KoboldKomrade [he/him]

Judges always act like little fascists. They even have their own bs “contempt of court” shit they can throw at someone, while they act like contemptable dogs.

In Soviet North Cuba, after attempting annex other islands, the dictator would have the unilateral power to announce tariffs and other sanctions. This shows how weak and ineffective their “democraticly elected congress” was and is.

1. too spanish (woke)
2. and become the Virgin president?
3. too tiny (woke)
4. reminds me of samoa joe, which reminds me of sleepy joe, no go.
5. sounds too italian, mama mia, next you’ll be saying we should allow them to join our Beautiful Union

Name close to the mafia, can’t make this shit up.

Had a gun on him. Probably ILLEGAL HARD CORE drugs too.

Should be a ban on ads in general. We get one life, I don’t care about your shitty product.

One thing that struck me was the actual numbers of WWII.

People glaze the German war machine for being peak efficiency, but if you look at the numbers, they were never ahead of their enemies. They were producing tanks (per year) on the order of ~1k. England and France had similar numbers. America had similar numbers, until it joined and the numbers went to ~10k. (Can’t recall where the USSR was, I think 1-2k early up to 5k around the end?)

Germany was dead in the water as soon as they lashed out against materially more powerful states. They could not sustain an existential war, which they needed to because at the point they were, no one was going to accept a conditional surrender.

My point being: During the time the Nazis looked more lively, they were a material zombie. Their entire existence could be described as death throes. A nation-state lashing out hoping it somehow undies enough to exist beyond a decade.

Since unification in the late 1800s, Germany knew this was happening too. They had “lost” the colonial game by being late. Austria and the Ottomans were decaying corpses of empires. Russia was looked at as a slow old fashioned monster likely to collapse itself (ironically they didn’t expect them to fight as well as they did during WWI, reminding me of now). If they didn’t try to defeat France at minimum, they (Germany) were at risk of becoming another colony, or maybe “just” a second rate nation. They had to break out of the material deficit they were in if they wanted to be a world player.

America has done the unthinkable in the past 40ish years and given up their incredible lead and now is panicking that others are catching up (and that its costing them at home). If America doesn’t fix the problem of everything being made in China/Taiwan/India/etc/etc/etc, then yes, we’re a dying. The difference is that Germany WAS a second rate nation. It didn’t have the most advanced airforce or nukes or an effective navy. So its lashing out was dangerous, but was contained to Europe. America could do a lot more damage on its way down.

As said: (paraphrasing) They (private capital) is gladly willing to spend $2b of our money to make $1b in profit.

I was losing it over seeing an electric car that had its charge port door behind a motorized door. Car “engineers” and “designers” are jokers. Why have a simple latch and spring system, when you can have a slow and easily breakable motor without even an obvious button to open it that you can charge $2000 to repair?

So cool that we bailed these freaks out in 08.

Concentrated products would solve a lot of problems. Dry laundry/dish powder for example is usually accepted as the most eco-friendly option. You get more loads/lb because it isn’t 90% water. You can have unique formulas because you can physically seperate components. You can store it in a cardboard box without plastic because it isn’t liquid. Can be cleaned up dry. Etc,etc.

But of course its less convenient, sometimes requires more care (some require you to dilute them or not dump it all in at once or whatever), or is otherwise less “cool”. Like I associated laundry powder with my granddad. But its being promoted again because you can have a bucket of it that is equal to 10 jugs of liquid.

Or like drinks, whats “better”, buying premade tea or buy a box of tea packets? Its nice to grab a bottle of tea once and awhile, but a single box makes many gallons of tea. And you can control how it tastes, what you put in it, etc. I like some yerba mate (overly sweet American style, haven’t had “real” stuff yet), but its all premade here. Gimme some of the leaves and I’d buy it just like coffee beans.

Its very weird that a lot of people think there is some conspiracy about environmentalism.

Like brother, I wish I could mindlessly buy/use whatever I want. Instead I’m over hear digging for a jacket and boots that are both vegan (or at least doesn’t have leather) and will biodegrade within the next 500 years.

I’d fucking love to be able to fly around a bunch without the environmental nightmare haunting me. I’d love to visit sites/places like New Caledonia and the European cave art caves. But I know just going degrades those sites.

I’d love to have an ICE. Really like the hybrid I got right now, but no denying ICE has some advantages (right now, in this society at least).

I’d love to go to the book store and pick up a book about nature and it NOT have a 70% chance to be incredibly upsetting and depressing. Picked up one about extinct species (can’t recall the name atm and its upstairs). Reading about the dodo last night nearly made me cry at work twice today. Got into the car and realized that even if that damn bird survived past the 100 year mark, it’d almost certainly be gone by now. Mauritius sounds like a disaster zone (in terms of ecology, at minimum).

