I hope Vance is losing a lot of sleep over this.

a swivel-arm, but the weight of two monitors would be a lot for something like that

I’m still wanting to build a rolling desk myself and have some components already, but you might want this: Humanscale M10. It’s pricey but it’s the heaviest-load arm on the consumer market. It can take 48lb, and if that’s overkill, they have cheaper arms that will carry less. You might find some of the cheaper brands will do what you need without the cost, but I don’t have experience with them.

Skip their expensive crossbar adapter though, you can use any much cheaper VESA bracket adapter, you just need the arm itself to be solidly constructed.

The real issue for the design you have in mind though is center of gravity. You’re stuck with attaching it to something very heavy and wide. I’m still in the early stages of fixing that problem myself. My solution is likely to involve significant amounts of V slot aluminum profile.

Forget the crusades, I want to see them reconcile with child abuse and smuggling fascists through the WW2 Ratlines.

I also got into computers, thinking about it now, the tactile aspect was probably part of it. A power button making fans go whir and hard drives making slight crunchy noises and my keyboard with real springs… I miss a lot about that.

Also that power supply, Honeywell / microswitch used to have a huge market share for those sorts of components and it looks a lot like it could be one of their paddle/lever rocker switches, maybe AML33EBA4AA01. I don’t think microswitch components are easy or cheap to come by anymore but salecom do knock off versions of lots of them that will likely suit your needs

These are awesome. You make me miss the days of proper physical controls with real haptic feedback. Not this touchscreen with a little vibrator in it bullshit.

I also really wish I could push those buttons now. I want to know what they feel like!

You want some kind of metal waterproof flush mount momentary push button switch, but without a brand name, it’s hard to say which will give you the right feel. There’s no telling what sort of spring mechanism is in there.

I’m guessing that the House Oversight Committee wants her to testify, so she’s trying to head it off at the pass before they officially ask.

Maybe Maxwell’s slow trickle of claims in pro se filings had something that Bondi couldn’t make go away.

Eh, at least this money would go to innocent people and put back into their community’s economy. Not like the money spent on Palantir and the White House nuclear winter ballroom.

Let’s not gloss over this part:

…that the Department of Homeland Security had also posted a few hours earlier.

It’s all fucked up. I can only hope Easmin’s family sues and get a massive payout for the extra trauma inflicted by having this tragedy exploited for political purposes by both DHS and Trump. Truly ghoulish.

Trump isn’t the disease, he’s just the most visible symptom.

Like the two week lead last year for the decision to attack Iran? I’m not sure Iran will buy that. The US is maybe trying for a sequel to “Operation Midnight Hammer”, or, as the media chatter is heavily astroturfing right now, having ground troops pillage the uranium stockpile.

The media needs to stop reporting every line of bullshit Trump says and focus on what he and his bootlickers are actually doing. They keep letting him drown out the actual information with his predictable gishgallop.

“…a more enduring threat: asymmetric warfare, in which individuals or small groups of militants can pose threats strategic to the American military.”

You know what US military targets an Iranian “shoulder-fired missile” can’t hit? The ones in the US. The only place the US military should be. Invading forces aren’t entitled to an easy time stealing another country’s resources.

The NBC can fuck right off with this war crime apologia masquerading as a news article containing a mild warning. It’s not a Saving Private Ryan reboot, it’s modern exploitation colonialism.

I did read it, yes, that is why I still had the link open. The title and by-line heavily suggests that SA has taken action or made statements which demonstrate actively moving away from the US. This is contradicted inside the article itself, as quoted prior.

Has their position likely changed? Sure. Is analysis of the timeline worthwhile? Also yes. But there’s literally nothing there which supports the position that any form of action has occurred that alters existing or future US-Saudi agreements. A step towards Ukraine is something noteworthy, but that doesn’t require a step away from the US, and the step away is still speculative.

That’s not to say I am not fine with speculative. It’s just that it’s not the same content described by: '"BREAKING: Trump Just Lost Saudi Arabia. Trump told the man who controls 12% of the world’s oil to kiss his ass. That man just restructured Middle Eastern security with Ukraine, telling Trump, “It’s over”. ’

I didn’t remove the post. I’m not a mod.

The title and by-line were very misleading. I still had the link open, so here you go: https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-just-lost-saudi-arabia

But nobody said “it’s over”, or broke anything off. The post itself literally says that Saudi Arabia didn’t comment.

Saudi state media covered the summit without mentioning Trump’s remarks. The Royal Court issued no statement. MBS said nothing publicly.

I think the idea that only traditional media is acceptable is really problematic and implicitly favors corporate media manipulation, but I would have removed this substack post for the deceptive summary alone.

I love a faceplant, and this is up there with the best of them. Excellent job nuggeting, Nugget. You do your name proud.

Definitely no argument with that. The article does bury right at the end one interesting detail that explains why it doesn’t help further:

The Post and Courier also reported that around 30 pages of documents listed in an internal DOJ trial evidence inventory still remain missing.

I think the victims’ evidence doesn’t need further corroboration though. They’ve been put on trial more than enough. I want to see investigation of the claims of the accused and their networks.

The headline is misleading, but if she made it up, then why did the Epstein estate settle with her?

I read the linked transcript. It’s mostly hypothesis about the increasing number of leaks and rumors that Trump is unhappy with the effect of mass deportation on his popularity, which is Miller’s big thing. I can believe that, but it’s a long way from anything actively throwing him under the bus. It wouldn’t be surprising if he did soon though.