense and commanding those cravings can be. But I wouldn't say I'm 100% without them either. I think there is a significant biological component to that, but I'm no doctor and for all I know it's just habit and willpower.
But like I said, according to my last physical, my weight hasn't budged. Still about 210# on a 6' frame. But my bloodwork has enormously improved, my energy levels are more consistent, and I haven't lost muscle. Even hit some pretty nice personal bests.
Not sure what sort of specifics you are looking for. Feel free to ask.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9d ago
Sounds about right for one cart's worth.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
Why not?
The rest of the sentence
he's a serial fabulist
If Tim Walz told me water was wet, I'd stick my hand in to check. He needs more than "is believable" to sell me on anything he says.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
Truthfully I've written off public school. I moved to a deep red county, and even still the schools (teachers and students by proxy) are agitating to rename shit, raise awareness, and the other typical red flags that indicate they've forgotten "Your mission is teaching, stay in your lane." Local public libraries that schools take kids to in Trump +40 localities have chosen as their hill to die on keeping LGBTQ pornographic material available to children.
I know "brainwashes kids to be fake and gay" is technically a separate issue on paper from "teaches kids to read and do math wrong because fuck you". But IMHO, having taken my look around, teachers either adhere to all the old ways, or none of them. It's common core math, whole word learning and the gender unicorn on tablets, or it's phonics, times tables, repetition, God made man and woman, and no screens.
Had to do tours of a couple private schools, spoke to their teachers and administrators. Wife came out hard with her first question being "You don't do any woke LGBTQ shit do you?" Turned out the direct approach was in the fact the best approach, and so far so good.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
I think it is taking time for awareness of this fact to seep into public knowledge.
Well, that's largely because of this part
if the government is willing to devote the resources to catching you
It's just pure anarcho tyranny. We aren't as far gone as the UK where they are releasing foreign rape gangs to make room for people who got a little too mouthy criticizing foreign rape gangs. But it's inching there. Only enemies of the deep state get the full weight of the law and it's infinite spying capabilities thrown at them. Everyone else basically has to commit the crime in such a lazy manner in front of hundreds of witnesses who can identify them, and then a Soros DA might get pressured into lazily pressing charges and then cutting a probation only plea deal once it's out of the news.
Now, the obvious flaw in that narrative is this very arrest. Are the tools of the deep state finally getting yanked out of their hands by the current administration? Maybe. There is a story where deep state FBI agents were purposely fucking up the investigation, and Kash put a fresh team of loyalist on it who immediately solved the case with no new evidence. If that is happening, it's a process, not an event however. Anarcho Tyranny is not "solved" on the basis of a single prosecution, just like Cancel Culture wasn't cancelled on the basis of Jimmy Kimmel getting his show back. It's who/whom trench warfare and bureaucratic defense in depth until the point where the only solution is to drop the pretenses and start killing each other in the war we are obviously already in.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
How do you maintain your weight while doing this?
Easy! I probably still eat too much, and I'm in my 40's. I tend to have a giant breakfast, a light lunch (often leftovers) and then a giant dinner. If I've been working out that week, I have two scoops of protein powder also.
I don't think I've lost a pound doing this, which honestly is a little frustrating, but I haven't been counting calories, so I don't know what else I was expecting. Oh well.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
On the one hand, he's a serial fabulist and so this story is hard to believe.
On the other hand, I want to believe it so badly because it's hilarious.
This is the best timeline.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
No.
Then again, I learned the bulk of my math in the 90's. The focus was on endless repetition, to the point where it's practically muscle memory, and not a conscious process at all. This went for basic arithmetic, but also linear algebra, geometry, trigonometry (I'll never forget SOH-CAH-TOA). It applied far less to calculus because there was so much to cover, and far less repetition.
I remember in college I had a Chinese professor who'd had drilled into him how to mentally calculate square roots to 3 decimal places through relentless repetition. We were all amazed the first time we saw him do it, but he demurred heavily.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
This is fun, right?
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1996664263327338525
Tim Walz says people are driving by his house calling him ‘retarded.’
Actual quote
People driving by my house and using the 'R-Word' in front of people
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
There is always the possibility dude is still a patsy. He could have been induced into building the bombs by an FBI informant, and then he handed them off to the previously identified law enforcement lady in the vicinity who lazily planted them around the block. I haven't exhaustively gone over the evidence to see if this story is still a fit, but on a cursory read it doesn't seem impossible.
Not that I'm particularly attached to that theory either. Just saying, it's possible, maybe?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
Microcenter likes to register you as a customer. If he put his phone number into the system when he made his cash purchase, then the purchase would still be recorded under his account.
Yes, point reward systems are also part of the panopticon.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
12d ago
So I did a 24 hourish fast after Thanksgiving.
I've been doing interval eating, or intermittent fasting for about 2 years now. I try as best I can to get all my eating into a 6-8 hour window at least 5 days out of a week. Basically ever since my doctor looked at my a1c and saw I was just over the line of being prediabetic. Ever since I started the practice, my bloodwork has come back flawless, minus my stubborn LDL. Hopefully that's just from eating 4-6 eggs a day since my wife bought about 20 chickens in the spring. Cut my egg consumption in half. Fingers crossed.
