Notices by That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.club)

@All_bonesJones @William_The_Dragonborn @ChristiJunior @Hoss @caekislove "it is not laws"

You are dead wrong, at least in the US where diversity has been enforced by law starting in the 1960s.

Sure, there's much more to it, but with the Federal and more than a few state governments having their thumb firmly on the scales you can neither understand why Wokeness became so strong or what it will take to eliminate it.

Note Sweet Baby, a chilling name for this sort of company, is based on Canada but I doubt their story is any better.

@TeaTootler @jimmybuffettfanaccount @sickburnbro That's Kristi Noem of South Dakota and we thought that ended or capped her political career. But the latest rumor, can't trust it of course, is that she's very high on the list of Trump's potential VP picks, he of course being a 1970s-80s NYC Democrat.

See also Ohio governor Mike DeWine, albeit very well known to be a RINO squish, and in that case his recent veto of a law forbidding "the American Tradition of Poisoning, Mutilating, and Sterilizing Children" was overridden.

This Montana governor Greg Gianforte did indeed do that as confirmed by Bing, see for example first link below. He's got a "non-binary" son who's in his early thirties constantly lobbying him on LGBTQUERTY issues and the state is Purple enough to still have one Democratic Senator.

https://thepostmillennial.com/montana-governor-defends-decision-to-remove-teen-from-parents-after-they-refuse-to-go-along-with-sex-change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Noem

@sim @Moon In terms of long lists of recipients it isn’t a hell thread (?). Don’t know precisely how they’re defined, but I try to either prune or bulk up recipients as appropriate.

It is a thread that by its nature got over a number of days plenty of traffic including lots stressing your media serving (I understand that’s an issue? Well, I use GIMP to cut down my media postings to ~50KiB…), but I got a great many of the thread’s posting including many from intrax who I follow.

That’s how I notice this sort of thing, here he suitably reposted a reply to a post he made. Due to the time sequence, it shouldn’t matter that the repost was of a SPC member, I should have seen the original yesterday before I went to sleep.

This morning I used the Pleroma’s front end’s mouse over “Reply to” feature to see it (why I hate Soapbox), saw it without a delay I’d expect if it had to pulled from another system, and noticed I’d never received it in my timeline.

Thanks again.

@Moon @sim This is FYI, not really a request for action.

I’ve been noticing, especially WRT to @intrax that a number of Poa.st postings of people I follow don’t make it to my timeline. The SPC server seems to be getting them, or can trivially call them up when I open a tab to a thread like this one.

I’m old enough to cope with the Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO), but in the off chance you didn’t know this, or friends like Intrax were perhaps wondering why I didn’t respond to something like I’d normally do….

@NEETzsche @37712 @DoubleD @Stahesh @Tfmonkey @pcachu “we had actual elections [in 1980]. We don’t have that now.”

And you know this how??? Haven’t heard of the 1960 and 1964 election details?? The former was widely recognized as stolen, the latter had the FBI planting bugs in Goldwater’s campaign plane etc.

All you have to do is to note how often the ruling trash of a polity doesn’t get its way in an election. OK, it’s another country, but see the recent Australian vote. That happens more often than the West’s ruling trash wants. Which of course is zero times, but when they lost a Brexit….

Locally, I can attest this happens a lot in my part of deep Red State America no matter how much our ruling trash stamp their feet and harm us. But look for other examples I can cite without getting doxxed, Virginia is a good one, see the end of (((Eric Cantor’s))) political career in 2014, and the general Democratic skunking in that state in 2021. As someone who spent a dozen years in the state when it was Purple, along with many others we’d incorrectly concluded it had gone permanently Blue.

Note also how Officially close a lot of these elections are, and, again, how many go against Democrats and members of the establishment so I can sweep in the GOPe.

Now, it’s entirely possible you’re right at the national level, but you need more than two elections and only one Presidential to make a solid case that’s true, otherwise your black pilling makes you effectively an enemy agent.

I’m not counting 2018 due to how many RINOs simply headed for the exits before the election, plus each Senate election is only for a third of the body. On the other hand, perhaps study the corrupt deal the Georgia GOPe made with the state’s Democrats for them to win statewide elections (then again, who wants to be ruled by Stacy Abrams??) and against Trump and the 2020 Republican Senatorial candidates.

In any case, another fact free reply will mark you as a troll and possible enemy agent, and people who don’t mute you in response will get what they deserve.

@NEETzsche @37712 @DoubleD @Stahesh @Tfmonkey Well you’re generally a bundle of joy this morning.

