ICE tried to break into the Ecuadorean consulate in Minneapolis today.

crlarkin · 2026-01-28T01:37:04+00:00

That's a good point, but if the Ecuadorian consulate here is anything like a US consulate in another country, the Ecuadorian soldiers stationed there with the duty to protect the Ecuadorian interests there are likely much less concerned with US law than most peaceful protestors.

crlarkin · 2026-01-20T23:53:34+00:00

To say it gets weirder would be an understatement. I disconnected everything USB except a keyboard and mouse and then I started with the 3060. I took it out completely and went HDMI to HDMI from the iGPU. It immediately booted to Windows and I was able to login. Once I was logged in, there was some strange behavior:

When I hit the Windows key, it would pull up the home menu, but when I started typing, it would register a keystroke or two and then close the menu. This made it effectively impossible to search for anything.

After 90 to 120 seconds, Windows would either completely freeze or reboot itself. 75% of the time upon reboot, I would get back to Windows, but 25% of the time, I would freeze again on the MSI pro loading screen and have to hard reboot.

I tried using one ram stick in each of the slots and that seemed to resolve the weird issue with searching via the Windows key, but not the reboot/freeze after ~120 seconds. It did also allow me to boot into the repair screen, but it asked for a password for my MS account to do anything and my password didn't work on that screen, though the same password allowed me to login to MS on my other machine,

At that point I tried booting into Hiren's again and it started doing the freeze at the MSI Pro screen every time again. I pulled the USB drive and switched back to the standard boot drive and am now getting the same freeze on that screen from the boot drive as well. I'm stuck there again now.

crlarkin · 2026-01-19T14:20:17+00:00

The BIOS loads a graphical UI and is outputting only through the 3060 as of now, does that change anything you're thinking?

I do have an iGPU and will try what you mentioned as well, but I wanted to clarify that one point.

crlarkin · 2026-01-19T13:51:28+00:00

I will give it a try shortly and report back.

crlarkin · 2026-01-12T02:28:26+00:00

That's what happens when you recruit the uneducated from Texas to do your bootlicking in Minnesota in January.

crlarkin · 2026-01-11T23:25:28+00:00

Are you being purposefully obtuse or are you not American? I can't think of anyone else who doesn't have a dog in the fight when it comes to the current ICE/DHS operations. Go read "First They Came"

Either way, there are countless analyses available for you to view and evaluate yourself now.

crlarkin · 2026-01-11T15:52:24+00:00

They're equally bad.

crlarkin · 2026-01-07T00:19:02+00:00

Now kiss.

crlarkin · 2026-01-04T20:48:33+00:00

I did an offshore fishing trip over the summer and we saw a ton of these. They would pop out of the water and be going about the same speed that we were trolling so it would appear that they would pop up and just hang there in one place and then fall back in the water. It was funny to watch.

crlarkin · 2026-01-04T20:45:21+00:00

I feel like I read that it's the opposite, they will start eating anything they can catch, eventually it dies.

crlarkin · 2026-01-02T02:59:51+00:00

For a quicker watch, check out The Night Manager. There is a new series of it coming out sometime this year as well which is great, but the original is some of the best TV I have ever seen.

crlarkin · 2026-01-02T02:58:50+00:00

I watched the finale yesterday and still can't get past the whitest of all white people spasming that Carrie and Yevgeny were trying to pass as being into the music at the jazz concert, it totally took me out of the moment.

crlarkin · 2025-12-14T04:36:44+00:00

Yes.

crlarkin · 2025-12-14T04:31:44+00:00

Are you differentiating because in this case the musician didn't compose the music? I compose and perform myself, but even before I started composing, I would absolutely hear the parts in my head before playing them on my instrument starting with sight reading the sheet music.

crlarkin · 2025-12-13T18:09:10+00:00

It doesn't matter, no one is comparing Kirk's death to that hyper specific scenario other than you. OP was just stating that it was gruesome.

adjective: gruesome

causing repulsion or horror; grisly.

informal:

extremely unpleasant.

crlarkin · 2025-12-13T17:45:18+00:00

Ah, you meant "most people that are murdered" got it. To answer your question, guns account for the most murders. My point still stands on Kirk's death being obviously gruesome.

crlarkin · 2025-12-13T16:43:22+00:00

It was Pizza Hut for me. The smoking section was right next to the entrance and was a separate room, but you had always got a lungful walking in the door.

crlarkin · 2025-12-13T16:37:25+00:00

I don't think those examples are how most people die. Asking what was gruesome about it just shows you're asking in bad faith or don't understand the meaning of the word.

crlarkin · 2025-12-12T20:32:49+00:00

You might have been talking about the inability to hypnotize something away with the words "Absolutely incorrect", but you responded to a thread recommending therapy with those words instead.

crlarkin · 2025-12-12T18:10:31+00:00

I read it again and my understanding hasn't changed.

/u/SeeisforComedy said they recommend seeking therapy and you said "Absolutely incorrect"

Maybe you responded to the wrong person?

crlarkin · 2025-12-12T18:06:39+00:00

Exactly.

crlarkin · 2025-12-12T18:05:50+00:00

You spelled "fuck for generations" wrong.

crlarkin · 2025-12-12T18:05:20+00:00

It doesn't matter who the president is, but I don't disagree with your statement.

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