Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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I'm a redneck. Not inbred more than normal, as far as I know. I think I'm purty smart sometimes. Since you and I are 50th cousins, at worst, you've got some redneck in you.

Don't be like the fascists. Don't get lazy in your thinking. Our antagonists are human, some are very intelligent.

To defeat their ideology, we must view them accurately. Otherwise, how will we anticipate what they will do?

I dug into 'Creation Science' for a while as a result of the cognitive dissonance. Trying to square reason and science with religion and belief in an inerrant Bible. Ultimately, I lost my religion and had an existential crisis that lasted about a year.

It was terrible. Panic attacks and circular thinking. An existential crisis is depression's cousin. Painful, frightening, and eventually exciting. I'm free now. I got rid of the slavery that was pushed into me as a child. Still have to fight the guilt and bad thought patterns.

I was not successful in bringing any friends or family with me from before. I tried. I have regrets, but would do it again.

Mike Johnson is way scarier than Trump. He's a true believer, total hypocrite, and smart. His ideal society would be similar to The Handmaid's Tale and he will pursue that agenda and believe he's righteous when they build camps and dig trenches for the bodies.

Mike Johnson scares the fuck out of me. Watch him.

Just a note on the efficacy of activist messages in FOSS.

In the Aughts, I was learning to play with microcontrollers. PIC microcontrollers were free as well as the JAL language. I ordered a hardware programmer from the Dutch guy who created JAL: Wouter van Ooijen. Probably my first purchase online. There was a statement in the license, to the effect of, the language could not be used to develop arms.

Looking back, that was a turning point for me. I was machining arms for a living and continued to do so for years. It got me to thinking about what it was that I was producing with my hands. Weapons for killing people.

I thought about it a lot. All these things I was making with blood and sweat being used to kill people. Running machines on night shift gives you time to think.

His statement was, at minimum, at least partially responsible for me changing my mind. I grew past the bad religion and far right ideology that I was taught.

I'm going to send him a thank you note.

Did you read the article? If you have a problem with the political messages he is adding to the releases, you've probably been brainwashed by a government or a political party. He's not saying anything controversial, mostly just "Hey y'all, genocide bad."

That is not a cheap toy. I've heard of them, never seen one. What is it and how much was it?

Heart of Darkness and all that? I feel like I'm pretty good at reading people, continue to get better at it. Most people, on an interpersonal level, are good. There are evil people, sociopathic or narcissistic, I usually notice them by their weird affect. Not all the sociopaths are necessarily evil, you just can't trust them.

Average people don't usually try to hurt people they know. They will be lazy in their thinking, they'll hurt people they know through selfishness, average people can do bad things. However, everyone is the hero of their own story. For the most part, people believe they are good and doing good.

Anyhow, part of what makes this so painful is seeing good people get twisted by the propaganda. For instance, the subsurface racism, most of these people were ashamed of their racist views. The racism was exploited and used to short circuit around logic. I watched my grandfather go from a kind and gentle man to using the N-word and spewing Hannity talking points.

So, I blame average people, I think they were mostly good. They fell for an obvious con, chose to listen to the darker parts of their nature instead of using logic. Does that make them evil now? IDK, maybe. Propaganda is a hell of a drug. They were weak. They probably aren't ever coming back.

Oh good grief, of course they fell for it. Not that I don't blame them for it. However, they absolutely fell for a con. To say otherwise is immature or unrealistic black and white thinking.

I'm angry with them, will likely never trust or respect them again. They're humans just like we are, they aren't acting, they aren't completely indecent, and so on.

Just because the fascist side dehumanizes its enemies doesn't mean we should. It's also not very effective when you're trying to predict what they'll do and how they'll react. You have to be able to understand the minds of your antagonists to effectively counter them.

Muriatic acid will etch and corrode stainless quite effectively.

You should wear gloves and glasses when messing with the stuff. Don't breathe the fumes, they're chlorine.

I would think that a small paintbrush with the acid in a plastic cup would work well for any slogans you might wish to write on sheets of stainless.

They're not all stupid. Again, that's a comforting lie we tell ourselves. I've personally known engineers, a Colonel, a cabinet maker, and C-suite execs that have all gone down the rabbit hole. They have willfully drank down the propaganda and are willfully ignorant but not all of these people are stupid.

Many of these aren't stupid people. That's a cop out we tell ourselves to feel superior. Willful ignorance is closer to the truth.

I'm not going to rehash the horror of watching family and friends go down the rabbit hole. It's a big ball of grief that comes in waves.

As to your supposition that psychological weaknesses were weaponized: I completely agree. I think historians will focus on it as evidence is available and time goes by, it will be considered obvious.

Cults wish they had this kind of power and reach. I agree that it has cult like characteristics, but it tolerates divergent ideology as long the orange fucker is venerated. I can't decide if it's something new or is regular old fascism, I lack the historical background to know.

I mean, at a high level, I guess so. At human level where these are real people with relationships and thoughts and feelings, it is mind blowing.

Some of them now approve of everything they stood against. Whatever the propaganda that got them there, it's wild. These are people that I respected and thought had wisdom and they have fallen for such a shallow con.

Red bull, in moderation, is acceptable. In fact, when you expect exceptional effort from your developer, such as 'crunch time', Red Bull supplementation is encouraged.

A productive developer is a happy developer!

I remember my father being so angry about Clinton that the veins in his neck and face were bulging. He thought Clinton should be hanged, at the time, for adultery and betraying the country.

Now this fat orange fuck is worshiped. I will never understand how they fell for this. The moral compromise needed to support a clown show.

Developer's needs are pretty simple, however. Keep clean straw for bedding, fresh coffee, and unimpeded access to an Ethernet jack. Your developer can have gummy worms or beer in small quantities, as a treat. Of course, the bulk of their diet should be ramen/developer chow. A simple correction, such as deleting system32 or not properly shutting down Linux, is usually all that is needed. They'll provide you with years of faithful service.

Adopt a developer today!

I'd say that's more stoner dwarf than fuck boi.

So, say I have a POE outdoor router that is TP-link. It is wired to my main router and is the network for outdoor cameras. How bad an idea is this?

Been using 10th gen kindle, 5.17.1 firmware, as my daily driver. It's not jailbroken, use calibre server to download my alternately sourced ebooks, convert to .mobi as needed.

I looked at Winterbreak. Decided not to fool with it as I can still sail with stock.

Any advantage to a jailbreak other than future proofing against side loading being disabled?