chapotraphouse

I have a security background and it's largely all theater. Locks are just to keep out people who believe in them. All those badge swipes and things are about tracking access, not securing things. Matter of fact, most mag locks and electronic doors, by law, have to fail open for safety.

Learn to hack, learn to quadcopter.

Lol everyone here getting it while everyone on Reddit was like "Oh you cut a hole in the wall you're not so smart I could cut a hole in the wall, too!"

Reminds me of this:

All of the money that the ruling class has is belief-based power. If their security details and handlers collectively decided that the ruling class no longer had power and that their money was meaningless, they would crumble like dry leaves.

I'm reminded of the walmart storefronts that look like brick or stone but are really just veneers over extremely regular-ass walls

Lol imagine reading any of this living in a real country that doesn't allow new construction to be made out of wet toilet paper, termite shit and the bounced alimony checks made out to strippers under a fake name.

You use 'drywall knife'

'Concrete blocks and rebar with injectable insulation' is confused

Try again?

Practicing decontextualization like this is great practice for inventing new praxis. A lot of folks learn the patterns and skills of organizing. Don't get me wrong, they're great. But it's great to be willing to do something a bit different when opportunity knocks.

is the drywall knife?

reminds me of that time that al qaeda operatives were using gmail Drafts to pass messages back and forth (all using the same login) and because they never SENT an email, they never set off any keyword-detector alarms.

Locks are just there to dissuade opportunistic thieves. If you're determined enough all it takes to get into a place is a sturdy crowbar and some elbow grease.

also good general advice for pre-apocalyptic scavenging.

gonna take a drywall saw to a congressional baseball game

Then the wall's made of brick and you're shit out of luck. Or it's time to go in through the metaphorical ceiling and blow the roof off of the world and how it perceives itself.

they lack the ability to articulate their lack of freedom and so on and so on

GOOD POST

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This is true! You can make tiny pizzas by putting sauce or olive oil and cheese on saltine crackers, but... Where will we find lederhosen in our size, Frank?

This is some Terence McKenna level thinking and I love it! I've taken enough psychedelics to know that the guard rails society have erected are flimsy and easily manipulated

"Baki, Son of Ogre" pivots around the fight at the end between Baki and his father (hence the title), whose name is Yujiro. There's a phrase that pops up towards the end that is said very mysteriously, that "the strong live in a different world than everyone else". What this means is very unclear until a moment near the end of the fight. Baki has Yujiro pinned with his left arm behind his back, face-down on asphalt. Normally, this is a situation where your options are very limited, since Yujiro's right arm should not be able to effectively reach Baki (who is basically sitting on his back). Yujiro, instead of trying to reach back to Baki on his right side, instead effectively performs an overextended hook punch through the asphalt to hit Baki on his left side while simultaneously rotating out of the arm pin.

It's absolutely moronic writing but nonetheless also very clever and it has stuck with me, and this reminded me of that. I suppose it's just lateral thinking, but there's always some interesting way to challenge your assumptions in different contexts.

If my description is unclear, it's chapter 280. And yes, I just like talking about dumb manga.

Since American walls have already been mocked, I will instead drop my trite wisdom and say that revolutions are always completely impossible until somebody applies revolutionary theory creatively enough and a revolutionary task is creative application. Ik most of these words have been sullied by neoliberal overuse. Work with me hea 🤌

noclip irl with this 1 weird trick

Walls? Pah!

Interestingly I was having a conversation with myself about this. That ethics, law, and other normative systems are just sets of rules, just like how physical reality follows laws of nature.

The difference is that the "metric" of reality is existence itself — the measure is that something exists, or it doesn't: there isn't anything that violates the laws of nature that exists.

But in the human realm, there must be some metric ("good" vs "bad" ) that drives measures (ethical/legal/profitable/etc. vs not). But also there are indeterminates (neither moral nor immoral) or disputes, because there are many systems under existence (your moral vs my moral).

I also don't know what I was trying to say tbh, someone started screaming on the bus at that point. I guess basically just that humans tend to silo their conceptions of things which don't match up with each other perfectly already, let alone realizing that the ultimate reality of things doesn't give a fuck about our conventions.

Building a perfect system or even a minimally common-to-all system seems like a fool's errand, like liberalism "we just need to declare human rights that no one can disagree with, and then no one will violate them" fucking Kant and Rawls

In my area there was a jewelry store next to a pet grooming store and they just broke into the pet grooming store and busted through the wall to get into the jewelry store. Never caught.

I wish I wasn't so sleepy and had something interesting to contribut to the discussion, but I really appreciate this post and everyone's conversation. I've been trying to change my habits of thinking recently (mostly by trying new things, such as drawing), as well as more occult stuff that I doubt Mr Hexbear would approve of. I fucking love that anecdote you posted, thank you!

This shows the importance of praxis and how your org should incorporate people who come from different backgrounds. There's no way he would've figured that shit out while he was at the brainstorming and planning stage of the burglary. It's only when he was at the process of burglarizing and with multiple burglaries under his belt did he come to that conclusion. People coming from different backgrounds is also important since ideology doesn't affect everyone equally. Within a given context, one person might be completely blinded while another person might plainly see what's in front of them.