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« on: November 10, 2024, 10:27:37 AM »
I find I'm deriving a perverse pleasure watching the meltdowns and lamentations on the left following Trump's win. I sort of feel guilty, and sort of don't. 
Someone I loosely know on Facebook recently posted that he literally doesn't know if he will survive the next four years. He somehow survived the first four years of Trump's presidency so I'm not sure why he feels he's in such mortal danger now. He's gay, but no more gay now than he was in 2016.
Can you say overdramatic?
Theatrics is quite common among liberal folks since the election. The co-hosts of the View wore black the day after the election, and Trump opponents far and wide vociferously insist he is a sinister threat to democracy. Yet, they've weaponized the courts in a failed attempt to eliminate Trump as a candidate, filing charges they would not ordinarily bother with; sought to have him removed from the ballot in a couple of states; coerced Biden into abandoning his re-election bid and gifted Harris the nomination in his place without due democratic process. So, the Democrats aren't exactly exemplifying democracy themselves.
But that's different. It's important they do all those things because, you know orangemanbad.
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« on: November 09, 2024, 10:16:04 PM »
I find I'm deriving a perverse pleasure watching the meltdowns and lamentations on the left following Trump's win. I sort of feel guilty, and sort of don't.
Someone I loosely know on Facebook recently posted that he literally doesn't know if he will survive the next four years. He somehow survived the first four years of Trump's presidency so I'm not sure why he feels he's in such mortal danger now. He's gay, but no more gay now than he was in 2016. Can you say overdramatic?
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« on: November 09, 2024, 06:03:27 PM »
I hear the same is true about most of Europe unless you start the day with 2 glasses or wine or beer.
There's a lot of Europe that's quite nice. This is the first time I've been shocked at the state of things... especially considering it's a capital city.
Have you been to Paris?
Parts of it are lovely. When I was last there much of it was overrun with beggars. And not like the guys you see in London or New York who ask for change and maybe hustle a little to "earn" it, but people constantly in your face asking for more, more, more.
Yeah, and probably the same "syndrome".
I was expecting Rome, and got Mogadishu.
Paris has been like that for years. The last time I was there was in 1997 and the beggars were everywhere, aggressive as usual. Even in the early 80s you could barely move without someone thrusting a can in your face hoping for a few coins.
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« on: November 09, 2024, 06:02:43 PM »
Finally got the soundproofing finished in another room. This one was tricky, I had an awkward corner and I couldn't find any way to get into the wall cavity because of the last wall stud. In the end I figured the only way to do what I needed was to take the wall stud out. So I took the stud out, got the soundproofing materal into place, screwed it all in, and then put the stud back. The last piece of work I need to do is cut through a wall and fit a temporary door. In the longer term we're going to have a doorway without a door, but for now I need to make sure the cat can't get at the building site, so a door it is. I have a spare door with a frame that I can put in, I'll just need a bunch of shims because the door opening is several inches wider than the frame I have. I considered making a door but since it's only temporary it seems like a lot of hassle and a fair chunk of wood for something that isn't going to stay around.
A long drawn out process to fit a strip of soundproofing barely 18" wide but now it's done. I think the ceiling in that room is level enough that I can get it drywalled more or less as is, which is a huge bonus. Next up is to figure out where to put all the stuff that's in the room so the nice drywalling people can actually move around and get at the walls.
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« on: November 06, 2024, 09:31:27 AM »
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I wasn't sure if his insights were stunningly on point or if I've read them more or less word for word somewhere else. I think it's the latter....
And it was definitely the latter.... word-for-word elsewhere, and apparently in many other places too.
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« on: November 06, 2024, 08:46:30 AM »
I hear the same is true about most of Europe unless you start the day with 2 glasses or wine or beer.
There's a lot of Europe that's quite nice. This is the first time I've been shocked at the state of things... especially considering it's a capital city.
Have you been to Paris? Parts of it are lovely. When I was last there much of it was overrun with beggars. And not like the guys you see in London or New York who ask for change and maybe hustle a little to "earn" it, but people constantly in your face asking for more, more, more.
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« on: November 06, 2024, 08:45:04 AM »
Kind of academic now, but I can't help wondering what it was that so many liked about the candidate who fell at the first hurdle in the 2020 primaries but ended up at the top of the ticket because Biden insisted on having a black woman as his running mate. Because nothing says "quality candidate" quite like the one who nobody wanted but who gets pushed to the top anyway for nothing more than having enough melanin and a double-X chromosome.
I often think of the British Conservative party, loosely comparable to the Republicans. For a time they were derided as the nasty party, the place where old racists, misogynists and homophobes went to vote. But the Conservative party has brought the UK three female Prime Ministers (although admittedly Liz Truss is perhaps best forgotten), a non-white Prime Minister, and has recently elected the first black woman to lead a major party. All this without insisting on women-only shortlists, DEI candidates or anything else, merely letting candidates stand and letting the people vote. No other British party has managed to get anyone other than a white man into 10 Downing street.
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« on: November 05, 2024, 09:31:28 AM »
User banned as spammer. Feel free to debate the content if you wish.
I wasn't sure if his insights were stunningly on point or if I've read them more or less word for word somewhere else. I think it's the latter....
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« on: November 05, 2024, 09:30:35 AM »
Fighting the tail end of some kind of cold or similar. The last couple of days have been mostly unproductive, although I've done a lot of sleeping.
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« on: November 04, 2024, 04:52:11 PM »
That's fair enough. I like things that work and continue to work long after they are notionally obsolete, and like things that connect easily so I don't have to run new wires any more often than absolutely necessary.
Where network cables are concerned I'd want to run them such that I could use an old cable to pull a new cable if they ever needed to be replaced. Electrical codes make it hard to do that with mains cable, although I never did work out why.
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« on: November 04, 2024, 09:38:10 AM »
The funniest part is that she's running as though she's an outsider. She's the freaking sitting VP and hasn't done a thing in four years. Not even the jobs that she was specifically given, like fixing the border.
So we have someone who was a miserable failure as VP, now running for President. I suppose that's as rational and logical as half the country signing up for a regurgitation of the mess we've had for the last 4 years. (After all, Harris said she can't think of a single thing she would do differently than Biden).
... except maybe send someone else to fix the border.
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« on: November 04, 2024, 09:36:31 AM »
Was there a reason you chose Swann? I looked them up and their reviews seem mixed at best.
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« on: November 03, 2024, 08:12:45 PM »
Wired.
Since I have some parts of my house pulled apart at the moment I'd be interested if you'd be willing to share some thoughts on different systems. I live in a rural area so no real concerns about crime - I don't want the kind of thing that looks like the house is bristling with cameras (and advertising to every criminal scumbag in the area that my house is worth raiding). Obviously I understand if you don't want to post details in a public forum like this one....
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« on: November 03, 2024, 08:10:21 PM »
To me it seems too close to call at this point. Harris is unable to propose resolutions to the problems facing the country because she's clueless. As President, she'd be like someone in the cockpit of a plane with neither pilot skills nor a flight plan. I truly hope RK is right.
I'm not sure that's a fair assessment. I think Harris just needs the time to consider the problems facing the country at this point in time so she can propose some solutions to the problems and then circle back to the problems and then come up with some solutions to what the country needs at this particular point in time.
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« on: November 03, 2024, 09:42:46 AM »
Shopping for upgrades to my home security camera system….
Ouch.
Do you use wired cameras or wifi-enabled ones? Wifi cameras seem pretty easy - you just stick them in place and replace the battery as needed - but I can't help thinking that something wired (preferably with PoE) is harder to circumvent.
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