It’s a bit like learning that Russian cargo ships don’t get boarded by pirates because they’ll just start fucking shooting.

Say what you want about Russians, but that kind of rules.

Well the point here is not that China is cool and based actually, but that people definitely did some lying on this point and those same people definitely think it means that any and all forms of communism are authoritarian and there is no alternative to capitalism.

There has to be some percentage of people who let this be the thing that radicalises them, and I don’t want to hear any doomer takes about how these people are impossible to reach. I’ve heard loads of stories over the years of this or that particular moment being the moment that snapped someone out of their fascist sympathies.

Asking for a historical example is not inciting violence, telling people to start shooting and put their money where their mouth is, is inciting violence, even if you’re being sarcastic.

I wonder what you would consider as not “all talk”? Someone posting evidence? Gee, I wonder why people don’t do that. I wonder if that’s exactly what people engaging in direct action should never do.

I wonder how I can tell the difference between what you’re doing now and how a fed would talk.

You want receipts?

And please, keep giving me your one downvote, it’s not a sad & pathetic attempt to assert yourself that’s transparent to anyone who happens to read this, not at all.

And it’s you, not the person you’re accusing.

There’s only one person here who’s actually telling other people to get violent.

Dunno if you know dimension 20 and their Misfits & Magic mini-series, but it was basically a satire of Harry Potter, really attacking some of the unquestioned tropes in that series.

Anyway, this is a beautiful clip of Erika Ishii, who is NB, at the start of the series, saying what they think of TERFs:

https://youtu.be/4GiVpELykaE

This is an online forum. It’s words. Your idea that the people you’re talking to are all talk is unfalsifiable. If anyone did post on here about pulling a trigger you could attack them for being all talk for exactly that same reason.

On this forum, you are also all talk. There is literally nothing else you can do on here.

But go off, everybody around you is all talk, all the time. That certainly isn’t a feature of the place you chose to express your vapid rants.

People who are organising on the ground are under no obligation to keep you in the loop by posting about it publicly, especially given you clearly aren’t interested in helping anyway.

My guess is your accusations are all a projection of your own feelings of powerlessness. I mean there’s not going to be another election for about 4 more years, and your only method of change is useless until then.

Gee, I wonder if that’s by design?

I agree broadly with the idea that the state’s legitimacy relies on the appearance that they wield their violence justly, but I think you’re giving the state too much credit when you frame it as a fair and considered exchange of power.

The state has had all of us under its purview since birth, it has pumped us full of pro-hierarchy, anti-autonomy, anti-social propaganda and it wields its violence more to prevent insurgency than it does to protect us.

There is no “social contract”, nothing that I ever signed anyway, and even if there were, contract law invalidates any contract signed under duress. The concept of the social contract is just yet more hierarchical propaganda. It’s a vague, handwavey vibe to obscure the fact that we really aren’t given a meaningful option to leave.

The state relies on not just the appearance of legitimacy, but the appearance of absolute power. Both are illusions, and can be opposed by organised people directly building mutual aid on the ground. The more we meet one another’s needs for security the less we need the state and the more people can see it for the charade that it is.

The radical flank effect:

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/3/pgac110/6633666?login=false

It’s a good thing literally every critic of yours sounds like that ridiculous strawman or else you might have to think critically about your worldview.

That’s all you need, that’s what they used to make the up goer five.

Yes, this. Nobody came along and decreed the dictionary was descriptive - which would itself be a prescriptivist view of the world - it just is.

Linguistics rejected prescriptivism because it is a failed model of reality. I think the reason so many people cling to a prescriptive model is because in school we were taught obedience above all else, which is a terrible way of educating people, but maybe it helps to maintain a subservient class of workers.

This version has left handed as well:

https://caligunner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/pistol-correction-chart-misses-1170x658.jpg

Why would you pick such a hot guy with such a fuck you attitude though? Dude is a poster boy for how screwed the system is that even someone as wealthy as him couldn’t get coverage.

