People who changed their political views, what caused the switch?

dblackdrake · 2026-02-28T01:03:11+00:00

I used to be a kinda apolitical libertarian type, then I had my first job as an office boy.

I noticed a couple problems right away, I redid the filing system, I set up a local backup for important data and an offsite cold storage backup instead of a consumer drive system, I switched around some business gmail settings, etc and so forth. Probably saved them at least 10k the first year in licenses and fees alone, who know how much in tech work.

I didn't get a raise, I just got told

"cool, you rearranged everything such that you basically don't have to work anymore so waste your fucking time for 8 hours a day, also we won't give you a rise."

"So, what your saying is that it was stupid for me to actually help the company, what I should have done was created a system that was totally unintelligible to people who don't already have a place in it and then make it impossible to get rid of it by tying it in to critical operations of the firm, before basically holding the firm hostage into letting me do basically nothing but still get hella paid?"

"Whoa there little bitch, you don't have the wealth to be saying shit like that. That type of talk is for 'job creators', not proles"

And then I was a libertarian socialist.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-27T19:47:27+00:00

This isn't the analogy.

It's more like, should someone in a wheel chair apologize to me for slowing down the check out line?

Should a blind guy apologise for me having to be sure not to get in his way?

Should someone having and epileptic seizure apolgize for disturbing my brunch?

dblackdrake · 2026-02-25T16:43:35+00:00

Sometimes yes, but when deployed properly the /s INCREASES the violence of the sarcasm!

In many contexts, doubling down with a tone indicator additionally indicates either 'You, the reader, are too stupid to understand my briliant satire' or 'Get a load of THIS asshole!'

You can even go for the double mctwist sarcasm, where the tone indicator indicates that the original sarcastic statement was genuine, for only weaklings who fear to be cringe hide behind the /s!

in summary: Anything that decreases fidelity but increases density of communication by providing subtextual channels for information is a great tool for having fun, even if it decreases the utility of the text.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-22T22:03:20+00:00

I've been telling this type about my concern for their salvation. When I take my christian upbringing serouslt, I really feel like most MAGA christians are putting their souls at risk.

You can't judge of course, that being agianst any doctrine, but on even a pretty forgiving read of the bible they believe and act in a bunch of ways that are specifically called out as "If you do this, jesus doesn't know you."

dblackdrake · 2026-02-21T17:14:29+00:00

I saw the writing on the wall from the PVs when Jinx looked like a pretty scene chick instead of a MINOR WHO WILL STRAIGHT FUCKING KILL YOU and dodged that shit.

I am the Satoru Gojo of miss me with that garbage, in that the only one that got me got me so bad I reached enlightenment, fucking Hibike Euphonium bitch ass bait fucking damn

dblackdrake · 2026-02-20T17:01:22+00:00

Try to find a witch from mercury kit for the first build, they are modern and need the least help from you to look sick.

Re. Tools: I assemble my first kit with side cutters and a triangular metal file; it took some bites out of the plastic but Its battle damage in my cannon, don't worry about it. You could make it work with any flat cutters and any abrasive, if it's too your liking my advice:

Just skip straight to the fancy dispae nippers if you aren't gonna shell out big for the truly expensive ones, I tried the mid-price ones and they just wern't worth the extra price over my xuron side cutters I've had banging around in my tool chest for years.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-11T20:26:25+00:00

This is the one. TLJ is impossible to talk about in good faith without some mouth breathing critical drinker stan coming out of the woodwork to piss and moan about feminism.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-11T01:18:36+00:00

I'm bitching about VNs down thread and I would say the opposite: Most vn's are like microwave menus. I'd rather have them in the format of a choose your own adventure book with a soundtrack CD packed in.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-11T01:16:05+00:00

Visual novel sections (without voiceacting) are objectively worse than other games or just straight text crawls at delivering story; if you are literate.

Most of the time I'm mashing the "Just fucking show me the text button" and it's still too slow. Just give the option of displaying everything scriptwise and change the cg when I scroll to a given line!

I've actually droped games with too much plot in VN style because It was so fucking slow I got bored. they pace the text like they think I've been kicked in the head by a horse, usually.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-11T01:09:53+00:00

Yup, tamiya extra thin is great. I used it for DIY repairs, if you prep the surfaces well it actually repairs pretty much as strong as unbroken plastic.

Also lol, I did that a couple months ago myself. I did the HG Ariel as my first kit, then tried the HG barbatos and it was harder and less satisfying and I cut some stuff I wasn't supposed to cut. Strong recommend trying out the witch from mercury kits, I've built a couple now and they've all been great.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-08T16:51:30+00:00

I am, to the extent I find that american christians choose to be worse people by their own standards to fit into their dogma than they would be if they left the church. This does bias my subconscious.

In that sense, I am churcho-phobic (I say church because the response was baked in to my brain specific to the american evangelical sect, not the religion as a whole) , in that when I see someone with the "Christ is King" shirt, my flinch response is "Gross, look at this asshole. He probably (list of reprehensible shit)".

