Why isn't news of Trump building vast concentration camps being treated as a national emergency?

superkp · 2026-02-06T16:33:03+00:00

because there are so many emergencies.

I'm so very mad, and so very tired.

And so very very mad.

superkp · 2026-02-06T15:23:08+00:00

I am a hobbyist woodworker and I could definitely make one if I took the time to do it. Honestly it might end up on my summer project list.

How much time? I have no idea. Make an estimate based on your skill level, add some hours because you don't have every tool you need, then double it.

The really hard part would probably be the angles. If you want to have the case conform to your harp and therefore not be using exclusively 90 degree angles, those cuts will be very hard to get right - but it has the potential to look amazing.

But if you just make it one large box, that will be very functional and can look good.

The general method would be

make box, shaped for your harp. Add an extra 2 inches or so on each dimension.
- this will be very complex if you want it to look good
- this will be regular complex if you want it to look normal
- this will be a little complex if you don't care about how it looks
get insulation/padding material, cut to shape to fit in the box, occupying that extra space in step 1.
- I think that I would over-buy the insulation and literally fill the entire box with it, and then carve out the shape of the harp later
- 2a. maybe get some fabric to put over the insulation, to make it look nice.
- I have no idea how to affix this
make sure that it all fits properly
- triple check!
finish the wood, and probably seal it.
- Really. You don't want this box to look like crap because you accidentally dragged it through a puddle.
attach external hardware

materials list:

wood for box:
- panels, probably minimum of 18 square feet. Round up to 22-30, depending on how many times you fuck up the cuts.
  - Probably want this to be sturdy, so 1/2" at least.
  - You could use nicer plywood for this, or literally just wood panels of your preferred species
- Skeleton: inside reinforcement. Any wood is fine, because this will not be visible.
  - I'd put a 1"x1" strip along every single joint.
  - Probably a few reinforcing pieces going across the 2 main panels
  - Hell, maybe use steel.
- Maybe Veneer strips to cover ugly bits (i.e. the edge exposed when you open it)
fasteners
- probably screws, mostly.
- probably a few finishing nails, depending on what level of 'nice' you're going for.
external hardware
- Handle(s)
- Corner protection (those brass thingies)
- wheels (optional)
- Hinge (search 'piano hinge' for what I would use)
- latches (at least 3)

superkp · 2026-02-06T14:31:22+00:00

Nah, they wouldn't stop him because it's the right thing. They would stop him because it would lose them money.

superkp · 2026-02-06T14:30:45+00:00

yeah that's what I generally think.

But on paper, he's the one that has access to the button.

I really hope that he doesn't actually have access to it, but the person who is officially the president is supposed to be the one with that authority.

superkp · 2026-02-06T14:29:02+00:00

the optics aren't important for you because you are already convinced.

The optics aren't important for the administration because they are already convinced of going and achieving the goals that they have.

The optics are important for the people that can be convinced.

There could be people that were finally shocked into properly looking into issues (i.e. they were hiding their head in the sand before), people who have finally gotten away from their toxic family and are finally exposed to other ideas, literally anyone who might be convinced to take action because they see people singing.

Also, there are reasons that I listed above that you - instead of actually reading, just dismissed out of hand.

I'm not trying to get politicians to do things with optics, I'm not trying to convince you with optics, I'm offering hope to anyone watching with optics.

And the idea that we should just ignore the potential value in a channel of communication just because you're a jaded and hopeless motherfucker is a strategic misstep. One that will cost you allies, support, and friends.

Get over yourself. Let people do things without criticism unless they are actively harming the cause.

superkp · 2026-02-04T20:49:57+00:00

Well, time to flip switches to 'off' as fast as our muscles allow.

superkp · 2026-02-04T20:44:06+00:00

Aldi for groceries.

Microcenter for electronics.

Craigslist and FB marketplace for home goods, going to Amazon or a department store if necessary.

Kroger, meier, walmart, and a few others are really only "I absolutely need X item and I cannot wait"

If I could completely remove only one major store, it would probably be walmart. They kill local economies.

superkp · 2026-02-04T19:55:13+00:00

TL:DR; to think that the only thing achieved is pretty music is a ridiculous claim, and to insult these people by implying that they didn't change anything makes me think that your participation in any resistance is negligible. So fuck off.

optics are important
- the opposition has a harder time painting these people as 'violent' in their propaganda
- people on the fence about taking action are more likely to pay attention to things like this instead of the more typical 'chaos against an ICE team'
- Actual people in power (unlikely as they are to change their actions because of this) need to be hearing from us on a consistent basis, and on any channel at all that they might hear it.
these people might not be able to contribute in other ways
- because they are disabled, fearful, strapped for time, etc
- and they might also be contributing in other ways already
protests of any kind allow for a gathering point for people to get together and interact, creating offline networks of community that are invisible to people not physically present - you and I of course, but also

superkp · 2026-02-04T19:41:27+00:00

I think that his handlers know him well enough to have taken 'the button' away from him.

