Picking crops will be the only job left.

And prison guards.

Barking up a completely different tree than most comments here, it might be interesting to look at some electronics, like the inside of some integrated circuits. This would be a whole process and require a lot of nasty chemicals (nitric acid is particularly dangerous) though. This is probably a bad idea actually.

All the Magic Piece of Toiletpaper has to say about the matter is this: “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings”

The National Education Association votes to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-national-education-association-just-voted-to-cut-all-ties-to-the-anti-defamation-league/

It may seem like somewhat of a detour, but demonstrating as a first practical example that all problems are recoverable can serve as a big confidence boost, helping people feel more confident messing around with all the other little things and being more comfortable potentially breaking them. For didactic purposes, I would split the exercise into two sections.

1: Place some “precious files” (some funny memes) on a sacrificial machine, then render it un-bootable by some means (deleting the EFI bootloader, corrupting / deleting some OS files, etc.). The purpose of the exercise is to prepare a bootable USB media and demonstrate that file recovery (under mundane circumstances, when the computer simply stops booting) is not some wizardry requiring the expertise of computer forensics experts. All you need is the ability to point a functioning OS at the filesystem. A second USB drive can be formatted as a destination to place the recovered files.

2: After exercise one, OS re-installation and restoration of the recovered files. While Linux is great, and likely will be a requirement of exercise one, the focus here should be on installing whichever OS the user is comfortable with. The point is to demonstrate that installing an OS and starting from scratch is easy, which is true regardless of if it is Windows or a mainstream Linux distribution. Either way, several tasks from exercise one will be repeated: flashing a USB image, formatting drives, selecting an alternate boot device in the UEFI firmware.

2.1: If using Windows, demonstrate how simple it is to use the MassGravel Windows Activation Scripts, so users understand they never need to worry about what happened to their original installation media or license key sticker as a pre-requisite for OS installation.

I think beginning these demonstrations on PC hardware is a better option than some more locked-down devices like video game consoles, routers, or mobile phones - where the tools are often reverse-engineered / experimental, and mistakes potentially can lead to permanent damage.

Seeing a bunch of reports / footage today about a large-scale federally-coordinated operation in/around MacArthur Park, LA (oof, come up with a better name). Lots of military vehicles moving around, mounted ICE units, and reckless endangerment of the public.

Naturally, somebody has sent some relevant documents to Ken Klippenstein. This “show of presence” appears to be part of what they are referring to as “Operation Excalibur.” The documents indicate the involvement of nearly a dozen “law enforcement” agencies coordinated in a mission to stamp out alleged activities and lawlessness which read like the fever dreams of a Fox News comment section.

Library Genesis is still down

Tried Gentoo once, it was stupid.

Yeah I checked the ReadMe. Their recommendation, Project64-EM (and the original, Project64) do not have any ports for non-Windows platforms. None the less, I have found success using Parallell Launcher, which runs the ParallellN64 libretro core sans RetroArch. The game is running well for me now.

There are a LOT of absolutely incredible level packs out there. I recommend checking out Doomworld’s Cacowards Archive (running annually since 2004) for a sampling of the absolute cream of the crop.

HARM anti radiation missiles

I fucking hate these weapon systems marketing lanyards. They are almost as bad as Congress when it comes to acronyms.

There should never be any updates to libc (glibc or otherwise) unless there is a new C standard.

Trump had his own personal Vietnam. Chuck Schumer can have his own personal 9/11.

You’re the CEO of a polling institution. Run a poll asking “Do you support ‘doing 9/11’ to the Democratic Party?” you coward.

this is a 911 moment for the Democratic Party

For even the most cynical treatlerites, it really does just boil down to “what have you done for ME lately?” From a naive perspective, Israel is nothing but a liability. From a critical perspective, Israel is nothing but a liability. To the institutionalist, “rule of law” liberals, Israel is nothing but a liability. To the “America First” nationalists, Israel is nothing but a liability. The only people who see merit in the cause of Israel are total cranks and zealots who truly believe the US or Israel (depending on who you ask) are ordained by God (and their secular cousins, the Atlanticists - the fundamentalists of American civic religion), who look forward to dying in a nuclear inferno on that hill. There are a lot of them though.

Big Beautiful Summer.

Having trouble running this smoothly in Mupen64Plus (Z-buffer problems), ParallellN64 (performance), or Project64 (running an emulator in an “emulator”) :/

Looks sick though.