Completed a really surprising repair today.
Someone had a dead SSD. Totally dead, not powering up, not showing up in the bios, nothing.
I did the rest where you feel for warm spots and it was painfully hot on a bank of capacitors. Caps were a dead short No way to replace them with my tools, parts, and skill, but it seemed like they could be removed without killing the drive so I removed one at a time until the short released. Drive fired back up. Was even able to boot up the original computer and removed critical files.
Surprising because I didn't think that'd actually work!
Someone had a dead SSD. Totally dead, not powering up, not showing up in the bios, nothing.
I did the rest where you feel for warm spots and it was painfully hot on a bank of capacitors. Caps were a dead short No way to replace them with my tools, parts, and skill, but it seemed like they could be removed without killing the drive so I removed one at a time until the short released. Drive fired back up. Was even able to boot up the original computer and removed critical files.
Surprising because I didn't think that'd actually work!
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/covid-lockdown-children-saved-spain-parents-horror-house-oviedo
There are people on fedi right now who think this same way.
There are people on fedi right now who think this same way.
Imagine doing the same review show since 2007.
A kid born in 2007 is turning 18 this year.
The entire bethesda fallout series was released after this.
Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crackdown, Crysis, Mass Effect, Portal, Rock Band, The Darkness, The Witcher, and Uncharted all born that year (and most of those franchises now long dead).
George W. Bush Jr. was the President that year.
The xbox 360 was in its second year of production.
The nintendo Wii had been in production for just a few months.
The top movie of the year was Spider-man 3, followed by Shrek 3. (Actually, there were a lot of bangers released in 2007 -- remember when the movie industry made multiple good movies in a year?)
The future must have seemed so bright. They probably were going "Wow, this stupid review show about old movies is doing great! I can't wait for all the cool things I'm definitely going to be doing over the next 18 years!"
And 18 years later you're still doing the same stupid review show about old movies.
If Stargate had been reviewed in 2007, then it would have "only" been 13 years old, meaning the review show is older than a lot of the things it reviewed at the time.
It's like being kitty pride and losing control of your powers, getting stuck in a wall and not being able to escape that wall for decades.
He tried to escape. He tried to kill the critic and move on. But he couldn't stop drinking the Dionysian wine of his one success. And when he brought it back, it was with a deep resignation. He knew what his future looked like, and he fought it, but he lost.
The one thing though -- it isn't just this one creator, Doug Walker, trapped in that wall. Looking back at 2007, the media that was produced, the video games, the movies, the TV, (not the music, that was horrible in 2007), it seems like many elements of the culture peaked that year, and this one guy getting trapped in his hit review show is just a symptom of the problem.
Zero Punctuation came out the same year, and let's be real with ourselves -- you can kind of feel that Yahtzee has been pumping the cash cow for 18 years as well, but you can feel he really wishes one of his other properties had taken off -- he's written entire science fiction universes, fantasy, social commentary wrapped in alt reality fantasy. He's done video games. His bread and butter is still that 18 year old wall his ass got stuck in.
It makes me wonder -- So many of these people went nuts with TDS in 2015 -- was it really because of Trump, or was it because the latent anger and resentment towards a world that became trapped in ice, and wouldn't let them escape? At least a one hit wonder like Vanilla Ice can go off and build houses for a living, his hit is created. But these guys need to keep on creating the same content week after week, because their content is ephemeral for nearly anyone who watches it, and falls off the algorithm in a few weeks no matter how popular it once was.
A kid born in 2007 is turning 18 this year.
The entire bethesda fallout series was released after this.
Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crackdown, Crysis, Mass Effect, Portal, Rock Band, The Darkness, The Witcher, and Uncharted all born that year (and most of those franchises now long dead).
George W. Bush Jr. was the President that year.
The xbox 360 was in its second year of production.
The nintendo Wii had been in production for just a few months.
The top movie of the year was Spider-man 3, followed by Shrek 3. (Actually, there were a lot of bangers released in 2007 -- remember when the movie industry made multiple good movies in a year?)
The future must have seemed so bright. They probably were going "Wow, this stupid review show about old movies is doing great! I can't wait for all the cool things I'm definitely going to be doing over the next 18 years!"