Anyways, the 24 hour fast went pretty OK. I finished my last piece of pie around 6 PM on Thanksgiving day, and then managed to hold off until just after 5 PM the next day to gorge myself on Thanksgiving leftovers. It was a fascinating experience and barely difficult at all.
One thing I think I've realized with the IF is that my metabolism was fucked before. I'd just snack whenever I was a little bit hungry, cause why not I work out? And then I'd wake up in the morning absolutely ravenous and barely able to function until I'd slammed down 3 eggs, a bagel and some yogurt with a pot of black coffee for a chaser. And frankly my energy level throughout the day was bonkers, with that much talked about 2-3 PM slump. Since changing over to IF my energy level has been much more consistent, I don't really get hangry anymore, and my cravings have fallen off a cliff.
What got me thinking about all this is youtube suggested a random video about Ozempic, and it's basically describing many of the same positive side effects. So I'm sitting here thinking, is it really as simple as just not stuffing your fat face every waking moment? Are people so willpower depleted it requires a drug to stop eating?
I think I'm going to do more 24 hour fasts. Maybe once a month for now, and I'll probably go breakfast to breakfast instead of dinner to dinner. That way I can sleep through the worst of it. Or so I believe.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
12d ago
Sometimes I sincerely wonder if our education system was deliberately sabotaged. If some ancient soviet program to promote teaching precisely the wrong way took on a life of it's own in academia. The failures of modern pedagogy are stark and baffling, and no matter how bad it gets, somehow the pedagogues find a way to make it even worse. There hasn't been a single policy promoted by pedagogues I can think of in the last 40 years that has actually improved education. The singular exception seems to be the "Mississippi Miracle", which the expert class seems absolutely committed to explaining away as a fluke or trickery. Also cell phone bans seem to have helped, but those mostly only seem to occur due to a groundswell of popular support.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
15d ago
You know, I probably should have thought of Japan. Especially with how much right wing twitter is idolizing them these days.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
15d ago
I continually wonder how anywhere developed a high trust society in the first place. All I see, everywhere around me, is low trust behavior destroying all the traditions and institutions that made high trust Europe great. I can scarcely imagine how the opposite process could have ever occurred. I'm not aware of anywhere else in the world it even exists. I'm not aware of any other historical cultures one would describe as "high trust". Which is not to say there aren't any, I am just literally professing my ignorance. The existence of high trust societies has become something of a mystery to me, in light of everything I see around me.
It's increasingly difficult for me to even lay out in objective terms what I would define as a "high trust" society. Maybe a measure of how much state capacity bleeds off to corruption? Maybe the likelihood that any good or service you try to procure isn't fraudulent? The chance that any given person you meet isn't lying about who they are and what their capabilities are? An understanding of natural rights that are pro-social? Like respect for private or public property, or other people's time and effort.
But maybe that's a result of having grown up in a post-Demoralized society. You read about the billions of dollars of welfare fraud the Somali community has been doing in plain sight, and Tim Walz's administrations utter spinelessness and/or complicitness in it, and it's hard to see anything other than a civilization that has decided stopping crime is too mean. That taking any measures, no matter how one inarguably just, to secure it's continued existence, is just too cruel.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
So I finished A Fighting Man of Mars. While I found The Master Mind of Mars rote, boring and tedius in the extreme, A Fighting Man of Mars could easily be my favorite Barsoom novel, and actually a pretty damn good pulp scifi novel period. This one really goes places: Courtship and intrigue in the palaces of Helium, survival against the green hoards of the ancient seabeds, imprisonment in a far off city suspicious of outsiders, escaping ferocious ancient beast, encountering a psychopath, encountering a mad scientist, capturing a borderline magical flier, rescuing and losing the love interest several times a chapter, falling out of love with the bitch, the main character falling in love (predictably) with someone far more worthy. I know that's a run on sentence, but you have to understand I could have summarized the last novel in like 10 words. Really enjoyed that one. I would actually recommend it.
I wouldn't get too cocky about this being a "new meta" that's available to everyone. The right thought the new meta was to just occupy spaces, violently if need be to get their way because that seemed to work all summer long in 2020. But it turned out that was only allowed because it's what the powers that be wanted all along, and when they tried it the government pulled out every stop to throw them in solitary confinement with a side of struggle cuddles.
Yeah, it sure seems like "people", really Democrats, in Democrat controlled areas, can just murder "people", really conservatives, and just walk away no problem. But I promise you, it is not a generalized strategy. It only seems to work this way because Democrats allow it. And the moment, like January 6, the right attempts to use a strategy of the left, the full force of the police state we all thought was atrophied and neglectful will come down on them like something out of a movie. And suddenly all the people who claimed I wasn't being charitable enough, that Democrats aren't purposely allowing this, will turn on a dime and claim "Duh, what are you stupid?", just like they did after Jan 6th.
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