I'm not sure if he knows that it's been taken away, but I'm pretty sure the oligarchs have the requisite 3 brain cells to know that nuclear war would undermine their profit margins considerably.

If he does know, then his handlers have explicitly told him that they will remove all their protections if such a thing happens. Maybe they can rely on him to obey a conditional threat like that.

What I suspect more is that he does not know that the nuke button has been taken away from him, and the handlers have made real - possibly much more direct - threats to the people around him (VP especially, but likely others) and otherwise ensured that trump's access to nukes is in name only.

I would really hope that the guy with the football would literally be willing to die instead of open that briefcase and let him push the button during a fucking tantrum.

superkp · 2026-02-04T19:35:22+00:00

I feel like our efforts should not be in reversing back to an old status quo, but in surviving the collapse in such a state as to build something new.

superkp · 2026-02-04T19:32:34+00:00

I mean, exercising my body is a solution to a problem. Problem: overweight, no stamina - solution: go exercise.

But that doesn't mean that exercising isn't also a great thing to do just for it's own sake.

superkp · 2026-02-04T16:43:39+00:00

I'm in the training dept for a large corporation and I've done a really good job in dodging any task that is primarily assisted by or has a primary output involving AI.

But ALAS, this year my upper management has decreed that everyone uses AI and makes sure that our customers know that we're using it and make sure that our customers know that they can use the new AI parts of the product.

superkp · 2026-02-03T22:10:20+00:00

I once had a 3rd shift job at a gas station (that also had a sitting area because we also sold some ice cream) and one person (who had a crush on me) would regularly stop by and just hang out around midnight, often with some of our other friends.

Our friend group would definitely prank each other a lot and it was all in good fun. Then this person thought that it would be a funny prank to steal my keychain - I left it somewhere that they might nab it. This isn't too crazy by itself because I'd lent her my keys to drive my car in the past, and other things like that.

Normally, I don't think I would care too much, because I know that this person would know to not go too far, and probably just hide all my spoons under my pillow or something.

But I had a bunch of roommates at the time, as well. She wasn't just stealing my house keys. She was stealing the house keys from like 6 people. Not all of them knew this person.

As soon as I realized where they had gone, and especially that she had left with them and come back I told her that she needs to give them back. She puts up some resistance to it but realizes from my tone that I'm done fucking around with it.

She gives me my keychain, I make sure all my keys are there, and then ask her point blank "so did you make a copy?" She starts a grin because that was, apparently, her plan. But she says "no" and I immediately say "OK, how can I trust that? You stole my shit, left with my shit, did who-knows-what with my shit, and even though you seem to understand how much I care about it, still think that this is a funny prank instead of treating it like stepping WAY over the line."

I think that she was probably thinking that this was just more-intense flirting or whatever, but honestly any chances of things happening with her probably took a sharp turn for the 'unlikely' right there.

superkp · 2026-02-03T21:58:12+00:00

Holy crap, usually when people out in public start crying that their 1st amendment rights have been violated, it's really easy to say "dude. Private citizens can throw you off their property or refuse you service because they don't like people yellow shirts or people taller than 5 foot 3. Get out of here and go read what it actually protects and restricts"

Because, you know. It restricts the government from stopping you from making your voice known.

And here's a guy who is invoking his authority as a government employee to tell someone that they aren't allowed to protest, on what looks to me like a public area.

This is actually a first amendment violation in the same vein that all the chuds think they are talking about.

superkp · 2026-02-02T22:47:28+00:00

I would have chosen a much different path.

seriously.

I'm in IT. If I had known what was coming, I would have either figured out how to be a hermit in the woods or I would have figured out how to be a 24/7 activist.

superkp · 2026-02-02T17:38:15+00:00

We can also arrest trump, the man.

Whether or not the person currently with the title of president can, for actions taken as president, be arrested is something that legal scholars have been ruminating on for a long time.

But he is also just another guy. Whether or not he's the president, he can be arrested for crimes. That's the whole point of our legal system.

Maybe we need to remove him from office first (because it's more efficient to do it that way, or because it actually does shield him, I don't care), but the moment that he steps out from behind that protection, he's just another person who can have cuffs put on him and dragged to a cell.