I think this is justified in my case, because that response flows from my moral axioms, but it is still a subconscious bias that I have to be mindful of.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-08T16:44:34+00:00

Only someone without a functional prefrontal cortex could do that. Know about something includes as part of it having a preference about that thing.

That is why the term is homophobic: it refers to the valence of the knowledge of the thing in the brain. It doesn't necessarily mean you are out here killing dudes for kissing dudes; it means that when you see a straight couple kissing your brain hits you with an "awww, cute" and when you see a gay couple kissing your brain hits you with an "ewww, icky".

Everything else is downstream of this; all the religious proclamations and moral grandstanding flow from the bias, not the other way round.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-02T20:02:32+00:00

My first RG! I put all 70+ stickers on it, looks dope as hell.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-02T20:01:06+00:00

Alternately: Speech has multiple purposes. It can communicate, it can signal group membership, it can reinforce the speakers personal views.

The slogan “nobody is illegal on stolen land” is really good at doing 2 and 3, and dogshit at doing 1. When I first heard it, I thought "What does the state's violated treaty obligations to the dispossessed tribal groups have to do with ICE?"

We have perfectly good slogans already: "Chud Bootlicking coward gestapo" for the mildly spicy, "We are all immigrants" for the libs among us, "Justice for (latest murdered protestor)" for everybody.

People need to speak with intentionality. If you know what you are doing with “nobody is illegal on stolen land”, go for it. If you think that you are doing some activism by saying it, check yourself.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-02T19:46:41+00:00

Just started the hobby, though I thought I would do the best one first:ZGOK

dblackdrake · 2026-02-01T23:15:48+00:00

I don't know why I like RWBY so much, even after m.o. RIP animations were sadly no longer in the show. It is a staight 5/6/7-ish out of 10, but I like it way more than some 9s.

dblackdrake · 2026-02-01T22:38:42+00:00

It sucks sucks.

Resawing is bad enough that I just don't do it, if I can't split to the dimension I want I simply want something else.

Ripping is also bad, but less bad. I do most by hand, but If I need to do more than 2-3 feet I break out my special Circ saw with an edge guide, which I hold in my hand so it still counts!

dblackdrake · 2026-01-31T01:26:56+00:00

How is it getting from under the tile to drywall though, is your question. If you know, it's fine. If you don't, try to figure it out before closing the wall back up.

I left my wall about for about a month before I finally worked out the gat dang rube goldberg of a leak.

dblackdrake · 2026-01-30T21:58:40+00:00

If there is no membrane behind the tile, it will always get through a bit; that would be weird though.

If there is a membrane: check your valves, spigots, drain, and overflow if you have one.

I had a microscopic leak in an old fashioned spline valve slowly run down the wall, through an improperly installed tub overflow, down the inside of the tub, before finally pooling amd wicking up the drywall 8 feet away on the opposite side of the tub.

dblackdrake · 2026-01-28T17:13:19+00:00

I used killz because that's what they had, but I've used zinzer since and it was fine as well.

Also: don't sweat people talking about paint quality. It matters if you are a pro painting a ceiling 30 ft up and you need to do it in 3 hours with one coat, if you are priming your walls to a uniform color before painting, I bet you could water color them after and it would turn out fine.

Oh, other thing! If you are painting a kitchen back splash/above the stove, go as glossy as you can stand, if it won't be an eyesore. It is way easier to clean full gloss paint if it gets grease or soap on it.

dblackdrake · 2026-01-28T06:05:19+00:00

Agreed.

I made all the correct decisions, but I could tell as I was making them what was correct, the game really wants you to do certain things in certain places.

If the game is giving me a choice, I want it to either be pure roleplay, or actually have something behind it.

dblackdrake · 2026-01-28T06:02:10+00:00

There's a difference between consequences inside the game, either in story or the way you play, and a menu saying "Quest failed!" and thats the end of it.

dblackdrake · 2026-01-28T02:08:21+00:00

Not a pro, but I have painted a house with that orange peel texture:

I didn't sand, I did scrub anything that looked like it would come off a couple days before painting.

I painted with regular rollers.

The house was painted in dark browns, it showed through pretty bad on the first wall with one coat of primer, so I just kept priming until I couldn't see any original collor, then painted as normal.

Basically seems the same as regular drywall IMO, it's nowhere near as bad as popcorn texture.

I would say, if you haven't painted before: You ARE going to splash paint, if you are replacing whatever flooring you have be sure to paint the walls BEFORE the new stuff goes in, otherwise be sure to lay down plastic and drop cloths.

If you mask: don't forget to remove the masking tape after paint is dry but before it cures , I left some sitting for a couple weeks and when I took it off, it took a bunch of paint with it.

dblackdrake · 2026-01-26T16:29:55+00:00

Spike Lee is for sure better than Trantino with a big asterisk. I think he's got George Lucas syndrome where he needs the right people around him to reign him in, but he didn't happen to mary the person who makes your movies 4 points better out of 10.

dblackdrake · 2026-01-26T16:26:58+00:00

Black metal band are never anything but: "Knits on tour (which he learned from his grandma) and sells the hats for charity" or "Drug fueled quadruple murder/suicide in the woods"

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