Thanks to our federal system which was specifically set up at the time to make sure NYC and Philadelphia wouldn’t rule the country, it’s relatively difficult to cheat in national elections, so many polities involved.

I keep saying based on personal experience of that decade that “Biden” is speed running the 1970s. That didn’t end well for Carter, who lost in a landslide, Reagan got 44 states and 50.7% of the vote compared to Carter at 41%, and spoiler John Anderson (yeah, there’s reasons you don’t remember his name) at 6.6%.

With JFK Jr. now playing that role … it’s hard to say. “Biden” just wants him dead, has denied him Secret Service protection, which I’m sure had more than a little to do with him abandoning the rigged game of Democratic party nominations.

He’s a hard left freak, for example wants to end fracking in the US because it’s the main feed stock of plastics for which the world, not so much the US, has a waste disposal problem. That would immediately kill tens of millions of Americans….

He’s also of course a gun grabber; perhaps we should forgive that for someone who’s father and uncle were notoriously killed with guns, but that doesn’t mean we should let him run the country.

Given how very hard “Biden” is going after guns and gun shops, perhaps worst ever administration for that in many ways albeit with the AFT not murderizing people yet (strangely enough they managed to avoid actually killing anyone until Waco except for a fetus, but it was close) that’s not going to help RFK Jr. Albeit the NRA is MIA due to a justified corruption prosecution and an anti-gun law firm looting it … although that might end favorably for gun owners/members enough before the election.

If our ruling trash tries to cheat “harder and more overtly” … OK, I don’t think we have any reasonable expectations they won’t after they got away with it in 2020 and 2022. But there’s the above possible hurdle where they’ll be obvious but will fail, and the longer they succeed the more they undermine their moral and political position. That has consequences, especially when they’ve overtly declared war on at least half the country.

One other relevant note: they won’t have to assassinate Trump if one of the state prosecutions puts him in prison, which he can’t pardon himself out of unlike a Federal case. @pcachu is right they’re psychotic in the layman’s sense to try, but they’ve got enough remaining wisdom to try lesser means prior to needing that step. Like, they show every sign of knowing they’re flirting with a hot shooting civil war, and in that context they’ve Officially placed nukes on the table…. Which will only work as a terror weapon, but….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election

Our ruling trash now has an angle on banning EV use: tires are the new big polluter (started reading that yesterday), and:

“electric vehicles actually make the problem, such as it is, even worse. According to the report, ‘EVs tend to shed around 20 percent more from their tires due to their higher weight and high torque compared to traditional internal combustion engine-powered vehicles.’”

Needless to say the screaming sources the author is reading are completely silent on dosing.

And tire makers are already being forced to change them with I suspect very short deadlines, at least in California by 2024, and maybe more comprehensively in the EU starting the next year.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/10/02/heres-the-next-damn-way-the-left-will-go-after-your-car-n1731561

@af2 Really? I thought EVs were spyware on wheels which often phone home, and the refueling proposition is very different, especially if you use stabilizers. Range might of course also make a big difference.

What details do you believe make EVs generally? better than ICE powered? Not sure superior 0-60 is going to be one.

@af2 @wizardyuuka @MuscleOrc1221 Generally correct, but for vehicle battery material substitutions you have to factor in weight to energy density differences.

Lead acid batteries have a variety of advantages if you keep the lead and sulfuric acid away from the environment and you, but they’re a lot more mass to start and stop, accelerate and decelerate (absent regenerative breaking, and you’ll still have some losses).

Maybe look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery ??

@MuscleOrc1221 @af2 Nah, the price of distillates like gasoline is always going to be set in reference to the global price unless the government wants to create shortages with price controls. Been there, done that in the 1970s.

The biggest problem at the moment, and Jews are almost certainly involved, is a lack of (US) refinery capacity. Although in general, who knew you could achieve peak oil by suppressing it, investment in it at every stage??

Heh, circling back to the original start of the topic, JFK Jr. wants to ban fracking because oil is the #1 plastics feed stock, and plastics pollution is so very bad mostly turning off our electrical grids and killing tens of millions of Americans right off the bat is obviously something we should do to help with it.

@wizardyuuka @MuscleOrc1221 Very good question, the ecosystem for EVs is tiny compared to ICEs.

Is also impoverished at least from Tesla where there are horror stories of it taking months to getting replacement parts (which could otherwise be used to make more cars while it’s in the sales tornado and shipping is all that matters).

