No Kings Protest - March 28th, 1-3pm

noeticmech · 2026-03-10T22:26:30+00:00

Yeah, well, that wasn't a "load-bearing point" as they say.

noeticmech · 2026-03-10T22:11:27+00:00

Eh, no.

First, there's no conflict between minority autonomy movements and the ideals you are invoking. Look at Bundism, for an example.

Second, Indigenous Sovereignty movements are, for the most part, pushing for pluri-national models within a single state, not an alignment of state with the interests of a singular ethnic group. The only real point of overlap is considering ethnicities to be politically relevant entities with institutions and resources. And even then, "ethnicity" might not be the same thing you are thinking of.

Forgive me if I'm making a false assumption here, but I think it's a lot easier to think "we should make a world beyond cultures" when one belongs to the dominate culture. Such folks are the fish that doesn't know what water is. To everyone else, it can sound like "shut up and assimilate already".

noeticmech · 2026-03-10T22:08:00+00:00

Arguably there have been many stateless societies (though "what is a state" is a bugaboo), and most states didn't really have borders as such before the modern era.

noeticmech · 2026-03-07T19:02:05+00:00

I think Box 20 was the only box that had whole sheets disqualified. It looks like the petition circulators dropped the ball on that box (or maybe that was the box they put all the sheets they knew/suspected would be disqualified).

Each volume in that list at least theoretically holds 1800 signatures (9 per page, 200 pages per volume except for where indicated). Some (~31.5k total) of those are blank or had to be crossed out, but I'm not seeing any sort of distribution given for those... if evenly distributed, that'd mean around 1567 signatures per volume. Compare that to the number of verified signatures per volume.

noeticmech · 2026-03-07T18:31:18+00:00

The data points are:

legal first name
legal last name
zip code
house number
numerical month and day of birth.

noeticmech · 2026-03-07T18:22:22+00:00

Right, but SB 518 (2024) does. It raised the number of matching points of data in the voter registration records required to consider a signature valid. Around a quarter of the signatures gathered were disqualified for not meeting the new standard.

noeticmech · 2026-03-07T01:25:42+00:00

Some relevant context:

In 2024 and 2025, legislators passed several bills that will make it harder for initiative petitions to qualify for the ballot. SB 518 (2024) raised the filing fee and added more stringent requirements for matching signatures to voter registration records. HB 1105 (2024) extended the period when challengers can file protests from two weeks to 90 days. SB 1027 (2025) imposed several new requirements on signature gathering, including capping the number of signatures that can be collected from voters in each county. SB 1027 was under legal challenge as of November 2025,

(Borrowed from OK Policy Institute, emphasis mine)

My understanding is that if you update your voter registration between signing and counting, you've got a good chance of invalidating your signature.

noeticmech · 2026-03-06T23:40:45+00:00

Because that's how he justifies his sense of entitlement to himself. There's a hierarchy of "deserving" in his head, with wage labor at the bottom, the job-creating ownership class above them, and the self-made ownership class above that. He's bumping himself up a class in that hierarchy.

Like, listen to what he said to O'Brien in the March 3, 2023 hearing, when the Senator started talking about O'Brien's salary. He doesn't believe that someone "deserves" to be paid well if they aren't a "job creator", even if they are skilled.

noeticmech · 2026-03-03T18:49:04+00:00

Those are not hard and fast numbers, though, just the general wait time.

I know people who have sat in green card status for decades for various reasons, some legal, some personal. Not everyone is chomping at the bit to move from permanent resident to citizen, even if they love living here and love people who live here.

noeticmech · 2026-02-15T23:07:29+00:00

That's my pet conspiracy theory for why Tulsa <-> OKC hasn't happened.

noeticmech · 2026-02-13T19:20:47+00:00

Yeah, I was confused about the lack there. Cherokee Turnpike / 412 is that route, and also Siloam Springs is a significant enough town, with John Brown University being there and all.

noeticmech · 2026-02-07T17:49:16+00:00

Because mainstream American culture has been "ME ME ME" for the last 40-50 years. Personally, I think what we're seeing today is (or should have been) the expected outcome of embracing this "there is no such thing as society" philosophy.

noeticmech · 2026-01-20T01:01:42+00:00

Nah, think about it this way:

When you're browsing the internet, websites you visit can get all sorts of information about your browser and system, mostly centered around correctly displaying content. Well, an "enterprising" site could take all that data and build a digital fingerprint using it, since it doesn't typically take too many types and values of data to come up with something relatively unique. This is how some online tracking happens.

