Founder of the Society of Insouciant Candor.
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Last Notes npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > But regardless of my despair, that's how you overthrow tyranny: people get together, directly aid each other, form alliances, and the supply of slaves for the oligarchs dries right up. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > The downtrodden and forgotten majority will not put up with this imbalance for long. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Cloudflare is about the same as the electrical line coming into your house. We have ooodles of single points of failure that we just don't think about... until they fail. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > Each and everyone of these individuals have self identified as people who carry the malignant tendency to be cruel, no matter what npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I suppose I need to clarify: I have no difficulty speaking unscripted at all and doing so very articulately and coherently. I can ad lib with the best of them. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist What would make you interpret my comment in that fashion? It was advocacy for France and the EU to do MUCH MORE than they have thus far to help Ukraine survive intact. Now if you have no taste for that advocacy, then I suppose that I will just fuck off. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I have spent YEARS rehearsing certain interactions that still haven't happened. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Dear France (and EU): npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Any relation to @npub1vc3…axsh, I wonder? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I wanna see a hermit crab conga line where they trade up condos. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Insane Clown Posse...? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist It's a rainbow-colored Hot Wheels race track! npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Why did I first see the word "voting" as "vomiting"? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist And if you'd had a gem with you, we wouldn't be reading about your experience, eh? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > I've had enough of the Left only thinking we will defund them, prosecute them, lock them up and dismantle their power for generations to come. It just needs to happen. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist The media needs to stop calling those people "conservatives" and begin using the far more descriptive word "hypocrites". npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist There's still good reason to be paranoid, so don't bin it just yet. There's fully 30% of humanity that would rather you not exist except on their terms. Paranoia is still fashionable. Wear it like a neck scarf. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I confess I'll wander off if I have nothing else useful to contribute, and especially so if I'm distracted. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist If a person makes poor choices in who to Follow, then it might result in what you describe. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist The entire point of being a billionaire is "winning", of DENYING material resources from everyone else. That is their goal, even if it's neither consciously thought nor said aloud. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist My joy with horticulture came not from "managing" plants according to my own conceit or convenience but rather enjoying watching *as an observer* what they do in my absence (as much as possible). npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I know how it's done. I have more horticultural books than most people, including a $55 one devoted to nothing but ferns. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Oh, those poor pear trees.... npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist "Allotments" in the U.K. are what Americans might call community gardens? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Anti-fascists won't lie, cheat, steal, or break or subvert the law to achieve their goal. That is why it's so easy for them to lose ground until conditions become extreme and obvious, because they won't "fight dirty". npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Hey, Down Under has had its own Mini-Me right-wing drama to watch. I've been watching it with dismay from afar myself since the time of John Howard. Remember him? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist It's Netflix: they released four episodes today. The final four release on September 3rd. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Do cats comprehend the meaning of laughter? I've wondered about that (and what else they do or don't comprehend). npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Indeed, listen to @pluralistic: npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I voluntarily agreed to baptism as an early teen as a last resort to understand, but when that failed to grant me special insight it was all over. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I think perhaps "twice-exceptional" high-functioning autistic people are less prone to self-delusion as well? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I've been suggesting that #AuDHD traits might be the beginning of a speciation event for almost 20 years now. Such an event takes much time to come to fruition, and we won't live to see it, but it's fun to consider that we might be the vanguard (well, not ME, since I didn't procreate). npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist It was and is. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I was speaking specifically to him as an autistic person that I know somewhat. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Take a step back to regain your emotional footing.... npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist High - and dangerously gusty - winds are indeed an issue here. I had one permanent welded iron canopy rendered impermanent by them. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist They would. I wouldn't have considered them at the time because the cost would have been substantially more than what I considered instead for passive cooling. