WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9d ago
You know, I think people really undersell how much stepping on a dirty rusty nail sticking out of a board in the woods sucks.
First there is the moment of panic after the first moments of pain. You just pray what you felt was "pressure" as Dentist might say, and that the skin isn't broken. You rip off your shoe and sock and your heart sinks into your colon when you see blood. Actually kind of a lot of blood.
So off to the ER for a tetatnus booster and antibiotics to fight the infection you are 100% going to get. ER doesn't want to at first because some illegal probably used your social and the system thinks you got like 8 different shots, including a tetanus booster back in April. They acquiesce, but it's fucking weird. Waste a whole ass Sunday you had to catch up on the honey-do list that grows and embitters faster than you can keep up.
You don't sleep at all because the infection is setting in and throbbing all night long. Monday afternoon all your toes are swollen and red. You are two doses into your antibiotic course. Apparently you give it 48 to 72 hours to see how it goes.
And that's the story so far. Really do not recommend it.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
That reminds me of when I was reading Alice in Wonderland to my daughter. When I got to the end, and Alice woke up and it was all a dream, it blew her damned mind right out of her skull and through the milky way. She'd never encountered a since "and it was all dream" story before, so I'm glad Alice in Wonderland got to be her first. She talked about that "twist" for days on end.
That said, unlike almost every other book I've read to her, she never asked for it again. I think something about none of it being "real" took the stakes out of the story and ruined it for her.
That said I've opined for ages that there is nothing truly challenging in kid's movies anymore. Something that will give them some well deserved nightmares to work through. Like pink elephants on parade, or children being turned into donkeys, or Willy Wonka's magic tunnel through HELL, or the first 10 minutes of Transformers: The Movie where they kill literally every character you got attached to over about 100 syndicated episodes you'd watched in repeat since before you were making memories.
Man I'm dating myself with these references.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
19d ago
I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of Tom & Don's filler videos have their scripts heavily written by AI. But they also frequently go off script laughing at how retarded the script is, so I can't exactly hold it against them. The script just serves as the launch point for them to start clowning on whatever the script is talking about.
Also, Space King 5 at the end of the month, praise be.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
24d ago
Why didn't Candace Owens just join the Left?
Her incomprehensible Gamergate origin story was that she had developed a service that would unmask sock puppet accounts, to fight harassment. Then Zoe Quinn anonymously contacted her, threatening her if she went forward with it. And this cemented in her world view that leftist were pro-harassment.
Even then she was obviously a retarded liar. There were no details as to how this sock puppet unmasking service worked, not even a whiff of a hint that she was remotely capable of creating such a service, or even outsourcing it to people who were. The utility of such a revolutionary technology has not diminished in the least, and yet it has still yet to materialize from her now that her grift has moved so far past anyone even remembering her fantastical origin story.
And yet, somehow, she has still managed to embed herself in the ecosystem of online right discourse. Frankly it's astonishing. She's like some sort of meat LLM that has gradually learned what mouth sounds to make to secure infinite attention, with little understanding of what any of those mouth sounds really mean.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
24d ago
The line between retarded and crazy is thin. But the point I'm trying to make is still that Candace Owens had to actually hone her craft as a professional liar in the open marketplace of ideas lies. She had to develop soft skills, coping mechanisms, how to navigate the ecosystem and network. How many times has Owens been caught peddling bullshit? How many times has she lost her patron and had to find a new audience? I think she might be the singular personality from the Gamergate era that is still keeping up a grift. It's honestly astounding, and speaks to a reserve of grit and work ethic that is rather impressive, being a crazy/retarded liar aside.
Compared to Ardey who never failed in his life, no matter how outlandish his lies were, because he was being kept as a pet by his betters. Then suddenly he encountered the real world despite their best efforts, and the shock was too much for him. It was cruel to gas up a retard that much.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
25d ago
Man, affirmative action for professional liars is a real bitch isn't it? Normally professional liars have to build up resilience. They have to grow thicker skin, develop substance abuse problems to cope with the shame, get better at gaslighting, or do some good old fashioned mean girl networking. And when all else fails, shit, this wasn't their first time around the block. They lay low for a few years, and come back a better liar than ever. Maybe throw a good ol' heel turn in there for the other tribe, pull in some people who aren't familiar with their bullshit yet. I mean Candace Owens is clearly a retarded liar, and she manages well enough.
It's gotta be tough on a retarded liar who actually thought all his lies were working his entire life. Who never had to actually get good at lying, or received the sort of feedback other liars get about how to get better at lying, or what to do when your lies fail.
Truly a tragedy.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
25d ago
I don't know why you'd assume that after all the other fantastical lies the press repeated about him uncritically and without any evidence. Why would they start fact checking now?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
26d ago
It just shows how little grit younger generations have. An experienced boomer, gen-x or even elder millennial grifter would have white knuckled it through, and just reinvented themselves in a new grift a few years later.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
26d ago
No children, loved ones or friends? Sounds like the exact demographic that gets euthanized because of depression long before their health starts to irreversibly decline.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
26d ago
I find myself lacking the vocabulary to describe my growing sense of unease
The word you are looking for is "evil", and I to struggled to put into words what I saw happening in the world around me, or develop any sort of causal explanation, until I reached for that word. There is a reason there has been a generational project by progressives in education to put that word out of your cognitive reach. You should take it back, and use it often and proud. Because evil is real, and that's exactly where your "unease" is coming from.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
28d ago
The fact that even the left-wing of the Democratic Party is campaigning on health care, tax policy, and Palestine instead of racial humiliation is a big deal.
This is called lying, not winning. The Democratic Party is lying. Rest assured, when they win, all that's really going to happen is more racial humiliation. It's quite literally the only thing they are capable of. Even if they wanted to something else, they can't. I doubt they really want to.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
28d ago
I've continued noodling around in my side project. Improved execution time of a unit of work down to about 1/8th what it was. I experimented with an OpenGL synchronization context that I can fire off tasks too for GPU work, but there was too much overhead somewhere for it to be an improvement. LLM summaries pointed the finger at poor resource management in the context, and the overhead of creating new rendering targets, marshaling the resulting data back from the GPU to the CPU, marshaling that data out of the thread, etc, etc. I'm not interfacing directly with OpenGL though, I'm using a SkiaSharp canvas, so there is probably ample room for improvement there if I wrote my own shader and really did all my own GPU work.
I mean, fundamentally, a vote for AfD is a vote to not genocide yourself if you are German. You have infinite 3rd world migrants, social dysfunction and degrowth policies on one hand... and human flourishing on the other. And the problem with being a suicide cult, is there will always be fewer and fewer members as time goes on, where as if you believe in growth and human flourishing, you will have more and more members over time. Assuming the suicide cult doesn't steal and brainwash your children into degrowth, and/or hand the country over to the 3rd world in a spiteful effort to deny the co-ethnics that refused to join their suicide cult a future.
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