FuglyDuck

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

1d checkers, and he tosses the board like a 2yo when realizes he’s about to lose. and it’s even harder to let him win than it is to let a 2yo win.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

Didn’t we give them nukes a while back?

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Char is totally judging your choice in games and movies. totally.

Don’t feel too bad. I built my first beowulf cluster out of my dad’s cave of obsolescence in the mid-90’s… pentium II’s and older. nobody noticed the giant networked-cabled-monstrosity with cables going all over the basement until he got home and wondered why his network was being weird.

(I may have also borrowed his network switch.)

“Oh. that’s cool but. uhm. WHY!!!?!?!”

“PiMark” (i think that’s what it was called, anyhow. It was a benchmarking tool that would time your systems’ time to calculate Pi to x digits. Or you could donate cycles to calculate… more pi.)

“uh. okay.”… “clean up when your done.”

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

You know what capitalists hate more than anything else? Weird circus people with more passion than money who embrace diversity and deviants

I would have said losing profits…but… I take my bowler cap off to you.

if only our politicians weren’t making people afraid of clowns.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Put it better than I could have.

I’d send you a box of cookies, but that’d be creepy,

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Pretty sure it was south park that did them in. As some random YTer said… “the made fun of them and got away with it”.

(Specifically, it was the episode they put Tom Cruise in the closet…)

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Travel to new exotic locations.

Meet new people.

Kill them.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

And Lindell is not a lawyer so he can’t either.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

Okay, so. How much trouble would we get in if he bought Trump and a couple others a trip with a gofundme?

Or do you think the secret service would stop him?

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

If they use CF composites again, it doesn’t matter. They have a limited lifespan and will eventually fail from the load cycles of diving and coming back up.

Which is why nobody else uses CF in pressure hulls. It’s a ticking time bomb with no way to properly validate integrity.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

There’s an entire industry surrounding the production of (often incredibly) realistic not-firing (and blank-firing) prop guns. the only time you’d need a real one, firing real bullets is if you were doing some extremely-close up shots or recording sound. Even then, you’d only need the real bullets for sound effects or close ups of actually firing. The only thing you’d really need CGI for is the muzzle flash. which is so short and so slow most people would barely even notice if it was merely ‘realistic’.

All of which, it should be said, could have been shot with no one down range of the weapon at any time, and in any case, there was zero reason to need a functional firearm at the time of the shooting. They were not actually filming. They were setting up the cameras and checking for things like glare and reflections and various other angles. All of that could have done with a non-firing prop with no danger to anyone at all.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

if Baldwin wasn’t waiving a gun around like a moron, a negligent armorer wouldn’t have been a problem, either.

the armorer being negligent (and she was), doesn’t mean that Baldwin wasn’t also being negligent. and lets be perfectly clear: the reason Gutierrez-Reed was hired over other more professional armorers is precisely because she was “less professional”- or more bluntly, because she was willing to not insist on proper safety protocols that caused delays in shooting.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Multiple people could have taken minor stands to have prevented this tragic tale

Hutchins took one of those stands filing a union complaint about the safety violations, how tinfoily you wanna get?

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Woah woah woah. Baldwin should be allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants with a prop gun. If an armorer gives him a gun on a set, why would he reasonably believe it was able to hurt or kill someone?

because it’s a fucking weapon. he knew it was a weapon.

secondly, it was Hall (another producer) that gave him the weapon, not HGR.

thirdly, you don’t fuck around with even the non-firing propguns precisely because of how easy it is to mistake them. He fucked around, and Alyna Hutchins found out. Ergo, it’s negligent homicide

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

It is the job of anyone handling a firearm to handle it in a safe and responsible manner.

You don’t get to pull “not my job” when you were holding the firearm that killed someone.

Especially since the normal on set was so far below the industry standard - a fact I would expect somebody with is broad and extensive experience to know as a qualified actor.

He had a duty of care to check the weapon and to handle it safely and he didn’t.

He had a duty of care to not point a fucking lethal weapon at people, and he did.

(This is in addition to potential liability as a producer and a duty of care to ensure workplace safety.)

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Uhm.

That’s not how Blanks work

And even if there is some how no wadding They can still be lethal

You cannot render a functional weapon (blank firing or “real” or whatever you want to call it,) totally safe.

Which is why you should always treat them as something that will kill you given half the chance. (It was literally made to do just that.)

And you should always treat look alikes as if they were real because a) they’re easy to mistake for real ones and vice versa and b) the other people may not realize it’s a prop. (On a movie set, unlikely, but you never know who’s around and how they will respond. Or where an active shooter is going to appear.)

