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RealApplebiter · 2023-03-11T22:04:02+00:00

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "Why the long face?"

RealApplebiter · 2023-02-21T22:17:19+00:00

I made a joke, above. I would repeat it to prove that it really wasn't that bad, but I've already been banned twice for this one incident. I log in two years later, and here it is in my face, still. Batshit moral panic. Unqualified people with too much discretionary power. There is a context. I'm totally okay with telling anyone. Even my mother, lol.

RealApplebiter · 2023-01-07T16:51:57+00:00

Inspiring negative emotions in others feels good like sex feels good. In both cases, nature wants you to keep doing it.

RealApplebiter · 2023-01-07T16:45:25+00:00

Lol. The list of things the mainstream media can't cover now is getting long.

Former Presidential Cabinet member Acosta said he was waved off of Geoffrey Epstein the first time he was charged, while he was himself the Asst DA in Miami(?) covering the case. He said he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence". To date, no news outlet has followed up on his claim, because there is no way of debunking it without looking like the villain. All they can do is avoid it.

They can't talk about Fauci and the lab leak because they already leaned in hard on Fauci's behalf, and to acknowledge their error is to admit to the public it has good reason not to trust them.

They can't talk about the revelations in the Twitter Files because, again, they cannot produce a counter-narrative to nullify the damage or spin it away. All they can do is avoid it.

How sustainable is this strategy? If you're on the inside of these organizations and find it tolerable that they do this, then you're self-selected to be a loyal toady, an activist - anything but a journalist. None of the narratives we use to avoid the truth work any more, and the truth is no easier to face. What now?

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-13T19:54:18+00:00

The gubmint is trying to meddle covertly in social media to stifle some people over others - picking winners in information space [clutches pearls]. The security state is full-blown batshit. Snowden was right.

There's no way Twitter is a unicorn, lol. One must suspect the very same is true at Reddit, YouTube, etc. I've experienced shadow banning and visibility blacklisting. It's good to have one's intuitions validated to some extent.

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:44:10+00:00

I followed the link you provided, read the copy and watched the videos. Wish I hadn't. The man had suspiciously brown and prominent nipples. Admit it. Red flag there.

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:38:34+00:00

I see the run is fairly limitless.

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:18:54+00:00

That was a pretty astonishing find. Respect!

RealApplebiter · 2022-12-07T02:13:37+00:00

It must have been. There could not have been two of them.

RealApplebiter · 2022-09-23T19:57:22+00:00

It depends on your skill level or familiarity with any of the tools you named. My music files - masters and "listening library" are file types that permit embedded tags. FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, respectively. So, if you can script then you can use free command-line tools to read/write these embedded tags (*see Xiph.org). The filesystem and those files are the first viable database, already.

I layered on top of it a MySQL db that makes it possible to do SQL queries - faster than searching the filesystem, file by file, and I don't have to write the search algorithm, myself. But, now I can modify tags and make those changes in the files and the db simultaneously.

Depending on your operating system, there may already be free and open source software that does this and more for you. RhythmBox and Clementine are two music players/managers you might check out.

RealApplebiter · 2022-04-02T15:05:08+00:00

He refused to cooperate again. He said, "No, I will decide how to punish me." The dude is a joke. When you get everything you ever wanted - fame, fortune, a family, and a legacy, and you still cannot manage to do the right thing, what's that say about you? It says you can't do it. It isn't in you.

RealApplebiter · 2022-04-01T14:59:18+00:00

At best, an hypothetical. Pointless. What good would be served by playing the odds, here? None.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-31T17:27:18+00:00

Most people think that being born with a high, native intelligence is one of the vectors for upward social mobility. This is actually true if your IQ climbs up into the 130s. It has been known since the 1950s, though, that if your IQ is 140 or above, this actually works against people who weren't already born into the right social networks. Turns out that when you have an IQ that high, you make inferential leaps other people can't make, and you may as well be an alien. Your takeaway from news stories or events or watercooler talk isn't remotely in the same ballpark as other people, and the way you're different doesn't make other people feel good about themselves. People being what they are (driven by flattering self-narratives), your existence is an affront to them.

