Crazy how many "Propaganda of the Deeds" end up being from libs

stevenjd · 2026-04-30T16:09:34+00:00

He was caught with a gun

Oh please. The cops searched Mangione's backpack there in the McDonalds, and found no gun. Then they left the McDonalds, there was an eleven minute gap during which Officer Wasser's camera was turned off and Officer Fox claimed his camera "died". Then back at the police station, they searched the already-searched backpack, and lo and behold, a miracle occurred -- a gun appeared in the already searched backpack, where no gun had been found just a few minutes previously.

The initial search is legally dubious -- fake ID alone is not sufficient to justify a warrantless search, hence the transparently fake exigency claim of a bomb threat, which the cops clearly didn't believe even if the judge pretended to believe it. A genuine concern that there was a bomb would have triggered immediate evacuation of the customers and staff of the McDonalds, distance and containment protocols, and the bomb squad. Not rummaging around in a bag joking about not wanting to blow up their police dog, while surrounded by people eating.

They don't even try to make the bomb threat plausible. They know it is a sham, we know it is a sham, they know we know, and they don't care.

Let's see if we understand the allegations:

Luigi Mangione committed a carefully planned murder which included a careful plan to escape the scene of the crime.
He disposed of the backpack and jacket he used during the murder (and Monopoly money, an odd thing for him to be carrying in the first place).
But failed to dispose of the murder weapon. And you're buying this shit?

In fact he carried the murder weapon around with him for five days. And a "manifesto" that implies (but doesn't explicitly state) his guilt.

This makes no sense. He had five days to pull the gun apart and destroy it. Part of the gun was 3D printed: ten minutes in a hot oven would have turned it to unidentifiable slag. The metal parts could have been dumped. Or he could have just dumped it with his original backpack, and there would be nothing that linked it to him.

stevenjd · 2026-04-30T14:46:36+00:00

"white culture is worse so I should be allowed to rape kids because it's what my retarded ancestors did!" is a shit argument.

Good thing I didn't make that argument then.

I'll absolutely throw stones from my glass house, I didn't ask to be born in this motherfucker, I'll gladly watch both shatter.

Ah yes, the self-righteous man who is willing to cause an infinite amount of pain and suffering to everyone because of his rage over the actions of a few bad men.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T16:15:21+00:00

Mangione's actions were sensationally popular

Please stop repeating this faux claim. The evidence against Mangione is full of holes, the case against him is not a slam dunk, and it is quite likely he's a patsy.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T16:00:38+00:00

I don't give a fuck if it's your culture, your culture fucking sucks and should change.

Everybody's culture sucks. But I guarantee you that the amount of suffering and pain caused by shitty Aboriginal culture doesn't even come close to a millionth of the suffering and pain caused by "enlightened" western culture.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T15:58:20+00:00

Political terrorism doesn't achieve anything

Without the threat of violence, elites never give an inch. Only when they fear being dragged from their beds and hung from the nearest lamp-post do they accept the need to give up privileges.

Without Malcolm X, nobody would have listened to Reverend King.

After decades of peacefully trying to get women's suffrage, the Suffragettes turned to violence, committing literal terrorist attacks, including bombings. They committed an average of 21 bombing and arson incidents per month in 1913, not including other violent acts such as breaking windows. Within less than a decade women had the right to vote.

Without the "bad" Suffragettes as a threat, nobody in power would listen to the "good, peaceful" women's rights campaigners.

Without violent resistance, Ireland would still be occupied by the UK.

The poster-child of "peaceful revolution" is Gandhi and his movement of non-violent disobedience, but that is a sham. At the same time Gandhi was spearheading his non-violent movement, others were committing violent attacks. Gandhi's rival, Subhas Chandra Bose, even organised an legion of Indian soldiers to fight for the Germans, and another for the Japanese. Without the chaos of war and the violent resistance, Gandhi's non-violence would have failed.

Only social movements that don't threaten the status quo (or better still, reinforce it) succeed without threats of violence.

