“the first thing to do is to raise hell. That’s always the first thing to do when you’re faced with an injustice and feel powerless.”

-‘Mother’ Jones.

-Michael Scott

The Democrats have a long history of waiting until Republicans hold a majority in both houses to propose milquetoast change.

Keeps their name in the papers without actually having to do anything.

Teach your kids survival and weapons skills. Understanding politics won’t be enough to save them

Yeah. Like make some of the best films in the last 40 years. DAMN YOU COCAINE

my faithful companions

It is far too early of the morning to make contact with the folks I have made myself a family of. I treasure them too dearly to wake them at such an hour with what my wife so lovingly describes as, my nonsense. And so I put it to you, fellow lemmings, to receive this missive.

It’s been nearly two hours if the clock is to be trusted, since I last left the warm embrace of a comfortable bed, two dogs, and my aforementioned partner. My heart yearns to be enveloped in those sheets once more. But the modern luxuries we all enjoy come with a price, and that price is paid in time. Times like these, friends, where the gap between me and cold steel is filled with warm coffee, delightful banter, and a hefty pinch of salty attitude.

I write to you at this ungodly for want of something better to do. As my presence at work was requested politely behind the threat of not so polite demands, but in all that commotion they forgot to give us anything to do. And so here we all sit, collecting a wage plus a half, longing for our beds.

Tell the others I miss them, or don’t. They’ll not care either way, and take care friends. My shift is only just begun.

Signed
Truly
Wogi

I occasionally run a lathe at work. The big CNC one says it will do 10,000 rpm

If you ever run it that fast, the jaws will start to separate and the part will come flying out at Mach 4, bounce around the inside of the machine for several minutes, destroying the chuck, all the tooling, and the chip conveyor in the process.

Another fun fact, these machines go from 5000 rpm (the fastest you’re assuredly safe to run it) to 10 at the snap of a finger and back up again. All of that energy has to go somewhere. So there’s a heat coil, pretty much identical to the one in your oven, that takes all that extra energy. It doesn’t normally get all that hot, but if you’re running a lot of parts with a lot of diameter changes, it can get hot enough to glow.

What the fuck did I just read?

Am I having a stroke?

You left out the important part that actually proves my point.

“In female dominated occupations.”

Except that’s not what’s happening. Or rather, that’s not what DEI was doing.

DEI programs are just making underrepresented people more visible. No one’s being hired because they look different.

And for centuries white men have been getting jobs that more qualified people were passed for, because they were white and male. DEI was just to level the playing field.

They’ll say they just want the best person for the job to get it, and that DEI gives that job to a [insert minority group] instead of the most qualified person.

To be fair, they may actually believe that. A lot of these people don’t believe they’re racist, sexist, pigs. They are, but they don’t think they are. It’s not part of their calculus. They see a diversity program and feel victimized by it, they may relate troubles they had to getting a job to a diversity program instead of their own qualifications.

Because, these people are terminally self centered and the hero of their own story.

They will tell you that liberals just want a hand out, while sucking down every hand out they can get. But THEY earned it, no one else does, but they did. Regardless of their circumstances they worked hard to get what they have, and no one else is willing to.

There is no argument you can make that they do not have an answer for. They’re almost always misinformed misanthropes. You’re either in their group or you’re the bad guy. There’s no winning when you engage them.

Their monkeys throwing shit. You can throw shit back by the money will have a good time, and you’ll still be covered in shit.

When the masses have nothing left to lose, they have nothing left to fear. Then the riots will come.

nevermind that under qualified candidates are chosen all the time based on a variety of factors. Like nailing an interview, having an agreeable personality, available hours, or, just, you know, having the same skin color or genitals as the hiring manager. But DEI programs are a problem. Sure.

“WELL I DON’T LIKE IT WHEN THEY WON’T HIRE WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE QUALIFIED”

They genuinely believe that white men are at a significant disadvantage in the workforce because DEI hires. No amount of memes or conversation will convince them how ridiculous that is.

The few people injured by the fire benches are likely to be poor so they can’t sue anyway.

I say go ahead with the fire benches. Can we add spikes that shoot up out of the bottom every 4 hours over night? Spikes with aids on them?

Why is your entire comment history deleted?

It does have a secure password. The only reason I have that router is I didn’t trust the modem CTL gave me to secure my computer.

OH MY GOD

Edit, to add:

Once I figured out what my modem thought my router’s address even was that worked immediately. Jellyfin is still giving me one minor headache after another but it is working, and these are all issues I can solve.

Now I have the unenviable task of resuming work on ripping literally hundreds of DVDs.

The difference between security and security theater.

Americans only do theater. They do actual security in Europe

It’s been a little bit, I suspect the issue was getting my modem and router to allow that type of traffic. It wasn’t the firewall. I remember spending a lot of time trying to get port forwarding set up so these fucking things would talk to each other the way I wanted and that’s when I hit the “you can’t do this with your set up try something else” message in the last guide I looked at.

As I recall it was an issue with either my router or the actual modem I got from CenturyLink. I would have to go back and actually try again to get specifics. I right I’d eliminated the router as the culprit but I could be wrong about that, I was going back and forth between them. Port forwarding wasn’t doing anything, there was some issue trying to forward between the modem and router, and from what I remember that’s where I ran in to the “yeah you can’t do this try something else” bit in the guide I’d found.

I was basically never able to see the server I had running on any other device. I’d set up firewall permissions as far as I could tell.