EVs are also “new things” and thus have different maintenance and repair issues and need some new skills to the existing or to be developed workforce. One of the very biggest issues I hear, which along with the repair delays is causing skyrocketing insurance bills, is that enough of a shock to the vehicle means a complete replacement of its batteries

Because you simply can’t test them to see if ,,, all??? Enough if one catching on fire is contained? (Musk has talked about the latter as I recall came up with the lithium battery pack(s) the 787 uses to save weight.)

And does the design make that cheap enough in labor?? I mean, really, I’d imagine if you design for repairability, required sooner or later replacement, or the likely doomed quick swap idea, there should be a box or two somewhere you can open and slide packs out and in.

And some companies including Tesla make some body parts so big fixing or replacing is … involved. I think that saved their bacon when they were having those terrible assembly line problems, but….

Another company with a truck has what looks like a side panel that can’t be replaced without pulling and reinstalling the front window (!). That may have totaled that vehicle, a 40K US$ parts and labor cost if memory serves (don’t depend on that, it should be easy to look up).

That’s just bad design of a sorts, will likely sort itself out and for now demands research on your part. And see for example the history of the industry shifting to the unibody.

As I understand it there’s a hell of a lot to be said for them, for safety unlike a vehicle build on a couple of steel beams which directly transmits force to the passengers they are designed to progressively crumple and that consumes work in the physics sense. But straightening the out afterwords if the crash is of low enough energy it’s worth it requires some big, specialized equipment.

Doing it all yourself is going to be flatly impossible. Thus I’d recommend @af2 get one of each, like a pickup for the ICE for what it can do that EVs can’t really in practice, and it’s a great way to gain “friends.”

But see the second link, sounds right, and as for those pesky shale “tight” oil investors, they’ve gotten tired of getting reamed in the go-go days, plus higher interest rates on “safe” things like US Treasury instruments means everyone else has to increase their returns to stay viable.

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Tornado-Strategies-Developing-Hypergrowth/dp/0060745819

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/shale-not-coming-rescue

@pcachu @lain Very plausible Harris would push that button, and very much on the table thanks to PRC compromised Congressman Eric Swalwell.

But there’s a practical problem: the US Deep State is dependent on the things “Middle America” produces like food and fuel. But living in a deep Red state part of flyover country I’ve been thinking it might be used once or so in a program of terror.

@Moon @ooignignoktoo @pcachu @sim My model of all this includes the Rufo ideology and Hanania “it’s the law” aspects, but on top of that I layer Jim’s holiness spiral thesis, something we know about from way earlier than the start of the modern Left in the French Revolution when it went nominally atheist.

These people must continue and expand these actions destructive to their own companies and perhaps careers if they want to keep their jobs, careers, social circles, and in more than a few places freedom.

So history tells us unless what’s evolved into “wokeness” is stopped by main force like the Thermidorian Reaction and then Napoleon, or too many people dying it’ll continue as you and the others believe.

More recent history I assume based on better communications holds out the hope for a preference cascade, but by definition they can’t be predicted, if let alone when.

@pcachu @ooignignoktoo Indeed, but the former does not follow the latter.

ESG funds are no doubt being closed because their returns, or very possibly losses are in Bidenomics too expensive for enough people’s tastes. Compare to interest rates you can get elsewhere, including in “super safe” Treasuries.

But DEI inside a company is much less overt, in most cases it’s harder to point to cause and effect. You’ll seldom get something so clear as the Bud Light advertising debacle; I can see it bears at minimum a fair amount of responsibility for Intel’s current plight, but that took reading a lot of materials and verboten noticing of an incompetent pajeet. (More was probably due to a while SJW CEO doing other very stupid and likely anti-white layoffs and the like.)

And note Anheuser-Busch protected the responsible people, last time I checked we’re not even sure if they’ve been fired, and continued to wave their gay flag here and there while at the same time making “we’re patriotic Americans!” adverts. “SJWs always double down….”

@Christmas_Man @kf01 Ballerinas also need all that in a package light enough for a man to apparently lift effortlessly.

@Christmas_Man @Rhodesian_YuKari Magazines are particular things. For example, just a little damage to their lips and they’ll stop working reliably or at all.

See also the issues of friction and how many magazine lips a round rests again, I’ve fairly recently read although not confirmed the SCIENCE!!! that it mostly scales with contact area, and searching just now Glock double stack magazines narrow to one position on the top. What do Kriss magazines do?

