How to amputate your digits / hand, with extra steps.

“OP discovers quaternions.”

How do you solve gimbal lock?

3Vector Math / Matrix Algebra?

Nonsense rotational transforms?

You do nonsense harder.

Imaginary 4th Dimension, harder.

Shut up, don’t think about it, yes it will work if you don’t think about it.

… I guess that makes it like, the opposite of Orc Wauuugh or whatever?

Oh I also don’t disagree with the implication(s) of your question there.

This is a do or die moment, a hinge point or era of history.

I am just trying to make very clear that… now that we, collectively, have allowed the situation to get to the point it is now at?

Well now, instead of removing a small tumor or two, a bit of chemo maybe… now we’re at stage 4, its likely terminal, and none of the options are good, easy, muchless guaranteed to work.

Changing the situation, solving the problem… is now simply unavoidably going to be extremely costly, in ways that… probably most people who regularly post on internet forums think they understand, think they are or could be ready for… but in reality they likely are not.

Reading about the horrors of a civil war, watching a documentary or movie or reading a book about it, … that’s one thing.

Living it is quite another.

… do you really wanna live forever?

… can you handle anyone or everyone you know, essentially randomly dying?

People are gonna actually have to answer those questions, at least to themselves, honestly.

And our culture is primarily one of consumerist escapism… so this is going to cause even more existential crises and psychoses than we have seen so far.

We’re gonna see a lot of people’s true colors.

A lot of people simply will not be able to cope, they’ll implode, collapse in on themselves, or maybe explode outwardly.

And then, after that, we’ll have to see how many people are actually any kind of competent and effective, at living, at resisting… after all the toys and treats go away.

MicroSlop:

It’s not your computer, it’s our computer.

[followed by Bible length TOS]

While I generally agree with everything you’ve said…

This, what we have right now?

The early access alpha preview of what could potentially happen.

Try and imagine an actual artillery strike or JDAM strike on your neighborhood, or, all the water stops working safely due to either a treatment plant getting blown up or intentionally sabotaged and poisoned.

Health and sanitation just stop … being things that exist and work, and soon half the city has some new plague, more or less indefinitely.

Oh you live in an enemy city, its really cold this winter, really hot this summer?

Click, boom, fizzle, pop. No more power for ya’ll, have fun.

… it can get so, so much worse than what we are seeing right now.

Yep, exactly.

State borders don’t represent the relevant people groups well at all.

Go look at the greater Idaho movement to see basically exactly what I mean, a decade long drive to break the eastern counties of WA and OR off, and into joining Idaho.

The other huge problem is this:

Cities are generally like islands, need power, water, food, which typically comes from places outside the city.

So you don’t need to even seige them, you just cut the links, and they’ll largely tear themselves apart.

But the flip side of that is that they’re also major logistics hubs and manufacturing centers, by and large… and, most stuff that gets produced outside a city has to go into a or at least near a city at some point before it can actually become something useful, or find an actual market.

So its a kind of … not quite MAD, but almost, more like mutually assured misery.

One thing you can take away is that anyone, in any location during something like this, is going to benefit from being as autarkic and resourceful as they can be, at whatever scale makes sense in a particular situation.

The big superstructures of society basically just break, and you, your buddies, your community, whatever, people with secondary backup plans, alternative economies, largely decoupled systems for providing the bare minimum + a few luxuries, thats what has a better chance of making it through something like this.

Oh, along with that comes: Repair everything, the consumable model of ‘stuff’ is now an insane death trap, not a flex.

Anything complex is unlikely to be easily, wholly replaced… makes a lot more sense to fix up shit, re use and clean up everything that can be reused and cleaned up safely.

Oh right, and uh, kiss the idea of generally free and safe medium to long distance travel goodbye.

See also:

Syria, for roughly the last decade.

… This is a self fulfilling prophecy.

She’s met men who were hard to get with.

They weren’t interested in her, or they didn’t hit her radar level, and it never even occured to her to consider them as potential partners, or they were already married or in committed, faithful monogamous relationships.

She’s telling on herself, and doesn’t realize it.

If she’s only met men who were easily to get with… that’s all she’s looking for, all she can see.

And this applies in reverse as well, or in any other gender … direction.

This is just myopia, idpol, immaturity… we’re really still doing this?

That got a chuckle outta me, a knee slap even, hahah!

They can do that, but the next update they actually decide to apply… will rewrite all/most of those changes.

Bazzite is so user friendly that I could, and did, set it up on a Steam Deck…

…without a mouse or keyboard, with just the Steam Deck as a controller!

Then I figured out how to set up containers, and built a Debian environment, that can and did successfully compile different game engines from source.

Again, without a mouse or keyboard.

… Did I mention I’m currently crippled in the right wrist and shoulder and arm?

Bazzite on a Deck is extremely usable.

Just had to tweak the base Steam Control mapoing thingy a bit to be able to use common shortcuts, figure out how to do a kind of half southpaw layout for the mouse -> trackpad stuff.

Correct.

If you can’t figure a modern linux distro, that is specifically geared towards being n00b friendly (there are a good number) …

… its time to retire from thinking you are tech savvy, its time to hang up that hat, time to humble yourself a bit, realize you overspecialized in the wrong direction.

Checks out.

Presuming this is occuring in or near Seattle, yep, yep, the “Seattle Chill” has these days basically become ‘Permaonline / hikkikomori / over exposed to fear inducing media / paranoid main character myopia to the point of delusional antisociality.’

And then you have other people who have like, basic social skills, who do not become infuriated by a bit of small talk with a rando at the same bus stop.

… You don’t know what to do with 250 swearing birds?

You start a comedy act, or show, is what you do.

Do a mockumentary.

… what do they mean ‘don’t know what to do’?

Hah! Yep, you’re right.

I had been talking about martial arts earlier, had the wrong ‘feinting’ in my brain =P

… I once saw a guy rip a page out of a Bible, to use as rolling paper for a rollie, rolled cigarette.

Called him ‘Holy Roller’, he thought it was funny.

I’m now imagining something similar but like, with an American Flag… nylon would make for like, the worst fucking rolling paper possible, both for the manual process of trying to make the rollie, and it would just be… complete fucking poison to smoke… but… I’ve seen worse… uhhhhggghhh…

In defense of real fish:

They are actually very silly.

… also, you probably can’t make a.Swedish fish without water, so, no, it does need water.

Port hole for petting a very needy kitty with attachment anxiety.

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Fuck, wait! I meant an actual cat!

Yeah pretty much, they’re basically, at their core, private contractors, whose nearly sole customer is governments.

Governments outsourced the management and operations of the Torment Nexus, not because they were forced to or didn’t want or didn’t have the resources…

… They were just too incompotent to do it themselves.

So… yeah, now they’re now functionally part of the government, of multiple governments actually.

This is how we … get to? Or have arrived at? … just actual cyberpunk dystopia, where the Corps just are, in every meaningful way, on top.

I mean, Thiel is part of the ‘basically an actual vampire irl’ club, right?

Gets infusions?