And 18 years later you're still doing the same stupid review show about old movies.
If Stargate had been reviewed in 2007, then it would have "only" been 13 years old, meaning the review show is older than a lot of the things it reviewed at the time.
It's like being kitty pride and losing control of your powers, getting stuck in a wall and not being able to escape that wall for decades.
He tried to escape. He tried to kill the critic and move on. But he couldn't stop drinking the Dionysian wine of his one success. And when he brought it back, it was with a deep resignation. He knew what his future looked like, and he fought it, but he lost.
The one thing though -- it isn't just this one creator, Doug Walker, trapped in that wall. Looking back at 2007, the media that was produced, the video games, the movies, the TV, (not the music, that was horrible in 2007), it seems like many elements of the culture peaked that year, and this one guy getting trapped in his hit review show is just a symptom of the problem.
Zero Punctuation came out the same year, and let's be real with ourselves -- you can kind of feel that Yahtzee has been pumping the cash cow for 18 years as well, but you can feel he really wishes one of his other properties had taken off -- he's written entire science fiction universes, fantasy, social commentary wrapped in alt reality fantasy. He's done video games. His bread and butter is still that 18 year old wall his ass got stuck in.
It makes me wonder -- So many of these people went nuts with TDS in 2015 -- was it really because of Trump, or was it because the latent anger and resentment towards a world that became trapped in ice, and wouldn't let them escape? At least a one hit wonder like Vanilla Ice can go off and build houses for a living, his hit is created. But these guys need to keep on creating the same content week after week, because their content is ephemeral for nearly anyone who watches it, and falls off the algorithm in a few weeks no matter how popular it once was.
https://enr.elections.ca/National.aspx?lang=e
Man, one thing that's impressive is the PPCs fall from grace. From nearly 5% to 0.7% in one election cycle.
Man, one thing that's impressive is the PPCs fall from grace. From nearly 5% to 0.7% in one election cycle.
Eh, I'm not normally the sort to use a source like that, but when it's an objective fact like a number from an official source, it isn't like Rebel news or Juno news or National Telegraph is going to show anything different.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CANADA-POLITICS/ELECTION-RESULTS/lgpdxggaxpo/
That's the sauce. The conservatives won the popular vote for the past couple elections but at least at the moment it appears the liberals won it by a slim margin.
That's the sauce. The conservatives won the popular vote for the past couple elections but at least at the moment it appears the liberals won it by a slim margin.
The Liberals certainly did win the election yesterday -- the Liberals won the popular vote for the first time in several elections as well as picking up more seats -- but one thing to be aware of is it wasn't entirely because the Liberals won and the conservatives lost. In fact, both the liberals and conservatives each picked up a huge number of seats, with the conservatives picking up more new seats than the liberals. Normally, the conservatives picking up this many seats would have represented a massive win, but that's not the story of this election. The liberals got more than 40% of the vote for the first time since 2000, and the conservatives got more than 40% of the vote for the first time since 1988.
This election was the story of the collapse of the Bloc Quebecois, and also of the NDP. The BQ are separatists, and the NDP are socialists with a party which used to literally be the communist party of Canada. The BQ lost 11 seats -- down a third from the previous election -- and the NDP lost a whopping 17 seats, 70% of their seats, leaving them with 7 -- and they are no longer an official political party in Canada.
The NDP leader, shown in this file photo at his home in Justin Trudeau's purse, basically destroyed the NDP by hitching his wagon hard to the Liberals. People made the reasonable choice that if they're going to get the liberals anyway, they might as well vote liberal. His horrible leadership not only lost the election for his party hard, but his entire party was in turmoil because he'd lost the confidence of the rank and file and senior leadership.
In a great demonstration that partisanship isn't always a great lens to see the world through, the NDP lost a lot of votes to the liberals, but also a lot of votes to the conservatives. Jagmeet Singh lost his seat in Burnaby North to the Liberal candidate, but he came in third -- behind the Conservative candidate as well by a large margin. The Liberals represented technocratic leftism, the conservatives represented working class populism that the NDP ought to have been able to capitalize on, except Singh totally betrayed the working class in 2021 during the trucker convoy.