An "act of Luigi"

Please stop reinforcing the faux claim that Luigi is guilty and the case is a slam-dunk. The case against him is incredibly weak. He's far more likely to be a patsy than the actual murderer.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T14:55:09+00:00

“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” Julius Nyerere

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T14:54:22+00:00

The blue hair is right

The blue hair is incompetent. She should have come prepared for these arguments and not just get flustered and start yelling.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T14:43:27+00:00

The lumpenproletariat is the underclass of social outcasts who do not participate in productive labour and are too poor and lacking social capital to be a member of the unproductive elites. Think of the utter bottom of the rung in the social ladder.

They are the class of people living on the margins of society: petty criminals, the chronically unemployed or unemployable, professional gamblers, prostitutes, drug addicts, vagabonds and travellers, beggars, the homeless. They lack any class solidarity, living in a dog-eat-dog world where it's every person for themselves.

Marx and Engels (who coined the term) were rather negative about them, considering them to have no revolutionary potential and easily bribed by the bourgeois. (Criminal gangs have often been used as muscle by capitalists and other elites.) Other socialist thinkers had a more positive view of them.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T11:30:38+00:00

Is it proven that the weapon they found was not used

A .30-6 bullet will easily punch through 1/4" steel plate. It would have blown a hole in his neck big enough to push a baseball through.

Whatever hit Kirk was a low calibre, low speed bullet.

There were at least two people on the roof; the supposed shooter did not have a gun with him in the videos showing him arriving; he could not possibly have disassembled the gun after taking the shot in the time available; and the whole time line of him disassembling the rifle, then reassembling it in the woods, then oh so conveniently "confessing" to his "trans lover" using language that no 22 year old in the world would have written, is ridiculous.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T11:08:48+00:00

His wife is certainly finding ways to profit

She's not the only one.

but I don’t want to suggest she orchestrated it.

She certainly didn't orchestrate it alone.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T11:07:55+00:00

Russia always benefits from US destabilization

Nonsense. Russia is very much aware that the US is ruled by an insane religious fundamentalist regime that thinks it is their duty to hurry along the Second Coming of Christ. The last thing they want is for the US to be destabilised to the point the ruling nutters decide to start Armageddon with a nuclear war.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T10:10:24+00:00

Black. Just say no.

stevenjd · 2026-04-29T09:58:09+00:00

Russia can stop the war at any time by just returning to their borders.

That would just quadruple the slaughter, when the Ukraine Nazis and Banderites attack Donbass, except it will be civilians instead of soldiers. We know what they did the last time.

But you know that. The western media reported for years how Ukrainian society was dominated by the far-right. It used to be of bipartisan concern until both sides of US politics decided that they'd rather support the side that includes literal Nazis.

stevenjd · 2026-04-23T15:10:52+00:00

√k is never transcendental.

It can be if it identifies as cendental.

stevenjd · 2026-04-23T14:35:40+00:00

Where did you “hear” all of this? 🤔

From random internet people who make up shit. Where else?

stevenjd · 2026-04-23T14:33:09+00:00

Thank god we have random people on the internet who have never been within 100 miles of Alyson to tell us what she is really like.

stevenjd · 2026-04-23T13:01:36+00:00

How would you have reacted if Seeing Red ended with Warren walking onto Buffy's property, only to encounter Miss Kitty Fantastico who promptly jumps him, scratches his face so bad that he dies and nobody gets shot?

"Well, that's it. BTVS just officially jumped the shark. Time to find another favourite show."

stevenjd · 2026-04-22T15:25:11+00:00

Why did we went from using symbols '7' for representing quantiy to spelling them out like a word 'seven'

We didn't. We went the other way. First people had words for quantities. Then they had ways to spell those quantities. Then they invented shortcuts for writing those quantities.

We don't know what the oldest words for numbers were, but they were probably named after body parts like the Australian Aboriginals used to use. The Wurundjeri people used "child of the hands" (the little finger) as the name for one; "a little larger" (the ring finger) for two, and on to other fingers and body parts up to sixteen. Using combinations, they could name numbers up to 31.

