In fact he posted this just today apparently!

https://panopticonmerch.myshopify.com/

Panopticon’s album Kentucky. Still hoping to see the level of solidarity and mutual aid those Appalachian coal miners embodied.

Hell yeah Black Brick fucks

Germany is currently my top choice. I’ve been struggling with beginning the process of learning the language but found the VHS course/apps today and had an Anki card deck I finally looked at this week. Job hunting is tough. Engineer with 1.5 years of experience is a touch too entry-level it seems. Studying for a Master’s is on the table too, but there’s a lot of moving parts regardless of what route I take. Wish me luck.

I know what I’m watching this weekend

You can’t start a strike if you don’t have a union and your co-workers don’t agree

This is a major point that those outside of the US seem to miss, I think. The sheer depth of contempt for unions and unionization I’ve experienced is a massive barrier to organizing any significant resistance. I’m very certain a majority of US citizens are unaware of what a general strike even looks like. Corporate propaganda has very successfully vilified and diminished unions for a long time.

“A few years”

The movie is a decade old and the novel is nearly a legal adult. I’m already feeling attacked and I haven’t even broken my fast.

Time for some pretty easy math; if 93,000,000 scans cause 103,000 cancer diagnoses, what percentage of scans cause cancer?

Its 0.11%. Each scan has a 0.11% chance of causing cancer. Thats slighty more than a 1 in 1000 chance for each scan.

Now, 93000000 and 103000 look like large scary numbers but when you’re comparing populations every number is likely to be large and scary. The absolute magnitude is meaningless; the important information lies in their proportion.

Meanwhile US creates the GWI

The loser of a knife fight bleeds out on the pavement; the winner, the ambulance.

I was a huge fantasy nerd as a child. Wanted magic to be real so badly, wanted to be able to affect change in the world purely through force of will. As I grew older I realized humans do have magical abilities; a group of humans with sufficient domain knowledge and the right tools can absolutely bring about change through sheer force of will. I absolutely studied magic (engineering) in University and seeing magic from other disciplines always left me awestruck.

Especially sparkies; “don’t let the magic smoke out of the wires” is the extent of my electrical knowledge.

penis hammering

Visions of Pain Olympics…

Less!

Mined 0.5 BTC in 2012. Purchased a TTRPG rulebook worth $40. I never played that TTRPG.

I try not to think about it.

I’ve always got music on in the background. Less gaming nowadays, doing my best to read more books.

I think bookending the two recent quotes with the obviously more problematic quotes from 8 years prior is intentional. A lot can change in 8 years, especially when you transition from military to civilian life. I think the ACAB sentiment he expressed in 2021 shows growth.

(Anecdotal bias incoming) The comment on rural white Americans, while inflammatory and unhelpful, isn’t all that off-base in my experience. If you are born into, grow up in and stay within the same rural 10 mile radius your entire life you tend to lack perspective to say the least. Growing up in a town or village that is 90%+ white provides no frame of reference for the varying struggles people of color experience.

I grew up in one such town. Demographics were roughly 90% white, 10% Hispanic. I didn’t have a black classmate until junior year of high school and I don’t want to speculate about the reception they received.

As for stupidity, acquiring knowledge is at best unemphasized and at worst actively, intentionally discouraged. Willful ignorance may be a more accurate term.

There are certainly children curious enough to seek out knowledge and learn about other human experiences (hi) but I’m still struggling to escape that bucket of crabs and it has consumed and scarred me. The access to quality healthcare was abysmal, employment was primarily factory-based and starting from a place of low familial wealth is something I’ve struggled against my entire adult life. I’d venture a guess that he was raised in a similar setting and was only able to escape via military service.

In short; I agree with the sentiments he’s expressed recently. I vehemently disagree with the sentiments he expressed over a decade ago. I’m willing to believe the tattoo was an arbitrarily chosen flash piece done in Croatia during his time in the Marines. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I’ll never be his constituent so my opinion ultimately means jack shit.

Hear me out; we take all the statues of Confederate losers and whatever gaudy atrocious bullshit cheeto comes up with, set them all up in a swamp with catwalks placed close enough that people can spit, piss, and if so motivated and properly prepared, projectile vomit/shit on their memories.

Keyboard and mouse input for the phone is a gamechanger for me. Having a manipulatable window that I can drag and drop files to is super nice as well.

Also since Slay the Spire doesn’t have cross-saving and all my progress is on my phone I can play it without staring at my phone.

I agree with you in spirit but would also like to shill for scrcpy in general if you aren’t already using it. Mirroring phone screen to my laptop is fucking amazing.

I dunno about thriving but Psyopus - Insects definitely nails the chaotic shitshow…