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There’s undoubtedly a desperate and crazy Plan C.

‘I assure [transition] will be peaceful. We may have litigation about who won the election, but the (Supreme) Court will decide and if the Republicans lose, we will accept that result. But we need a full court.’ – Lindsay Graham

Trump’s plan B, then:

1) Raise early suspicion that national mail in voting is (falsely) fraudulent. ✅
2) Install a Repub stooge in the late RBG’s Supreme Court seat in advance.
3) Lose election, bitterly.
4) Challenge result using new Republican-majority Court.

The main https://invidio.us instance for the alternate YouTube UI (whatever) has shutdown. I believe that was the one put up by the maker(s). Not sure.

The software is still available, apparently, and a few other instances exist (too few), but that is a troubling sign.

I use it via the Firefox plugin (Invidition, I think it's called), which automatically routes YT calls to the alternate UI of choice. But, zut, I hope the few instances remaining don't disappear.

Fuck Google, you know.

Exiled Saudi dissidents launch opposition party

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/23/exiled-saudi-dissidents-launch-opposition-party

I can hear MBS now... ‘Send my hit squad!’

I don't see many doing this, but I came across a company that created a green timber salvage operation in relation with the city (in contrast with a reclaimed wood operation for personal use, which is rather common). So when the city arborists cut trees or limbs for urban reasons, instead of chipping the wood to nothing, they call this company that collects the cants for building products (picnic tables, furniture, etc) that go back to the community via their workshop storefront. Cool idea.

Speaking of scrounging wood... I took a spin around the community on the bike last week, mostly in the industrial zones. There are piles of pallets and weathered boards and posts everywhere. They do not look to be wanted, either, just rotting away in the weather. Pretty sure I can talk to these business and take if off their hands, but I need a way to haul it. Even a single board is hard and impractical to carry on a bike. Maybe I could line some things up then rent a van for a day and circle.

In other news, I've managed to acquire some vintage wooden planes for a steel! The shipping cost was the worst of it. I now need some sharpening stones, steel wool, and oils for restoring the chisels and planes, and I still need to get saws. A broad saw and a Japanese pull saw would serve well. Then I need to scrounge wood to start the large list of projects, beginning with the build of other tools like clamps, string line, etc. The catch-22 workbench comes later.

#woodworking

As mentioned in the past, my wife has been working from home these last months, and the kids were out of school that last quarter of before summer. So there's been a long stretch of 'too many people and too much fucking noise in the house' for my liking. (Listening to another person's back-to-back meetings all day in the home is literally torture. Don't make people suffer it.) In any case, the wifmxn went to office today (today only), and the kids are now back in school, and I am in quiet bliss!

This should be worth a watch:

Planet of the Humans

https://yewtu.be/watch?t=4s&v=Zk11vI-7czE

A little background...

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet-of-the-humans/

Macron’s going on about the ‘new globalization’ and all the green targets to hit by 2050, and I’m just ‘same as it ever was; too wrong, too late’.

The filming and effects, the music, acting... all good (though Harrison Ford is always just Harrison Ford. I half expected him to call his dog ‘Chewie’ or ‘Furball’ in that patronizing Ford kind of way). Just the story seemed a little short. Leto’s character was definitely underdeveloped, but maybe that comes in a third move, like Peter Wayland in the Alien series. Gosling is good. That much at least didn’t disappoint. The hologram relationship seemed overdone, though.

*Finally* saw it. I guess hyping it up in my mind for so long looking forward to it explains why it was kind of meh. That’s not to say it was bad, but I was expecting... I don’t know. Different.

Seems like their toying with the idea of a third movie, or at least leaving that open. We see the beginnings of an android revolution in the works.

There’s that fucking photo again. It’s news media’s favourite thing to use now, over and over and over... the nose swabbing.

Someone at the CDC has finally stopped licking the blotched and bloated feet of Trump.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/public-health-agency-drops-contentious-covid-19-testing-advice-200918182621003.html