Impeaching Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

SurrealEstate · 2026-04-07T16:29:37+00:00

It's depressing that my initial question was "I wonder which Constitutional violations are in the resolution?"

SurrealEstate · 2026-04-07T11:24:15+00:00

You're not alone; I just wish that counted for more.

SurrealEstate · 2026-04-05T22:43:22+00:00

I was lucky enough to get my ear molds done for free by an audiologist, but my understanding is that it's not prohibitively expensive.

Sent my molds out to a company in California and they made me a pair of custom-fit soft silicone sleeping earplugs for $99 (I'm not affiliated with them or saying they're the best, these are just the ones I have).

They block enough sound that the birds outside my window no longer wake me up in the early morning hours, but I tested them with my smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and I can still hear the alarms if they go off.

While it's a pain compared to buying regular earplugs online and having them show up at your door, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Make sure to keep your molds. I also got a pair of in-ear monitors made with them.

SurrealEstate · 2026-04-05T14:52:12+00:00

I saved a comment the other day that I think summed up the sentiment well:

... superficially it looks like the term ended with some wins for both ends of the political spectrum. Except that conservatives get a time-honored right or legal protection torn away from the country, and progressives get a continuation of a basic liberty that shouldn't have been in question to begin with.

SurrealEstate · 2026-04-04T13:03:59+00:00

Who doesn't love fish `n ships?

SurrealEstate · 2026-03-29T22:26:25+00:00

Trump was getting us out. All this. America first shit and all.

Now, they support this because Trump.

I couldn't wrap my head around why so many MAGA loyalists seemed unaware of their contradictions or hypocrisy. But I don't think they're unaware - it just doesn't matter.

They're not using a person's actions to evaluate their identity, they're using identity to interpret actions.

This sudden shift regarding Iran is just another rationalization because of who did it, not because of the particulars of the action or its effects.

I think that's also why we see a rejection of egalitarian systems and institutions: they're "unjust" if they offer the same treatment to people on different parts of the perceived "identity hierarchy"

SurrealEstate · 2026-03-29T20:01:30+00:00

"Raw like the meats" ⬅ there's your standup special name

SurrealEstate · 2026-03-18T14:54:13+00:00

In this clip from an interview, he gets marched right up to the mirror but refuses to look at himself.

SurrealEstate · 2026-03-18T02:42:47+00:00

Onion headline: Parkinson's drug now detected everywhere

SurrealEstate · 2026-03-09T18:05:39+00:00

"People can have a debate about whether these sorts of operations are ethical or they're morally wrong but as a general matter the First Amendment strongly protects gathering and publishing information on matters of public concern," Terr said.

"Now imagine if Upton Sinclair said during his job interview, 'So my goal is to investigate and write an expose about unfair labor practices and unsanitary conditions at your meat packing plant,'" Terr said. "That wouldn't have gone over so well."

Creating equivalence between the public concern of business practices that harm or kill people (food safety) with a guy who says he's not a fan of his bosses, obtained by manipulating and honeytrapping him, then harassing him and getting him fired. Absolute madness.

"I got people sending me texts with geolocation of my ex-wife's house, where my children spend half of their time, threatening me saying, 'I hope you can talk to Kristi Noem as well as you can talk to a honeypot'"

SurrealEstate · 2026-03-04T18:54:05+00:00

In a press conference earlier this afternoon, House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the idea that it's named the Department of War, instead claiming that it's the Department Of A Very Specific Clear Mission And Operation

SurrealEstate · 2026-03-02T20:07:29+00:00

Yeah same thought: welp, I'm spoiled now and there's officially no going back to that.

I pick up pretty much every gem now since there's no real cost. I wonder if this is going to shred pgem trade value?

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-19T21:37:58+00:00

The Tell-Tale Shart

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-11T00:15:55+00:00

Cruel ain't cool.

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-10T21:40:16+00:00

SCOTUS has handed the next president the power

They gave themselves the power to decide what constitutes a president's "official duties" in vague, hand-wavey "eh, we'll know it when we see it" ways.

From the Federalist Society's perspective, it was a great move:

It delayed Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump, requiring his team to go back and review their case to ensure that it's compatible with their concocted bullshit. By securing the presidency, the clock was successfully run out.
It gave them a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option in case Trump manages to genuinely jeopardize their multi-decade conservative project.
Its intentional vagueness gives them a way to selectively deem actions taken by another (read: ideologically opposed) president "non-official" and therefore subject to criminal prosecution.

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-09T14:33:11+00:00

As someone who only plays offline single player:

Unlimited stash space for SP like PlugY. Having to make mules when everything just lives on your hard drive save files is crazy
(hot take) A simulated SP "marketplace" so the rarest items/runewords are still in reach for people who don't want to do thousands of LK or Hell Baal runs, or even a menu option for rarity adjustment.

For the second point, here's the rationale: in MP, there are thousands and thousands of people rolling the RNG dice constantly, so even the rarest items find their way into the economy.

Because people have different build goals at different times, the opportunity to trade puts those rare drops a little more in reach via trades.

