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Random / Re: Music
« on: June 16, 2025, 11:20:11 PM »
 YouTube was kind enough to make a "mix" that was apparently formulated "just for me."

One of the songs was this most excellent version of Little Feat's "Fat Man in the Bathtub":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80TUlmVOEAQ

I can completely understand why it was made the "Official Music Vidya" for the song.

I may, via my play history, attempt to recreate this apparently AI generated playlist.  It has been pretty good so far, started out with The Paynes "This Is War":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDaW9nEmKLY

Sometime after the bathtub song McMurtry's "Choctaw Bingo":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nggqe-L9ZQ8

I usually hit "Not Interested" on those list things, but I didn't realize it was one and opened it up because I wanted to hear that Paynes song for some reason.

Good Stuff.




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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: June 16, 2025, 01:09:26 AM »
Here is a prime example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYqnLW88yU

Huh, so this Alberta Indy Movement is like the BLM, anti-ICE, & No Kings riots Mostly Peaceful Protests?

Where does the dark money originate from:  Soros, Chinese Gov't, or Bill Gate$?

Inquiring minds need to know!


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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: June 01, 2025, 02:07:01 AM »
Looks like Saskatchewan is officially voting on getting out as well:

https://www.newcaliforniastate.com/post/saskatchewan-just-officially-announced-separation-from-canada

Kind of a shitty "article" that one, it does have an embedded vidya that I did not watch.

This one from early April says Saskatchewan folks want out even more than Albertans:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/saskatchewan-beats-alberta-quebec-wanting-171416043.html

I honestly didn't realize that yahoo was still a thing, huh.

This one is from a couple of days ago, before yesterday/today's "Official" thang:

https://www.ndpcaucus.sk.ca/as_moe_sask_party_fail_to_act_separatists_launch_townhall_campaign_that_will_harm_economic_future

It sort of reads like anti-Separatist cope, looking back from today.  Heh.

Cheers!





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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: May 16, 2025, 12:27:40 AM »
...#51st state

Whoa, there!  Doc, maybe hold your horses a bit.

Albertans are, after all, still Canadian.

It's sort of like welcoming a one-time Obama voter into the Conservative fold:  you are pleased that they have seen the Light, but can never really be sure.  It takes years of probation and constant vigilance to be sure that they do not slip back into Communist thought and/or action.  Or worse, back into National Socialist uber-Staatist tendencies, not that I see much difference between a Socialist and a Communist.

Perhaps we should wait and see how deep their Conservative Patriotic American chops are for a while before immediately welcoming them into the Big Tent.

Start them out with a Most Favored Nation trade status & get some highway and rail infrastructure connections, if those are currently sub-par.

A few years on, if their behavior is acceptable and they be willing, grant territorial status &tc.

I would look askance at some faux Independent Separatist that immediately searches for a New Teat from which to suckle.  Let them make a go of it and let us verify their bona fides.  Pehaps, like Texas did, they will merit the distinction and allowance of joining the United States.

Proof and Pudding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj7H1_nqljE

Perhaps I have said too much, Nautical Shore?


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Politics / Re: Oh Alberta
« on: May 14, 2025, 03:25:38 AM »
Is It Happening?



I certainly hope so.  Looks like the Albertans are making a go of it, if they successfully disentangle themselves from Toronto's grip, I am curious who else might be emboldened by that.

Some say the nearby provinces of Saskatchewan & British Columbia might be tempted to separate as well, with BC being something of a Long Shot.  There is a historical Québécois desire to also separate from Canada, I think that is more a cultural thing than an economic one like Alberta's beef.  I somehow doubt the two would 'link up' if both were to separate from Canada.

What about Greater Idaho?  IF BC were to separate along with Saskatchewan & Alberta that would give Greater Idaho a contiguous border with whatever these now separate provinces become, why not glom onto to that mess?

Talk about a Long Shot!

Doc, here's some vidyas that somewhat relate to this entirely unlikely scenario:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsJ76eVirIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6d1Jcm3w0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QooI36xSZM

I did not bother to include one about Quebec separatists from decades past, although that perhaps is more likely to happen than this Pan-Idahoan/Albertan nation-state thing.

Would make a fun Alternate History fiction story, someone should pitch the idea to Harry Turtledove.