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Then there's this (from the article): npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Similar but not nearly so efficient: in the desert of southern California, there was a population that lived in corrugated metal structures, and they would drape burlap over them and then dribble water slowly over the burlap. The evaporative effect lowered interior temperatures dramatically. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I'm staying here until I leave for another more democratic country. No spoilers which one, don't want the real estate prices to skyrocket before I get there. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I chose no party at all. At least the Democrats in California will still let me vote in their primaries. Of course the Republican Party will not. Don't recall for certain, but I don't think the other parties allow it either. The Democratic Party at least doesn't demand that I be a Kool-Aid-drinking acolyte to vote for their primary candidates. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I stopped having anything to do with theaters long before smartphones or even cellphones existed. Before those things became potential public disturbances, people found other ways to callously create them, like bringing their ill-behaved children to ruin others' experience. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Our conditions are closely comparable, save that I've never ever masked and I'm merely skeptical of authority and expect it to be earned. I don't know what "level 2" autism is, though. The effects of ADD and IQ are more front-and-center for me. I don't use the ADHD acronym because the "H" was absent from my eventual diagnosis. My issue is impulsivity (boy, is it ever). npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I guess you both never heard of Unforgettable? Both of these seem like a retread of that concept, and the lead is even (still) a redhead! They just pivot it to a comedy so they don't even have to maintain a facade of accuracy. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist SOME people eagerly answer "yes" to that question, and those people are now in control of our government. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist It does suck. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist No, and I can't: I have neuropathy in my feet that leads to pain. I'm also narrow-footed and pronated, the narrow-footedness probably being the root cause of the originating Morton's Neuroma that progressed. Having the same longitudinal bones as everyone else but crammed more tightly together was not a help for the nerves that ran between. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I don't toe-walk, but the balls of my feet always get first dibs on the ground. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Self-delusion rules. Has it ruled in every age or has something fundamental changed in the last two or three decades? What could have changed that makes people so desperate to maintain comfort and certainty - "vibes" - that facts can now be discarded? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Another idol smashed: npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Hell, Ray Bradbury anticipated/predicted that future America much much earlier than 1986 in one of his novels! I'll leave it as a reader exercise to determine which one. 🙂 npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > It appears… Putin is going to find himself in history's poo-tin. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist You mind if I borrow that on occasion? That's a neat turn of phrase that makes readers think. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist There's a lot of talk about #passkeys, but there seems to be significant detriments to the concept, unless I'm misunderstanding the technology. It seems to rely on creating device-specific authentication. That's great, and it may speed logins on that device, but... what happens when you need to log in from a different device or the time comes to replace the device? What happens to all those device-specific passkeys? Do you have to reinvent the wheel again and again for every device? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Did that update preserve the original graphics? I had it in mind that it be moderized to reflect current hardware capabilities, a "reboot" that preserves fundamental gameplay. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Perhaps someone will modernize it, assuming that EA isn't greedily clinging to the IP in 2024 and blocking such an effort. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Yes, Olaf, let's wait until they've become an unwilling vassal of Mother Russia yet again before deciding to posthumously open the doors and greet no one left at the door with open arms... right, Olaf? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Unless the subtitling is wrong in translation - and one person confirmed it's not - then I already knew what was said, and that is what I restated. I'm autistic, and I'm not that literal, even I can read through the thin line of what was said to divine the intent. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Yes, and "terrorists" as a metaphor for all Arabs, whom she addressed specifically. You're wagging the dog, here. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Yet she specifically addresses Arab viewers when she speaks of dogs "generally". That's a rather oddly specific generalization, no? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist And yet, near the end of the article, it reveals one strain apparently doing just that, controlling human behavior! npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I once relished doing things like that, but I now lack the "spoons" to do the same any more from scratch when there's much study and research and experimentation involved. I once self-hosted a blog before they were even called blogs, but those spoons are gone. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist By itself it would be an improvement, but keeping people thinking about what-else or what-next helps to discourage complacency. We can still do better, and best not to forget it. