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:
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.
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:
Hey, Everyone,
Just wanted to share my Joy-Con experiences here in case it might help someone else…It’s more on the technical side, but the results have been phenomenal for me.
The Joy-Cons I got with my Switch on launch day have been pretty good about being responsive and staying connected, though, not perfect, and can still be frustrating when playing them detached with Mario Kart (only when several feet away) due to some periodic unresponsiveness. Even so, I never bothered trying any of the fixes I’d seen with the original set as they felt good enough.
Several months after launch, I got a second pair of Joy-Cons from Best Buy when they came back in stock, thinking that there was enough time to fix any “manufacturing defects” by now. However, this new pair definitely had the connection issues that I’d read so much about. They were super flaky, laggy, and disconnected more often than the original ones did in various tests. The left one especially, but even the right one was less responsive on these new ones.
I tried the foam fix initially on the new left one (I had some conductive foam from other projects), and it did indeed help keep it connected, but the micro-stutters and input lag (most noticeable when playing Mario Kart) were still infuriating.
So, I did some research and came across this: https://www.tfix.co.uk/project/nintendo-switch-joy-con-antenna-upgrade/
Just Google Image search “joy-con antenna upgrade” for lots of good pictures to get a better idea of what to do.
I decided I was going to try something similar.
I ordered a bunch of these: http://www.molex.com/molex/products/datasheet.jsp?part=active%2F1461530050_ANTENNAS.xml
But, in hindsight, I think I should have gotten these ones with the longer cable as that would have made placing them in the Joy-Con much easier: http://www.molex.com/molex/products/datasheet.jsp?part=active%2F1461530100_ANTENNAS.xml
At any rate, they should be about $1.25 each at most electronic outlets.
There might be antennas better-suited for the Joy-Cons out there, but these seemed like good ones to try, at least, and were readily available.
And with those, I modded both the left and the right Joy-Cons.
The right one already has the same port as the new antennas, so it was an easy swap there, and I was able to plug the new antenna right into the existing port on the right PCB and squeeze the new antenna back in the same area as the old one without affecting the shell closing.
The left one, the infamous one, was trickier, of course. You’ve probably seen a few guides about people soldering a wire onto that antenna-related soldering point on the left one’s PCB, and that’s the same strategy I went for with using these new antennas.
I first had to carefully cut and strip the end of the antenna wire to expose the wire without damaging it. I then tinned it and carefully soldered the new antenna’s exposed wire to the typical soldering point on the left PCB. I placed a small square of electrical tape on the new solder point and wire. I then tried to run and mount it in the same spot as the right’s antenna, which worked OK and, after some careful effort, was able to get it back together without affecting the shell.
So, I then ended up with a modded left and right Joy-Con with what I hoped to be upgraded antennas.
After using them for several months now, the difference has been amazing! The range itself is a bit better, but the real benefits come in the form of how consistent and responsive they BOTH are now. Every button press feels immediate with no input-lag or micro-stutters at all, ever, no matter how I hold them!
It’s a shame Nintendo seems to be dancing around these issues and not just putting slightly better antennas in the new Joy-Cons, but at least there’s a way to improve them ourselves, which I will settle for as I love the Switch, haha.
Anyhoo, I didn’t bother going into too much detail here as the details are well documented elsewhere, but just wanted to share my experiences in case there are people still out there frustrated with their Joy-Cons (even after the official “repairs”) and hesitant to try modding them…because it’s worth it! :)
***Updated links for posterity:
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/146153-0050/molex
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/146153-0100/molex?q=1461530100
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:
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.
Big recommend on that video and Anark’s whole channel.
This is a short clip he put out recently that makes a really good case for building the new world by fixing today’s problems, which makes life better now, which is something people seem to miss.
Like we’re not just rolling the dice that what we do now might pay off for future generations. We’re not just “planting trees in whose shade we will never sit”, we are planting seeds we can reap soon, because we need to eat, so we’re solving that problem.
And satisfyingly, this brings us full-circle to addressing the point of the original post.
There’s a point I’ve heard that the kind of slop that gen AI can be used for is good for fascists, because they’re not trying to say anything or make it cohesive, they just want a glut of vague sentiments they’re agreeable to, and gen AI can give them that without having to deal with pesky artists who have thoughts of their own like, “what you want is bad, actually,” “maybe fuck you,” and “I will stab you in the eye with my pencil.”
There are 10 trillion ways to combine a sequence that long, so I think you would expect to see that exact sequence every 10 trillion digits of a randomly generated decimal sequence on average, which isn’t that many to a modern computer, so almost certainly that has already happened by pure accident.
And randomness can be defined as entropy, which you check statistically. You can never be certain, you can only increase your level of confidence. Here is how random.org does it:
https://www.random.org/analysis/
And this shows you what some of those analyses look like in real time:
I have absolutely no idea, I’ve barely played it, I just saw an essay about the design and thought it was cool.
There’s only one person here who’s actually telling other people to get violent.