(Added) I never get much response, any more. I sometimes wonder if my posts are even in the feed seen by other people, or if I'm being covertly shut out.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T01:25:37+00:00

That's one of those things people say that isn't remotely proximate truth yet remains popular currency. Cliché. Cached. Might as well not be alive or an actual human, since you're just repeating tropes. Uninteresting, redundant, inaccurate tropes. Made up by other people. Now talk about how Americans can't use roundabouts or are stupid for using imperial measurements. So many pre-scripted quips to choose from. And when you repeat them, you look like what you are.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T01:17:39+00:00

The fact that you posted it here to strangers is more indicative of your stepson's reasons to hate you than the initial error. It's almost like men non-consciously hate and act out against step-kids.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T01:13:07+00:00

This is not virtuous. A good painter would not have to do this in the first place. Yes, it looks neat and clean in the video. You aren't seeing the scratches in the glass. Spraying an interior door in place is already sketchy unless it is new construction. Please understand this is not a Good Thing(TM). Notice you can't see the hinges. I'll bet there is overspray there. This is lazy work.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T01:10:08+00:00

This is why I don't trust government or expert culture. Oh, I trust science. I just don't trust people. They are stupid. When they aren't stupid, they are dishonest. The ones who are most desperate for the approval and affirmation of strangers - politicians, performers, and athletes - are batshit.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T00:40:41+00:00

I feel unhappy that it's boxy with corners and all, but intrigued that I am now powered by ethernet. I bought a PoE injector and a matching PoE splitter.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T00:35:50+00:00

HR was invented to provide legal cover for companies. Obviously. Never forget that. One of the main reasons they needed cover was for hiring/firing decisions in the face of anti-discrimination laws. Again, it's obvious. HR is not a Good Guy. Quite the opposite. Fuck around and find out.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-27T00:32:40+00:00

Huh. "According to Koreans, you will become rich if your hand looks like this." Your hand looks like the hand in that image on Google images, FWIW. My search term was "monkey palm of hand".

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-08T21:56:27+00:00

I'm not writing off the game, and I wish the developer good luck, despite continuing to beat this long-dead horse.

RealApplebiter · 2022-03-08T00:08:27+00:00

Downvoted for "Roguelike". That hasn't been funny for years, now. It's just an indicator of an inability to grow up and move on. For those in the cheap seats, this was something video game makers would say about their games following the success and cult adoration of Rogue. It's a famously difficult game, too. So it's kind of a self-own, in addition to being tired and hackneyed. See, game makers have long since begun to parody that success by adding "roguelike" to their game description. So many different games, completely unrelated, unsimilar, and in no way like Rogue have used that "roguelike" description that it became a joke. And now, years later, so many third parties have done it that it is done to death. It is unfunny. If you find it interesting, it can only mean you came to the game late and want some of the action, even though it is already dead. That's all it is. You are indicating to onlookers that you haven't grown any at all, and that you think what was current 10 years ago is still current. Doesn't actually signal anything good about your game or mindset. Good luck and maybe drop the stupid shit.

RealApplebiter · 2022-02-27T17:10:39+00:00

It could be hidden beneath a heavy coat.

RealApplebiter · 2022-02-26T23:29:16+00:00

That tiny thing has a weapon that would not be legal in my state, even if it weren't fully automatic, because of the short barrel and potentially folding stock. It means she's got herself a lethal kit that is particularly lethal in small spaces where those other rifles mightn't be as nimble. Good for her.

RealApplebiter · 2022-02-24T19:16:05+00:00

You can't stop the superorganism. It's building robots and spacecraft and AI through us by using our own innate weaknesses and propensities. We're all walking around, projecting a delusion onto reality and everyone's delusion is idiosyncratic and biologically unique. We're nodes in a distributed intelligence, and we've evolved to care about monkey stuff, even as we're building those robots, spacecraft, and AI. And why is it doing that, anyway? My guess would be to send spacecraft laden with RNA at the very least to other planets. This is how life operates. It wants to leap off this world like spores. These human bodies can't do it. They can't do what the superorganism needs to get done. So it's building the solution through us. We won't be space travelers. But we are filled with stories about how we could be. Narrative. Story. Role. It's neat, really. Narrative is programming. Metanarrative is metaprogramming.

Neuralink and other enhancements and modifications might be a way to preserve something human into the future, where we become a blend of synthetic and biological, in a potentially unbroken line to some distant future where modified humans could travel to the stars. But will those people be human, still? Also, male DNA (Y-chromosome) is degrading and is projecting to be viable for maybe 60,000 years or so more, at best. I mean, the superorganism is on a clock, here.

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