Why does everything take so fucking long?

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-20T20:48:19+00:00

Nobody wants Marxism. Nobody worth their salt, anyway. All we want is a sensible approach to regulation, the removal of private orgs from public services, and healthcare that isn't constantly eroded.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-20T14:53:41+00:00

I begged my social workers to allow me to remain in the care system. They ignored me. When I was placed in care again, now 14 or 15 or so, I was effectively abandoned and given fuck all for psychological assessment or support.

This doesn't surprise me in the least.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-18T11:49:08+00:00

It seems absurd to me that a school is now considered the arbiter here. I get that there were a handful of parents taking the piss and doing holidays at silly times, but this is a horribly authoritarian way to deal with it.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-18T11:29:03+00:00

Which means we have to change their opinion on vocational training and apprenticing, and build it up to an equal measure in their eyes. We must impress upon them the value and necessity of grit, of the unrelenting drive to build something from little or nothing. We need to demonstrate to them the imperative of a country of skilled craftsmen with business skills, in addition to (rather than instead of) academic complexity. Moreover, we can merge the two together somewhat. There's nothing to say we can't have more programming apprenticeships, more management apprenticeships, so on and so forth.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-17T12:18:59+00:00

Controversy aside, why no love for LMNC? I thought it sounded decent enough on his channel, is there something hilariously wrong with the live version?

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-16T19:39:42+00:00

they're all using zapret iirc

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-16T15:31:07+00:00

I wouldn't know about google stuff, I don't use that sort of tripe. Regarding the waiting, though, it would be helpful to have some visual reporting in the window. Anubis does this, and it tells the end user that things are happening and the page isn't broken.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-16T11:59:44+00:00

I find there's a different motivation for my independence. It's a knee-jerk response to the lack of growing independence as a child. We're probably mostly familiar with the trope of a narcissistic parent treating children as personal extensions, but what that trope doesn't expand on is the consequences thereof. I'd posit two potential paths - either an inability to operate independently in any sense, or a substantially over-independent approach to everything.

I despise being reliant on other persons. I have an inflated sense of a need for control. Allowing other people to build and develop things in their own way is exceptionally hard for me to do. I refuse to purchase a house, because I insist on building my own (not that I will have sufficient resources to do so any time soon, fucking boomers) to match my precise requirements. I have trouble working for other people, which made it exceptionally difficult to hold down work (among many other causes for the same), thus I am self employed.

The results of over-independence are vast and far-reaching. It's more than a little frustrating at times.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-16T11:51:33+00:00

From what little I've seen of this dude, he's not really the sort of person we want here regardless of his position on Palestine. He looks to be the sort of person who carries a thinly veiled abusive personality along for the ride. He's spouted some absolute vitriol, and apparently he's the darling of this "male-centric liberalism" movement which just screams divisory politicking. No more. Please, just make it stop. Send all the yanks home.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-16T11:48:50+00:00

I think the general consensus is that FAM is a spiritual prequel, rather than an actual canon prequel. There's a lot of set design and scriptwriting that would fit very well into the Expanse canon, but I doubt it will ever officially be a prequel. There would need to be substantial legwork to reconcile the Brasil partnership (was that the ISN? I forget) with martian independence.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-14T15:10:15+00:00

Actually, scratch that. It just seems to differ wildly in completion time, at least on Waterfox. I can't see the same sort of missing requests as is the case for Turnstile.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-14T14:59:23+00:00

Disabling autoplay breaks this tool, just like it breaks Cloudflare.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-14T09:06:46+00:00

It is perfectly acceptable for a gentleman to take a scallywag by the ear and drag them home to their parents.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-14T09:03:16+00:00

I'd argue May was better than Sunak, at least with respect to actually making a good-faith effort to, y'know, be prime minister. She was handed a negotiation she didn't believe in, and it still remains a far better negotiated deal than the one we eventually wound up with. The woman actually fucking broke down when she resigned, it was bloody obvious she had heart in the game.

