jkf
11hr ago
Yeah like said they don't exactly give you that "look at me the fine craftsman" feeling -- but in practice I've never had an issue, and the speed and precision are hard to beat.
The people who say things like "biscuits don't add strength" also say things like "a good glue joint is stronger than the wood" so I've just run with biscuits for any number of things and haven't really seen a downside.
IDK man, the joke about the Jew reading Der Sturmer to lift his spirits in 1939 translates pretty much word for word into a dude reading The Atlantic or something in 2023 -- regardless of the truth value, the next steps seem like a valid thing to worry about? I mean, if Hitler had been correct about an overarching Jewish conspiracy, I'd still be pretty concerned if I were a German Jew?
(Another similarity between Nazi Race Theory and Critical Gender Theory is of course the extent to which they are self-refuting -- if the Jews/Patriarchy are actually secretly controlling Germany/the workplace, then how come all these Nazis/girlbosses are running the place?)
jkf
1d ago
That's... kind of not true in this case. Building inspectors do have four inch spheres (usually more of a cone) that they will try to push through deck/stair pickets if they have concerns; the amount of force that they are to use for this is underspecified (comes up with cable railings a lot), but I'd think that that well-fastened chicken wire (usually hexagonal; you are maybe thinking of page wire?) would utterly defeat such an inspector even if he tried to literally throw himself out the window.
Not sure that making your house look like a chicken coop is the Chad solution here though -- "fuck you, make me" is much better, as I describe above.
jkf
2d ago
the thought process that lets one realize that seatbelts don't actually do anything if you don't crash your car is also what allows people to realize that you can sell cocaine and get rich as long as you dont get busted.
Yes!
Granted becoming a cocaine dealer is beyond my (current) risk tolerance, but if you are struggling to develop a sense of agency in the face of increasingly totalitarian bureaucracy, it would certainly help!
jkf
2d ago
"Competent and dangerous dude takes a heel turn" is a pretty well established (if not exactly common) trope though -- see, um -- Magneto, off the top of my head?
With women, I don't think I've seen it.
jkf
2d ago
suck it up and route rabbet joints.
A biscuit jointer is... kind of uncool, but "strong enough, perfect alignment" is sort of the whole deal with 'em -- very fast to assemble, you still need clamps and dry time though.
jkf
2d ago
Building up one character as an Overpowered prodigy to then have her flip to the bad side is a great way to raise stakes.
"Mary-Sue but evil" does sound fun -- I can't think of it having been done, in fact?
jkf
2d ago
Still missing the point -- the idea here is to build some risk tolerance, and notice that many of the things that a giant propaganda machine has been blaring are way too dangerous since the day you were born -- are not.
The responses here are a great example; you'd think I was suggesting BASE jumping every weekend or something.
The agency you are taking is not strictly contrarianism; it's also that you are taking responsibility for your own actions in the car. Making it clear (to yourself) that your life is in your own hands. Bird on a wire stuff.
It is anyways, we are all fragile and hanging by a thread -- making that apparent to oneself has intrinsic value. Like I said, there are other things you could do that would work -- but the options that are strictly safer than taking your seatbelt off and going for a drive are probably much fewer than you think.
jkf
2d ago
What are the benefits of not wearing a seatbelt while you're sitting in a car anyway?
You feel a bit free, take some agency -- maybe notice that being slightly safer is not the be-all or end-all. Like I said, the exact thing that you do is not very important -- although if your risk tolerance doesn't extend to not wearing a seatbelt sometimes, you are probably going to struggle with alternatives.
When was the last time you crashed your car? On average you can go like half a million miles without your seatbelt becoming relevant -- quite a bit more if you aren't also drinking or whatnot. Consider how your opinion has been formed, and whether this is truly too risky for you -- it will give you the tools to evaluate other risks in your life.
jkf
2d ago
Don't worry about the specifics -- just find something that you can choose to do that safety-fuckers won't like.
It will probably end up being at least as dangerous as seatbelt miscreantism, but I guess those commercials were really effective given the nerve touched by the very idea of it; people who ride motorcycles are no longer (on the whole) any kind of rebel, but that is way more (statistically) dangerous than unbelted automobile operation.
Think of something for yourself; that's largely the point.