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Yes, the final tallies would be communicative enough. I was picturing them knowing *your* personal choice(s). npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Ranked-choice or not, the first round of selection needs to be random, as with jury selection. We trust that randomized jurisprudent system with literal life-and-death decisions. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > ... and then the Labor party knows I would like them more if they were more like the Greens. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I wrote about ranked-choice earlier today. By itself it won't resolve the current state of affairs. It's only part of the solution. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Harris is not the LEADER that we deserve. She will just be the one that we get because the type of leader we deserve lacks the ambition to endure everything our meat grinder of a system demands. It's specifically engineered to exclude the very best of us. Being able to survive and outlast that meat grinder is not evidence of a leader. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Want to live in there.... npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist But it's not tragedy we're discussing in that context: it's humans insulting and emotionally harming each other in a contest to have the last word and "win". npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Which was of course my point. They're abusing a formula to cheese their way into netting and keeping viewers. Look at our so-called "sitcoms": most of them consist of characters verbally assaulting and sparring with each other. Even comedy from conflict!? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist "PvP" as a stand-in for "human versus human"... in shows that should have simply been about human versus environment. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Just so you know, when I said "Even programs that are ostensibly about a PvE conflict inevitably always have a PvP element introduced", I was referring to television "programs" and movies. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist There's a reason that developers are so hellbent to include multiplayer and especially PvP in their games: the other players are free content that they didn't have to simulate, and it scratches that awful human instinctive itch. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Rich One Percenter and real estate hoarder John Powers Middleton says: "What’s happened to my property is criminal and I hope everyone caught will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No one in Los Angeles should have to put up with squatters and vandalism that are out of control." npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Indeed. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist So... any chance that show about the Nelsons was deliberate propaganda, you think? npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist There's that 500 million value again, but then he quickly shoots even that down further with qualifications. No one in the developed world will want to live as nomadic hunter-gatherers, even if we could keep our cellphones (not). npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist All of the images and graphs in his article were broken for me, but that visualizes part of the Thermodynamics article. I'm gonna choose not to think about it too much. I have dysthymia issues already. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I found him on Facebook... and I noticed that you did also. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist @npub19af…pq9e npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist The more I consider his name, the more I'm certain that I've encountered this article or another of his; I *know* that name Chefurka, it's too uncommon not to be noteworthy. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Malapropisms are indeed part of my newfound curse. I've stopped being as editorial in the moment as I once was, and I miss those mistakes that were once unthinkable. If someone favorites or boosts a post and I revisit it, then I'm likely to notice them. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist He inadvertently (?) also mocks the economists' obsession with "growth" in just the first few paragraphs. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist That's a MUCH lower estimate than I've heard before. Obviously I've never encountered his writing. It's got its own browser window now until I can digest it. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I wasn't fully certain which part of my comment specifically you were replying-to, whether being oblivious or being correcterly. 😕 npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I would always do it in good faith. The point is excellence and improvement, not condescension. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist Me and my big mouth.... npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I certainly hope everyone else is oblivious to my spelling and grammar lapses today. My deterioration is disturbing the hell outta me. Well... I hope somebody would notice *and tell me* if I don't correct them myself quickly. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist > It's actually hilarious how many plants we cultivate specifically for their defense mechanisms npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I happen to *be* an American, so make it a double. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist A little more candor would be appreciated by neurodivergent folks. Not only is it harder for us to read between those misdirected lines, we're more often than not the ones being misunderstood for *being* candid when no one else is. npub1m8zw7h2gr30mk2t5ta6hkjs6heunvdx7x0xgeqed6m9z576yvu5qgzr72s VulcanTourist I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who once estimated the Earth's *sustainable* human carrying capacity - at our current technological footprint - at 500,000,000. We're many times beyond that carrying capacity, if remotely accurate. No one wants to even talk about overpopulation, but it's the 800-pound gorilla in the room. Pollution wouldn't even be "pollution" for us with fewer numbers, if the Earth had time and space to heal itself.