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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: May 08, 2025, 10:59:50 PM »
I imagine this falls into the "Not Enough Cheating To Count" category:

"Elections Canada finds ballots from across Canada got stuck in Coquitlam"
Elections Canada finds ballots from across Canada got stuck in Coquitlam
May 7, 2025 | 3:47 PM
Josh Hall

...Today, Elections Canada informed all registered political parties that 822 national special ballots cast by electors from 74 electoral districts across the country had mistakenly been kept at the office of the returning officer for Coquitlam–Port Coquitlam.

According to Elections Canad, the ballots should have been returned to Elections Canada headquarters by the deadline of April 28, 6 p.m. Eastern Time, in order for them to be legally counted, in accordance with the Canada Elections Act.

Of the 822 ballots, 530 were from the riding of Port-Moody-Coquitlam...

...

...An initial analysis shows the outcome would not be affected in any of the 74 impacted districts.

It also revealed the issue was human error caused by a failure to comply with the written procedures.

Perrault has asked for a complete review of the controls in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Elections Canada also announced Wednesday it will hold a judicial recount in the electoral district of Terrebonne, in Quebec. The current difference in votes between the top two candidates is just 44...

Clearly, Nothing to See, Hear?

A vidya, I haven't watched it, but it seems like it is this same story for the illiterate among the AssGrab viewing audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCMrCyztY7I

N'Joy!




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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: May 01, 2025, 11:13:12 PM »
Oh man, now the Québécois are at it again.

Remember, there was a big Quebec secession movement back in the late 20th century (a mere 25 years ago...)...

Support for Quebec secession rebounds amid tariff war

Support for Quebec secession rebounds amid tariff war
Antoine Trépanier
Apr 16, 2025



OTTAWA — A new Postmedia-Leger poll reveals that support for Quebec sovereignty, which had fallen below 30 per cent due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada, is back.

Even though Canada is engaged in a tariff war with its closest ally, support for Quebec independence has reached 36 per cent according to new data...
...

Of course, the National Post is a Canadian Liberal-rag publication and they "pooh-pooh" the idea.  Back in the day, the two failed attempts at secession resulted in some sort of Canadian Supreme Court ruling on a province's ability to secede from Canada.

If Alberta is successful in their attempt to get Free, it might provoke the Québécois to try again?

I imagine the Québécois wouldn't necessarily want to join the US if they tried that, sure would be funny if it went that way though.

Not just one independent province out in the West almost splitting Canada, but another independent province that would physically rip Canada in half?

Dare to dream, I suppose!

What would be left of Canada after all that?  Ouch.

Peut-être?  Je ne sais quois...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w36wFDzHj3U

Rivage nautique?



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Politics / Re: Indians
« on: May 01, 2025, 10:49:47 PM »
We talkin' "Indians:  Feather, Not Dot" -or-  "Indians:  Dot, Not Feather," hear?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIDWacMFwPc

-or-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDzV2ObmtAA



Maybe the Site Admin could help you get that title changed for clarity?

Just sayin'... Nautical Shore.


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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: May 01, 2025, 12:21:28 AM »
Here's some more vidyas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5BvRGk9bU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay--RLE9Qcc

&

'Hockey and nostalgia' won't keep us together: Some Albertans say they're serious about separation after Liberal win
'Hockey and nostalgia' won't keep us together: Some Albertans say they're serious about separation after Liberal win
Rahim Mohamed
Apr 29, 2025


OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith didn’t immediately issue a statement when the networks called the federal election for Mark Carney’s Liberals at 10:15 p.m. ET, but it’s safe to say that not all is calm on the western front...

Mr. Rahim (PBUH) had some things to say last night about all this.  I believe the vidyas reflect more recent developments.




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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: April 30, 2025, 11:53:55 PM »
This one is pertinent to the dicsussion currently Happening in the the thread, however:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYUD7liTVQ

I think I originally saw this on Sunday?  Nautical Shore.

Still haven't watched it.

IF it is, as I suspect, some sort of Election Fraud activity (or at least a claim of such) in yet another "close" election...

Well, I am certain it;

A.  Didn't actually happen,
B.  Wasn't enough to matter,
C.  Everyone was doing it.

or some other lame excuse to not look into it all.

Doc, we need your expert vidya watching skills on this one.

Truth or trash?


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Politics / Re: UF-Oh Canada
« on: April 30, 2025, 11:49:00 PM »
This could probably be skipped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9mSG8gY2Rs

It did occur in Canadia, however.  So it belongs, hear.