Closer to 2018-2019, I thought that Singh could have become the next prime minister of Canada if he'd focused on a positive, non identitarian form of populist leftism, as Canada does have a deep appetite for such a thing and Trudeau seemed self-evidently heading towards a self-destruction. Unfortunately, Singh became Trudeau's lapdog and far from being the next prime minister of Canada, he might have totally destroyed his party for all time and started the process of Canadian politics becoming a 2-party state. This election the NDP only got a couple more percent of the vote than the PPC did in 2021 -- and the PPC didn't get a single seat in that election and are largely considered irrelevant today (6.8 vs. 4.9)
On the topic of party leaders who lost their seat, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost his in this election in an event that was forecasted but I still found surprising. In an election where the Conservatives picked up a lot of seats and he was on track to winning a majority at one point, he ended up losing his own seat. That's a shame, he was a good party leader overall and I think the conservative wins did overall represent that.
Of course, one thing to keep in mind is that Canadian political parties have been in dire straights before. In 1993 the federal Progressive Conservatives ceased to be an official party, losing a whopping 165 seats and retaining only 2. In that same election, the NDP only got 9 seats. That election was a dramatic contrast to this one, however, in that the Bloc Quebecois separatist party had just been created and became the official opposition, and a new Conservative party called Reform came about and was able to pick up 50 seats. Unlike this election which saw support ossify into two major parties, that election saw support leaving some parties and entering others.
That being said, parties rise and fall and rise again, so I think it's important not to assume today is forever. The Liberals have a big task ahead of them proving to Canadians that they aren't still Justin Trudeau's party (and if the election had not been among the shortest elections in Canadian history, the Conservatives were beginning to recover their previous momentum as Carney was slowly failing to demonstrate this), the NDP can pick a new leader and begin rebuilding their trust with the base, the BQ really didn't do anything wrong in this election and were stuck between nationalism and a Trump place, and the Conservatives have likely found a flavor of rhetoric that's likely to resonate moving forward. Assuming Carney can keep his coalition together for 4 years (and that isn't a given -- many minority governments have failed much earlier, including Trudeau's own Liberals in more than one of his minority terms), the next Canadian election, Donald Trump will no longer be President, so everyone will have to find a new path to victory.
This election was the story of the collapse of the Bloc Quebecois, and also of the NDP. The BQ are separatists, and the NDP are socialists with a party which used to literally be the communist party of Canada. The BQ lost 11 seats -- down a third from the previous election -- and the NDP lost a whopping 17 seats, 70% of their seats, leaving them with 7 -- and they are no longer an official political party in Canada.
The NDP leader, shown in this file photo at his home in Justin Trudeau's purse, basically destroyed the NDP by hitching his wagon hard to the Liberals. People made the reasonable choice that if they're going to get the liberals anyway, they might as well vote liberal. His horrible leadership not only lost the election for his party hard, but his entire party was in turmoil because he'd lost the confidence of the rank and file and senior leadership.
In a great demonstration that partisanship isn't always a great lens to see the world through, the NDP lost a lot of votes to the liberals, but also a lot of votes to the conservatives. Jagmeet Singh lost his seat in Burnaby North to the Liberal candidate, but he came in third -- behind the Conservative candidate as well by a large margin. The Liberals represented technocratic leftism, the conservatives represented working class populism that the NDP ought to have been able to capitalize on, except Singh totally betrayed the working class in 2021 during the trucker convoy.
Closer to 2018-2019, I thought that Singh could have become the next prime minister of Canada if he'd focused on a positive, non identitarian form of populist leftism, as Canada does have a deep appetite for such a thing and Trudeau seemed self-evidently heading towards a self-destruction. Unfortunately, Singh became Trudeau's lapdog and far from being the next prime minister of Canada, he might have totally destroyed his party for all time and started the process of Canadian politics becoming a 2-party state. This election the NDP only got a couple more percent of the vote than the PPC did in 2021 -- and the PPC didn't get a single seat in that election and are largely considered irrelevant today (6.8 vs. 4.9)
On the topic of party leaders who lost their seat, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre lost his in this election in an event that was forecasted but I still found surprising. In an election where the Conservatives picked up a lot of seats and he was on track to winning a majority at one point, he ended up losing his own seat. That's a shame, he was a good party leader overall and I think the conservative wins did overall represent that.
