Iron law of institutions. Joe Biden is merely a vehicle to power. Retiring Biden sidelines all the leeches and lampreys which have become attached to his gooch throughout his 60 year career in law and politics. All those people hold power today, and will not loosen their grasp one bit for the potental of having a more stable grasp on power tomorrow. Especially if their nepotism and personal connections don’t promise a cushy high salary do-nothing job under a new administration.

Broke: Overturning Roe v. Wade

Woke: Overturning Marbury v. Madison

Once again hitting that state of anticipation before a camping trip where I watch hours of knot tying videos.

“I came here to chew bubblegum and kick pelotas, and I’m all out of gum.”

Death penalty

Still playing Dwarf Fortress. The Fort is up to 231 population. Attempting to deal with the Bat People has only angered them. Dozens of them have been killed, but all this has managed is summoning 168 of them to my top cavern level. One legendary axedwarf got stuck 3 Z-levels up a tower-cap somehow and got pincushioned. The expedition leader also got got. One dwarf, a 7 year old child who got traumatized in an earlier Bat Person attack and lost a lung, has been tantruming, killing two dwarves somehow, even though simply walking is enough to make her winded.

The fortress has been decreed a barony, and one of the original settlers, a 5x legendary miner was given the title. New dwellings and a tavern have been built near the third cavern layer to try to draw as many dwarves towards the magma-powered workshops as possible. Several forgotten beasts have arrived, but none pose any immediate threat.

Working in a machine shop, there are many times where I can’t find a screw which is short enough. A quick trip to the belt sander usually solves this. If you can’t find a M2x2 screw, you can settle for an M2x5, M2x10, etc. screw and grind it down to size for a “perfect” replacement.

These screws are all Metric. The nomenclature (M#-#x# - e.g. M8-1.0x20) is pretty straightforward. The number after the M is the diameter (in mm), the number after the dash is usually omitted, but denotes the distance between threads (pitch, in mm) if the screw deviates from the standard value, and the number after the X is the length of the threaded part (omitting the head / cap, in mm). As long as the diameter and pitch are the same, the screw length can be shortened to create a substitute.

You probably still want to buy the correct screws, but if you have access to a belt sander or a bench grinder or something (or even a vice and a dremel), it is an option.

The idea is you’re supposed to plug the drain and fill up the sink, treating it like a little bath tub for your hands. Can’t tell you why they do this though.

What if all the air was farts and we farted ‘clean’ air

Come visit New Jersey.

I could use DFHack to eliminate them… or I could build an 80 Z-level magma pump-stack and fill the caven…

168 of these fucking guys just chilling in my cavern.

Any news?

We need to build a 50x scale slapchop and put this guy inside it.

How do you define “working class?”

Legendary

While Jake doesn’t really try to play the hard insurrectionist revolutionary, he got arrested during the George Floyd uprising and fought zionists on the barricades at UCLA. As far as podcasters go, that’s pretty cool.

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I don’t think it matters very much for us in terms of outcomes, but this is the third presidential election in a row with Trump as a candidate. We have been through eight years of the liberals screaming that we must vote blue no matter who to “save democracy.” And the fact that they have effectively strangled their opposition, litigated third party candidates off the ballot, run an uncontested primary to re-nominate a historically unpopular president followed by the prospect of them flushing the ‘popular mandate’ yielded by that primary election down the toilet at the convention is the type of dumpster fire you simply cannot ignore.

The discourse happening right now is WILD. Liberals are saying they don’t give a fuck about Biden, we need to Weekend at Bernie’s his ass in order to re-elect his administration (the bunch of un-elected think-tank warmonger demons) to Preserve Democracy. The plot is completely unraveling. A noteworthy historical shift is taking place, even if we have been completely marginalized from this arena of politics.

As a historically canonical example of hubris, I don’t even think Hillary has this much hubris.