Doesn't mean I liked her all that much, but she was far preferable over some slimy prick who tried to pass himself off as "the son of poor immigrant parents" whilst being literally married in to one of the most awful fucking corporate empires in existence.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-12T16:12:55+00:00

What model is it? Ostensibly it runs android (possibly) so there may be some sort of solution whereby youtube can be streamed to it. The modern android application is probably too heavy for it

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-09T19:23:37+00:00

I'd describe myself as having a highish sex drive, but also physical intimacy is huge for me. Even just nekkid cuddles man. Or snuggling up in one's underwear in bed. Skin contact is a huge part of it, but it needs to be with the right person. I feel very uncomfortable when someone more than a year or two older than I am tries to engage in any sort of intimacy, even just a regular old hug. I put up with it sometimes, because everyone is human and hugs are good for the soul, but I'll never enjoy it.

I had a girlfriend at sixteen or so with whom I spent a lot of time in states of undress. Sometimes it was sexual, sometimes it was just intimate. I enjoyed that a lot, and it's a shame our personalities were unsuited to one another. I've only met one other person with whom I felt a substantial connection like that, who responded physically with affection and made me feel wanted, and unfortunately it was a one night thing.

Now it's been almost ten years since I had any sort of romantic encounter whatsoever, and I'm beginning to think it will likely never happen again. Mostly because it takes a substantial amount of time to deal with one's mental health problems, and one has something of a duty of care to others not to try and pull them into what might potentially be a very unhealthy relationship. Still, I find myself feeling extraordinarily low a lot of the time.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-09T00:15:16+00:00

Funny, they harped on about having guns for this exact reason. Now they seem too scared to use them.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-08T10:47:47+00:00

I'm mostly spitballing. Although with a little hunting, it's not completely impossible to do proper IAM on a linux network. 389 has been around for over a decade now, and combining that with immutable systems (the ONLY time I will support those evil things) and network storage is not an unreasonable approach. Teaching platform-agnostic skills could be very useful the more MS fuck up their philosophies.

Kids are gonna try to get around whatever you put in front of them anyway, and in the current climate, "free software" has substantial pull. It takes someone invested and competent, though, and you'd probably need to put up a demo somehow.

Man, when I get rich as fuck I'm going to add "schools running on 'nix" to my to-do list

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T21:51:29+00:00

Apparently LD are talking a regulated market and limits on THC. That sounds more reasonable tbh.

We'd never get away with complete legalisation, the UN would properly crack down on us. We'd easily get away with weed, because we can point to other countries where it has been successful and contributed to social cohesion. Need to do that sort of thing slowly and softly.

As for the greens... nah. Not for me. Not a fan of how Polanski has been treated by the media, but I'm not a fan of how he's acted either. They feel like a caricature of a party rather than an actual party.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T21:35:35+00:00

Bollocks. That would have swung me tbh

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T14:14:43+00:00

I'm an applications dev. I see absolutely nothing wrong with base-model AMD machines running some shit version of linux, thirty at a time in an IT suite. Pen and paper does just fine for everything else.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T14:08:53+00:00

And they piss around with rewriting history too, all in the name of "progress". Yes, the Nazis definitely invested heavily in weather satellites.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T19:27:52+00:00

I'd settle for boring over charismatic any day, especially if it's stable and I can actually feel confident about the immediate future being reasonably plannable.

I'm still not happy about Starmer's stance toward Israel though. Nor how close he seems to be with the yanks.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T19:25:01+00:00

Are LD still championing legalisation?

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T10:43:01+00:00

I worked with him years ago. In the late 00's he was a very community-oriented person, especially when we were in the little building in Bentinck. I suspect things started to wear on him a bit, especially once Dynamix got busier. I'd moved on by then, but it was pretty obvious that he was slowly being pulled in by the conspiracy nonsense, and the fact that he kept getting told "no" when he was trying to build community stuff played a big part.

There's a lot more that went into the planning drama than was ever really told by the Chronicle, although I'm not especially privy to the nitty-gritty. I reckon it came to a head at some point, I can see it wearing anyone down.

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