Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw.
Credibly accused of being a fascist, liberal, commie, anarchist, child, boomer, pointlessly pedantic, a Russian psychological warfare operative, and db0’s sockpuppet.
Pronouns are she/her.
Vegan for the iron deficiency.
I’ll be right, they are the ones that have to go through the hard shit. People you love nearly dying does tend to make a lot of stuff just seem not important though.
Also a massive stressor preceding this was the tech ai layoffs to eviction pipeline so I’ve ended up even more angry at landlords and other capitalists. Like this shit is playing out everywhere so some dickhead can get more spare homes. I don’t even know if the rich are human in a recognisable way.
My ex/close friend necked himself. Didn’t die cause his wife found him in time and being a med school dropout has advantages.
Been reevaluating a lot of shit since then. I think I’m going back to grad school, I realised if I lost him (and you don’t go from trying to kill yourself to life being peachy. It’s still very day by day) I would have basically no regular contact with people smarter than me which is just depressing.
Who knows if I’ll succeed this time, life is in a better place but my body is a complete unreliable wreck. Still we shall see.
In other news evaluating the risk of moving my ulnar nerves surgically. Very small risk of paralysis, large (~10% risk) of needing salvage surgeries. Scary stuff, expensive too. OTOH being able to hold a book again would be cool.
I haven’t had much time for it but it’s fun. Coax your brain, it’s good to have people to learn with.
Bobotie (SA casserole) was a big hit at a family gathering.
Idk if trying to unfuck my arms is a hobby but the keyboard is coming along. One side nearly done, the other keycap set is printed but it still needs the microcontroller wired in.
Other than that learning gamedev in my free time.
Bute is a shining example of the failures of drug policy. GHB is, aside from having a low therapeutic index and being contraindicated with alcohol, not very dangerous as far as drugs go. In a better context, especially one in which concentrations were known and manufacture required the addition of say a dye and a bitterant to help prevent date rape it would have been much less harmful.
Bute (which is metabolised to ghb) is diverted from industrial sources, which increases risk of contam. The metabolic delay causes people to redose and then OD, and it’s harder on the body because of liver metabolism. Because of it’s valid use in industry in large quantities it’s almost impossible to control.
Yay, good work. Such winning. Saving so many lives. I love ODs and organised crime.
exhausting your vote might be bad depending on your seat.
Also be careful with some minors. There are a lot that are essentially just the LNP or worse.
Yeah I’ve seen him called that and I enjoy copying it. To be fair to him, which is easy since there’s so little to defend, he’s not a Nazi. He is a racist fascist though, so we’re wading into the phylogeny of idiot ideologies for evil morons to mark out the differences.
Dirty to pull this out now. If it works, if there really is a smoking gun then this is masterful politicking. If it backfires it’ll be another classic second term labor foot-gun.
The LNP under “90s Queensland police are too kind and understanding to aboriginal kids” kipfler can’t be handed the reigns of government. Australia will take decades to recover if it ever does.
e You’re fine, it’s practice.
Some of those wires are quite thick which will pull heat away fast making soldering with shitty equipment hard. A good soldering iron* set to the correct temperature will help massively. Flux gets you then last 20% of the way. Most solders are flux cored, but a little pot of rosin flux you either dip the end of a wire in or dab on (i use a sharpened chop stick because no static and cheap) and suddenly the solder flows like water.
Remember not to heat the solder and instead heat the joint. My favoured technique is to “tin” both sides individually and then put then against each other and a quick touch with the iron to make the joint. Ensures you have good contact and doesn’t require growing extra fingers although it is slower.
Hobbiest electronics don’t need perfection, some failure is fine you can always repair it since you made it.
Never be embarressed to learn a new skill!
edit: here’s my impatient soldering of the last couple of days:
Some of the joints are garbage (had to rewire some, lost patience) but if you look at the joints in the foreground you can see how much neater tinning each side and joining can be.
Hi, Aussie here. Entirely expected and unsurprising. I mean Hitler learned from the USA.
