Nuke

have you not seen any of the evil dead movies?

also because its that day again, almost.

its like the decline and fall of the roman empire, part 2. the decadence is there, the internal strife is there, the degradation of moral principals. all there. they want to charge you $10 for a bologna sandwich (no cheese, no condiments, one slice of meat on white bread), then call you entitled when you cant afford it.

getting old sucks, and it starts to suck sooner than you think. that said taking care of myself has never been a thing i did. i figured it would just make me live longer. i stand by this decision. if you haven't done anything of value in your first 40 years, you probably aren't going to in your second 40, and i'm just here, creating entropy. my advance directive says simply "use corpse for hospital pranks".

im really ok with intelligent aliens being rare. like a couple per galaxy at any given time. more stuff for us. lots of unstaked claims out there. as for landing starships the solution is quite simple. dont. use rocket shuttles, reusable post spacex kit. using chem engines with reactors on the ground operating in safe conditions splitting water. then we build massive shipyards on the moon or in orbit in places where there is no moon. leo becomes a nuclear exclusion zone. solar powered plasma tugs put you up above the nuclear exclusion zone where you rendezvous with a station or nuclear ship. ships with really nasty drives might be excluded to orbits outside of geo. interstellar vessels would probibly be limited to solar orbit higher than the highest habitable world or major colony, plus some exclusion zone, and ships crossing said exclusion zone will likely be fired upon. its really going to be an infrastructure based system much like world travel is today.

the sun gets huge whenever there is a forest fire. big and red. its actually kind of cool. ive seen it twice.

life ultimately exists to allow entropy in shallow energy gradients that are normally out of reach of the usual cosmic forces. the universe hates energy gradients so much that it created life, and further a life form capable of expanding the gradient significantly and then flattening it out over time. at which point life can no longer exist. it is thus in the universe's best interest to scatter life everywhere, bringing with it insatiable want and a lust for war such that energy gradients elsewhere can be flattened. therefor the concept of an energy neutral society is ignoring the laws of physics entirely. we can live large consume everything and push advancement fast enough that we have more energy gradients to exploit. eventually with an entire galaxy, maybe universe at its disposal until one day we cant find any still burning stars to orbit. or we can live simple boring lives in sustainable numbers, bring in our maximum yeild, minimum resource crops, live in our naturally cooled/heated homes. pile together in winter and strip naked in summer. and do that "forever" generation after generation with the final ones wondering why the sun is getting bigger. in end both civilizations die. the latter perhaps never leaving their original planet, the former after expanding rapidly and to great numbers. more lives lived and more time to solve problems and a lot more resources too. it is a more interesting place to live, if one was inclined to do so. its really only problematic when the species in question only has one planet at their disposal. you only really need your biosphere so long as you cant live without it (cant manufacture it). what we dont want to do is burn a world we currently need. maybe dont start dismantling the crust just yet, but do work on your space program.

then explain the sand speeder in a new hope.

ships in orbit that you can both see from the ground and which are dead still. everyone does it now. the creator did it, nu-dune did it with its heighliner. i can at least tolerate that because dune has anti-gravity tech. its all over star wars, in fact i think star wars is what started it (star wars is technically not wrong, as it also has antigrav, but it gets hate points until i find an earlier movie that did it). its stupid. everyone knows its wrong, even the normies know its wrong. stop encouraging stupidity! space is big, that walk to the chemist is peanuts to space! PEANUTS! normal people can understand that! so when a football field sized ship is in "orbit" and is twice the size of the moon from the ground, is not moving and is not burning up, you did it WRONG! sorry im in one of those moods again. see negative thread.

forgot to complain about current thing. mom got me out of bed early to clean up after lizzy, who keeps crapping under her desk. i presume the reason is because lizzy can no longer fit through the hole in the structure containing her litter box. keep in mind that this was a nine and a half inch circular hole. which is huge for an animal that is supposed to be able to squeeze through anything she can get her head into. so after i saw her have difficulty with said hole, this started an "hour long" project to make the hole bigger. i had a piece of particle board in the shed, which is an upgrade from corrugated. i cut an ovoid by cutting two semicircular slots with my dremel radius cutter. and cut between them. now she has a 10x12 inch hole. the panel goes on the front of mom's old sewing desk, but which turned into a dumping ground for her creepy doll collection as her disabilities accumulated. perfect place for a litter box imho. i had cut a large piece of cardboard to fill the front, leaving a gap for the cubby and drawer in the corner of the desk. this was wearing out, and the cat hole was too small. so now i can cut the cardboard door down (replacing it is the next project i suppose, as soon as i find the right material on the side of the road). getting the panel to fit took about 2 hours, keep in mind i had the thing laid out and cut in 30 minutes at that point. 2 dimensions were off and i ended up whittling at them with a utility knife until it fit. i needed 2 more structural bits. the thing screwed to the perimeter of the cubby/drawer compartment and a structural cross beam under the desktop. i needed a short piece of wood on the right side to screw to and a longer piece of wood on the other side for the closure and also add some stiffness to the particle board. both of them were too long. i had measured, i had marked, and checked the marks several times and still manage to cut them too long. the right side was actually the "right" length, but it conflicted with the aforementioned structural beam, which i didn't account for in my measurement. and the left side was simply too long, seems i cut on the wrong mark. but dinner happened and interrupted the project. at this point 6 hours had past. the cuts were also more trouble than id like to admit. my last blade for the jigsaw broke 4 projects ago (may have been the doorknob fiasco. what can i say, tooling is expensive and im cheap and poor). i had consumed all but 2 of my dremel cut off wheels on the previous case modding project (got a 4th gen intel and 1060 into a 10l business/htpc case, but its my 4th most powerful computer, out of 4 and a steam deck, the deck is #3). the hero of this story is a cheap disposable one use plastic hacksaw i bought for a quick and dirty repair when i was doing bike assembally (that was 20 years ago). not only has it lasted longer than it should but it still has the original metal cutting blade, and it has cut a lot of metal. dull af. still it managed to devour the scrap wood i found in my shed (parts of an old cradle which, also held dolls, mom has a doll problem). it turned out to be a waste of elbow grease, as 2 of the cuts were wrong. it my growing exhaustion, i drew a line and bisected it with a drill bit it 20 different directions. spinny thing cut straight? no. also complaints about my power drill would require another post of equal length. i cleaned them up with a file (oh but not a wood file, that would be easy). DONT BUY CHEAP TOOLS AND DONT SKIMP ON TOOLING! ahem. anyway 10 hours later (not including the hour it took to clean up and put tools away) project was success. ugly yes, do the screw match, no, does the cat fit, sadie does, but lizzy hasn't stopped sleeping on my desk yet. final installation ensued. screws went in. stuff lined up. the magnetic closures i had used on the cardboard model had been successfully extracted and re-glued into holes drilled into the particle board and left side member. the hammered down and flattened pc slot covers were hot glued to the remaining cardboard door. i sunk a few more screws and put one on the inside to hang my litter scoop. cats are low maintenance they say. ha!