Tearing the bullshit out of your windows would be a good start.
jkf
2d ago
Of all the hills of masculinity, this is by far the stupidest to (literally) die on. Literally all downside, zero upside.
...
One day you may go flying through your windshield and paint yourself across the ground like a meat crayon.
I don't think you could have missed the point any harder -- the problem that teleo has noted boils down to lack of agency; to counteract this, you need to take some.
If you think that car accidents 'just happen', you are experiencing the downstream consequences of the widespread promotion of this (terrible) feeling -- you will probably struggle with countermanding it no matter what if 'speeding' or 'not wearing a seatbelt' carry too much risk for you. (start slow, try one at a time!)
Possibly you are too habituated to care, but if not I guess you could chip away at it --
Helmetless bike riding?
Midnight playground maintenance?
IDK, find something man.
jkf
3d ago
That would be very bad -- 'solar noon occurs at 12:00 somewhere in the vicinity of the middle of each time zone' (with maybe the odd carve out for quirky borders or whatever) is the only thing that makes any sense at all.
somehow Russians (and most of the world) decided that the issue was related to parental negligence or indifference, rather than the design of the windows.
With Russia in particular it's probably the de-fenestration industry conspiracy...
Anyways, you have noticed an important thing -- freedom's not free.
Humans do poorly in captivity -- live free or die. Fuck those cocksuckers and their safe shit -- pull off your helmet, let your hair blow in the wind.
Speed. Unbuckle.
People will give you dirty looks; you will get the odd ticket -- maybe even be sued.
Trust me it's worth it. (although less and less likely as state capacity declines -- in the Interior, the cops mostly can't even be bothered to do speed traps or DUI checkpoints anymore. I used to get way more speeding tickets -- it was still worth it)
You will never be a woman (in a Russian Bounce commercial) -- why not be a man instead.
jkf
3d ago
So to summarize. What takes, in a time of global crisis, maybe a month or two for a genetic vaccine platform like mRNA would easily be 3-4x trying a protein antigen based approach.
This sounds nice in theory, but the facts on the ground were that both China and Russia were able to produce pretty decent classical antigen vaccines that were available at least by the time mandates etc. came into play -- and yet Western countries (by and large) would not accept people having had these as "vaccinated" for legal purposes.
I think following the money trail on mRNA development would be a more productive way of identifying any conspiracy/prospiracy that might be going on then "5G microchip bioweapon" stuff -- although a truly advanced conspiracy of the former would surely have introduced some strawman alternative to make its opponents look dumb if it didn't emerge organically, so who knows?
jkf
3d ago
Reddit admins let us know we couldn't debate trans stuff?
Not so much that (although it seemed like would be only a matter of time), but individuals were catching site-wide bans for the triple-brackets (as mentioned below) but also trans stuff -- I seem to remember getting a three day one for something trivial-ish around trans stuff.
What I suspect was happening is bad/motivated actors hanging around using the "report to admins" (as opposed to moderation team) function directly -- which at best would go to some blue-hair for evaluation, or at worst an auto-filter catching things like triple brackets.
jkf
3d ago
In neurotypical, this means "I want to talk to you and I am using the book as an icebreaker" (I don't know why they can't just say that, though).
I figured this out by the time I was about 6, but "he wants to talk to me" != "I want to talk to him" -- IME supposedly neurotypical people are surprisingly bad at internalizing this...
They will eventually go away if you show you are more interested in the book than in talking back.
You'd think that my stock answer (followed by going back to my book, with maybe a penetrating stare thrown in) would be a strong hint, but people can be pretty persistent.
jkf
3d ago
Yeah I'm kind of the same way, and I think it's mostly this -- for example, and interaction that started ~as soon as I learned to read and more or less persists to this day:
Annoying person: "Whatcha reading?"
Me, looking at them over the top of a book (which has an obvious title on the cover): "A book."
No.
I already told you - put the liner back in and sell them; put the funds towards a (properly sized) pair of these:
https://www.baffin.com/products/3pinm002?variant=8572562702387
Or similar; I think Alfa makes something like them? Either way, you don't need to test them because people have already tested them extensively in actual arctic conditions.
Even putting insulation and sizing aside, tech bindings are quite a bad choice for the trip you are proposing.
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