I wish I/we were wrong about the environment, because it’d be a better world, and easier world to process and live in. But all reason points to no, this isn’t normal, it isn’t good, and its a danger to every single person alive.

This isn’t to be doomer, I legitimately believe we could stop the worst effects. And pretty easily too. Fuck, one book I read quoted an ECONOMIST DOUBTER (ie: an economist that was downplaying the environmental effects of the current economy) that the economic “damage” from switching to fossil fuels would be ~$200 billion (in 2004 ish). Guess what America spends/spent 2x more on in 2004? (Hint: its so fucking obvious that it seems like a cliche at this point.)

Give me like $1m and I could make significant progress on restoring 300 acres (about the size of a semi-protected park near me) within 2 years. And I’m a fucking no body comp sci nerd. I could organize it, make plans, present you a doc saying what we’re doing and why. If I could do it, imagine what 200,000x that could do. Literally just paying dudes to pull weeds would improve the park’s status SIGNIFICANTLY.

HODL your Ubicoins! The feds MUST buy them for whatever price WE decide! We WILL OWN THE WORLD!!!

(This post totally not inspired by listening to This is Financial Advice from Folding Ideas for the 5th time because I needed background noise.)

I hold that the conflict between China and the USSR was sad, unneeded, and bad.

I also hold that China is part of the hope for a restoration of socialist movement in the current era.

Every nation gets 1 nuke. It gets put under the equivilant of their white house. Everyone else gets a button for every other nuke.

Peace in our time.

Only partly related:

I get the feeling that unity is gonna become the next flash. Shitty, overbloated, closed source, and full of security holes. Games in 10 years will be playable only through a 2nd party “unity emulator” that safely executes them so your pc doesn’t immediately begin mining doge coin.

At least I’ve seen a lot more godot games recently. Even if they insist that is isn’t “go dot” and is Fr*nch. Also godot games are a lot easier to reverse engineer. Makes translation/modding a LOT easier if a dummy like me can do it.

Floorp sounds like it could be a spinoff/sequel to flubber.

Or at the very least one of the 10 trillion goo based toys that thrived in the early to mid 00s. Floam-like name. (Do kids still get shitty toys that have goopy stuff of a questionable toxicity and that gets dirty or dries out and makes the whole thing kinda mid?)

Here I am knowing that word because of axolotls. The funny frills they have are external gills most species (of salamander) lose in adulthood.

Unrelated, How the heck do we have no axolotl emotes?!?

Yeah its weird. I think I had (have? I don’t remember reselling it) one, and it was a glorified remote.

Maybe you could make one that clicked (quietly, but you could feel it) if you answered right. But the one I had had pretty standard (and unchanging) feedback. If you get the stimulus every time it stops being a stimulus. The article also feels unfinished. Not just disconnected, but to me feels like it just ends. Honestly feels like a draft I’d write then decide “eh, I’m fine with a B on this”.

Like half a year ago I got into the mood for some Total war. Went to play Rome 1, on steam. Game was busted, wouldn’t load. They don’t even sell it anymore, they ‘patched’ it and now sell a “remake” that is dogbutt phone slop. Somehow it looks and plays worse then the original. Despite it “running the same game logic underneath”.

I thought maybe W10 finally broke a 20 year old game, but I put my trust into a russian site hosting the original exe and it worked. Crashed once coming back from a battle, but worked more then the ‘patch’.

Drove me up the wall because I had played it for the first time in like 21 or 22 and it worked fine. Same basic PC (I think I replaced the gpu?).

Companies need to be forced to open source any code after 20 years. Fuck your “IP”, you made millions already. I work on legacy code. Almost none of it has gone 30 years unchanged. I JUST changed some code that might not even run anymore, and it can vote in 2026. Because tech has changed from 2008 (last mark I saw on the file, maybe was updated later but I didn’t care to look at the diff tree). No shot any of the code CA has for Rome, or medieval, or shogun 2, or rome 2, is relevant to their “trade secrets”.

There are literal MMOs from the mid 90s that have been put back online because the guys open sourced it after they closed shop (Meridan 59 for example, some real classic fantasy pixel art in that game). But one of the “greatest games ever” is no longer legally available and nearly impossible to run. Denuvo/DRM, the mess that the “software stack” has become, and the “live service” model is gonna kill any “good” games from this era. Throwaway culture to the extreme.

Feel like I’m going to turn into a boomer about tech, despite being born during Clinton.

I saw a lot of japanese yugioh cards on there for like $10. If it weren’t in Arizona (I think it was), I’d grab it and hope some of them were $$.