Been watching the usa destroy everything nice about Australia for my entire life and waiting for the other shoe to drop. Good luck, please don’t our government again if we elect another socialist.
Yeah that’s where I’m at. Finding the time to read fiction while I was alert enough to really chew on it had been hard. There’s a million and one things to do around the house that need my hands more than my brain though so it’s when I get my self indulgent fantasy nonsense in :D
If they want to read a silly series about “bonermancy” (immature brain rot drenched necromancy) written by a pretty funny and well educated woman the Ninth Tomb is decent. Some bits drag but come on, you’ve got to admire someone that writes a series going through the different grammatical persons just for the hell of it. That’s china Mieville levels of madness.
Alas her brain seems to have been damaged by covid and she’s having a hard time finishing it :(
Those prelubed long grey fingers just do it for me mate.
All the blokes I’ve met that are happy in love are just gentle and respectful, especially of consent.
Turns out, and I know this is a shocker, we’re not fucking aliens we just want to be treated as equally valuable and interesting people.
Don’t judge me (also audiobook because I have lost the ability to read fiction rip) but harrow the ninth. Purple prose Catholic school lesbian angst. A bit complex, a second person book is quite challenging and Muir floundered a little pulling it off. She stuck the ending though, solid.
Started Nona the ninth and enjoying it a lot more because Harrow is a joyless ghoul but Nona is extremely sweet and cute.
I’m curious where Tamson Muir is taking the whole thing. It’s all very gnostic with John as the demiurge, crossing the river/true lictorhood both stand ins for gnosis. Anyway, good stuff. If you want less angst but also complex plots and purple prose Catholic mysticism gene Wolfe’s book of the new sun is a good read too.
Non vegans at least have the excuse of being deeply indoctrinated, and having 90+ percent of people reenforcing and defending their behaviour. The ultra rich dont.
Was talking about the Paris commune in particular, the national assembly is an example of where rich people fall. Rather than share bread they’ll install fascist military dictatorships.
Keeping people in a cage is crueler and riskier than just killing them. If anyone voluntarily gives up their wealth and power I’m all for forgiveness, I’ve never seen it happen but even serial killers have voluntarily turned themselves in and sought help.
I don’t think you quite grasp just how far gone the rich are.
Intervention for people falling down into the propaganda? Sure. Once you declare yourself the enemy of almost the entire human species idk how much tolerance you deserve.
You don’t accidentally decide that killing everyone who isn’t a straight white cis man or a subserviant straight white cis woman is a good and worthy goal.
Like I don’t care how lonely you are, that’s fucked. Join a stitch and bitch don’t plan a race war.
It’s absolutely not 0, people constantly try non violent means of renegotiating social relations and get nowhere, in fact they usually get executed for the trouble. Revolutions have left people alive and they consistently side with counterrevolutionary forces and violently crush anyone attempting to improve equality.
I mean french revolution says hello? The worst that can happen is they scuttle off, rouse reactionary forces, and violently oppress billions again. Which they have consistently done no matter how attractive the proposed alternatives have been.
Also people who aren’t vegan and have encountered the idea also suck, so that isn’t exactly making your point.
I’m not getting into this. The rich willfully demonstrate every single day they are more intentionally anti-social than the most psychotic serial killers. They are pure aberrations, utterly remorseless, completely without empathy. They happily commit mass murder with the wave of a pen again and again, they are engaged in active omnicide. Literally they are actively killing entire ecosystems to avoid a life of staggering luxury vs a life of unimaginable luxury.
Nobody has ever demonstrated an effective treatment for such a disordered mind.
Thanks, I do too. He’s far from perfect but he is a good man and he brings a lot to the world. It’s crap to see him struggling so much and in such dire straights because of a brief interruption of his ability to improve the profits of shareholders.
I was handing out propaganda with an academic, and apparently I made an impression as he sent me an extremely helpful email today with a variety of positions on offer. That is defs a confidence boost and it’s great to have help there.