yea im not doing f2p anymore. as mwo comes to its end and quasi-official rumors about the possibility of a new mechwarrior pvp game after the launch of clans. ive already spelled it out in clear terms that if it is f2p i am abandoning the franchise. im fed up with games that cannot be completed. because no matter what you buy they always want more. if they cant sell me a whole game at a flat rate, im not interested. i guess that leaves ksp and a bunch of retro games. at least i wont need to spend a fortune on gpus and can run linux.

four decades. i bet the smell isnt too good.

i find it somewhat depressing that im always the last to post when i come to complain about the thing of the day. what can i say its been an evenfull last couple of weeks. ever feel bad about doing the right thing? tuesday mail run. i get a letter from the state of utah. turns out it was a check for $500. a state tax return check. i have nevr paid taxes nor set foot in the state of utah. i went down to the police department and asked if it was a scam check. they couldnt tell me one way or the other. suggested i take it to my bank and not call any of the numbers on the check. so i go over to my bank. they couldnt tell me anything either. gave me the number for right government office in utah. so i get home, some time later i call the number. turns out the check in question was sent to the wrong address because the ssn was off by one digit. he suggested i write rts on it and send it back (we paid the postage). had they sent this check to my brother he would be $500 richer and the weasel probably would have gotten away with it. curse you for getting my hopes up, making me paranoid, and then disappointing me.

i remember when i got sadie, she attacked a pit bull. seeing a 2 pound kitten dominate a pit bull was both adorable and very amusing.

you can never actually simulate the full operating conditions of flight on the ground. no g loads, no pressure changes, no engine next to it blowing up.

im not too sure about that. it is a cat after all.

pit bulls are actually extremely loyal dogs. they only attack people who they think are threatening their family. that can be a mailman, or your kids friends, or my personal favorite religious missionaries. note that i do not condone dog ownership and prefer living with a bunch of cats.

dear logitech. why do you design over priced, over complicated mice and then put shoddy microswitches in them? when i buy a premium mouse product, maybe spend the money on top notch parts rather than over complicated and mostly unnecessary engineering.

i watched this one, it was interesting. but i generally dont unless its something im really interested in.

there are a couple places in alaska you can surf, but im not exactly sure where or why anyone would want to. i got in the water once, and probably got out again a half a second later. nope. then there are the lunatics who do it in winter.

i would be complaining about the heat like everyone else. but then we got a week of rain on the forcast (the worm is in agreement). so carry on. i know if it hit 90 here id put on my swim trunks jump off the dock and swim with the sea lions. keep in mind thats only like 2 blocks away.

i find his videos a little long winded myself. keep it under 20 minutes.

would work if this apartment wasnt small, where everything is tight and needs to accommidate a wheel chair user. we cant even get a couch in here. i could set something up in my room but id have to give up my electronics workbench.

i feel like star wars is in a less vandalized state than star trek. but in modern instances of both there are a few gems amongst the rubble. andor, the animated trek shows, the first 2 seasons of the mandolorian, the 3rd season of picard. what people are angry about is the appropriation of their nerd culture by people with political agendas. when they actually give a damn about the story they can actually do good. also there is a right way and a wrong way to do political commentary in a show. if it feels like they are standing on a soap box preaching the way things ought to be, thats not good. but if you just showase the issue you end up with a lot better reception and more effective commentary. also it kind of feels out of place here, i can understand it in star trek, but its out of place in star wars. a universe where everything is in black and white terms is not the place to do political commentary. the thing i didnt really like about the new trilogy i think had to do with the fact that they just kept regurgitating the same plot. i can only do empire has a superweapon so many times before i get bored.

blt. wasnt sure what to do for a side, but i had some asparagus and a carrot. so i cut the carrot the long way, trimmed the asparagus threw it in a skillet and poured on some bacon greese, salt and pepper to taste and fried till nicely carmalized. it was pretty good.