Of course, one thing to keep in mind is that Canadian political parties have been in dire straights before. In 1993 the federal Progressive Conservatives ceased to be an official party, losing a whopping 165 seats and retaining only 2. In that same election, the NDP only got 9 seats. That election was a dramatic contrast to this one, however, in that the Bloc Quebecois separatist party had just been created and became the official opposition, and a new Conservative party called Reform came about and was able to pick up 50 seats. Unlike this election which saw support ossify into two major parties, that election saw support leaving some parties and entering others.
That being said, parties rise and fall and rise again, so I think it's important not to assume today is forever. The Liberals have a big task ahead of them proving to Canadians that they aren't still Justin Trudeau's party (and if the election had not been among the shortest elections in Canadian history, the Conservatives were beginning to recover their previous momentum as Carney was slowly failing to demonstrate this), the NDP can pick a new leader and begin rebuilding their trust with the base, the BQ really didn't do anything wrong in this election and were stuck between nationalism and a Trump place, and the Conservatives have likely found a flavor of rhetoric that's likely to resonate moving forward. Assuming Carney can keep his coalition together for 4 years (and that isn't a given -- many minority governments have failed much earlier, including Trudeau's own Liberals in more than one of his minority terms), the next Canadian election, Donald Trump will no longer be President, so everyone will have to find a new path to victory.
https://news.sky.com/story/child-damages-rothko-painting-worth-tens-of-millions-of-pounds-in-rotterdam-13358008
Child damages.... What the hell? Really? 40 million? I wouldn't want that poorly drawn test pattern on my wall if you paid me!
Child damages.... What the hell? Really? 40 million? I wouldn't want that poorly drawn test pattern on my wall if you paid me!
No unlocked bootloaders, so I guess the e-waste will continue until conditions improve
Unfortunately, the Internet Archive is probably going away at some point soon. The problem is that they're mass violaters of the law.
It isn't about books (though their case where they lent out more books than they physically had during covid didn't help), it's about stuff like copyrighted movies, ROM packs including every rom for entire consoles, copyrighted music, and the like. They try to go "but we're a library", but libraries have to follow rules too.
Libraries end up following certain rules, and perhaps internet archive thought they could get away with it because they saw Google getting away with it on YouTube, but as much as people complain about dmca takedowns or ContentID, they're the reason that site can host so much -- the content owners consent and get paid. Something like a file with every Wii game ever made isn't going to even be licensable like that -- dozens of publishers would need consent to give up content that's incredibly new. On YouTube, such a file would be immediately taken down just as full length movies are often taken down.
It isn't about books (though their case where they lent out more books than they physically had during covid didn't help), it's about stuff like copyrighted movies, ROM packs including every rom for entire consoles, copyrighted music, and the like. They try to go "but we're a library", but libraries have to follow rules too.
Libraries end up following certain rules, and perhaps internet archive thought they could get away with it because they saw Google getting away with it on YouTube, but as much as people complain about dmca takedowns or ContentID, they're the reason that site can host so much -- the content owners consent and get paid. Something like a file with every Wii game ever made isn't going to even be licensable like that -- dozens of publishers would need consent to give up content that's incredibly new. On YouTube, such a file would be immediately taken down just as full length movies are often taken down.
It'd be funny if someone stabbed him in the back the same as he stabbed Liz Truss in the back.
The Canadian left just put a hedge fund manager in charge of the country. That's how stupid Canadians are.
As far as I can tell, this decision has made sure that we will become the 51st state. Just like Carney's Brookfield asset management became a US company under his leadership.
As far as I can tell, this decision has made sure that we will become the 51st state. Just like Carney's Brookfield asset management became a US company under his leadership.
Apparently Canadians love tent cities, siezing dissidents bank accounts, Internet censorship, and American gangs.
That isn't Trump's fault. Apparently Canadians chose that for themselves.
