Alexander Daychilde

Any ground celebrating fascists is not good ground anyway

I know this is completely off topic, but one of the better Things I Won’t Work With entries about chlorine triflouride:

It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

You can find all of the blogs here and I highly recommend them.

And, of course, they are turning this into a political case.

Because climate change has accelerated the process, and because regressives deny climate change, it became political.

On the other hand, climate change does also accelerate the process, so it might’ve lasted a lot longer.

Jason figured it out? Jason? Well, this is a new low. Yeah, this one hurts.

Denotation ignores connotation, and in the US, “radical left” has specific meaning, especially to nazis.

Stunning ignorance on display here.

I’ve tried to set various of these apps up in the past - I used to do tech support; I am a geek - and for whatever reason, I could never get all the parts working right. I assume many people can since they’re popular, but it just never clicked for me.

But I have a pretty good workflow - a seedbox running rutorrent which allows me to send magnet links to it just clicking them in Firefox, with emby installed so I can stream from the box - or easily connect via FTP to download when I prefer.

That’s the nice thing - there’s a number of ways to accomplish the goal, so finding the one that works well for you is what’s important.

That said, I don’t remember which ones these are, but I think it began with “Sonarr” to download music and the various somewhat-similarly named projects are about finding and downloading various forms of media automatically based on rules or searches or keywords or whatever. Which is nicer than my system of reminders that stuff should drop and I should go look for a torrent for it. :)

You focus on one phrase I wrote (to support my statement) at the expense of everything else I said. I assume because it sounded like I was disagreeing with you, when I was jumping off your comment to make a broader point about oligarchs being the cause. :)

Fascists appreciate your support.

I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such…

Seems like it’d be awesome, but nobody has done it.

“Many files are too large to open… There are many files that are completely invisible to us,” one email read.

This sounds incredibly fishy to me. There’s ways of opening files. Even if you’re not technical, you can surely understand that if the file system can see a file and make a copy of a file, you can access it, even in parts.

Perhaps they’re too inept to figure it out.

Fuck Obama and his pyrrhic legacy.

:rolls eyes:

If you have major problems with Obama (i.e. outside of disagreements with individual things, but enough general disagreement that you’re all “fuck Obama”), you are part of the problem because nobody will even be good enough for you.

I disgree with the sub-point about plan-making. I’m 50, but thanks to health issues^[1] I’m not likely to last another decade^[2]. But while I do think about my probable looming death somewhat, I don’t fail to make any plans because of it. As far as I’m concerned, I’m going to live forever - until I don’t. I mean, that’s what my brain thinks.

But I don’t think most of them probably think about death until they get ill.

I’m not so worried about old people in politics - I think there should be a mix of young and old. You need strong young voices pushing for progress, and you need old experienced voices who have seen all this shit before and know how to deal with it.

What we don’t need in politics is control by our oligarchs, which is what we have now that’s broken our democracy.

The commonality is corruption by our oligarchs throwing money into politics to control most of our politicians.

There’s still a difference between the parties, but it’s our oligarchs that have corrupted and broken our democracy, and it won’t get better until we start with them.

It doesn’t help that the oligarchs control our media, so Republicans get pass after pass after pass, but Democrats get put under the microscope. (And it doesn’t help that our oligarchs have corrupted most politicians even on “both sides”, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a difference between the parties, just that we need to clean house on both sides…)

The primary problem is that we have allowed our oligarchs to take control of our country. The oligarchs keep these older politicians around because they tend to serve them well, but it’s not really about age. It’s about the corruption. Follow the money. And the money flows from the oligarchs to the politicians who take that money and then serve the oligarchs.

Do we need to fix our broken democracy? Yes, yes we do. And the first step is to break out the guillotines and handle the oligarch problem. Then sweep out all of those corrupt politicians. There’s a few that I’d keep - I think folks like AOC are not taking that money. And maybe there’s a Republican or two who might be the same, but I sure don’t know of any, but if there are, fine, keep them if they don’t support fasicsm. But sweet everyone else out. Time for a new Constitution with more protections, although you can’t fully protect the people from themselves. But we need to make sure nobody can get rich enough to control the government. Make it so people can get rich, fine, just not SUPER rich. Roll out social safety nets - universal health care, univeral basic income. Protect our rights.

Can we do it? Well, maybe not. It’ll take a LOT. But that’s what we need to do, and the more of us that realize it and talk about it, the closer we get to any possibility of accomplishing it.