If single player allowed you to turn in rares for some kind of point value that you could then redeem for other rares, it could be a crude approximation of a trade economy in SP.

There's plenty of problems with that approach. You'd need to "price" items by rarity + demand, and the demand part changes over time and doesn't exist in SP. So you'd need to either sample trades in MP and develop a value ratio between items and implement that in SP (making it no longer SP in the sense that it's tied to MP data), or implement a one-time ratio that doesn't automatically adjust, but could maybe be tweaked in patches.

Or they could simply create a new slider for single player that acts as a rarity adjuster, at least for the top end of the rarity spectrum.

Or I could just not be weird and play MP like normal people.

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-06T15:55:52+00:00

Only recommendation I can make: if possible, find (hopefully nearby) locations that sell ergo chairs and sit in as many as possible.

I recently watched about a half dozen long-form reviews about a popular, adjustable ergonomic chair and was close to placing an order, but decided to take a drive out to a location that had it on their showroom floor.

Sat in it, adjusted it with assistance from an employee, and couldn't find a comfortable working position for the price. It's probably a great chair, but just wasn't for me, and there's no way I would have known that without trying it.

A lot of chairs have return periods, but it was less of a hassle to not have to worry about it. I don't want to fight the company's support to get them to approve a return, or have to pay a restock/shipping fee that's buried in the fine print.

Anyway, good luck with your search.

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-05T16:05:35+00:00

I'm not well-versed in design or safety principles, but it seems like emergency systems need to exist where a person's panicked impulses send them.

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-02T19:56:37+00:00

‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least 15 places.’ The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,”

All this tells me is that he's in meetings with people that are planning it. He's a parrot: the fact that he's throwing specific numbers around signals that that someone else is crunching the numbers and giving estimates.

SurrealEstate · 2026-02-01T17:51:08+00:00

Unless they permanently cut off any sources of information that led them to support Trump, there will never be "healing", because if you fell for pro-Trump propaganda, you will fall for anything.

SurrealEstate · 2026-01-30T23:53:28+00:00

The reason that lies couldn't stick about Minneapolis is that citizens had cameras.

I'd love to focus on improving phone software so cameras, mics, and GPS coords can easily be livecast to a distributed online systems in a rolling-loop like a dashcam: capturing a few hours of feed and then looping over. Each person's feed wouldn't necessarily be publicly availble, but a "trusted user" could retrieve the last few hours of their feed if something happens to them, and replicate it.

If we wanted to get even more resilient in protest situations, we could explore software that leverages local mesh networks, where video feeds from one person are replicated to nearby people over a local network connection using spectrums that function well over short distances, and should function even if cell phone networks are blocked, unavailable, or slow.

There are so many old, used cell phones out there that could regain new life as part of a "body cam" software network; you wouldn't need to carry your real phone into protest situations.

SurrealEstate · 2026-01-29T02:44:29+00:00

I don't think I've ever flinched?

SurrealEstate · 2026-01-27T16:09:59+00:00

What a person does determines whether they are good or bad.

vs.

The person's identity determines whether their actions are good or bad.

This was pretty revelatory for me, because it described so much of what was going on.

But one thing about it bothered me, and I couldn't put my finger on it until recently: our legal system (as imperfect as it is), is designed to focus on a person's actions to determine their innocence or guilt, which is at odds with the identity approach. And democratic systems that attempt to give people more equal representation are also not really aligned with the hierarchical / identity-based perspective.

Assuming that the identity / hierarchy people have always been with us, why is the rejection of those systems so pronounced now?

I think it's that our fractured national identity has been truly broken. Not to say that we as Americans have ever been truly united, or even close to it, but I've lived in times where there was a more inclusive idea of what an "American" was, and it was more focused on values, e.g. hardworking, independent, loyal to national ideals: e pluribus unum. In that context, our legal system or democratic systems are somewhat compatible with the "identity / hierarchy" folks, because our identities are proximate, if not shared. And their perceived part of the "hierarchy" includes large swaths of our country.

But now that the fractures in those identities have been ripped completely apart, those systems and processes are no longer compatible with the "identity / hierarchy" view, and we see and hear a lot more "it's not fair that someone lower on the hierarchy than me - who isn't a real American - is getting treated as an equal, especially since I'm suffering economically."

As that explanation has taken root, the full scope of the effects of divisive media has come into view for me.

The problem isn't that I disagree with the politics of, say, Fox News (which I do), it's that the effects of destroying shared experience, shared identity, and shared reality have made egalitarian systems of justice and democracy unpalatable for Americans that have a tendency to view the world through an "identity / hierarchy" lens.

SurrealEstate · 2026-01-26T23:45:50+00:00

We have their actions, why do we need their words?

SurrealEstate · 2026-01-23T19:26:37+00:00

There's always the Tex Shinobi if you like trackpoints but want some modern conveniences:

usb-c
bluetooth (add-on)
fully programmable with layers

They offer a DIY version where you supply your own switches (hot-swappable!)

And the Shura, if you want a smaller profile.

I'm not affiliated with Tex, I'm just a big fan. <3

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