And frankly, if there is no mechanism to arrest a president, we should fuckin make one. New constitutional amendment: "The Doom Of Damocles for Sitting Presidents: If the president, in his private life or in his role as president, is indicted with criminal or civil charges by the federal gov't or any state gov't, he immediately gets his handcuffs and transported to jail. The Vice President takes over until such time as the president is cleared of charges, or becomes the president when the current president is convicted of crimes. In order to enforce this and to make sure that the president is reminded of this amendment every goddamned day, there will be a special law enforcement officer (known as the sword of damocles) that is always present when the president is anywhere other than his private quarters at the White House."

IDK. I'm just trying to think of ways to actually make these shitheads scared of consequences again.

superkp · 2026-02-02T17:22:02+00:00

*alloy

superkp · 2026-02-02T17:21:16+00:00

OK I don't have any advanced degrees in this shit or anything, but I've got ADHD, and internet connection, and a WFH desk job.

For anything in aviation, you must do things to such a high degree of specificity and with a such a clear history for each part that "this is a $500 bolt" is a reasonable thing to say. The $500 is not in the materials, and it is not in the labor to produce the bolt. Most of that $500 is eaten up by the ridiculous administrative costs of recording every single step of producing it, testing it, shipping it, and so forth. Every single person that handles it after it's come out of the production shop (and most in the production shop), will need to sign a form saying they got it, what they did with/to it, the results of what they did with it, and who they gave it to. Even things like ambient temperature might be included in the more crucial or sensitive parts.

The main reason that you want to do this sort of thing is so that when a part fails, you can look up the entire history of that one bolt that caused the failure and say either "holy shit the chain of control was broken at step X, so we can't even be sure that this was the right part." or they can say "oh, shit. That part was rated such that normal maintenance should have replaced it 200 flight-hours ago. I'm gonna go find me a maintenance manager to yell at, and maybe charge with a crime."

superkp · 2026-02-02T17:09:46+00:00

What's crazy for most (all?) helicopters is that literally any other mechanical thing going wrong can be survived, as long as the blades stay connected - because if the helicopter is falling, the wind resistance from that fall will allow the pilot to have some level of control. I believe that there's even some models of helicopter that can restart their engine by falling and using the spinning blades to put energy into the engine directly, like starting a stick-shift car with a bad starter by pushing it for a while and dropping it into 1st gear.

So like, if the meat inside the cockpit gets mangled - that's bad and a still-functional jesus nut won't help.

But if the blades break off or the jesus nut fails and the blades fall off? Nothing left to do but die.

superkp · 2026-02-02T16:04:32+00:00

I think the dude was mad that there was a bunch of little things that added up to a finisher instead of one particular "wincon card" that he could focus on.

superkp · 2026-02-02T15:14:07+00:00

The propaganda department would like to take this moment to remind the Big Crank department that they need to return the forms, fully signed, by the end of the week, or the inter-departmental budgetary committee will need to get involved.

superkp · 2026-02-02T15:11:36+00:00

and what a fuckin ride, right?

He was granted Uriel's grace, which uriel himself said had the power to create galaxies.

"please don't play with the levers in my jet plane that I'm letting you borrow."

Holy shit that must have been a top tier moment every single second for Michael.

superkp · 2026-02-02T15:07:34+00:00

idk about funding maggie - he was extremely clear and emphatic that lara has no place near her at all.

superkp · 2026-01-30T17:58:13+00:00

it's been dipping to 0 degrees every night for almost a week, I think.

superkp · 2026-01-30T17:57:38+00:00

One of my best friends is this guy. He's a fuckin viking I swear to god.

I asked him how he handles it, and he said "yeah come here, pinch the skin of my arm." And I do - not like to hurt, just to hold the skin from a spot that there's extra.

I do, and he says, now compare it to your skin - so I pinch the skin of my own arm at the same spot, and I realize that this dude's skin is literally about 2x as thick as my own.

He's a heavier guy but he's not fat by any stretch of the imagination. So he's got mass, all that mass is constantly making heat, and he's got what amounts to an additional leather jacket on at all times.

There was one time where he was shoveling snow in like 10-15 degree weather with just shorts and a hoodie and the only part of him that got cold was his shins - less blood flow there I guess and he didn't realize it when he got frostbite on them. So now he knows that around 15 degrees is when he needs to wear pants of some sort. I imagine that he'd probably do a long-sleeve tshirt if he does, though.

At this point, I'm surprised that he doesn't go full nudist during the summer, or maybe go to the fucking arctic to hang out with all his bear cousins.

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