That isn't Trump's fault. Apparently Canadians chose that for themselves.
Yes, and the contemporary concept of liberalism (classical liberalism) is a modernist concept dating back just a few hundred years. That doesn't mean freedom didn't exist, but the idea of liberty as a totalizing framework is quite new because totalizing frameworks are themselves a quite recent invention. Unfortunately, even conservatism got caught up in the modernist totalizing impulse and so became just another totalizing ideology one could follow. What was conservative in the modernist period did not truly resemble what came before. Other alternatives also are built on the same foundation -- socialism, fascism, they're just different outgrowths of modernity and it's totalizing impulse.
Even postmodernism quickly collapsed into a modernist ideology because it's simpler that way.
Really interesting to realize what happened to all humanity around the time of the French revolution.
Even postmodernism quickly collapsed into a modernist ideology because it's simpler that way.
Really interesting to realize what happened to all humanity around the time of the French revolution.
ngl, the "male loneliness epidemic" isn't really about women, that's just the thing people focus on.
It's about the image talked about in the 2000 book title "bowling alone" -- without cultural institutions that bring men together in real life, you see men going through life alone -- not as in they can't find a woman to date, but as in they can't find any person to talk to who isn't in an online message board.
There used to be *something* besides work and home -- the local pub, the church, social clubs, sports leagues, and over the past few decades those things have largely been eroded and so the loneliness epidemic isn't about men not being able to spend time with women per se, but with anyone man or woman.
It isn't a "conservative male loneliness epidemic", it's really part of everyone moving forward into a postmodern civilization that's cut away everything frivolous by pointing out how frivolous it is.
To be honest, women are facing similar pressures because there's a reduced number of opportunities for social gathering for them as well. I've seen it first-hand, women who are just lonely because there aren't many opportunities to meet people if you just moved somewhere. The forces causing this affect men more acutely, but it's a chronic issue for both.
There will need to be a sea change in how people think about their relationship to the world before we see things improve. Something other than the state and the market, a rebuilding of community culture, viewed through a different lens than those two options.
I've written many times about "living in ghost world" -- the fact that I go to the park with my son several days a week and am usually alone there with him. That's not just "no men", it's nobody period.
This weekend was interesting in that it was a vision of what things could be -- parents brought their kids to the park (probably because it's the first really nice day of the year), and both my son and I had positive social interactions that we really didn't see over the past year. If only they'd choose to keep coming to the public commons.
It's about the image talked about in the 2000 book title "bowling alone" -- without cultural institutions that bring men together in real life, you see men going through life alone -- not as in they can't find a woman to date, but as in they can't find any person to talk to who isn't in an online message board.
There used to be *something* besides work and home -- the local pub, the church, social clubs, sports leagues, and over the past few decades those things have largely been eroded and so the loneliness epidemic isn't about men not being able to spend time with women per se, but with anyone man or woman.
It isn't a "conservative male loneliness epidemic", it's really part of everyone moving forward into a postmodern civilization that's cut away everything frivolous by pointing out how frivolous it is.
To be honest, women are facing similar pressures because there's a reduced number of opportunities for social gathering for them as well. I've seen it first-hand, women who are just lonely because there aren't many opportunities to meet people if you just moved somewhere. The forces causing this affect men more acutely, but it's a chronic issue for both.
There will need to be a sea change in how people think about their relationship to the world before we see things improve. Something other than the state and the market, a rebuilding of community culture, viewed through a different lens than those two options.
I've written many times about "living in ghost world" -- the fact that I go to the park with my son several days a week and am usually alone there with him. That's not just "no men", it's nobody period.
This weekend was interesting in that it was a vision of what things could be -- parents brought their kids to the park (probably because it's the first really nice day of the year), and both my son and I had positive social interactions that we really didn't see over the past year. If only they'd choose to keep coming to the public commons.
tbf, it's complicated. Objects that are light but with a large surface area will fall slower than heavy objects with a large surface area due to the force of air pushing back. To run the test properly you need a vacuum, and I'm guessing ancient greeks didn't have a lot of large hard vacuum chambers kicking around.
Meanwhile, people clap like trained seals for new projects that are going to hasten that collapse.