Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)W

WesternInfidels

@ WesternInfidels @feddit.online

Posts
11
Comments
257
Joined
3 mo. ago

  • Failed MMO Ashes Of Creation‘s $3.2 Million In Kickstarter Funds Allegedly Spent On Private Chefs And Trading Cards

    Jump

  • Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement

    Jump

  • Everything he does makes sense, if you can accept that he sees the United States itself as an rival for the attention and praise that is rightly his. Commanding other people's attention, redirecting it to himself, has been the only trick behind his falling-up success, his whole life. This is what they mean when they say "all publicity is good publicity."

    Now we're not talking about Iran, we're not talking about America's future, we're talking about him.

  • Trump threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement

    Jump

  • I'm doing my part!

    Jump

  • Jubilant return of Artemis II shadowed by ‘extinction-level’ cuts to NASA: ‘It’s discordant’

    Jump

  • One of the criticisms of the Artemis program is that NASA's SLS rocket is Titantically, catastrophically expensive compared to SpaceX rockets. Or compared to the Saturn IV rocket. Compared to just about everything.

    Artemis III is supposed to involve a commercially-made moon lander, probably from SpaceX. Artemis IV is supposed to build a space station in lunar orbit, on the back of about a zillion SpaceX rocket launches.

    I don't know everything, but I don't think NASA's in any position to tell Elon Musk off.

    Grain of salt: Most of what I think I know about Artemis is from a very long, very detailed, very critical and persuasive blog post by someone who isn't even an engineer as far as I know.

  • Israel condemns Spain over ‘antisemitic hatred’ after Netanyahu effigy blown up

    Jump

  • It's gotten the point where one must dig into every accusation of "antisemitism" to see if there's really bigotry or if someone just pissed off the Zionists.

    If one must find out more every time one hears a word, that word's utility is gone.

  • Horror story towns

    Jump

  • Painesville is a real place

  • Trump administration releases new renderings of so-called ‘Arc de Trump’

    Jump

  • So on one end of the bridge, you'd have the Lincoln Memorial. And at the other, you'd have gilded Temu Arc de Triomphe knockoff.

    It wouldn't be possible to visit Arlington National Cemetery without thinking of our Dear Leader.

    Maybe we deserve it.

  • Progress

    Jump

  • I feel like this is ripe for an "Autotune The News" treatment. I'm thinking Eminem's "Without Me:"

    🎵

    I have two Microsoft Outlooks, OutlooksNeither of 'em worksNeither of 'em works

    🎵

  • Alex Jones says Melania "breaking with Trump" after Epstein statement

    Jump

  • I don't think the suggestion is that she's a victim. Just that what we're seeing is the fallout of a power struggle from behind the curtain.

    This Threads post tells a theory / story that's worthy of a soap opera. Spoiler: Everything comes back to Epstein, as it always seems to.

  • Alex Jones says Melania "breaking with Trump" after Epstein statement

    Jump

  • Robert Reich had some theories, including:

    1. Melania is pissed off at Trump for any number of things, and today’s news conference was a way of letting him know she’s capable of making his life miserable.

  • What is the quantum ‘Ghost Murmur’ purportedly used in Iran? Scientists question CIA’s claim of long-range heartbeat detection

    Jump

  • An unnamed source told the Post it was like “hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert.”

    What the hell is this analogy? "It's like [thing], except if [thing] were totally different." This is like a bad movie script.

    To find a heartbeat, a quantum Ghost Murmur tool would have to contend not just with Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic noise from natural and human-made electric currents but also with “the heartbeats of the sheep and dogs and jackrabbits—whatever else is running around out there,” says Chad Orzel, a professor of physics...

    I'm glad someone brought this up, it was the first thing that came to my mind.

  • A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

    Jump

  • Gosh maybe ICE and the DOJ should read some executive orders, eh?

    By the authority vested in me ... it is hereby ordered ... no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen...

  • Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

    Jump

  • The National Park Service is a different department. The Forest Service is part of the agriculture department, it's about managing forests as exploitable natural resources.

    So that's good news, in the bleakest way, I guess.

  • What's the cheapest you can afford buying (or already bought) that you consider as luxury?

    Jump

  • I have a Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencil that I bought perhaps 20 years ago. For about $7. And it still works great.

    Somehow, it's still $7? How?

  • What is that one software that you are using for 10 years and still loving it?

    Jump

  • Sumatra PDF Reader is no-frills and distraction free. Even on my ancient PC, it's fast as heck. I have rather rudely installed it on other people's PCs, because their slow all-singing all-dancing PDF readers drove me up the wall.

    RawTherapee converts "RAW" files from digital cameras to friendlier image formats, and pretty often RawTherapee's edit is all I need. It's feature packed, it can do film simulations, image de-noising, tone-mapping, and now it has the ability to do some local adjustments, too. I have several "RAW" converters, including a commercial one, but I keep coming back to RawTherapee as the mainstay, the most productive for me.

    I've got foobar2000 set up as a pretty plain-looking, non-distracting music player. It's got great library features, it has a wildly customizable interface, it's got a plugin architecture to extend its abilities in many ways. It has stayed on my PC for years because of its quiet competence, always serving without demanding my time or attention.

    I used to keep my password file and other confidential stuff inside a TrueCrypt virtual volume. Now I use the successor, VeraCrypt. Both have always worked flawlessly; in fact, TrueCrypt is way smaller and I'm not aware of any security issues with it, it's just not actively developed anymore.

  • What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?

    Jump

  • Zeldin tells climate skeptics to 'celebrate vindication' after repeal of baseline climate rule

    Jump

  • There are a lot of problems with this, but a pretty telling one, I think, is: That's not even what "vindication" means. The global-warming-denial position would be vindicated -- proven, justified, confirmed -- by years or decades worth of data showing that the environment isn't heating up.

    Demonstrating that you have the political power to change the rules in spite of the data is not vindication, it's just gloating.

    Any dictionary could straighten this out for him, if he were interested in expert opinions, in being correct. But they're not. Flouting the definitions is part of the bully strategy: "My will is your reality, peasant."

  • Concern after traders bet millions on oil minutes before Trump’s peace talks’ post

    Jump

  • "Leaked in advance?"

    What reason is there to think that it's not just him (or his family, trusted stooges, and other intermediaries) doing this deliberately for his own profit?