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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: April 27, 2025, 08:37:58 PM »
Doc, check out this vidya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejcu-k-gkYY

Is it Happening?


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Politics / Re: Oh Canada
« on: April 27, 2025, 07:43:25 PM »
That’s because they’re idiots. She’s from Germany, where the globalists are ramping up from socialism to outright soviet style communism. If Canada elects another globalist what she’s talking about will happen there. Pass it on to your Canadian friends.

Doc, recall that post-unification Germany still has, via older East German memories, historical actual Communist governance on which to ponder.  It should come as no surprise that this alleged "Nazi" AfD party is particularly powerful within the Eastern German political demographic.  Ironically, the Western half has indeed drifted farther into Socialist political trends (Hell, the National Socialist party was nationwide in the antebellum era...) and strongly resists these historically un-German democratic notions the AfD has.

I recall, while touring the Peenemünde area with my smokin' hawt German (North Western) girlfriend running into a old man at a restaurant in that area still proudly wearing a Communist Germany badge emblazoned fur hat yelling at me.

We invited the old codger over to the table, and had some discussion.  He was angry that the area, Polish borderland, was so economically depressed.  I described some of the things we do here in America in rural areas to assist economically (Socialist shiet, really, but you can't outsource your domestic food production), some of the State-run Conservation Department initiatives to manage wildlife for hunting/fishing (yet more Socialist shiet, really) and a few other things...  Eventually, the old codger stopped yelling and being angry and got a thoughtful look about him, as if he were magically shedding his old/outdated/non-functional Communist ideals.

We ran into other younger Germans as well, that could sprechen zie Anglisch well enough that I could dispense with my pidgin German and not rely on my Socialsist girlfriend for translation (who knows what that damn hippie actually said?).  Those folks, I could really talk to and spread the Gospel of Freedom to.

I note, at that thyme, the AfD was in its infancy in the very region we were visiting.  S.H.G.G. was very concerned about them, and confided that she thought they were "too Nazi-esque."  I didn't get that from them, seemed more like farming/rural people in political ideation you'd find hear in our parts...

I would preach the same Gospel to these younger folk as I did the old Communist codger.  Over the years, I have watched with great interest the political base & power of the AfD grow.  Sometimes wonder if that early 2000s trip of mine with the Smokin' Hawt German Girlfriend & my Spreading of The Word had any small influence on things.

Doubtful, but one can fantasize...

All this to say, in both Canada & Germany, things may not be at all how you believe.  The "Deep State" apparatus in those places are similar to our own, COMINTERN never died, after all.  It behooves the current COMINTERN agitators to present the current situation everywhere in the world as "fringe elements," unpopular and small.

They the hobo elite are faltering, much like in the late Reagan era, and their utter collapse (yet again) is probably closer than you think.

It'll be YUGE, I reckon...

At least that is my hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVwovBJYHzc

Cheers.


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Apogees in advance for the MethStar-esque girth of this post.

I shall attempt brevity & clarity;  no doubt I will fail deliciously:  my only Collegiate Level of English instruction was of the Engineering flavor. 

I note, my Grade-High School English instruction was of the traditional Literature flavor;  I have a second-hand anecdote that I may or may not choose to share from the the Renzulli/Montessori hybrid gifted program I was in during my grade to middle school years (the program continued into High School, but my folks transferred me out of that district into a Jesuit College Preparatory High School, that didn't have such a "free-wheeling" nature.  I digress)...

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I think we all quite N'Joyed that brief spastic side-trek into AssGrabbery and NutTappery my original nebulous idea provoked.  Well done, evrahbody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXfZVzqt_Ps

So back to The Idea™ that was inspired by Mr. Kyle Hill's original vidya:

As I recall, the discussion was aboot a recent board shutdown(?) due to bot accounts or something, and the observation was made that MethStar is a SpamBot.

I had happened to have recently viewed that K. Hill vidya;  I found it amusing enough to share with the class as a proposal of how such a thing could be adapted to kill two birds with one stone, as it were.

Perhaps even three birds?  We shall see;  if nothing else:  a Thought Experiment in the field of Computer Science (which happens to be the current degree I am working on...).