As for the cartridges, usually there’s tell tales of one sort or another. For dummy rounds it’s common to press the otherwise empty cartridge with a ball bearing or two so they rattle when shaken. Sometimes they also have a small hole on the wall of the casing

Blanks are, by their nature, lacking the bullet and the top is simply crimped to hold the wadding.

All it would have taken was a proper inspection to verify that it was unloaded/loaded with dummy rounds. Or, alternatively, Baldwin not pointing it at people.

Which leads me to the final thing you should always do: check the damn weapon. Don’t trust armorers. They’re people, too. They make mistakes, they fuck up.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

It’s stupidly easy to check a firearm. You don’t have to be an expert to do it. For most fire arms it takes 5-10 seconds.

A large part of the “experts” job is to know what is and is not safe protocol, and to enforce it. Part of that includes teaching everyone who’s handling a weapon how to…. Handle a weapon safely.

no question, the armorer fucked up. She’s human. Humans make mistakes. Which is why you check the damn weapon, too. An expert doesn’t mean they don’t make mistakes. An expert means they’ve made enough they should know better. (Or have learned from an older expert.)

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

considering other articles linked on the website apparently include “the Case of the 2 Miners that met the Ctones” (which seems to be some kind of advanced civilization that lives under ground… that kept him from leaving for 5 years, but then paid him diamonds and let him go or something…) and “100,000 year old electrical connector found embedded in stone”… (Aliens!)

I’m gonna go with a great example of “bullshit”.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Maybe they should add an eleventh? “Though shalt not covet your cousin, or anyone more closely related, or children… and since you made me have to put this in writing you’re all going to hell.”

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

There should be a strong peace core that builds housing for the homeless, provides community services, etc.

I wonder if you could work out a system where you could work it off in hospitals cleaning bed pans, helping nurses/doctors/patients with things that don’t require the doctors and nurses (like bringing blankets and stuff;); and in return getting 2 years free towards becoming a doctor/nurse.

Do the same with lawschool and helping public defenders with… stuff. or other fields that benefit society, too. If none of that really interests you… then building housing, cleaning parks, and, er, other stuff.

reward: two years tuition.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Is it in the contract?

If it ain’t in the contract it ain’t for shit,

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

So… we’re eating at your place?

That looks amazing.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Barnett was found dead to an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound after officers were sent to his hotel because he missed a deposition hearing… for a lawsuit against Boeing.

Dead, single gunshot wound, in a car. You think that’s not suspicious at all?

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

One person. That’s all it takes.

They find the person shopping or something, routine. Spritz some flu into their face. (Well, more discretely, but yeah.)

They go to the hospital, pay the guy a visit when, spritz some MRSA on his linens or something. Plenty of opportunity. Even better, spritz it on everyone’s linens so it looks like an outbreak.

Slip in, visit the guy and inject a stroke causing drug. Maybe even something as innocuous as just injecting an air bubble into his artery.

Maybe a small support team. But really, you think Boeing doesn’t already have a hitter on the payroll?

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

It sounds like a desperate person who had enough.

funny that everyone who knew him, didn’t think he was even remotely suicidal. Also as for the ‘why now’ because now it’s got publicity and traction.

As for the cops ruling out foul play… it’s pretty easy to fake a suicide by gunshot… but yes, I’d buy that the police were in on it in a heartbeat. have you met cops? there’s a strong chance the cops were the ones who took the job.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

From the article linked in my original comment:

But Barnett’s lawyers said in a statement following his death that his deposition was nearing an end and he appeared to be in good spirits.

“We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it,” his lawyers, Robert Turkewitz and Brian Knowles, said in a statement on March 12.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

I remember highschool people saying that. It was only the kids family, and the bullies and drama whores (that don’t know him,)

The fiends all said he was bullied and his home life wasn’t so good.

That his lawyers are saying it is more meaningful than if his family was.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Well, I have not done the injecting bit, but I have just walked into more than one ICU… It’s not hard. Nurses and security both are over staffed and underpaid.

(I work in contract security- at one point part of my job was pen testing. Chilled with an interesting fellow named Edgar, while waiting to get caught. Didn’t have anyone to talk to, so, we just chatted. Mostly he chatted.)

harder at night but only because there’s fewer people.

Unless there’s a specific reason someone needs high security… the security is largely a joke.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

We generally don’t see all the warts in the people closest to us, and family is more likely to want to put an idealized version of people out there.

