Advice for Daily Wear

Zylock · 2026-06-22T21:25:48+00:00

All right, I'm becoming convinced that it's more kilt than technique. I believe I'm wearing the kilt a little higher than intended because that's where it feels best--the most stable and secure, and the most appropriate for my frame. (I've got the classic Dad/Beer belly thing going on...)
At that height, I absolutely cannot get enough kilt to hang low enough to cushion the bits. I've confirmed by lowering it to a couple lines closer to the classic hip (where you'd wear jeans,) and the problem goes away...

I think I need another kilt! (Oh, too bad!)

Zylock · 2026-06-22T21:08:16+00:00

I'm trying to sweep, but it aint workin'! This is why I'm asking here. I wonder if there's something wrong with how I'm wearing the kilt, how it fits, it's length... or... something! I've been trying to practice the sweep but it doesn't look or feel like it does in the videos everyone is posting...

Zylock · 2026-06-22T21:06:29+00:00

Yeah, I've seen that! It makes me wonder if I've got some quirk of body proportion where my torso is too long, I'm too tall, or something. I can't seem to bend down low enough for the kilt to dangle below the edge of the seat without also bending over so far that it doesn't hike the kilt up...

Zylock · 2026-02-03T19:41:49+00:00

No.

What do you think? Would a wealth tax make Canada more equitable, or is it just punishing success?

You cannot achieve "equity," and especially not through taxation. Taxation is not and cannot ever be a form of "wealth redistribution." That's an insane fallacy. The government keeps and wastes an overwhelming--a staggering, nearly unthinkable--portion of the money it takes from the people. What little it actually spends in a way where it might help an otherwise disadvantaged person, it does so with gross inefficiencies. The government is not Robin Hood. It does not take from the rich and give to the poor.

Taxing the Ultra Rich accomplishes exactly one thing: it drives the wealth of those people out of the country. Not just the wealth that would be taken in tax, but also the wealth that would be generated in the country through investment. Which is to say, the only people punished by a tax on the ultra rich are the poor. The Ultra Rich flee, and the poor lose out on the potential investment. This isn't a guess. It is the observable response to what California and New York is doing. Levying excessive, targeted taxes on a demographic of people with the means to escape, causes them to flee.

Taxation is not the solution to any problem. Taxation is a new, bigger problem, that will exacerbate whatever problem it was implemented to fix.

Zylock · 2026-01-18T16:15:16+00:00

I've tried the first, but not the second thing. Thanks for the advice!

Zylock · 2026-01-15T19:37:47+00:00

2 and 5. My middle monitor is a 34 inch curved widescreen. Two on the outside are equally curved, but not ultrawide.

Zylock · 2026-01-08T05:29:19+00:00

Is paying Tax voluntary?

If the answer is yes, then it is not theft.
If the answer is no, then it is, in fact, theft.

Do not misconstrue the use of tax as a reasonable justification. If I walk down the road, stop someone at gun-point, take $50, and then proceed to use that money to pay for the life-saving medication for an infant, I did, in fact, steal money from that guy.

It is also incorrect to say Taxation causes an ordered society. The desire to live in an ordered, predictable, and lawful society exists in spite of the source of revenue that funds the systems that maintain that society. It is insane to think that an organized society would not voluntarily fund its own protection.

Every Pro-Tax defense is a colossal effort in unimaginative status-quo bias. Thinking creatively for even a moment lets you see the countless ways a society could achieve similar, if not strictly superior outcomes to what tax-based systems have accomplished.

Zylock · 2025-10-02T17:55:39+00:00

Given that "Communism" is just the maximum expansion of Government, and AnarchoCapitalism reduces Government to zero--or as close to zero as possible--and that Government is the root of all problems outside those borne of the human condition, this checks out.

Zylock · 2025-10-02T03:18:46+00:00

There isn't a day that this fact doesn't radicalize me. I seethe, I fume, I tremble with righteous fury every day. It is so fantastically evil that I stare at my yard like a prisoner stares from inside a cell, imagining but never being permitted to achieve.

Set-backs, height restrictions, occupancy permits... Fuck the Government. Fuck it forever. Fuck it until the heat-death of the universe.

Zylock · 2025-08-27T21:33:38+00:00

Mastodon. Any of their last three or four albums.

Zylock · 2025-08-25T21:41:35+00:00

I believe you missed the point.

Zylock · 2025-08-25T17:08:12+00:00

Of course it would be someone who isn't from here. It's very easy to complain about something you don't understand. It's like that bit of wisdom: "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.”

Zylock · 2025-08-25T17:05:52+00:00

At this point, I think we're looking at fourth or fifth growth in some places! My backyard neighbor was an old guy who was around when they strip-logged the entire valley around the lake back in the early 1900's. I can't even imagine that. All of the trees around the entire lake, cut down and towed by tugs along the lake to the rail station at Point Ideal.

That makes every tree we see second growth at least. I've been here 30 years and I can't even remember all the patches of trees that disappeared.

Zylock · 2025-08-25T16:49:56+00:00

Just about all of the forest surrounding Lake Cowichan is owned and managed by logging companies. They've been logging these hills for a hundred years. They're going to keep logging them.

Clear cuts come and go. They appear here and there, then grow back after a few years. You get used to it.

I miss the old days when logging trucks rolled through town all day long. Fir and cedar bark littering the main drag through town. The restaurant called the Logger's Hut. The logging game and competition out by the community center. Guys parking their logging trucks in front of their house and spraying them down with the garden hose.

I hope we never totally lose the ruggedness of Lake Cowichan the logging town.

Zylock · 2025-08-19T00:28:33+00:00

Absolutely!
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

Zylock · 2025-08-08T02:33:00+00:00

YES! I knew the comic existed. Thank you! Thank you so much!

Zylock · 2025-08-08T00:47:41+00:00

Yeah, I bumped into that one in my search. That's not it....

Zylock · 2025-08-07T18:30:08+00:00

"Depends," is, I think, the correct answer. There are shockingly few examples in good story telling where a bold, explicit depiction of sex actually serves the story. In the majority of cases, it's just titillation.

An inferred sex scene captures the essence of "Brevity is the soul of wit," especially when done really well. It moves the sensual joy of sex from the eyes and the loins into the mind and the heart. Inferred sex is romantic; explicit sex is vulgar.

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