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Here's the low down:

1. Bots (of some flavor/type) are assaulting our beloved AssGrab.
2. MethStar continues to generate complete gobbledygook indistinguishable from a Markov Babbler's output.
3. Azz wastes his valuable time dealing with both.



#1 is pretty easy to deal with, if one has the storage space:

Insert a "nepenthes"-style Digital Tarpit somewhere on the AssGrab server. For the Markov Babble output used, one need only take the entirety of MethStar's posts and concatenate them together into a giant text file, to which Markov's AlGorethym can be applied to the nth degree.

This would be relatively simple to implement at the server level using LINUX.  For the "slow" database output that is fed to the bots in their Digital Tarpit, perhaps SQL would be the best code to use, as it is cumbersome and slow... Horrible language, but perhaps useful in this particular application.

Again, this will take up some of the precious AssGrab server time, but perhaps the Juice is Worth the Squeeze?



#2 can be dealt with using that initial Markov .txt file;  now we have this wonderful concept in LINUX of a "daemon":  this is a sort of automated sub-routine that does tedious thyme-consuming tasks that don't really require that much of a thought process.

Probably, one would want to set up a virtual drive for all of this data management side of things, perhaps more than one?  One dedicated to containing the entirety of MethStar's posts in a concatenated .txt file (this will necessarily be massive and constantly growing in size).  A virtual partition will allow the Admin to assign additional resources as space allows or requires, I address this a bit later on in this section.

MethStar will inevitably create the corner in which he will shit and consume his own ejaculate;  he has several already:  if one cares to peruse his post history.

My proposed "MethStar daemon" should be given an AssGrab account with which it can interact with "original" MethStar:  this can be made as complex or simple as the site Admin deems appropriate for the server resources required.

This "MethStar daemon" will simply look for new (fungible garbage) posts by the thing in question and reply to them.

We can use the bit of "nepenthes" code from #1 to accomplish this, only now it uses the MethStar post it is replying to as the prompts from which to generate the automated "daemon" response.

MethStar will probably not even notice, or his Meth-addled ego will be stroked so much by such "fellow traveler" ejaculate in his direction that he will be hopelessly unable to resist replying, in essence, to himself!

If the site Admin has the coding skillset required, this #2 "daemon" could be tweaked (HAH!) to improve performance in its future interactions with the joke source material...

It could even be renamed should The Punchline become aware of The Joke;  or a "daughter" bot account could be created to assist the original "daemon" in its efforts.

The recursivity of all of this could result in copious amounts of server space being consumed by absolute gibberish.  IMHO it seems to be one of the aims of the Admin, hear?  Nautical Shore.

No walls needed.  Addicts create their own walls (of unintelligible gibberish).

Were it my site, I would do just such a thing for my own personal amusement...  I'd probably purge the concatenated source .txt of earlier "original" MethStar posts (to limit the size & attempt to keep things "fresh") in the implementation of this particular bit of associated code.



#3 I suppose, this isn't really solved:  Now Azz has to waste his valuable time on #2 (I assume that once #1 is up and running, it won't require much additional attention, IF properly coded...), but perhaps some of the more tedious elements of dealing with noxious #2 deposits can be automated?  It might require a bit of prestidigitation and/or legerdemain to make it "real" enough to maintain the illusory sense of human interaction the thing in question demands.  But perhaps it will make the constant thorn (??spear??) in his side more delicous and tasty?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFEoMO0pc7k



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I believe this is a deliciously evil enough of a starting point that, with some creativity, its application could be most delicious to watch.

Think of it:  The Joke has been explained to the Punchline;  one need only sit back and observe the mental anguish caused in what is left of the mind of our drug-addled object.

CrackStar, through Methamphetamine Zombification has abrogated any notion of self, humanity and/or sentience.

Now he/it/they/them is no more than a meth-fueled automata.  A useless robot that consumes valuable resources.  Time being chief among them, to say nothing of money or anything else:  its and others' who are unfortunate enough to spend any on the thing.

Its abject self-abrogation of the above listed things, in my mind at least, frees anyone pondering the object's existence vis-a-vis of consideration of the same.

Yes, a Digital Tarpit is probably inhumane (I reiterate;  my position on the need for humanity in this case is probably easily surmised), and perhaps an actual tarpit would be more appropriate?

I am reminded of insects from antiquity trapped in Amber for some reason.  Who cries for the mosquito, or plague-carrying flea?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjtL9tcNF8g

Meh, poor little feller...


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