Look at comments by parents of active shooters, to the effect of “I didn’t raise a monster, I don’t know why this happened,”.

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

Are you seriously not seeing why professional contacts would be more likely to have a fair opinion and share it? It’s his lawyers that said he didn’t seem suicidal.

Or are you seriously just trying to insist it’s not suspicious any way you can?

FuglyDuck , 7 days ago

There’s quite a bit of difference between “open to the public” and “easy to penetrate”. The reason we were pentesting for them is to figure out how bad it was, and where we needed to focus for improvement. It’s not hard to get into, especially considering that most ICU’s allow guests during certain times.

security is always a balancing act between being secure and pretty much everything else. A building with no doors or windows is far more secure, but also pretty much useless. a working hospital- especially large ones- have small army of people working there; as well as veritable hordes of people visiting for dozens of different reasons on a regular basis; It’s almost impossible to verify that everyone in the building is supposed to be there; and the risk of someone being an assassination target with out that person knowing about it and discussing it with the staff is extremely rare.

All this to say, if Boeing wanted to get someone dead at a hospital, it would be trivial for them. Maybe expensive, but functionally trivial.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Okay. This pupper is priceless.

FuglyDuck , 9 days ago

So… that’s an admission. He can be charged?

Texas, show us how much you care about protecting kids…

FuglyDuck , 9 days ago

Scroll down, sounds an awful lot like there ain’t any. or is at most 18+20 years.

FuglyDuck , 9 days ago

I looked it up, 20 years past 18th birthday… unless, for example, it was continuous. Then there are none.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

The statute of limitations only prevent old crimes from being dug up and brought to trial- mostly because at that point it’s hard to prove.

The reality is, this guy absolutely won’t get charged. Because of the pure bias.

Unless… someone were to, I dunno, tell Ken Paxton he did drag on Tuesday nights… but that would be totally unethical; and we really don’t need to play into that bullshit.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

Which is why it’d be totally unethical, yes.

If it didn’t harm lgbtq/drag… it’d only be questionably unethical. Actually that could be an interesting ethics debate right there.

FuglyDuck , 8 days ago

there’s a priest arrested.

FuglyDuck , 9 days ago

Unless… just hear me out… they lock him up…

(‘Him’ being Old Sausage Fingers,)

FuglyDuck , 9 days ago

Wikipedia editors/whatever agreed that it was an “unreliable source”, because it pushed linking pro-Palestinian protests with antisemitism, and such like.

Basically you can’t use the ADL as a source for Wikipedia articles. It’s also a big broader than just the conflict- it would appear you wouldn’t be able to cite them on, say, page discussing antisemitism, or similar things. (Basically everything the ADL might be interested in.)

FuglyDuck , 9 days ago

Shit……

That’s some backhanded forgiveness

FuglyDuck , 10 days ago

now i want to fork something into a new distro called “Schroedinger Linux”…

“maybe it works. maybe it doesn’t. maybe it’s best just to leave it right there and not look at it.”

FuglyDuck , 10 days ago

At issue is a partial veto Evers made in the state budget in July 2023 that increased revenue public schools can raise per student by $325 annually until 2425. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.

For those wondering. he basically decided to change the term. Which, might sound like a really good idea, but any one wanna take a guess what the inflation is going to look like 400 years from now? This strikes me as being unnecessarily stupid.

FuglyDuck , 10 days ago

Grew up in red hat- you know? Back when red hat wasn’t the enemy.

Endeavor is my flavor of the month. (Why pick one?)

FuglyDuck , 10 days ago

About freaking time.

They also need to ban him from being on the board of directors and pretty much everyone on the board of Tesla (who are all friends and family, and totally just doing what he says.)

FuglyDuck , 10 days ago

It’s less that I’m surprised and more I just never cared to look.

If their ancestors knew they’d spawn those fuck faces; they’d have written evolution off as a bad idea and stayed in the trees.

FuglyDuck , 9 days ago

Rich, very powerful and about to be indicted on corruption charges.

Might as well tack on a trespass.

FuglyDuck , 10 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Didn’t stop some fearmongering from the last one that went operational.

“The new supercollider could cause BlAcK hOLeS; ExPeRtS SaY!!!1!1!1!1!2!?3!!4!!!”

Honestly, I would love a slow-mo guys style video of a bunch of nerdsvery professional researchers smashing microsingularities into random fruit targets.

I assume it would be fairly boring without some massive magnification… but ya know….