WesternInfidels

It’s gotten the point where one must dig into every accusation of “antisemitism” to see if there’s really bigotry or if someone just pissed off the Zionists.

If one must find out more every time one hears a word, that word’s utility is gone.

Painesville is a real place

So on one end of the bridge, you’d have the Lincoln Memorial. And at the other, you’d have gilded Temu Arc de Triomphe knockoff.

It wouldn’t be possible to visit Arlington National Cemetery without thinking of our Dear Leader.

Maybe we deserve it.

I don’t think the suggestion is that she’s a victim. Just that what we’re seeing is the fallout of a power struggle from behind the curtain.

This Threads post tells a theory / story that’s worthy of a soap opera. Spoiler: Everything comes back to Epstein, as it always seems to.

Robert Reich had some theories, including:

3. Melania is pissed off at Trump for any number of things, and today’s news conference was a way of letting him know she’s capable of making his life miserable.

Gosh maybe ICE and the DOJ should read some executive orders, eh?

By the authority vested in me … it is hereby ordered … no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen…

I have a Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencil that I bought perhaps 20 years ago. For about $7. And it still works great.

Somehow, it’s still $7? How?

Sumatra PDF Reader is no-frills and distraction free. Even on my ancient PC, it’s fast as heck. I have rather rudely installed it on other people’s PCs, because their slow all-singing all-dancing PDF readers drove me up the wall.

RawTherapee converts “RAW” files from digital cameras to friendlier image formats, and pretty often RawTherapee’s edit is all I need. It’s feature packed, it can do film simulations, image de-noising, tone-mapping, and now it has the ability to do some local adjustments, too. I have several “RAW” converters, including a commercial one, but I keep coming back to RawTherapee as the mainstay, the most productive for me.

I’ve got foobar2000 set up as a pretty plain-looking, non-distracting music player. It’s got great library features, it has a wildly customizable interface, it’s got a plugin architecture to extend its abilities in many ways. It has stayed on my PC for years because of its quiet competence, always serving without demanding my time or attention.

I used to keep my password file and other confidential stuff inside a TrueCrypt virtual volume. Now I use the successor, VeraCrypt. Both have always worked flawlessly; in fact, TrueCrypt is way smaller and I’m not aware of any security issues with it, it’s just not actively developed anymore.

These are actually blog posts that list such things:

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There are a lot of problems with this, but a pretty telling one, I think, is: That’s not even what “vindication” means. The global-warming-denial position would be vindicated – proven, justified, confirmed – by years or decades worth of data showing that the environment isn’t heating up.

Demonstrating that you have the political power to change the rules in spite of the data is not vindication, it’s just gloating.

Any dictionary could straighten this out for him, if he were interested in expert opinions, in being correct. But they’re not. Flouting the definitions is part of the bully strategy: “My will is your reality, peasant.”

“Leaked in advance?”

What reason is there to think that it’s not just him (or his family, trusted stooges, and other intermediaries) doing this deliberately for his own profit?

Hey, could we automatically register everyone to vote at the same time?

I’m kidding. I know the answer is “no.”

If “Vydia” can get access to this mechanism, it can’t be that hard, can it?

Given the current media, copyright, and business environment, why haven’t we seen this kind of reverse-piracy pursued as a deliberate business model? Buy some IP rights cheap from YouTube “content creators” who have given up, use your AI-powered robot to find vaguely similar stuff from creators who are still working, and copyright-claim it all?

It’s pretty evident there would be no downside.

Maybe small YouTubers should get together and create such a business, just to force the system to change. Make copyright claims against Paramount, CBS, etc. Make them barely plausible. Make thousands of them, from behind a rotating cast of shell companies. Make AI-powered, trust-the-claimant style copyright claims unworkable. Hey, it’s just the free market regulating itself.

I don’t know about paint exactly, but

• Control uses yellow markings, like tarps, in some places to offer some hints about which ledges the player can reach
• Wolfenstein II uses yellow markings to indicate surfaces that can be destroyed
• Doom (2016) uses distinctive lights (green in this case) to give the player a hint about which jumps are safe

On one hand, I would guess the current talk is about newer games, but on the other hand, it’s not a brand-new innovation, either.

No one becomes a billionaire by accident. People who have an insatiable urge to dominate are hugely over-represented in the Epstein class, through their own efforts.

I never see any Christians decide that the president was chosen of God – as a punishment.

That would actually plug seamlessly right in to the whole evangelical world-view and aesthetic. It’s an idea with so much explanatory power, right there for the taking. “We live in a fallen world, and the president is the proof.”

If you’re going to sneakily change what the creator drew or wrote, why stop at the creator’s name? Why not fix up a dull punch line or tidy up a drawings weaknesses?

How would we know you aren’t doing that already?

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seem to be minimizing the risk

So now that we’ve all been filled in with the facts, what is that risk?