i always write *my* sovereign citizen rants about gold trim on the RFCs as PDFs in LaTeX
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i always write *my* sovereign citizen rants about gold trim on the RFCs as PDFs in LaTeX
Of the many reasons this is a bad answer — the kind of answer I would delight to get in cross-examination because it makes the speaker look shifty and untrustworthy - is that “maintain or rebuild institutions” is not particularly less abstract than “democracy under threat.” It’s just less direct.
Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them
Follow up to my little rage outburst yesterday about Proton making it impossible not to interact with their new "feature". They are also lying about it being Open Source. Like they are lying about other aspects of their business being Open Source. @davidgerard.co.uk did a video on this a month ago.
Yet somehow, not nearly enough. Oh, who are we kidding? There is no amount of mockery adequate for what he deserves.
And so it begins
Because I know actual human artists whose work was appropriated without consent to train these "AI" models (as of course mine was, repeatedly, for LLMs), and using an "AI" to generate pictures is like kicking them in the teeth and then laughing at them whilst they bleed
These people are unrepentant racists but also too cowardly to use the slur they so desperately want to.
Every evil act this man engages in was enabled by Democrats.
NEW: 72 of the 76 Guatemalan children previously boarded onto planes have been returned to ORR custody, per DOJ, with the remaining 4 expected to be returned in the next 15 min. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
And that's not even factoring charging for it. They're not set up for it. "Well just ho-" IF you can get one of the 'networks' to agree to it? You eat all the power setup costs, all the building costs, maintenance and repairs are at their whim, and you only get a fixed payment.
I talked about it with a gas station owner I see regularly. He can't add a charging space because then he needs another parking spot (zoning,) a power service upgrade, a large transformer, etc. Over $150k in cost. Without solar. Most stations don't have anywhere near that cash.
Because of cost-benefit. It's not even remotely there. People saying otherwise are absolutely delusional. To not have someone taking up that spot for 2+ hours, you need more solar footprint than the entire gas station and then some. PLUS you'd need grid PLUS maintenance PLUS installation...
I've driven several. I very highly recommend it. And the depreciation is pure cliff on everything but the REALLY good one. You WANT the V8. It's so good. Everything is top notch. Way better than anything the Germans offer. Yes, ANYTHING.
i said this a few days ago, and these two sentiments are connected: you don’t cede ground to fascists, because even if you ignore basic human decency, ceding ground to fascists makes you weaker and them stronger.
Also, this is a jam
The trip *itself* was great. The crew actually woke me up so I didn't miss my change and everyone was polite and helpful. The long layover would've been less awful if there had been literally any services besides a nearly empty vending machine. But see also lack of funding.
That's the other problem... the only way to get where I was going when I took Amtrak? Waiting at a completely unlit, unstaffed 'station' an hour from my house at 11PM. Which was NOT in a good part of the town. The route didn't go through the nice station at all.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
But also a fundamental problem is simply: how many people are going between any given two points per day, that also can/will put up with a much slower trip, excluding the Northeast Corridor? Not many.
Also, that 4 days is... optimistic. Because Amtrak doesn't own any of the rail network; it's all owned by the Class 1's. Who get to tell Amtrak "woah now, we've got a freight train full of poop that's way more important so you just park up and wait." And do. Often.
Also, the elections are straight up rigged to the point where all the 'vote harder' in the world isn't going to get them out of power. Nor have they ever given it up any time they have lost at the ballot box or in court.
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & well, here we are, hundreds of miles on the interstate past the Goldwater-Rhodes exit that we already should have taken. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
I get away with it all the time
Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
Well, maybe someone should point out that's illegal. And therefore the orders are unlawful.
My shirt came and it’s the best thing ever
Furries, I need your help. Temg, a childhood terminal cancer fighter, needs you now more than ever. He wanted to quit fighting until Furrydelphia and MakeAWish got him to his first con. Afterwards he told his parents he wants to continue fighting.
I would go T20's for sure then. Realistically the next step up from there would definitely be mid-range bookshelf units.
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
T60's have better low response than the T20's, but they're slightly muddier in the mids. T20's have unmatched mid-high for the price thanks to the tweeter, but the case design makes them a little weak on bass-heavy stuff.
I'm still using a set of Klipsch ProMedia 2.1's, sadly discontinued. On the low-end side I'd probably go Creative GigaWorks T20 Series II ($70) or T60's ($95.) Depends how important clarity is and what kind of music you listen to. Anything over $100, straight to bookshelves.
This feels like a metaphor for 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
That's an '06 SRT8 with the 6.1. Which is a much better engine than the 6.4 and it's derivatives will ever be. (6.1's don't routinely grenade at <50k miles. Or at >100k miles.)
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
Are you really enjoying a Festbier if it's only 2 liters?
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My best wishes to the cast & crew for the first preview tonight at The Garrick. Go out and do do that voodoo that you do so well! @theproducerslondon.bsky.social @nimaxtheatres.bsky.social
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replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
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So *you're* Burrito Scalding! The author voted 'most wanted to partner with Chuck Tingle' 3 years running now.
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any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
@davidgerard.co.uk forget 'prompting it wrong,' this is full on Effin' Birds "they can't possibly be that stupid."
When It Happens, blast any Democrat who "looks forward to working with Vance" directly into the sun. Democrats need to make it clear from minute one that they have this guy's number, know he doesn't have the juice, and that they're going to make his life a living hell from the moment Trump drops.