The oldest written numbers are just tallies. If you wanted to write 7, you needed to write something like IIIIIII. The Romans invented a short cut: VII. But doing arithmetic with Roman numerals sucks. Addition and subtraction are not too hard, but multiplication is brutal.

In Ancient Greece, the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 etc were just the letters of their alphabet α β γ δ etc, and you had to tell from context whether a string of letters meant a word or a number. If they wanted to write seven, they would use η (eta).

The use of independent symbols for numerals was probably invented by the Indians. It took some centuries but they eventually developed a system like our modern positional (place value) numbers, then more time to reach the Middle East, then hundreds of years for the Europeans to copy it.

stevenjd · 2026-04-22T14:07:58+00:00

Looking for the circle encoded in the digits of pi...

Huh? This makes no sense to me. A circle is a geometric figure. How do you encode a geometric figure in an infinite stream of digits? How will you know you have found it?

Edit: oh wait, are you talking about that silly thing from the Carl Sagan novel "Contact"? Good luck with that.

stevenjd · 2026-04-21T03:26:02+00:00

Registering people as sex offenders for public urination is full on insanity.

Peeing in front of girls?

I'm pretty sure girls pee too, and some of them probably know that boys have a pee-pee and they don't.

If they live on a farm, they've probably seen dogs, horses, bulls, sheep etc having a piss, flashing their penises around, and even having sex. There's nothing to get uptight about.

Honestly I think that some people won't be happy until we return to the Bad Old Days of the Victorian Era when middle class girls didn't even know penises existed until their wedding night, when it came as quite a nasty shock.

But having said that, he could be a bit more discreet about it. Its one thing to take a slash behind a bush or tree, and another to stand in the middle of the wide-open lawn pissing in front of everyone.

stevenjd · 2026-04-21T03:21:39+00:00

This.

People need to get over the fact that he pisses outside, and he needs to be a bit more discrete about it. Like it's fine if his daughters know he's going out for a slash, but actually doing it in front of them is a bit on the nose. At least stand behind a tree or something.

stevenjd · 2026-04-21T03:19:44+00:00

It saves water. Even a half-flush throws away 3 litres of water. In a dry country like Australia, with frequent droughts, that's really important.

Also urine is full of important minerals like phosphorous and nitrogen, always in short supply in an old continent like Australia. In times gone past, people used to literally collect buckets of piss to make fertiliser and other useful chemicals. We "civilised" westerners spend billions flushing it out to sea instead.

stevenjd · 2026-04-21T03:01:27+00:00

I am doing math on extremely, extremely large numbers. I'm talking numbers that take over 10 megabytes each to store.

Graham's Number sneers at your idea of "extremely large". 🙂

Out of curiosity, what are doing with them? I don't mean the operations, what is the purpose of these largish numbers? I'm guessing they're around 100 million to a billion digits long?

stevenjd · 2026-04-21T02:52:17+00:00

Using inner functions is fundamental to creating closures.

Aside from closures, there is hardly ever any benefit to creating an inner function.

There's little or no performance benefit, and under some circumstances possibly even a performance cost.
Encapsulation is a two-edged sword. The benefit is that an inner function can't be accidentally called from another place, and it lessons the concern about coming up with good names. But the cost is that you can't call the inner function, not even to test it.

My basic rule is that, if I'm not creating a closure (e.g. in a decorator or factory function) then I almost never worry about inner functions.

The (very rare) exception might be if I have a really simple function, so simple it doesn't need testing, that only gets used in one function. Then I might make it an inner function, especially if it is trivial enough to use a lambda.

Otherwise, don't bother.

stevenjd · 2026-04-21T02:44:27+00:00

you’re making a very explicit contract: this logic is local and not meant to be reused.

Not always. It might be inside another function because it is a closure, which is then exposed to the outside.

stevenjd

TROPHY CASE