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I agree with you, but I gotta ask:  Who do you see as the most effective kernel of resistance?

mutual aid, localism, taking care of your neighbors and building in person connections.  That absolutely can include local politicians, but anyone above a municipal or county level is too big to be worth considering.

So, "hunkering down and hoping you're not a target."

Has the term "resistance" undergone this much semantic drift?  Not that surviving isn't a reasonable goal to have, mais ce n'est pas la résistance.

If your resistance doesn't include molotov cocktails, industrial sabotage, and the occasional drive-by egging, I think you're Doing it Wrong.

It's been eight years since Trump was elected the first time, and nothing anyone said or did in that interval stopped him from getting a second turn.  But I guess you all just weren't pointing out the issues with his presidency hard enough.  So let's all band together and talk about everything Trump is doing wrong, and how the people who voted for him were mistaken.  That'll stop him.

Resist all you like, nobody will care.

The avalanche has already started.  It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
    --Kosh

Sally:  "Is that legal?"

Me:  "The first time.  I checked, and there is no specific treaty or legal regulation banning glass as a weapon."

I think there's the making of a good marketing slogan in there.

"It's legal...the first time."

"Deploy our weapons platforms, and you'll be the reason they need to rewrite the rules of war."

Now me, I am all for abortion on demand. Tbh with you, there's a damn fine case to be made for it being compulsory for a lot of folk.

Your fascist tendencies are showing.

Compulsory abortion, like forced sterilization, belongs under the umbrella of eugenics.  Prohibiting abortions for those belonging to the superior breed of human is morally indistinguishable from mandating abortions for those you've decided are inferior.

I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you subscribe to the notion that criminality is inherited.

And retroactive in other cases.

Anyway back to my salient point because your inability to recognise low farce is frankly quite dull.

I didn't get the impression that your endorsement of eugenics constitutes low farce, and that is the only subject on which I've engaged with you.  Frankly, I'm not terribly interested in your "salient point".

Maybe just maybe it is possible that the Tangerine Titwanker didn't win because suddenly after a couple of hundred years of the democracy thing 70 million NeoNazis registered to vote. Maybe the other candidate was just significantly shit.

You sound like you're trying to rebut something I said, but I have not expressed any opinions regarding the cause of the election outcome.

Now stretch yourself a bit here Dok Whiney and see if you can't comprehend what this bit of satire is communicating.

Now the cause of your apparent non-sequiturs becomes clear.  I'm not Dok.  Maybe you replying to the wrong post?  Or you're confused about who is who?


Replying to the wrong post while not addressing its content doesn't seem like a winning strategy.

Nope.  We're doomed.

It is against my religion to tell people they're going to be okay when they're fucked.

The moving finger writes,
And having writ, moves on.
Now we are all sons of bitches.

Sound off nerds, who's not dead yet?

I am alive, but only on the outside.  There is no inside, and never was.

Now me, I am all for abortion on demand. Tbh with you, there's a damn fine case to be made for it being compulsory for a lot of folk.

Your fascist tendencies are showing.

Compulsory abortion, like forced sterilization, belongs under the umbrella of eugenics.  Prohibiting abortions for those belonging to the superior breed of human is morally indistinguishable from mandating abortions for those you've decided are inferior.

I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you subscribe to the notion that criminality is inherited.

I'm not surprised, but I am horrified.

That is not the light at the end of the tunnel.

No, that's just daylight reflecting off the company president's buttocks, as he moons us while he prances off to exercise his stock options.

Sally:  "Seriously.  Also, I don't think this CAN be weaponized."

Oh, she is adorable.

I hadn't heard the term before yesterday, but evidently "sun-wheel" is a reference to the swastika, and it's a nazi dog-whistle.

I've been watching cryptocurrency for the last couple years, doing a bit of research, and I've frankly fallen in love with it.

But time rolled on, and after a while hanging out with various crypto-currency-skeptic communities, I finally became tired of it.  I'd learned what I could, and crucified my share of True Believers, but I wasn't having a good time anymore.  The pattern was just repeating with minor variations.

And then I disconnected from those skeptic groups, and cryptocurrency abruptly vanished from my radar.  Unexpectedly, it had far less of a share of the public consciousness than even I believed.  Months go by without encountering even a mention of it.  I have no idea if bitcoin's price is $10, or $10 million.  It doesn't matter.

First I ignore you, then I laugh at you, then you lose, and I go back to ignoring you again.

An adaptation of "Between the Sheets".


1 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. brandy (St. Remy VSOP)
1/2 oz. dark rum (Gosling's Black Seal)
1/2 oz. Dry Curaçao
1/4 oz. fresh lemon juice

Stir with ice cubes and strain.

Woo!  I love these threads.

In my guise as "unknown new guy" I suggested doing an autopsy on the Hentai Death Machine.  I was shouted down, and over the next two days, they slew two more manikins.

Their debug culture definitely needs improvement.  "Take it apart and see if anything looks wrong" should have been their first reaction.  Well, maybe second, after "check the cables".

This wildfire season, I got myself an outdoor air quality sensor.  For smoke wafting from 100s of km away, the most interesting metric is PM2.5 (particulate matter under 2.5 micrometers in diameter).

As you'd expect, when the air is blue, and everyone's coughing and their eyes are burning, the reported PM2.5 is pretty high (100+ µg/m³).  And when the PM2.5 is down to 3 or 4 µg/m³, the air is very clear.

But then one's expectations fall apart.  Humidity doesn't actually improve the air quality--it just ameliorates the worst of the symptoms.  Rain generally doesn't settle the particulate matter out of the air.  And, horrifyingly, there's a wide range of unhealthy values that are not detectable to humans.

The WHO's guidelines are that the concentration should not exceed 5 on a yearly average, and shouldn't exceed a daily average of 15 for more than a few days a year.

Outside, right now, the air seems fresh and clear....and the sensor is reporting 29 µg/m³.  The air I breathe is shortening my life, and I can't do a damn thing about it.