And by eyeball (one of my 1911s vs. the Wikipedia picture) the Kriss Vector’s magazine has a slightly greater angle (outside barrel to magazine).

For Glocks, they don’t fit my hand and I think their angle is also a bit different than M1911s. So I’m wondering if that 3D printer is going to have to make a whole weapon or remake a significant part of a modular weapon to adopt to the different angle. The whole thing may or may not be easy to make reliable across 2-3 designs.

Note also the M1911 is designed for ball ammo and as I understand it does not casually digest “everything” like a Glock does (which is a bit of a surprise since it too was initially designed for the Austrian military … but by then the US was a big pistol market, police and military). Any (US) submachine gun developed nowadays (like post-FOPA of 1986) is likely to be for militaries that limit themselves to ball (FMJ) ammo (and that’s “OK” for standard .45 ACP).

@Christmas_Man @Rhodesian_YuKari Not familiar with the innards of the Hi-Power, but since we’re talking about increasing the angle to adopt to a Glock magazine I guess it’s possible frame feeding modifications plus subtracting some metal from the barrel might work.

Geeze, a M1911 frame gets … I don’t know, how much stress at the slide stop holes? I’m guessing from simulating it in my head not that much, plus of course see long standard aluminum frames. What are these 3D printer designs using, and/or do they have metal inserts for stress points like that and the slide to frame matting slots?

Sounds like CNC would be a very useful addition to the toolbox….

@Christmas_Man @Rhodesian_YuKari “would be better picking up an old bridgeport or other used knee mill”

Based on the website of the company still selling them: https://hardinge.com/product/milling/series-1/ and its specs plus common sense:

It weighs a ton, which means more expense in getting it to you and in place (and would normal garage concrete handle that well???), and comes in three voltage ranges, 208V, 230V (???, or is modern split-phase 240V fine for that??), or 460V, all 60Hz.

I gather the first and last are three phase, and it’s no fun at all to either get three phases added to your home service if it runs close enough to you to not cost a fortune, or to buy, wire and operate a converter. Or I suppose you could rent or buy a place that’s already set up for all this.

If you’re serious, though, those old machines are beautiful and capable. But will require learning a variety of skills, isn’t part of the Ghostgunner appeal is it’ll do all that for you as long as it doesn’t break down??

@jmw150 @niggy Steve Sailer and his commentators have been discussing this from a different angle, how the SAT is getting changed as of late and how a huge 40 point bump in scores for Asians can only be explained by the tests becoming something you can really study for.

Compare as an extreme the pre-1994 SAT which was a very accurate proxy for IQ, although for the verbal test you needed to be well read/have a large and accurate vocabulary.

Here’s the latest, started yesterday: https://www.unz.com/isteve/dalliard-the-sat-and-racial-ethnic-differences-in-cognitive-ability/

@Quentel @meowski @brad @BowsacNoodle @lichelordgodfrey @unabomber I’m saying your concept of the Uniparty is fatally flawed, and in such a way it saves you from having to do a lot of hard thinking.

The key is that you appear to have no concept there could be factions inside it.

To take an extremely stark and very well established example, it’s clear the US Deep State is of at least two minds about the PRC/CCP/Xi. “Biden” was just plain bought by them (also see McConnell), see (((Blinken’s))) weakness with them, and (((Yellen’s))) behavior in that last visit was so bizarre they’re running a “she ate magic mushrooms” claim (granted, I wouldn’t put such a trick past Xi/the CCP).

On the other hand, Xi’s Made in China 2025 campaign is as stone cold dead as his Zero COVID policy after we embargoed everything having to do with advanced chips. They’re now stuck at least four generations behind world leader TSMC (T for Taiwan…) for logic, and their state champion for flash memory had just been qualified by Apple.

So there are factions, all sorts of factions. Going back to Trump, he got a heads up from the director of the NSA Mike Rogers that the Deep State was spying on him post-election, or so we were told which resulted in their immediately decamping from the in inherently insecure Trump Tower in NYC.

Going back to my point, there’s a very obvious set of two factions in the Democrats and Republicans. Many of them will cooperate for what they believe to be their common good, or here their common enemy of Trump, but that doesn’t mean they’re otherwise unified unless they’re for example genuinely part of the country’s Ruling Class as Angelo Codevilla broken it down, them vs. the “Country Class.”

Or see how for the longest time to become a Supreme Court justice you had gone to either Harvard or Yale Law School, a record broken when Notre Dame Law School alum Amy Barrett was elevated to the court.