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Cops are great
Reblog if you refuse to sign up for paperless so businesses have to notify you by mail so they don't pull any shenanigans. The legal requirements for mail notification are there for a reason: to keep businesses behaving properly. Never give up one of the last rights you have
You have no idea how much I wish that was true, or how glad I am it's not my problem.
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
This promises to be a fascinating natural experiment to see if centrist Democrats are actually as gullible as we all assume them to be.
This is why "Elon went crazy" is cope: he has only ever been rewarded for spouting embarrassing bullshit, and starting stupid companies out of brain farts. He's just rationally following the incentives at this point.
Highly recommended. Really good stuff.
I see somebody's read The Punch Escrow.
good night, sweet prince
So @ericaschultz42.bsky.social is simply one of the best, most honest writers in comics, I am a huge fan, and she's doing this to raise money for veterans in Matawan, NJ, this Saturday. Go get her books and help vets!
Now how do we get @gailsimone.bsky.social to do some guest writing on this?
It's not just Bluesky anymore: Dreamwidth to start blocking Mississippi as of Sept 1 dw-news.dreamwidth.org/44429.html
People really be like, "No this standard isn't a blockchain thing" when most of the listed authors have a blockchain company next to their name Like come on I'm not that easily duped
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
My transformation into a cat bed is now complete
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
three guesses which party this guy is in
Well... kirbysfm.csaware.com/store/ (need to join the CSA) And apparently a fair number of farmer's markets have hot peppers for people who hate their stomach these days.
I'm here for it. Pass the popcorn.
Hoo boy
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Fuck these Nazi scum www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
imagine actually writing the sentence "Hamas propaganda lines such as 'stop killing children'"
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Yeah. Human brains absolutely freak out at complete silence it turns out. And long periods of near inaudible static? Not much better. Even I can't take dead silence for long, and I make 5800X3D's with overclocked 6900XTXH's sub-31dBA at full load. :P
Fact check: true
Related fun fact: there is almost definitely something injecting subtle noise into the line. When we started with VoIP one of the first things we found? If the dead time on digital was perfectly clean with no static at all, everyone IMMEDIATELY assumed they had been disconnected.
Well, I guess I can be an enabler. www.fosterhillfarmandgarden.com/hot-pepper-p...
"Will Squadron 42 be as big as GTA VI in 2026? Chris Roberts seems to think so." Oh god, I don't think I could physically laugh any harder without breaking a rib. "the La Presse report suggests that the full, 1.0 release of Star Citizen is "now promised" for "2027 or 2028."" OW! MEDIC!
So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards
OK, while it's true, this is one of their competitors. I wouldn't expect they'd say that the competition is golden and can do no wrong... OVH is also owned by the same people that own ShadowPC - which operates services in the US, so they can't do this either.
Trump's false claim here--about how "radical left globalists" (i.e. Soros) are the puppeteers who fund & organize civil rights protests--is the same basic story that the fascists of the 1950s and 60s told about the civil rights protests of that era. It's a familiar cocktail of racism & antisemitism.
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Oh, it absolutely 100% is. One of the big visible changes was the mirrors. The Devil Z ditched the factory fender mirrors for very specifically Vitaloni Sebrings on the doors. Those are Vitaloni Sebrings. I wouldn't be surprised if it also has Cibies.
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That's what the Internet and mail order is for!
"Fixer-upper" as in "start with a bulldozer and escalate from there."
For anyone traveling to DragonCon, this is where you can find me. (Thanks to Bryan Young @swankmotron.com for putting this graphic together for me.)
Yes
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used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
A church one city over is being auctioned off and if you want to get it, you'll need to beat the current bid of $53k by noon today. Warning: The renovation cost of this church is gonna be a whole lot more than that, I promise you. piquanewsnow.com/111-year-old...
Being awfully generous with their maturity today, I see.
My favourite Noah Smith moment is when he decided that 'the Dark Ages weren't actually as bleak as people think' was some kind of conspiracy (maybe a woke one?). Just because.
Unfortunately, those have infected everywhere. I can even get them in Ohio.
Once again, there is a class of Democratic officials in DC who are fundamentally unsuited for the current political moment. They can't see that the fascism is the signal, not the noise. And they are unable or unwilling to change their pre-authoritarian approach to politics. It is deeply revealing.
Yeah, that is *exactly* my thought. If the coolant in the overflow was not 55C, then the sensor's value is valid, but also proven incorrect. It should be within 5C of reported value. It's very likely that the sensor is stuck reading *high* while testing seemingly good. This IS a common failure mode!
... like, can you stick a thermometer in the overflow maybe and verify roughly? Because if it's still at 55C after 2.5 hours, that would mean it somehow got hotter than the boiling point of glycol.
Wait, WHAT? O.o The coolant is reading 55C, after sitting with no power, for 2.5 hours, in an ambient of 27C? And the coolant is *actually* 55C or thereabouts??
So 708 ohms *through* the sensor, that's 100% good. 0.78k is in the expected range (it's like... +-5C normal accuracy, no joke.) Try wiggling some wires at the CTS, and the probes in the pins a bit, see if they make things change?
Oh! OH! Okay! Then the sensor IS good. Yes, 780 would be around 55C give or take. (These aren't high precision, obviously.) But the pins on the connector side are definitely MIA? Just hotdog down a hallway? O.o
Wait, wut? That's... 780 it should be too hot to touch the coolant, that's about 140F! But it's not reading that through the harness, and the wire colors do match on the CTS connector side??