Like I never get these patsy claims - who is recruiting for this and how? Why are they so bad at it? Why would they pick such a sympathetic target? Why pick someone with such a clear and obvious motive and then let the media hum and haw about how “the motive isn’t clear”? Why not control the narrative better than this?

Sorry, I don’t buy it. The cops could easily have planted the gun on the guy even if he did it. That’s what they do. The story still adds up, it just makes a conviction harder to achieve now, which is honestly great news.

I’ll be honest, after seeing the public’s reaction, and weighing his options for a week, he may have simply decided that whether or not he could beat the rap then he’d be a hero in the history books forever. He could dine out on that for the rest of his life. Even in prison I bet he’d be well treated by the inmates, if not the guards.

There’s a decent chance he gets some of that sweet sweet jury nullification though. I mean he’s clearly a risk taker, maybe he decided to roll the dice. The cops being the dumbest shits possible about planting evidence will only help him in that regard.

Anyway, I don’t think it’s so impossible he deliberately got caught with his manifesto. It’s possible he destroyed the gun, then was willing to get caught and they planted evidence. Maybe they did it out of force of habit, or they were just so hyped on what big heroes they were being they couldn’t help themselves.

ever read him his Miranda rights

I’ve got a Fox News talking point to recycle from the Boston Marathon bombing:

“That’s great! He doesn’t have those rights so we don’t have to worry about due process!”

Which is… not how that works.

Also youtube just recommended a nondestructive way to enhance the left joycon using conductive foam. I had no idea this was an option, but it’s from ifixit who are basically one of the most reputable repair resources out there.

https://youtu.be/XsIZU_Da2yM

You could try that before doing any soldering, I imagine the foam isn’t expensive.

I followed this for the right joycon. If you buy the antenna from the links, the only difference between them is the wire length, which has nothing to do with signal strength. I tried both because they were so cheap, but the shorter 50mm one was much better because it’s long enough without too much excess:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7myhlj/joycon_antenna_upgrade_details_and_thoughts_after/

And that person says you can strip the wire and solder that antenna to the pad on the left joycon too, since it doesn’t have a port.

I didn’t go that route, I just did this for the left one:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/6/14834648/nintendo-switch-left-joy-con-connectivity-antenna-mod-fix-dont-try-this-at-home

I figured since I was soldering anyway I’d do the simpler thing, plus something about just tacking on a basic wire was very alluring.

That video doesn’t pay attention to the wire length, I think maybe the guy got lucky, but do pay attention to that. 2.4GHz wavelength is 12.49cm which is too long, so you need 1/2 or 1/4 that. The dipole ~6cm wire, soldered in the middle, is a good way to pick up that frequency.

This page shows you how to calculate the antenna length and shows a basic diagram of what it looks like:

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/dipole

Now, I calculated 6.25cm wavelength, but that and other pages show ~6cm, but apparently it depends on wire radius, so I would defer to their knowledge. If you get close enough, it still works from my experience.

Obviously bear in mind this is a mod and you run the risk of damaging something. Personally I didn’t destroy a joycon with the mods, I did it by not realising I had to pull the battery connector up and away from the board, which could happen with any repair. But my kids enjoyed picking out a new colour for the replacement, so that was fun.

Now that you’ve done it once, I can recommend the gulikit hall effect joystick kit, which is a drop in replacement. I’ve done it for my kids’ joycons and it shouldn’t ever need fixing.

I also installed a replacement antenna for one of them, you can buy a square one that fits where the original goes. And for the other side where the antenna is etched into the board, there’s a handy pad where you can solder on a wire. I used a 6.25cm long wire, stripped and soldered at the middle, this makes a dipole antenna tuned for 2.4GHz, and just tucked it inside the case.

Since doing this the signal never drops out. It used to be nearly useless for sitting on the couch, now it’s a solid connection.