Interesting. You found more than I was able to. Thank you very much!

Given the fold of robe/toga, it does make me think of a Roman senator or lawyer. I agree, Caligula doesn’t seem right. You very well might be correct about incorrect attribution. A Renaissance sculpture book from the period might turn something up but I don’t have time or access.

I’ll choose another model for that section of the book. I’m still fighting David’s lips. Those ever-changing curves are deceptive as is the total lack of symmetry.

I guess it’s a mystery for now.

The Peasant is actually a different bust than this one. Note the collar of the robe on this sculpture.

That bust is featured a little later in the book as an example of sculpting from life.

Slashdot represent!

I’ve not worked with infrastructure PLCs but have some familiarity with industrial PLCs.

The mode switch probably actually is an effective countermeasure. It’s common to leave machinery in Setup Mode all the time as you can’t change the program or parameters in Run Mode. I.E. you usually trust your crew not poke buttons they shouldn’t. Only in large factories do you find Run Mode being used, even large shops often leaves it in Setup.

As to gateways and firewalls, the amount of machinery exposed rawdog to the entire interwebs is truly frightening. A lot of industrial equipment have exposed ports that are completely unsecured. Think RS-232 style comms that allow program and even parameter editing.

I would imagine that many sewage trearment facilities are even less technologically sophisticated than a medium size machine shop.

There’s the whole thing where the first few joints of your fingers and toes turn black and rot off, but sure, eat some ergot.

Also, Datura is a common weed. Collect a bunch of seeds and share with your friends so y’all can all trip for days and not even know it. The kidney failure can kind of suck.

My capacity for apocalyptic news has to be carefully metered to prevent burnout and stress. (It’s a balancing act.) Humanity seems to be hellbent on heading down a dark road with a bunch of ugly possible turns.

The potential to stifle FOSS is bad enough. What I find even more concerning is when the LLM gets good enough to reliably fool developers and can inject very complicated exploits from multiple sources.

I’m a programmer by trade, but it’s highly specialized. Otherwise, I’m just a power user/script kiddie. My crystal ball is pinging alarm bells about some of this. It’s hard for me to make an accurate assesment of the risk, I lack the knowledge. I expect unspecified bad things and am in a reactionary mode on this.

Woah. Not who you’re responding to. Had a read through GitHub and one of the reports.

Been seeing the rumblings about AI fuckery and open source but haven’t followed closely.

That’s some spooky shit.

You can often fix membrane switches using conductive paint. Link to example. $11.

The PCB will have a pattern of traces under each button that are interlocked kind of like fingers that don’t touch or two large pads near each other. The button of the membrane has a conductive patch that completes the circuit between those traces when pressed.

Usually the conductive patch is what fails due to wearing off. So you just paint on new patches on the memnrane. If the traces are worn, they can also be repaired with copper foil, solder, and careful work with an exacto knife. I’ve even seen aluminum foil and super glue used as a temporary fix on the membrane.

I would probably make this a an Old Man and the Sea project if it were mine. It’s just so old, it needs to keep going.

Those are good security guides.

I think I’m at the point where it’s more about keeping my head down. Protect my family and people. Hope we don’t end up in a camp.

Until one of these occurs, nothing changes: some real national leadership opposing this, more than 5% start going hungry, or large numbers of people are being murdered/placed in camps.

It seems you’ve thought deeply about this. I’ve done so as well.

It really fucking freaks me out that such a large chunk of our society is detached from objective, verifiable realty. A fair amount of what they believe is pants-on-head crazy vengeance fantasy. Another big chunk has spooky parallels to literal Nazi propaganda such as the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, it’s so similar that it’s obviously just borrowed. It’s shocking that more people don’t see it for what it transparently is.

I have no clue what can be done about it. I don’t know how society heals this or reinforces the value of facts, sanity, and critical thinking.

You got anything? Any thoughts about where we go from here? How to unfuck their heads? Where does this end if they aren’t deprogrammed? How long will we be trapped in this?

Genuine questions because I ain’t got a fucking clue at this point.

It’s f’in neato. I’ll be looking into it.

I knew about the relict popularion of mammoths that was still around. Wasn’t aware of the tigers. Can you please tell me more?

Wait, is there a new worms game for real? The best couch multiplayer, dog cuss your friends and family game ever.

Yes, not at all uncommon in the BDSM community. Neither are 24/7 kink relationships. However, reality is different from fantasy and there is a fair amount of nuance in how this works in the context of a LTR and not a fun weekend.

That’s what I was referring to about very few handguns. It was all wood stock rifles and shotguns. And, this was among conservative rural types. We’re in a very different place now.

Deep south born and raised, it’s changed in the last twenty years, but guns used to be a fun tool. Most people owned long guns with much fewer handguns. Guns were for hunting, varmint management, and plinking. City folk don’t really get it. Shotgun in the corner of the living room is normal.

I have an acquaintance from West Virginia that is similar. They’re also a non-binary, super queer, sexually sadistic top. We met in the BDSM community.

$4.99 for 100ea on Etsy, showing as a ‘hot’ item and bestseller. I doubt we’ll see them in the quantities we saw the Biden stickers but it’s pretty funny.

Trepanning is back, baby! NSFL warning. Dude has his friends help him dremel a hole in his skull so he can like totally open his third eye or release the demon chakras or whatever.

Can’t find it, but there was an interview where someone talked about poking their meninges with a metal rod and having a ‘spiritual experience’ or something. Also, bong rips feeling bubbly in the skull hole.

Are they acually called pufflings? (pretty great if they are)