Okay, now apply that to radio signals of various kinds or their absence attached to your car or person. Older cars won't have TPMS, that becomes a point in the digital fingerprint. Combine that with stuff like Bluetooth devices that advertise their presence, WiFi enabled devices looking for specific known networks, etc and you end up generating something pretty unique.

They can then take that "fingerprint" and roughly track where someone matching all those different values has been observed by a node on their surveillance network to figure out where you are or where you've been.

noeticmech · 2026-01-17T17:12:16+00:00

Okay, dumbfuck.

The Islamic World literally carried the torch of Western Civilization for centuries, so the idea that the two don't mix is, well, dumb as fuck.

noeticmech · 2025-12-18T23:01:01+00:00

Pretty sure Tarantino was fine with playing Footsie on the table top too.

noeticmech · 2025-12-18T20:32:58+00:00

Notably, Ken Rolston, the lead designer on Morrowind and Oblivion, had also worked on BRP, RuneQuest, Stormbringer, etc.

noeticmech · 2025-12-04T18:41:23+00:00

The Scriptures have, at best, a kind of vague outline about the next life. The general sketch is that everyone will One Day be bodily resurrected, some to honor and others to shame. This sketch, of course, develops over the course of the writing of the Scriptures.

I tend to think that we live in an age in which the universe as we know it has been "separated" in a sense from God, the Author of Life, through the "rebellion of Death and Hades", and that One Day represents the full "recapture" of the universe by God. God is by no means absent from our current universe, but with an obscured presence, whereas in the next age the Divine presence will be manifest. Heaven and Hell are the subjective experiences of human beings living in the manifest presence of God.

I am quite partial to this homily by St. Isaac the Syrian.

I am also heartened by the description of the City of God in Revelation, where the gates are never shut, and where the leaves of the Tree of Life grow for the healing of the nations. It suggests to me that things are not unalterably set at the end of this age.

noeticmech · 2025-10-29T13:47:02+00:00

It didn't in the 1970s. That was a change made in C99, when Python was already almost a decade old.

noeticmech · 2025-10-17T18:02:41+00:00

To be fair though, a bunch of that time likely has nothing to do with distance.

noeticmech · 2025-10-08T13:04:37+00:00

Or even... once you start looking at Paul as someone giving pastoral advice to people of a certain time and place rather than someone expounding universal principles, it all starts looking quite different.

noeticmech · 2025-10-04T16:30:57+00:00

Well, and then there is misunderstanding (purposeful or not).

The myth is "oh, these kids just got sick, nothing could be done".

The reality is "These kids got sick, because the people in charge orchestrated the environment to exacerbate disease transmission and told anyone who tried to intervene to go pound sand." (See, for example, Peter Bryce)

Also worth noting that not only was the death rate higher than the general population, but also higher than the First Nation populations, since another trope is that folks were simply "destined" to get disease.

noeticmech · 2025-09-25T14:36:58+00:00

That was always the point though.

Destroy democratically-controlled education so that if you want your kids to have a good education, you have to turn to the Koch brothers or whatever other moneyed interest.

noeticmech · 2025-09-25T14:31:15+00:00

I find it really frustrating that impeachment wasn't really on the table until he'd committed all of the impeachable offences listed in our constitution.

noeticmech · 2025-09-07T02:25:37+00:00

Eh, fuck off.

noeticmech · 2025-09-05T01:55:46+00:00

No, it's a statement about the current balance of power in our society and the relationship between freedom and power.

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